Growthtext was launched last year.

I decided to build my own list since most of the list building content I had been reading online was either outdated or just mumbo-jumbo list articles which don’t provide real meat.

I tested many list building tricks and strategies.

#1. I tried different traffic sources to see which converted.

#2. To see what engaged my target audience, I tested different types of content.

#3. I tried different lead capture forms on different pages of Growthtext to see which worked best and which didn’t.

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There are 5. I sent cold emails to Gary Vaynerchuck, Mari Smith, Larry Kim and others to find out what makes them want to promote me to their audience.

After six months of trial and error, my Growthtext email list grew from 0 to 5,000 subscribers.

It’s not easy to grow your audience and build your list.

You have to run lots of experiments to find out what works. Most of your experiments won’t work.

Most techniques and tricks are notScalable, meaning they are not methods you can reliably step and repeat.

My best advice.

Don’t blindly apply what you read online.

You will be angry, frustrated, and not in the mood to keep going.

Here are 6 list building mistakes you don’t want to make.

Every year, organic reach on Facebook falls.

All niches have average click through rates of 0.5%.

Unless you are Gary or Guy, your social media posts will not be noticed.

Don’t waste time building your social media followings if you want to convert them to email subscribers.

Like other social networking sites, LinkedIn is noisy.

People don’t pay much attention to what’s happening in their news feed. The engagement is very low.

It’s not surprising. It is designed for networking to find jobs.

It is useless if you are building your email list.

If you keep producing visually appealing content, these two platforms will benefit you.

For months, you need to produce a lot of visuals, like making 5–10 posts a day.

There is no guarantee that you will have thousands of followers a few months later.

It takes a long time to grow your audience using social media. A long one.

If you want fast and efficient growth, these are not the places to go.

The two social media sites are great. Chances are they won’t grow your email very fast.

It’s difficult to achieve success in a place with a huge number of daily visitors.

Is there a reason being? Everyone hates self-promotion.

They do not know that you are promoting your own content and building your list.

When someone recognizes your true purpose, you are accused of self-promotion and are likely to be banned.

The site is great.

Every once in a while, it’s fine to post something on Reddit and attract a few new email subscribers to your list.

Their axes fall fast if you do it too often.

If you’re looking for a predictable andScalable way to build an email list, don’t use Reddit.

If you want to convert some of the site visitors into email subscribers, you need to get your site to the top of the search engine.

It seems like a plan.

Search Engine Optimization is a waste of time until you have a website that is already full of content.

As you write your pages, you don’t need much more than basicseo.

You can keep that for later.

Since only a few prime pages need to be changed, you can forget about it at first.

When Growthtext hit my 10,000 visitors per month goal, I didn’t go out to get a single backlink to my website.

I didn’t pay attention to my ranking at all.

When you are just starting to build your list, search is not relevant.

Most marketers don’t want you to know that guest posting is a terrible strategy for generating traffic to your website to build your list.

Tim Soulo reached out to the authors of 239 guest posts that were published on 78 blogs in the marketing niche and asked them one question.

How much referral traffic can you get from a guest post?

The answer?

56 visits!

On average, 56 visits are made to those guest posts. Not great.

While guest posting on websites with huge traffic numbers can result in a lot of eyes on your post, it is difficult to move the readers on to your own site.

When you are starting out, forget this strategy.

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