I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again: email is better than social media.
Want proof? Okay, feast your eyes on this article which shows that “Email marketing has a ROI of 4,300%,” and is “way more effective than social media marketing. It has greater effectiveness, better ROI, and higher CLV [customer lifetime value].”
The results are based on a survey conducted of owners of ecommerce sites to determine where they got their customers. In terms of customer acquisition percentages, paid and organic search came in first and second, but email had a much higher ROI. Social media wasn’t even in the running.
The conclusion: “Spend more time and money on email marketing than on social media marketing.”
So there.
Okay, but how do you get traffic to your site so you can build your list?
Search, of course. Paid and organic search is still number one for driving traffic.
And. . . social media also works. Hey, I never said it didn’t.
The article has some interesting social media metrics, if you are curious. For example, did you know that YouTube has the “highest engagement and lowest bounce rate”? If you want more traffic, take some of your content and re-purpose it with videos.
Anyway, whatever you do online, if you’re not also building an email list, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. My online marketing course will help you. And here are a few resources I use and recommend.
What do you think, do you feel better about not being a social media stud? Are you going to (finally) build your email list? Or is all of this too much to think about and you’re going to call it a day and catch a movie?
