How I Increase My Email Subscribers by 60 in 7 Days

What is the single most important goal of a blog? Loyal readership.

It holds true that most of the successful blogs have one commonality – a large community with thousands of subscribers who follow them religiously and trust every single words the authors are saying (read: recommending).

If money is the ultimate motivation – which usually is, nothing is further away from the truth that increasing your blog subscriber will always be your top priority.

Every possible effort, ethical or unethical, is made to convince your visitors to take one single action – to subscribe.

We are made to believe that the subscriber count is one of the metric to determine how successful a blog is and how much dollars and cents it can squeeze out of it. It’s true, no question about it.

It’s the reason why we flaunt it when we have it and for the same reason we fake it when we don’t have it.

How to Increase Your Blog Subscribers in 5 Minutes

In my pursuit of a decent subscriber count, I’ve been experimenting with several methods and one of them is to produce less articles (aka more quality articles) to make time for my readers to leave comments before being pushed deep into the archive.

I’m not advocating you to do the same here as you might have probably been schooled that search engines, Google in particular, favor blogs that update daily. Whatever I do is just my own experimentation and it is not highly recommended for a new blog.

However, if there is one single method that I’ve recently implemented with much greater success is…..

Wait, just to keep you in suspense unless you have a habit of scanning my article so please read on,

How I Increase My Email Subscribers by 60 in One Week

Let me first explain what kind of effect it has on my subscriber count. Truth be told, it really comes as surprise to me that in less than one week, 60 more subscribers have happily come on board in support of this blog.

Can you believe that?

I kinda of regret for not joining the Blogging Idol 2. No, that’s a bluff. I’m yet to perfect the art of faking my subscriber count so that is the real reason why I refuse to join the game. The last Blogging Idol went to someone who was…..(perhaps I shouldn’t make any inappropriate comment here.)

There is no secret formula here. It’s just one simple trick of placing a call-to-action email subscription right after the article.

I reason first-time visitors are people who are in a hurry and dislike the inconvenience of searching for the right button to subscribe. I really need them to push the button right after they think, “Wow, this is a great post. Let me see what this guy is going to say on his next article.” Suffice to say, I need to “Strike While the Iron is Hot”

The last thing I want is them closing the tab button and say, “Maybe I’ll come back again” as in most cases, that “maybe” may always be ‘never”.

If you aren’t convinced yet, what have you got to lose spending the best of your 5 minutes to re-position your email subscription form?

Still unconvinced? Take a look at how Syed increased his subscribers to over 1800 in 10 months.

By the way, if you’ve done so, what do you think it’s the best position that has the highest subscription rate?  I’d love to hear what you have to say.

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