Comments on: How to start your email list

By: Shari Wydeven

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:38:02 +0000

Very helpful thank U

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By: Francoise Cottet

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:35:14 +0000

I think I will use Excel as mentioned by Chris and will then import new names and download database to Mail Chimp when I buy it.
Thank you Chris for this information.

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By: Francoise COTTET

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:20:11 +0000

In reply to Brooke Harker.

Robin, could you tell us about selling on Etsy, and if you would recommend it ?
You have a very beautiful product ranges as well as colors.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:57:45 +0000

In reply to Brooke Harker.

Brooke: Love that attitude. Now … let’s get you using that list!

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:56:38 +0000

In reply to Chris Wachsmuth.

Thank you for sharing your experience, Chris. Your artist is very lucky to have your support.

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By: Bonnie Hamlin

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 15:32:54 +0000

I use FASO (Fine Art Studio on Line). They send me an email when someone subscribes and have and auto respond that you can use, etc. But I’m totally negligent in posting emails.

From reading emails I receive from others. I wouldn’t worry about ones that don’t open, but don’t unsubscribe. I quite often don’t open emails because I’m too busy. But when I do have time to open one and fine it interesting. I’ll go to the person’s site and read past emails. And when I do this I’m more in the mind frame of buying.

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By: Chris Wachsmuth

Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:04:20 +0000

I’ve been helping a mixed media/abstract artist with her Mail Chimp account for 5 years and we have grown the list from her initial “paper” list of about 100 to 1700 today. She is also a teaching artist and we collect info from her workshops, classes, demo sign-in registration sheets primarily but also include a FORWARD TO A FRIEND link on all send outs and a link to subscribe to her list. She adds this hosted sign-up form to the footer of all her emails and on her website. We only gather name, city, state, country + email address for her database. I then add a geography ID so we can use Mail Chimp’s easy “segmentation tool” to be able to send to specific parts of the country. Finally, after every send we look at the send report to check open rate, unsubscribes, bounce backs and most importantly….how many folks used the links that we embedded in the materials sent. Mail Chimp makes it very easy to use Excel to import new names and to download your entire database for back-up. Mail Chimp is free up to 2000 names, you can schedule your send by date + time, and their HELP info is pretty complete + self-explanatory but the FREE accounts no longer have access to on-line or by phone support. Mail Chimp makes it easy to design materials to send to your list, easy to embed images of your art, videos and pdf files and links to web addresses. Neither of us had ANY experience with Mail Chimp before we launched this endeavor and I found it extremely easy to learn and create marketing materials for my friend’s art biz. I highly recommend it !

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By: Brooke Harker

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:53:37 +0000

I actually feel an odd sense of victory when people unsubscribe…to me it means that less people are getting the emails who don’t want them…so I feel like my list gets more concentrated….my average open rate is between 38-40% so I feel pretty good about that…and feel inspired to remember the monthly newsletter…even though I have had a list for years…I realize haven’t invited anybody in a long time. Thank you…and I’m fired up about Content Camp:) woot woot!!!

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By: Brooke Harker

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:46:46 +0000

In reply to Helen Dannelly.

I did too…then I hired someone to set it up…once it was set up it feels like making little works of art! It can be fun:)

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By: Brooke Harker

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:45:56 +0000

In reply to Robin Edmundson.

Awesome!!!

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