Introduction 

Those early days when you know you’re doing everything right, but NO ONE is signing up to your email list.

Okay, maybe a few people are signing up…like maybe five people a week. A blip on the radar for the kind of business you want to build. At that rate, it is going to take you around 4 years to get to 1,000 subscribers. 

Many experts will tell you to write guest posts. The theory goes that you’ll reach a wider audience, your great content will have them falling in love with you, they click back to your site, and still think you’re so awesome that they become a subscriber immediately.

But that rarely happens in reality. Maybe a few people subscribe. But again, it’s never in the numbers you’re hoping for – especially relative to ALL the effort it takes to implement a good guest blogging strategy.

You need a focus on how to drive the bigger numbers, not on nice-sounding high-level theory.

So – especially if you’re on a budget – here are five different and practical ways to make those email subscriber numbers come in the sort of volume you’re actually looking for.