Man - do I wish I choose my yoga teacher course over again? I wanted to become a yoga teacher so bad that I jumped on a local program that cost me an arm and a leg. Sadly - I was trained in New York City by a completely different yoga certification group. And we didn't get to learn anything about advertising. This is kicking me in the tail now. I’d understand if you didn’t want to help since I’m out of your network.
Here’s my big question: How would you buy an e-Mail list of Yoga students? There's so much conflicting information out there. Most internet marketing people have sites that tell me to buy a course. I see Aura has better than fair priced business and marketing information for yoga teachers, but all I want to know is how to get an e-Mail list. I don’t think I need any other help with advertising and one of my friends has a business degree.
The yoga teacher training I went to only focused on exercises. We never learned any of the stuff I see on your videos and we never went into marketing, even when we asked the staff they told us it would cost us big time extra bucks for their marketing internships. So here I am a babe in the woods that spent top dollar (well over $10,000.00) for a TTC in NYC. Any pearls of wisdom would be appreciated as I’m close to tapped out of money at this time.
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Yoga Studio Buying an e-Mail List
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Hi Falzone,
You are better to collect eMail addresses from your own site using a double opt-in process. Don't use your eMail to blindly solicit prospects and expect not to be accused of Spamming, which is illegal and can cost you time in jail, hefty fines, or both. In short, you would be better off to get one of Paul's marketing eBooks. As a US resident in NYC, there are too many laws governing the Internet to go into gathering eMail flying blind. Talk to your marketing degree friend about marketing on the Internet and you'll learn about all the strict regulations.
Your Yoga studio situation sounds desperate, but who wants jail time? These services that promise an eMail list of eager Yoga students are run off shore and can avoid US laws, until their countries adopt firm eCommerce laws. For now, make flyers and circulate them locally. It's going to take time to have a website that pulls in traffic and has members signing up daily.
Then you can give rewards for opting into your online Yoga newsletter. You really should get some info from Aura's DVDs or eBooks on marketing and business for Yoga teachers. You might also get some great ideas about lowering your overhead costs.
PeacePosted 2 years ago # -
Gator has it right. Don't buy a list and start emailing people who didn't ask for your spam. Yes, that's spamming and people will be mad to receive your emails if they haven't opted in to your site. Many people are interested in owning an existing list of email addresses. You wouldn't wait years to slowly build your home grown email list. This idea looks attractive on the surface, but list rental keeps you clear of spamming laws, courts, fines, lawyer fees and possible jail time.
List rental is a widely accepted legal practice in email marketing. List owners send an email to their own lists on your behalf. They'll charge you a rental fee for their services. You never see the email addresses. The list owner is the one who does the sending of emails. You could try it out to see what kind of results you get. The biggest problem for a yoga teacher is you are looking for a niche list within a specific geographic area.Posted 2 years ago # -
Renting an e-mail list to grow your own yoga studio numbers sounds the best, but to reach your exact location makes me think you might be better off trying Valpack or Super Coups. Give yoga students an offer they can't refuse and once they're in the door you can provide an incentive for signing up for your Ezine. If you run short on writing time or articles - Dr. Paul and Dr. Rita produce the world's best weekly online yoga newsletter and they give you rights to add their articles as long as you add their back links and bios at the bottom of each article.Posted 2 years ago #
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Most studios I have been to just leave out a clip board that you can sign up for a mailing list.
If you just go buy one it will probably be address pillaged from a database that are not even local.Posted 2 years ago #
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