Here are 7 Ways to Building a Better Relationship with Your List -
1. Send Regular Mailings: Send out newsletters at least once a week to your list. If you do not send regular mailings to your list your customers will tend to forget about you and your business. Also, do not send more than one or two mailings per week, because your subscribers can feel overwhelmed and in turn unsubscribe from your list.
2. Supply Interesting Content: Your content that you send to your list should be informative, interesting and helpful to your subscribers. This will keep them interested and waiting for your next mailing. If you need to, you should hire a writer to supply the content for your newsletters.
3. Offer Discounts and Specials: Offer your mailing list specials and discounts specifically for your list members, and not other website visitors. Make it clear to your mailing list that these discounts and offers are made exclusively for them and no one else.
4. Give Your List Something for Free: Everyone loves to get something for nothing. Offer your list something for free such as a company product, a free booklet that they can download immediately, or anything else you can think of. Make good use of your free product, too. If you offer a mug or t-shirt for free put your company name, company logo, website, and other information on that product.
If you offer a free downloadable booklet include promotional information and affiliate links so you can get some marketing and cash from that booklet. To your mailing list this will be a cool product for free, and to you it will be a great promotional product!
5. Sign up For List Search Engines: There are websites that create categorized links to any kind of lists out there. Find them and sign up for them to have your list listed with these websites. You should get more subscribers and free back links to your list and website.
6. Let Your Personality Show: You should write something in your newsletter just from you such as an editorial. Tell your list about how your business is doing, any new things happening, any new products, and any news you can think of. This will help your customers in your list build trust with you by showing them that you are a real person.
You will be more likely to make more sales this way. Just let your personality show through, and make sure you have written it in proper grammar. If you aren't sure you can have someone proofread your editorials for you.
7. Constantly Offer Something They Can Use: Constantly offer your list information, products, services, etc. that they will find useful, interesting, inspiring, entertaining, and more. They will be more likely to tell others about your list, and will pay attention to your mailing when it reaches their inbox.
Here are 7 of the most common misconceptions my clients have related to me about having a better relationship. These misconceptions are followed by my perspective on each one of them.
Myth 1 I have to love everything about my partner
Reality Check 1
You were born pure and pristine. You then learnt behaviors from your parents, teacher, coaches, church etc. (who did their best to teach you about a better relationship). These behaviors have become the backbone for your way of living and having a better relationship.
Perhaps a common behavior that irritates having a better relationship would be leaving the toilet seat up after use. This is merely a behavior and not the essence of the person. However, when you may consider this behavior to be the person, this destroys the concept of a better relationship, creating all kinds of conflict in your need for a better relationship.
Myth 2 Love means that I can fix my partner
Reality Check 2
You met your partner because of some special quality or characteristic that you admired. You need to accept and allow that quality to flourish in order to allow you and your partner to grow into a better relationship.
You may be unaware that you do not even like yourself. Yet by allowing your partner to grow and expand, you will experience the quality of your partner and the beauty within you, as you begin to enjoy a better relationship.
Myth 3
I am supposed to give up the things I like in order to be in a better relationship.
Reality Check 3
Giving up the things you like to be in a better relationship is like take a knife and cutting away a part of yourself.
Your better relationship is based on the uniqueness of you and your partner.
When you give up your uniqueness you rob yourself of a better relationship, your passion and your partner of your creativity.
Myth 4 I will be rescued by a knight in shining armour
Reality Check 4
You may have been conditioned to live your life expecting someone to take care of you. What happens if that person becomes ill and is no longer able to take care of you.
Your responsibility in creating a better relationship, is to bring your passion to the table of your relationship. Some days you will be the knight in shining armour and another day your partner will be the knight in shining armour of a better relationship.
You will each get a chance to shine like star in a better relationship because of your strengths and weaknesses.
Myth 5 It cost a lot to be in a relationship
Reality Check 5
In a material context, a better relationship can be expensive if you think that love is based on the bigger house, car or boat. Although some of these material assets are necessary, they should not be at the expense of creating a better relationship.
Love is creating a better relationship by building a relationship that is based on the simple things in life, like walking and holding hands, going on a picnic (just the two of you), or sharing an ice cream.
Love in a better relationship is not about what you show on the outside but what you express in you heart. Love is not about money or materialism, love just is.
Myth 6 Love in a relationship is or is not a feeling
Reality Check 6
It is not what you say, it is what you do. You can say, "I love you" which may be merely words and no feelings (action). Love is the action of doing.
If you make a cup of tea for yourself, (the water is boiled), make a cup of tea for your partner. Whether your partner wants the tea or not is irrelevant, it is the thought that counts and the action that cements a better relationship.
Myth 7 I don't have to work at my relationship
Reality Check 7
As a child, you learned to creep before you walked. Then you learned the letters of the alphabet. In order to write, you had to learn how to put those letters together to make words and sentences.
These sentences then become the way in which you communicated.
When you and your partner stop communicating after learning how to use the letters of the alphabet in sentences, it's like 2 tape recorders talking to each other - Nobody is at home to enjoy a better relationship.
In summary:
1. Your partner's behavior in a better relationship is not your partner's true essence.
2. There is no need to have a clone of yourself. A better relationship requires some variety.
3. Giving up of your uniqueness to be in a better relationship is like throwing out the baby with the bath water.
4. In a better relationship there are no superior partners, just equal partners.
5. Love in creating a better relationship is not about money and the material assets (although there are important) but the simple things in life.
6. Love in a better relationship is active not passive.
7. Lack of communication crushes your desire for a better relationship.
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