084: [Soulpreneur 411] Tips on email marketing to your list again after a long hiatus

Kate Kordsmeier 0:04

Welcome, welcome, welcome. We are back with the Success with Soul podcast. I'm your host, Kate Kordsmeier. And we are officially in season two of the show now. And I'm excited because we're doing something a little different. We've just released a brand new series called solopreneur 411, where entrepreneurs just like you can send in questions if you want some personalized laser coaching. And I will answer each week. So if you want to leave me a message and be featured on the show and get some free coaching for yourself, which is usually only available inside the incubator, head on over to successwithsoul.co/Ask, and you can be featured and get coached as well. So with that, let's dive into today's question.

Stacy 0:52

Hi, Kate, This is Stacy from nofussnatural.com. And thanks so much for the opportunity to ask you a question. I wanted to get your opinion on emailing my list after I've been MIA for a really long time. I've been out of my business for quite a few months due to some very personal circumstances. And I'd love to get back into it. But I feel really uncertain about how to approach emailing my list again after they haven't heard from me for so long. So what are your thoughts on that? I really love to email them twice a week. But I feel like that's kind of overkill after they haven't heard from me in such a long time. So do you think it's better to just jump straight back into it or build back up slowly? So email them with less frequency, maybe like once a week or something like that, and gradually build up? I look forward to hearing what you think about that. Thanks, Kate.

Kate Kordsmeier 1:45

Hey, Stacy, thanks so much for a great question. I am loving this 411 series. And I think your question is one that maybe isn't necessarily a super common question in itself. But I think the reason you're asking the question in the first place is super common. And what I mean by that is that I think sometimes we all me as much as anybody else, have a tendency to overthink things in our business. And so I think there's a little bit of overthinking over analyzing or putting too much importance on something that at the end of the day probably isn't going to make a big difference. Either way, like there really is no right or wrong answer to this question. So I hope that helps a little bit just in framing, like what you should do, because ultimately, I think you should just do what feels right to you to do. What is the frequency of emailing that you can now keep up with with this new schedule? Are you back in action and full time at it again? Or are you still you know, dealing with some things in your personal life? Or have another job? What's the consistency that you can keep up with? So that would be my first question, because I think when it comes to being consistent, it's not so much the frequency that matters, it's just that you pick something that you can keep up with. So if you can keep up with two emails a week, great, let's do two emails a week. If you can only do one email a week or one email a month, let's do that. But I think just start somewhere and think about also what your goals are. What are these emails accomplishing? Why are you sending out these emails? Is there something in particular you're launching? Or you're trying to get people to do? What's the call to action? What's the desired outcome here? What is the result that you want these emails to lead to? I think that also might help in terms of figuring out what frequency would be best. The other thing that came up for me is, I think that you probably discovered during this time away from your business that it would have been great if you had some automated systems in place so that your list could have been getting emails even if you were not working. So I would recommend setting up some type of automated email sequence or auto responder series or evergreen funnel type email sequence, so that your list can be frequently hearing from you. And you don't have to be showing up every single day to do it. So we teach a lot of these different strategies inside the incubator. And if you want to learn more about them, the best place to start is to go to Kate kordsmeier.com/apply to learn more. Now, the last part of your question, Stacey that I think is is a good one too, is like how's your audience going to respond to you kind of going am I for a little bit and then coming back. And so what I find is that transparency is the best thing here. If you can just be transparent and authentic with your audience and tell them hey, you haven't heard from me for a while. If you feel comfortable sharing why that is you might want to share their vulnerability is really important for connection and respect and community. So maybe you want to transparently and vulnerably share why you've been away and then share that you are back and this is what they can expect moving forward. Now, I think you might want to set your expectations that some people are going to unsubscribe because they forgot why they came. And then they don't really remember who you even are. And so they're just trying to clean out their inbox. It's not personal. But it might be something that happens. So just set your expectations for that. Aside from that, people are going to respond however, they're going to respond, we can't predict or control their response, we can only control what we do. So I think that again, kind of comes back to what is the result you're trying to accomplish? And so after you send an email or two, that sort of like, Hey, I've been out of the game, here's why. Here's what's going to come next. Just get back into whatever schedule works for you. So I hope that was helpful, Stacy. I always love hearing from you. And I'll see the rest of y'all back here next week.

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Molly Cahill 7:19

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Kate Kordsmeier 8:17

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