Building your email list through in-person networking

If you do a lot of of in-person networking, you have a great opportunity to build your email list.

Chamber events and other networking get-togethers are good for meeting a lot of people and collecting plenty of business cards. Perhaps you didn’t know what to do with all the business cards. Well, now that you have an email list, there’s a perfect use for them.

A day or two later, email all the people you met. Tell them it was great meeting them and chatting with them, and then ask if you can add them to your email list.

In my experience, it’s been more helpful to ask them if you can add them, then actually adding them yourself. Another option is to just email them a link to a sign-up form, but I’ve found I got a better response rate by adding them myself.