Are you using Facebook Groups to build your audience?  

If so, did you know that you can build your email list within your groups?

In today's post I'll share with you 2 simple tips how to do this WITHOUT using a lead capture page!

Your email list is the #1 asset you need to build in your business.

The list of 100 people your upline sponsor told you to make out is NOT your list.

Your Facebook followers, friends, FB group members are NOT your list.

As a matter of fact, your Facebook followers, friends, and group members belong to Facebook!

You gotta play by Facebook rules, and they are shutting down accounts left and right if they don't like something you say, even if it's an emoji.

As a matter of fact, I had a good friend of mine who is an internet marketer who wound up having his Facebook account shut down for 30 days where he couldn't post anywhere, including his Facebook group!

Why?

Because he used a sheep emoji to reply to a comment on Facebook!

Look, if Facebook can shut down the social media account of the President of the United States, they can do it to you too.

Could your Facebook group survive if you were shut down for 30 days?

That's why you need to have an email list. 

And fortunately you can do this in 2 ways leveraging your Facebook group.

The first tip is build your email list is to ask for new members to leave their email address before they join your group.

Here's how you do it.

Did you know that you can ask people questions before they can be accepted into your Facebook group?

Facebook allows you to set up questions prior to people joining.

People have to answer those questions before you accept them into the group.

One of the questions you can ask them is: "I am putting together an email newsletter for us to stay in contact in case Facebook goes down. What's your best email address?"

Now it's super important that you get their email address before you accept them into your group. 

Once you accept them into your group you won't be able to see their email address.

I suggest that you create a spreadsheet to collect the names and email addresses prior to accepting them into your group.

Now you're probably saying "Doc, I built my group before I created those questions! How do I add those people?"

No problemo...

All you need to do is create an announcement post - that's a post you pin to the top of the Facebook group that everyone sees.

You then say "I am putting an email newsletter together for us to stay in contact in case Facebook goes down. If you want to be on the list private message me your email address."

It's very important that you have your members private message you their email addresses.

Otherwise, other members may take those email addresses and start spamming other members to their email list.

Remember, email marketing is PERMISSION based.

This will save you a lot of headaches and other members complaining to you about this.

You want people's permission for you to send them emails.

Now that you have your FB group members email addresses, what's the next step?

I'm glad you asked.

You're going to manually add them to your autoresponder.

I find this easier than sending them to a standard lead capture page link.

If you're sending them to a lead capture page link, many won't click on it.

Plus, you don't want to give your members an added step to do.

It's very easy to add people to your email list.

If you use Aweber (which I HIGHLY recommend) you can add people to your email list through the Aweber Atom app on your phone, or via in your Aweber back office.

I created a short video for you where I walk you through how to walk through how to manually add subscribers through your Aweber back office.

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One of the MUST HAVE tools every online marketer needs is an autoresponder. An autoresponder allows you to collect email addresses and to email them regularly. It is a huge time saver. 

Aweber is the industry standard and integrates with most funnel software programs including My Lead System Pro (MLSP), ClickFunnels, and Lead Pages. I've used Aweber since 2010 because the software is easy to use and customer support is top notch, including 24 hour online chat. 

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This is one of the best email marketing courses for home business owners created by a single stay-at-home-mom of 2. In this course you'll learn different ways to write emails to your list that will get them to WANT to buy your product, service, or join your opportunity.

Social media networks change their platforms constantly, and you need to have an insurance policy to communicate with your audience and leads outside of social media. 

As a matter of fact, this course will teach you that you don't need a big list to make money. The creator of this course was able to generate over $1,000.000 in affiliate commissions with a list of less than 4,500 subscribers.

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