Nicole Bianchi

Writing, Copywriting, & Marketing Strategies

Why Writers Need An Email List & How to Get Started (Video)

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I’m excited to share the first video of 2021!

In this video, I look at three reasons why having an email list is so important if you’re a writer building an audience online, and why you should focus on beginning an email list or growing your email list in 2021.

I also share three quick and easy tips to help you get started.

I also just released a brand new course “Email Marketing for Writers” all about how to grow your email list fast and make money from your list. Check it out here.

As a thank you for being one of my subscribers and to celebrate launch week, the course is available for just $97 until Wednesday midnight (the price will go up to $125 after that).

If you have any questions about the course, leave a comment below. Or you can go ahead and check out all the details right here.

New Course: Grow Your Email List Fast

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To kick off the new year, I’m excited to announce the release of my new online course: “Email Marketing for Writers: Grow Your Email List Fast.”

A few years ago, I wrote a little eBook about how to grow an email list. But a lot has changed in the marketing and blogging world since I published that book. 

So I’ve updated and expanded it and turned it into a brand new course (now with a section on how to make money from your list).

You can get all the details about it on this page (and discover why an email list is so powerful and so important for writers).

As a thank you for being one of my subscribers and to celebrate launch week, the course is available for just $97 for the next seven days only (the price will go up to $125 after that).

Keep in mind that…

  1. This comprehensive, hands-on course leads you step-by-step from getting your very first email subscriber all the way to promoting your first product to your audience.
  2. With this course as your guide, you won’t have to worry anymore about how to promote your blog and writing and find your audience online. The course will equip you with the strategies for building a loyal community so you can help more people and be able to devote your time to the projects you’re passionate about.
  3. The price goes up next week. So if you want to start building an email list, be sure to sign up as soon as you can!

If you have any questions at all about the course, let me know in the comments. 🙂

Or you can go ahead and check out all the details right here.

Don’t put it off though! This offer will be gone in just a few days.

I can’t wait to help you on your journey to grow your online audience!

7 Things I Wish I Knew When I First Started Blogging

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The other day, a friend called me and asked if I could share advice about setting up a blog. She was now working from home and had a lot of extra time on her hands.

She wanted to devote some of that time to finally publishing her work and growing an audience online. Maybe, she thought, she could eventually turn the blog into a part-time income stream.

I imagine that there are many more people just like my friend who’ve been thinking about starting a blog and now are finally ready to take the leap.

So I decided to write up this post sharing the top seven tips I’d tell myself if I was starting a blog today.

I’m drawing on my experience from many years of blogging (I started my first blog when I was fourteen and have turned several of my blogs into income streams), and also my experience as a web designer and copywriter.

If you just want to blog as a hobby, this guide probably isn’t for you.

But if you’re interested in turning your blog into a business by building an audience and eventually promoting your own products and services or earning money through advertising, then these tips will help you get off to a running start.

Let’s dive in.

Please note: This blog post might contain affiliate links, but I only recommend services I think highly of and/or have personally used. Thanks for your support!

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A GDPR Compliance Checklist For Your Email Marketing

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Over the past several weeks, the blogosphere has been buzzing with talk of a new EU privacy law called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will go into effect on May 25.

When I first heard about the law, I thought, “Well, I’m not in the EU so I guess this doesn’t apply to me.”

Wrong. I soon found out that if I had any email subscribers who were EU citizens, the law applied to me as well. That means it probably applies to you too if you have EU subscribers on your email list.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of conflicting information out there about GDPR and what actions to take to make sure your email marketing is GDPR compliant. [Read more…]

The One Powerful Strategy That Will Help You Stand out Online

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It’s a brand new year filled with opportunity. You’ve resolved to focus your energy on writing more blog posts or maybe even publishing a book. There’s only one problem. There are thousands of people out there who’ve made the exact same New Year’s resolution as you.

The Internet is a crowded place. Every day someone writes a new blog post in your niche or publishes a new book on Amazon in your genre. In a sea of content, how can you get people to pay attention to your work?

I remember a shoe store my mom used to take me to when I was a little kid. It was called Merry-Go-Round Shoes and was quite unlike any store I’d ever been to. There was a merry-go-round in the center of the store that children could ride on.
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I just released my new book!

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Hi, friends!

After many long nights of writing, formatting, and editing, I’m excited to announce that my new eBook How to Grow Your Email List: A Step-by-Step Guide for Writers is now available to purchase.

Go here to get your copy.

If you haven’t read the recent posts on my blog, you might be wondering, “Why is an email list so important?” [Read more…]

How to Grow Your Email List With Giveaways

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This November, I’ve been putting the finishing touches on my soon-to-be-released eBook How to Grow Your Email List: A Step by Step Guide for Writers.

In this in-depth book, I’m compiling all of the strategies I’ve used to grow my email list from 200 to over 2,000 subscribers in just one year. And I show you step-by-step how you can use them to grow your online audience too.

I’m planning to release the book this December. But in today’s blog post, I’m sharing a sneak peek of one of the chapters. It’s about a very cool email list building strategy: giveaways! 🙂

Running a giveaway is one of my favorite email list building strategies. It’s a fun way for you to show your current subscribers how much you appreciate their support. And, at the same time, it’s an effective way to attract new subscribers to your list. (Don’t have an email list yet? Check out my blog post here for how you can get started.) [Read more…]