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How to Grow Your Email List With Giveaways

Published November 28, 2017 | Last Updated July 16, 2021 By Nicole Bianchi 15 Comments

Person's outstretched hands holding small gift wrapped box
Photo by Ben White

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[Update from 2021]: Several years ago, I wrote a short eBook compiling all of the strategies I used to grow my email list from 200 to over 2,000 subscribers in just one year. I recently expanded and updated that book with strategies for 2021 and turned it into an online course.

In this blog post, I share a sneak peek from one of the lessons. 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…]

Filed Under: blogging, email list, featured, writing

What Charlotte Brontë Taught Me About Being a Writer

Published September 27, 2017 | Last Updated December 8, 2020 By Nicole Bianchi 18 Comments

Portrait of Charlotte Bronte
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Charlotte Brontë dips her pen in the inkwell and begins to write. She and her sisters, Anne and Emily, have brought their desks into the parlor and are busy working on their stories. The rain taps soothingly on the windows of the parsonage, and Charlotte pauses from her work to stare out into the garden. Though she feels in her heart that this is the best story she has ever written, she still fears that the publishers might turn it down as they did with her last manuscript.

The gentle scratching of her sisters’ pens against paper rouses her from her thoughts. Shaking off her doubts, she examines the paragraphs in front of her. There isn’t time to worry about the future — she must only worry about putting her words on paper and getting her protagonist Jane out of this latest predicament with Mr. Rochester.

That was how I envisioned Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, as I gazed at her portable writing desk last December. No, I hadn’t been transported back to the 1840s to her home in West Yorkshire, England. (I wish I had, just for an afternoon! I would have loved to have taken tea with Charlotte and talked about writing with her and her sisters.)

Rather, I was visiting the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City for a special exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charlotte’s birth in 1816. [Read more…]

Filed Under: creativity, featured, inspiration, productivity, writing

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Hi, I’m Nicole! I help creatives, business owners, and writers take their writing and copywriting to the next level and grow their online audience. I’m also a published writer of essays and short stories. As a Christian, I seek to follow in the tradition of artists like Johann Sebastian Bach, dedicating all my work Soli Deo gloria.
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“My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.”
– Psalm 45:1

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