 Hey, welcome back to the channel. So I'm gonna keep this video pretty tactical and informal, but I want to show you how I get 25 or more people to join my email list, mostly for free, every single day. So I'm gonna show you the strategy that I use, the way that the funnel looks and how people end up joining my list, and then also what it looks like after they join my list, what happens after they join. So what you're looking at on the screen here is like my secret weapon for growing my email list. And this is a Facebook group. So this is the second Facebook group that I've created and this one is around email marketing. So it's called email marketing rain makers and it's how you make more money online with email. And you can see on the left hand side here, there's 28 new people today, which is 28 new people who joined or requested to join this group. And you might be asking, why would I use a Facebook group to grow an email list? And so those are two different things. And the reason is I'm gonna show you a couple of features that Facebook groups allow you to have, but the reason is I'm able to grow two assets at the same time, right? I'm able to grow a Facebook group or a community of people who get to see my content over and over again and also an email list. So I'm growing two different channels or two different assets at the same time. That's why I love Facebook groups so much. Now, your second question might be, why would I wanna build these two different assets? Well, the more people see and hear from you on these multiple different channels, the more that they're going to bond with you, the stronger that bond's gonna be and the more likely they are to become a customer. So that's why I do it. I wanna have them on as many channels as I can and these are two channels here, right? My Facebook group and my email list. So this is my secret weapon here for growing my email list, but how do I get new members into this group? Now, I recently started using paid advertising about a month ago, so I'm using about 50 bucks a day, but up until around two and a half K members, 2,500 members or so, it was all organic. And so I wanna show you what that looks like right now. How did I grow this group using organic strategies? There's a few different channels. So the first one is my YouTube channel, right? So this is my YouTube channel is an example of a video here and you can see in the description section, there are links to my Facebook group and other different tools and resources that I have. What you'll also notice in my YouTube videos is at the end, I usually say something along the lines of, hey, if you want more information and content around email marketing and digital products and building an audience, go to emailrainmaker.com and that's gonna take you to my free group where you can join to learn about that. And so they go to emailrainmaker.com that takes them here, they can request to join and that's one way where people find my group for free is creating these YouTube videos. I usually do one or two a week and at the end of the videos, I reference the group and then I also have links to it here in the description. So that's one channel. The second area is on my Twitter profile. So you can see here, there's a link here. I tweet about four to five times per day and when someone goes to my profile, they can click on this link. It goes to this page and you can see here they can join my group or they can join my email list directly. Okay, so that's the second channel. The third way is sometimes I'm getting interviewed on other people's podcasts or YouTube channels and at the end of those interviews, I will link or I will tell people the URL for my Facebook group and they can join there as well. So those are the three main channels for growing my Facebook group for free, mostly organic methods, right? I would say it's still about 80% even though I'm running paid ads, it's still about 80% comes from organic traffic. Now, another cool thing about Facebook groups is once you reach about 100, 200 members, if you go to the groups tab here, you can see it starts suggesting your group to other people. So based on my browsing history on Facebook, you can see it's requesting or suggesting me this bigger pockets group, which is a real estate group, I believe. This is a marketing group, real estate, financing, right, passive income or Facebook ads. So your group starts getting recommended by Facebook and you start getting free members, okay, around 100, 200 members or so. And so if you click see more here, you're gonna find more of these groups and it's based on your browsing history. So once Facebook has a better idea of who's joining your group, the types of members and what are they interested in, it starts recommending your group to other people who are similar to that. Okay, so those are like the organic methods for growing a Facebook group and that's what got me to about two and a half, 2,500 members in my group for free. Now I use a bit of paid ads but still mostly comes from organic traffic. So if I go back to my group here, how do I get people's email address, right? They're joining my group but how do I get their email address and how does it grow my email list? So there's a cool feature with Facebook groups here and if I go here to membership questions, you can see the question here, number two, it says enter your email only if you want my subject line secrets report. So they put their email address in here and they automatically put into my email list. Now you have to use a tool, I use a tool called group funnels and Zapier, I'll link to it below and it just happens automatically, right? So once my virtual assistant will go in and will approve people to their group, if they put their email here, she just has to click an approve button and it sends them to my email list. So this is a really cool feature because I'm now growing my Facebook group and my email list at the same time and it's happening pretty much on autopilot, right? Whenever someone joins my group and they put their email address and we click approve, they get sent over to my email list. So that's why I love and use Facebook groups because it helps me to extract the email address and send it automatically to my email list and build those two different assets or channels at the same time. I haven't found any other platform that does this yet. Now the trick here for getting people to give you their email address is to make sure that you create something like a special report where it is interesting to them, valuable to them. So people who are joining a group about email marketing, they wanna write better subject lines, they wanna write better emails. So subject line secrets report is something that they're interested in and is valuable to them. So if you haven't watched my video on creating a free lead magnet, I'll link to it below so you can see how I create this report. But you wanna make sure that it's something that is interesting and valuable to your specific audience on whatever your group is around, right? Again, email marketing here. So subject line secrets report is valuable and useful and interesting to them. So that's the secret. That's how you get people to give you their email address. If you just said, hey, give me your email address to join the group, you're gonna get a lot less people giving you their email address. So you wanna give them something, I call it a free date, something to get them interested in giving you their email address. So that is how I get people from my Facebook group onto my email list automatically. What happens after they're on my list? Well, this is active campaign here. This is the email software that I use. And you can see here, EMR Facebook group opt-in, once they opt-in, they get put into this autoresponder sequence, okay? So this is about 11 or so emails long. This is an autoresponder welcome sequence. And whenever someone joins my group, they are presented one of my offers. So in this case, this sequence is selling my $49 super fast sales email challenge. And you can see here, it's about 11 emails long. And once they buy, they're removed from this automation and they're put into my daily email list where I send out emails, usually Monday through Saturday. So this is the funnel here, right? I use content on platforms like YouTube and Twitter, and I'm getting interviewed on other channels and Facebook is sending me free traffic. Someone joins my group. They request to join this email marketing rain makers group. They give me their email address in exchange for this free report. And then once they give me their email address, they are put into an autoresponder sequence here in active campaign that promotes and sells one of my offers. In this case, it's a $49 super fast sales email challenge. So this is how I grow my email list by 25 plus people every day. And also grow a community here of 25 plus people every day. And so now once someone joins my group and my email list, I can talk to them in this group. So you can see I make posts usually every single day. And then I'm also sending an email out to my list. So now they're seeing me on both of these channels. And if they're watching my YouTube channel and my Twitter as well, now they're seeing me in four different places. So the more channels I can hit them on, the better because the stronger the bond is with those people who hopefully will eventually become customers on mine. So that is the entire funnel. That's how I grow my email list by about 25 plus people every day for free or mostly for free. Now I use a bit of paid ads, but I got to 2,500 members in this group from scratch using just organic methods. I also have a previous group called productized profits which has about 4,500 people using the same exact strategy. So if you're looking to grow an email list, I think Facebook groups are still one of the best ways to do it. Make sure that you create it around a specific result or hobby or something that people are interested in. In this case, it's email marketing. And so you can send people to this community every day whether you're creating content on YouTube or Twitter or TikTok, whatever channel you're on. So I hope this was useful and valuable to you. This is exactly how I grow my email list by 25 plus people every single day and that number continues to grow every month that I continue to do this. And give me a like if it was, let me know in the comments if you're going to create your own Facebook group or you're going to start growing your email list let me know in the comments what you're going to create that around. I'd love to hear from you. Also I got to plug the group here. If you want to join this group, go to email rainmaker.com. I talk a lot about email marketing and digital products and building an audience here. So if you want content around that, make sure you go to email rainmaker.com and join this group for free. And that is it for this video. I'll see you in the next one. Take it easy.