By Cheval John

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Today’s blog post is the beginning of a series on how you can grow a community for your business.

Having a community is highly important because you bring together like-minded people who will support each other.

Social media has amplified the opportunity for anyone to build a community.

At the end of the day, social media platforms is just rented land.

You could lose the audience you built over time due to the algorithm changes or the disappearance of the social platforms.

One of the ways to maintain the community you have built over time is with the old fashion e-mail list.

Your e-mail list is your very own real estate.

It allows you to build an audience over time.

Even if you end up losing followers due to the disappearance of the platforms, your e-mail list will help you maintain your audience due to consistency in providing value to them.

Here’s what not to do when building your e-mail list from social media.

1. DO NOT SEND AN AUTOMATED DIRECT MESSAGE

Just because someone followed you on social media does not give you the right to send automated direct messages to like their facebook page or subscribe to your website.

This gives off the impression you are only looking to sell to them and people hate being sold to.

2. COPY THEIR E-MAIL ADDRESS FROM GROUPS PAGES

This is very unprofessional because they did not give you permission to add them to your blog.

3. HAVE POP-UPS ON YOUR WEBSITE

This is annoying because a person will be reading your blog post and all of a sudden, they get out of rhythm due to the pop-up e-mails.

You might believe it is a quick way to capture the visitors to your site before they leave.

However, this tactic will damage your business because people know they will be spammed with pop-ups every time they visit your site.

You must focus on providing value to your audience which is solving their pain points consistently.

When you do this, your visitors will decide on their own you are worth listening too and eventually sign up for your e-mail list.

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