Grow Your Email List Without Social Media
Every person who walks through your door is a potential email subscriber.
Most small businesses watch them walk right back out without capturing anything. This mini course changes that.
You're doing everything right and your list still isn't growing
You post on Instagram. You show up. You do the work.
And your email list? Forty-three people. Half of them are family.
Here's the thing. Social media is great at bringing people in. Keep posting. But the people who actually walk through your door, sit in your chair, or book with you again and again? They're your best customers, and most of them will never follow you online.
They will, however, hand you their email address if you ask the right way at the right moment.
Most businesses never ask. This mini course teaches you exactly how.
Made for businesses that see customers face to face
Boutiques. Salons. Cafes and bakeries. Fitness studios. Chiropractors. Florists. Bookshops. Any business where real people walk into a real space.
If your customers show up in person, you're sitting on the easiest list-building opportunity there is. You just need a system for it.
No ads. No social media strategy required. No complicated tech.
7 short modules.
Each one ends with something you can use today.
1. Why Your List Needs To Feel Like a VIP Club. The mindset shift that keeps people subscribed for years, not weeks. Plus 15 VIP perk ideas for every type of business.
2. The Checkout Moment. Your easiest win. Paper sheet or tablet, set up in under 30 minutes, collecting names every single day.
3. What To Actually Say. Word-for-word scripts for asking customers to join your list without feeling weird about it. Scripts that don't sound like scripts.
4. Put It on the Receipt. The set-and-forget strategy. You build it once and it quietly works forever.
5. Events and Giveaways. How to collect ten, twenty, fifty sign-ups in a single afternoon.
6. Loyalty Programs and Local Partnerships. Two slow burners that turn your existing customers and your local community into steady list growth.
7. Track It So You Can Grow It. A dead-simple monthly habit so you always know what's working.
You're not just getting lessons.
You're getting the actual tools.
Included with your mini course:
Everything works with any email platform.
Flodesk, Mailchimp, Kit, Constant Contact, MailerLite, you name it.
If you can send an email, you can use this course.
$27
One payment. Instant access.
This isn't theory.
I ran the shop.
My name is Des. I've been working in email and digital marketing since 2008, and I ran a retail business that grew to over $1.5 million in sales. Email was the engine behind that growth. Not a big ad budget. Not a viral moment. A list of real people who wanted to hear from me.
I built that list almost entirely in person. At the counter. At events. Through loyalty sign-ups and real conversations with customers who liked what we were doing.
Every strategy in this course is one I actually used. The sign-up sheet, the checkout ask, the events, the partnerships. They worked in a real shop with real customers, and they'll work in yours.
By the end of this course you'll have:
FAQ
Do I need Flodesk to use this? Nope. The strategies work with any email platform. If you don't have a platform yet, Module 2 will help you get sorted, and my free course Flodesk in a Flash gets you from zero to your first send in 24 hours.
How long does it take? Each module is short and ends with one action step. Most people have their first sign-up station live within a day of starting. The full system takes about a week to build, working in small pockets of time.
I'm not techy. Will I be okay? Yes. The simplest strategy in this course is a clipboard and a pen. Everything else comes with step-by-step walkthroughs, and nothing requires more than basic copy and paste.
What if my list is literally zero people? Perfect. You're starting with a system instead of bad habits. Zero to one hundred real, local subscribers is exactly what this course is built for.
Your list is your own soil
You can post every day and build something that looks impressive, and one algorithm shift can quietly undo years of work.
Your email list can't be taken from you. Every person on it chose to be there. It grows on ground that belongs to you.
The customers are already walking through your door. Let's make sure they don't walk back out without joining your list.
$27
PS. Everything in this course comes from strategies I used to grow a real retail business to over $1.5 million in sales. It's not theory. It's the system, handed to you with the templates and scripts included. Set it up this week and your list starts growing while you do literally everything else you already do. You really are ready!
xo Des