Giving away a freebie (or lead magnet) will accelerate the speed at which you add to your email list or build up a fanbase of supporters who trust your advice and take your recommendations.
One of the easiest ways I get my subscribers to open their emails is to offer them a gift related to the topic of the blog post they chose to read.
This gift helps them solve a problem. These simple freebie ideas will show you how to easily make something useful to your visitors that will turn them into subscribers.
But you don’t have to start from scratch and cause yourself a headache when creating your lead magnet.
All you have to do is use the content you already have and recreate it to a different format.
Check out these ways in which to recreate your existing content into a freebie.
It’s right after you give away the freebies that you have their full attention and one of the most opportune moments comes as an online marketer or online hobbyist…
Your new subscriber is ready to take MORE action RIGHT NOW.
Therefore, present another a Call-to-Action such as
Here’s one way I convert affiliate sales right after giving away a freebie to new subscribers.
I’ve done each of these simple freebie ideas myself, in some cases, to give to my current email subscribers instead of offering them in exchange for a new subscriber’s email.
Formulas and templates make for a useful training freebie.
And it works for any niche.
Your audience can simply swap out elements on a template or fill in the formula to customize it to their own needs.
Here are some examples of templates:
And here are some examples of formulas:
I’ve created fill-in-the-blank text message scripts for women to follow and customize their own to send to their boyfriend or man they are dating.
One of my favorite examples of a freebie to grow my email list or even create a product for sale is a list of copy-and-paste, ready-to-send phrases.
One of my most successful examples of these freebies (and products for sale) is an eBook of copy-and-paste flirty text messages that women can send to men.
These are similar to templates except they are not as artistic, just straight-up text.
And they’re designed for communications; either how to engage in a conversation, respond to someone else, or just to make someone feel good.
Here are some examples of these that your subscribers can copy, paste, and then send:
I love copy-and-paste lead magnets because I already made the content elsewhere. They are the easiest of all the simple freebie ideas you’ll find.
Sure you can use a fancy tool like Leadquizzes or even try out Typeform for free, but I simply use Google Forms.
Watch some YouTube videos on how to make a quiz.
I creatively built one to teach my subscribers how to write successful flirty text messages to get the best responses.
Just create multiple-choice quizzes and provide an explanation of what makes one choice better than the rest.
The explanations are what teach and share the knowledge of the material.
Check out these examples of quizzes that teach:
You can apply also determine how well your subscribers know a topic by providing a scorecard for the number of correct answers to a quiz.
“All 10 Correct= Expert Level”, “Only One Correct= Time to Study Harder”.
The quiz examples above in number 3 suffice, the difference is the scorecard at the end.
How you present the results and scorecard is up to you.
You can ask them to opt-in to receive it or provide it before opt-in and then offer another enticing freebie to subscribe.
The scorecard can be a PDF, blog post, or even a video of you explaining the results.
Not many know this, but Canva is a great tool to create slide shows with audio. You can now also create video screenshots.
Slide shows work well for How-to’s or to repurpose another piece of content you’ve created.
For example, choose your favorite pieces of advice and explain each in more detail.
Here are some simple freebie ideas of slide shows you could use:
Tips to potty train babies
How to train a dog to do tricks
Visual recipes, step-by-step guides
Checklists of tools or supplies (for recipes, photography sessions, campling trips, etc)
How to create digital products for personal use (budget tables, spending trackers, shopping lists, inventory tables)
… or even to convert your list posts into visual displays to make them more appealing to view.
Here are some examples of list posts turned into visual slide shows:
Make short videos with your phone sharing some of your best advice or stories. You can house the videos on a page that you only give access to subscribers. First, upload them to your YouTube channel then embed them on the page.
This involves less editing and many of your subscribers may wish to see your face and hear your voice.
This can come from personal experiences, business or personal ideas you’d like to try, questions you have for your audience to start a conversation, FAQs just to name a few.
Here are some real-life examples of short selfie video series freebies:
We need a list of supplies or action steps to complete many tasks. This is where checklists come in handy. You can easily create checklists with Word or Google Docs, but the most visually appealing-looking ones I’ve built with Canva.com.
This is one of the easiest and sought out freebies to giveaway.
Check out these checklist ideas you can offer as a freebie on your blog or social media pages:
Create fun crossword puzzles, word searches, or vocabulary images-to-word-matching puzzles. I’ve created these for an old Spanish-teaching blog but Canva makes the job much easier.
Make it more interesting to offer scoreboards for bragging rights when you can.
Check out these simple freebie ideas for puzzles you could give away as a freebie on your blog or social media pages:
Date idea cards, vocabulary cards, recipe cards, etc. make for one of the most favorable freebies to giveaway to new subscribers.
Here’s one I jumped into heavily and created not only freebie lead magnets but Etsy products for sale.
Check out this list of printable cards ideas:
Address labels, gift tags, motivational quote stickers, food labels, brand labels templates, salutations, etc.
Your subscribers simply download them then print them on sticker paper sheets.
Look at these examples of freebie printable labels you could give away:
Done in video, text, or audio format, if you can gather expert opinions of notable figures in a specific industry then you have something of value to offer to new subscribers and even to re-engage current ones.
Here are some examples of a roundup freebie from different blog niches:
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