🔒 How Do I Grow My Email List Without Social Media?

Amelia HrubyWelcome to the Off the Grid Clubhouse. Thank you for being a paid supporter of the show. Let's get off the grid and into this super secret episode. Hello, and welcome to the Off the Grid Clubhouse. I'm your host, Amelia Ruby, and this is our private space for paid supporters of my podcast, Off the Grid Leaving Social Media.

Amelia HrubyI love sharing things in the clubhouse, and I'm so grateful to you for supporting the show. If you're hearing this preview on the main podcast feed, you're only gonna get a tiny glimpse of this episode, and then I will ask that you upgrade to paid to hear the whole thing if you would like. I know that it can be frustrating when people pay wall content, but you know what else is frustrating? Making a 150 episodes of a podcast totally for free and not feeling supported. But luckily for me, that is not the case because of the amazing people in the clubhouse as well as the interweb who support my work and who allow me to keep making off the grid as a totally free resource, a podcast that comes out every week when we're in season and supports you in reimagining your relationship to social media and big tech and crafting a sustainable creative business in the process.

Amelia HrubySo thank you to to those of you listening to this in the Clubhouse and if you are hearing the free preview and you can afford to upgrade to paid for just $5 a month or $50 a year, I'd love to invite you to do that now so that you can hear my entire answer to today's wonderful question. So in this episode of the Clubhouse, I am going to answer a listener question. I occasionally get emails from listeners who love the show and need some support figuring out how all of this can work in their business And while I don't, you know, offer a ton of free advice over email, sometimes the questions are so good that I'm like, I should make a podcast episode about this because all the people need to hear it. And that was the case with today's question. In this episode, I'm gonna answer a question from Kate Gregory of queen bee hormone health.

Amelia HrubyShe is trying to leave Instagram, but struggling to grow her email list in a way that makes that feel like a safe and supportive shift instead of just, you know, leaping off the proverbial cliff and taking her business with her. So I have a lot of ideas for Kate on how to make that change because it's one that I've made myself. When I left social media, I had to get my followers onto my email list, and I have some ideas for how that can work as well as a mindset shift that I think is important here. So let me read you Kate's question and then we'll dive in. Hey, Amelia.

Amelia HrubyI've been listening to your podcast over the past month and I feel really grounded in my decision to leave social media, Instagram specifically. I'm a women's hormone practitioner and I have over 5,000 followers, but only about 250 on my email list, and most of my clients have come from word-of-mouth and not social media despite years of trying to make that work. What I'm struggling with now is trying to get people onto my email list before I leave the platform. I'm planning a live event and have been struggling posting, trying to advertise it, and having no success. Of course, this inevitably dysregulates me and just feels icky.

Amelia HrubyI've backed way off on posting and feel so much better, but I'm really struggling to get people moved on to my email list and I wonder what advice you have for this part of the process. I don't want to just ghost everyone, but I'm ready to leave Instagram. Thanks for anything you can offer and for giving me permission to leave and do business outside social media. Alright, I love this question from Kate and maybe some of you tuning in can relate, you know, maybe you've built a following on Instagram or TikTok or another social media platform and you really feel ready to leave but you're noticing that there's a big difference between the size of your social media following and your email list, and you're worried about making that shift and the impact it might have on your business. So if that's you, I think you're gonna love this episode.