Email Marketing Without Revealing Your Physical Address
I'm not going to talk about email marketing in general here - I'm sure you are aware of its importance.
There is one big issue I couldn't find an easy (and free) solution:
I don't want to provide my physical home address in my email campaigns.
The FTC's CAN-SPAM Act requirement for a physical address is clear: The law says that every email that you send has to have a physical address at the end of the email and you must be able to receive physical mail at this address. But what if you don't have an office? Who wants to give out their home address to everyone on their mailing list?
Google this topic and you will find those solutions:
- Rent a P.O. Box at your local post office
- Use the address you work at
- Ask a friend with a business
I was not satisfied with these options. I don't want to spend money on a P.O. box, I don't want to provide my work address (it's not their business to receive my mail) and I don't have a friend with a business and even if I did, it wouldn't feel right to ask him/her.
The Solution In One Sentence
There's an email marketing tool called ConvertKit which allows you to use their address in your emails for free.
Explained In More Detail
ConvertKit is the only platform that I’m aware of that offers to use their physical address – for free. If someone reaches out with a legal notice, ConvertKit will open it, scan the mail, and email you the PDF. But you agree to use this address only for email marketing using ConvertKit’s services. Click HERE to read the official article about this topic.
ConvertKit is one of the fastest-growing email marketing companies around. They combine email-marketing and landing page creation.
With ConvertKit, you can manage everything in one single tool. It allows you to create landing pages and customizable sign-up forms with ease – you don’t need any technical background. Managing your subscribers is very easy. You can even build a landing page BEFORE you create a free account. Click here to build a landing page!
They also provide very helpful tutorials for using ConvertKit.
Yes, ConvertKit is FREE for up to 1000 subscribers!
ConvertKit is totally free for up to 1000 subscribers. Sign up for free and you are able to use almost all features. As soon as you hit 1000 subscribers, you hopefully will be making money and you won’t care to spend some money for an upgrade to manage more subscribers. And their pricing is very reasonable. The important thing is you can start for free and then check how it turns out without any risk!
The free plan includes:
- Unlimited landing pages
- Unlimited, customizable CTAs & signup forms
- 30+ premium landing page templates
- Unlimited traffic
- Customizable domain setup
- Mobile responsive designs
- Manage up to 1000 subscribers
- Unlimited Email broadcasts
- Subscriber tagging
- Seamless Unsplash integration
- Creator community
Conclusion
ConvertKit allows you to use their physical address in your emails. You don't have to worry about anything: After you signed up you will see that the address is already filled in by default. You don't have to do anything. Everything is completely free for up to 1000 subscribers.
That's what I call a true solution!
Any comments, questions, or suggestions? Please write me an email! james@revealnuggets.com