Frequent and persistent communication - annoying or effective?


Quick story time...

Recently, I signed up to receive communications from a new workout studio opening up near my house.

Their marketing was top-notch. 🔥 Can I share?

When I met the owner, she gave me a free water bottle

She sent me 14 texts (I never responded 🫣)

She called me 4 times (I never picked up)

She left 2 voicemails (I never called back)

I saw countless online ads

I received 6 emails

I saw their poster up at a coffee place I frequent

I happened to drive by the location at least a dozen times

Finally, two months later, I signed up. And I'm loving it!

Can you imagine how the manager felt - texting and calling me over two months?! She probably thought she was annoying me.

She wasn't!

It wasn't that I didn't want to sign up. Clearly! I gave her my email and phone number!

Rather, it took that long for the conscious thought {Oh yeah, I need to sign up for that} to make its way to the top of my very busy mind.

If you pay close attention, you do this too!


Moral of the story: The next time you run a big event, think about increasing the frequency and persistence of your communication.


Check out the links below to save some time as you ramp up communication:

⚡ TO BE CLEAR: None of the messages I received from this studio were exclusively about signing up. They offered me value: Here's a discount code for your first month, here's a bio about each instructor, here's the class schedule, here's a tour of the studio... ⚡

Offer value in every message and you'll never annoy people.

What do YOU think? I'd love to hear! Email back anytime. ✉️


A HUGE thank-you to those of you who filled out my Google Forms survey. It's not too late! Give me your input here.

I'll be selecting a few people who complete the survey for the Google My Business page audit this week.

Until next Friday!

Grace Ungemach

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