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How do I maintain relationship with my small list?

by ipsummedia
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How do I maintain relationship with my small list? Currently my list size is 50 in IM niche.
As I am just starting out this email marketing business, I wanna monetize it atleast at 60 cents per subscriber per month,expecting pretty low but I am wanna master this thing so I can scale this thing up.
Hoping for your reply guys

Thank You
#list #maintain #relationship #small
  • Profile picture of the author Kaan Evren
    You need to position yourself as a leader to your subscribers.

    Do this by providing training in your niche and supplement that with personal development concepts.

    Ultimately you want to provide so much that they feel a they owe you you something for providing so much value in their lives.

    Email your list 5-6 times a week with different broadcasts providing training, offering value and offers.

    Dont drill your list with offers flat out, every three value broadcasts I send one offer which yield me the most results.

    Also tell your story, every body has a story.

    Reveal your values and who you are, this will resonate with people and attract people to your team.

    Hope this helps.

    Kaan
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    • Profile picture of the author ipsummedia
      Originally Posted by Kaan Evren View Post

      You need to position yourself as a leader to your subscribers.

      Do this by providing training in your niche and supplement that with personal development concepts.

      Ultimately you want to provide so much that they feel a they owe you you something for providing so much value in their lives.

      Email your list 5-6 times a week with different broadcasts providing training, offering value and offers.

      Dont drill your list with offers flat out, every three value broadcasts I send one offer which yield me the most results.

      Also tell your story, every body has a story.

      Reveal your values and who you are, this will resonate with people and attract people to your team.

      Hope this helps.

      Kaan
      which kind of sales funnel can work better for me because I have only 50 subscribers right now which product should I offer to them. I am planning to offer them low ticket items from warriorplus and jvzoo.Is that convert well ?
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      • Profile picture of the author Kaan Evren
        Originally Posted by ipsummedia View Post

        which kind of sales funnel can work better for me because I have only 50 subscribers right now which product should I offer to them. I am planning to offer them low ticket items from warriorplus and jvzoo.Is that convert well ?
        I recommend a training sales funnel that is monetised by offering products and services that are required to operate within your niche.

        Shoot for free, low, mid and high ticket offers.

        When I mean high ticket don't be afraid to offer product that are thousands of dollars , these generate hight ticket commissions.
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        • Profile picture of the author ipsummedia
          Originally Posted by Kaan Evren View Post

          I recommend a training sales funnel that is monetised by offering products and services that are required to operate within your niche.

          Shoot for free, low, mid and high ticket offers.

          When I mean high ticket don't be afraid to offer product that are thousands of dollars , these generate hight ticket commissions.
          Currently I am planning the sale funnel like this

          traffic to landing page containing free report (As bribe as it will increase value and conversions) ==>If visitor does not subscribe I will send him to an Pay per lead program as my exit offer.==>when I visitor subscribe to my list I will send him to low ticket offer like $7-$10 ==>then I will send him some informative email which will help him and at the end of email I will put the affilaite link of that $7-$10 product.I will do this for 3 days in a row then I will rinse and repeat this stuff so ultimately this will provide value also,make relationship also and I will make some sales also.

          Help me If I am making any mistake in this.

          Thank You
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  • Profile picture of the author LookAhead
    I totally agree with Kaan, you gotta offer as much value as possible freely before promoting your offers. the free quality content builds the trust between you and your list, and make your subscribers want to pay you for your efforts..
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  • Profile picture of the author Kaan Evren
    Test, test, test!

    Its the only way to find out.

    Optimize as best as you can and track your metrics.

    Looks good, but I would personally promote higher tick offers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by ipsummedia View Post

    Currently my list size is 50 in IM niche.
    As I am just starting out this email marketing business
    That's a problem.

    I wish you nothing but success with it, but please excuse the observation that, to me, it sounds like a hugely misguided plan (and unsurprisingly that's exactly what it's turned out to be for the overwhelming majority of people in your position).

    Getting into IM-related and/or MMO-related niches is the single commonest mistake that aspiring marketers make, and the single biggest reason for their failures. What you're making quite certain of is that you're competing for the same traffic with some of the world's best, most experienced, most successful and best-funded marketers. Who's really going to win that competition?

    Why would you want effectively to try to teach/guide/advise people about something of which - as yet - you have no successful experience, yourself? Doesn't it strike you that that would surely be stacking the deck rather firmly against yourself?

    The reality is that there's a huge number of different niches in which, statistically, you're something between 10 times and 100 more likely to earn some money worth talking about than you are in this market.

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8561081
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    • Profile picture of the author ipsummedia
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      That's a problem.

      I wish you nothing but success with it, but please excuse the observation that, to me, it sounds like a hugely misguided plan (and unsurprisingly that's exactly what it's turned out to be for the overwhelming majority of people in your position).

      Getting into IM-related and/or MMO-related niches is the single commonest mistake that aspiring marketers make, and the single biggest reason for their failures. What you're making quite certain of is that you're competing for the same traffic with some of the world's best, most experienced, most successful and best-funded marketers. Who's really going to win that competition?

      Why would you want effectively to try to teach/guide/advise people about something of which - as yet - you have no successful experience, yourself? Doesn't it strike you that that would surely be stacking the deck rather firmly against yourself?

      The reality is that there's a huge number of different niches in which, statistically, you're something between 10 times and 100 more likely to earn some money worth talking about than you are in this market.

      http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8561081
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      Thanks,This may take me to the right path
      But I am still confused about other niches as I dont know much about them
      So can you tell me how can I grow my current list of 50 ? and what should me the sales funnel.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by ipsummedia View Post

        I am still confused about other niches as I dont know much about them
        Then learn about one of them. And choose it. Because you're something between 10 and 100 times as likely, statistically, to make some money worth talking about, that way, and you won't be dramatically stacking the deck against yourself as you are at the moment.

        You must have some interests/hobbies/enthusiasms/problems that you could turn into a niche, for internet marketing, surely? Something you do know a little about, and/or are willing to learn about?

        Here's a little list of 129 niches, if it prompts you (there are far more than these, really: this is just a highly abbreviated starting-point ).

        Originally Posted by ipsummedia View Post

        So can you tell me how can I grow my current list of 50 ? and what should me the sales funnel.
        The fact that you're asking these questions are themselves a perfect illustration of why you'd be so well advised to abandon the "IM-niche".

        Very clearly, it isn't a suitable niche/market for people who don't know the basics.

        I say that with absolutely no disrespect to you at all, I hasten to mention: you're simply in the position that we were all in, when we started.

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        • Profile picture of the author ipsummedia
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          Then learn about one of them. And choose it. Because you're something between 10 and 100 times as likely, statistically, to make some money worth talking about, that way, and you won't be dramatically stacking the deck against yourself as you are at the moment.

          You must have some interests/hobbies/enthusiasms/problems that you could turn into a niche, for internet marketing, surely? Something you do know a little about, and/or are willing to learn about?

          Here's a little list of 129 niches, if it prompts you (there are far more than these, really: this is just a highly abbreviated starting-point ).



          The fact that you're asking these questions are themselves a perfect illustration of why you'd be so well advised to abandon the "IM-niche".

          Very clearly, it isn't a suitable niche/market for people who don't know the basics.

          I say that with absolutely no disrespect to you at all, I hasten to mention: you're simply in the position that we were all in, when we started.

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          So if I choose muscle building niche then how can I drive traffic to my Landing page?
          without doing any kinda SEO kinda stuff ?
          And how should increase the relationship with my list and build the trust so people will buy stuff from me ?
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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by ipsummedia View Post

            if I choose muscle building niche then how can I drive traffic to my Landing page?
            without doing any kinda SEO kinda stuff ?
            There are hundreds of traffic-generation ideas here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ffic-tips.html

            (I use article marketing, myself, to generate non-SEO traffic, but it isn't everyone's cup of tea.)

            Muscle-building, it seems to me, is a niche with almost as many marketers as customers in it. (I may be biased because it's a "man's niche", I suppose. )

            But there's a serious point here, as well: it isn't "how many potential customers there are" in the niche that matters: it's more "how many potential customers there are per marketer". But even that's greatly over-simplified, because some of the marketers are inevitably so bad at what they're doing that their "competition" isn't too relevant, anyway. This post (and a few more listed inside it) explain more: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8561081

            Originally Posted by ipsummedia View Post

            how should increase the relationship with my list and build the trust so people will buy stuff from me ?
            There are quite a lot of observations about that in this post, if they help: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

            But perhaps the single most important one of the lot is to make quite certain that whatever you give the subscribers in exchange for their email addresses genuinely fulfils all the purposes listed in this post. Otherwise you just end up with low open-rates!

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        • Profile picture of the author discrat
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          The fact that you're asking these questions are themselves a perfect illustration of why you'd be so well advised to abandon the "IM-niche".

          Very clearly, it isn't a suitable niche/market for people who don't know the basics.


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          Id have to agree with this. For what it is worth , I spent 5 years in IM before I ventured to the dark side to what we all know to be the IM niche bhwahahaha

          You will get chewed up and spit out real quick if you are not prepared.


          And Iam not saying it can't be done but from your experience or lack of it ,you have some work to do

          You really need to educate yourself more about it if you want to see some results



          - Robert Andrew
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    • Profile picture of the author Kaan Evren
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      That's a problem.

      I wish you nothing but success with it, but please excuse the observation that, to me, it sounds like a hugely misguided plan (and unsurprisingly that's exactly what it's turned out to be for the overwhelming majority of people in your position).

      Getting into IM-related and/or MMO-related niches is the single commonest mistake that aspiring marketers make, and the single biggest reason for their failures. What you're making quite certain of is that you're competing for the same traffic with some of the world's best, most experienced, most successful and best-funded marketers. Who's really going to win that competition?

      Why would you want effectively to try to teach/guide/advise people about something of which - as yet - you have no successful experience, yourself? Doesn't it strike you that that would surely be stacking the deck rather firmly against yourself?

      The reality is that there's a huge number of different niches in which, statistically, you're something between 10 times and 100 more likely to earn some money worth talking about than you are in this market.

      http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8561081
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      This here is a text book example of a limiting belief, scarcity mindset and down right anti-competitive behaviour in action.

      There is plenty for every body.

      There is so much abundance just waiting to be tapped into, to advice an aspiring marketer that its over before it began is, I would argue. Miss guiding.

      This is the equivalent of a competing fighter telling an aspiring fighter to not even train or even dare think about stepping into the cage because the competition is so dominant.that you don't even stand a chance.

      For me internet marketing is about being an entrepreneur, taking risk and cultivating skill sets and implementing them to achieve desired results in the face of ambiguity.

      All the small victories add up no matter how incremental.

      Celebrate your first commission even if its $1, celebrate your first blog post, shit, even celebrate your first spammer on your website.

      All the best went through this exact same proccess

      Even Frank Kern was a spammer when he started out, do you think his mind set was "the competition is too tough, Im not even going to try"

      **** NO!

      Everybody starts somewhere, we need to learn it, do it and then teach it.

      Thats how we position ourselves as leaders.
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      • Profile picture of the author nooman ahmed
        When you email them make sure you dont have any links in your offer (unless your directing them to a blog). I say this because when you provide high value for them in your email and you are not trying to benefit yourself only, they will eventually see the value you provide.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jic
        Originally Posted by Kaan Evren View Post

        This here is a text book example of a limiting belief, scarcity mindset and down right anti-competitive behaviour in action.

        There is plenty for every body.

        There is so much abundance just waiting to be tapped into, to advice an aspiring marketer that its over before it began is, I would argue. Miss guiding.

        This is the equivalent of a competing fighter telling an aspiring fighter to not even train or even dare think about stepping into the cage because the competition is so dominant.that you don't even stand a chance.

        For me internet marketing is about being an entrepreneur, taking risk and cultivating skill sets and implementing them to achieve desired results in the face of ambiguity.

        All the small victories add up no matter how incremental.

        Celebrate your first commission even if its $1, celebrate your first blog post, shit, even celebrate your first spammer on your website.

        All the best went through this exact same proccess

        Even Frank Kern was a spammer when he started out, do you think his mind set was "the competition is too tough, Im not even going to try"

        **** NO!

        Everybody starts somewhere, we need to learn it, do it and then teach it.

        Thats how we position ourselves as leaders.
        I am agree with you as no body was born to be a expert or pro in a subject/niche. Everyone has to go through the learning curve, it just the matter that the curve is shorter or longer depending on individual's luck, perseverance and determination.

        Thanks for the inspiring and motivational words here.
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    Everyday, I am tired with tons of spammy email, I click the unsucribe buttom most of email, just keep the REAL person who share practical experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Trujillo
    It's not necessarily the "size" of the list, more so your relationship with your list, how you position yourself with your list, and how much you help your list is what matters. Some marketers have 50,000 subscribers and can't turn a profit if their life depended on it. Some marketers only have 500 subscribers, and they make a pretty decent living online. Remember QUALITY over QUANTITY. If your funnel is fully functioning correctly of course you want to scale which equals more money but that is not the sole determining factor when it comes to making money with your list. What really matters is how much your lists knows you and trusts you. In order to do that, as others have mentioned already, send out helpful tips, articles, videos, whatever you can send them to show you are helping.
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