Best way to monetize email list

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Hi guys,
i have a mail list that grows by 300 users a day, mostly users are young people keen on sports and video games.
Any suggestion to maximize monetization of the list ?
Maybe sending newsletters with CPA ?
How much could the list worth more or less ?
Any suggestion will be appreciated.

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  • Profile picture of the author semahsedut
    have you done segmentation to it ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe Spin
    Nope, i'm not that expert in marketing things, i just started to collect email from my users and having them opting in to receive a newsletter.
    Also which is the best/cheap service to send so many email without being marked as spammer ?
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  • Profile picture of the author semalaia4n
    The Sponsored Content & Native Ads....
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    mostly users are young people keen on sports and video games
    Promote affiliate products. There are usually new online games that pay CPA for new members.
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  • Profile picture of the author coffeediva
    What service are you using to collect your emails and send out your newsletters?
    You could also use your list as a retargeting on facebook and run ads to new gaming aps that are coming out.
    Do you know how old your list members are? Do they have money to spend?
    Are they all interested in the same thing or different things?
    There are lot's of ways you can monetize you list by sending affiliate offers or even setting up[ a gaming you tube channel or facebook group or page. Start nurturing a community.
    Hope that helps
    J
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    • Profile picture of the author Joe Spin
      Originally Posted by coffeediva View Post

      What service are you using to collect your emails and send out your newsletters?
      You could also use your list as a retargeting on facebook and run ads to new gaming aps that are coming out.
      Do you know how old your list members are? Do they have money to spend?
      Are they all interested in the same thing or different things?
      There are lot's of ways you can monetize you list by sending affiliate offers or even setting up[ a gaming you tube channel or facebook group or page. Start nurturing a community.
      Hope that helps
      J
      The emails are the addresses of my mobile apps users, i collect them on my server dbs, i know the country and approx age they don't have money cause most of them are teenagers, i know about their interests too.

      I have no idea on how to send the newsletter in a safe way to so many recipients....what service do you guys use ?
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  • Profile picture of the author felisitie
    I can think of a lot of ways to monetize your list.



    1. Place some sponsored content and native Ads in your newsletter
    2. Offer your list special discounts and coupons of offers related to their interests

    3. Rent or sell your email list
    4. Add banners and display Ads - Ad networks and services, like LiveIntent, offer a variety of display ads for email lists.
    5. Share or trade your list with other list builders

    6. Optimize for mobile
    7. Integrate video in your emails to increase engagement
    8. Keep the list growing and interested



    I am sure there are more ways to monetize your list...
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
    Hi Joe,

    Keep helping people. Be open and transparent. Maintain a conversational, authentic, personable tone in emails. Money will follow.

    Monetizing is simple when you share helpful content - in your own voice - as the people who dig your help/value will buy your ebooks/courses/affiliate products/whatever. They buy the stuff, you're monetizing A-OK. They buy the stuff when you help them with both the stuff/products and the content you share thru emails,videos, blog posts and podcasts, and whatever content streams you so choose.

    I'd focus heavily on sharing helpful content. And on being authentic. Meaning, be you, and write in your voice, and as you get clearer and clearer on writing in your voice, your subscribers will buy in more and more, literally and figuratively

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  • Profile picture of the author Joe Spin
    Thank you guys for your kindness and precious suggestions, you are just great.

    I try to go a little bit more in depth, for my personal interest but also for the sake of making this thread worth something more for every user here at WF:

    As i wrote to Coffediva, these emails are from android users that use my mobile apps.
    The data i have for each user:

    - Approx age range
    - Country
    - How many times they use the app
    - Of course i can deduct some of their tastes from the kind of app (ie for cycling app i assume they like cycling)

    Now i make them opt in to receive newsletter in the TOS and i collect their phone email (so the eventual newsletter would be received directly on the phone)

    I do not want to build up a community or something that needs strong interaction or big content creation because it is not my job and i don't like that kind of activity.

    I would like first of all to estimate how much this list could worth in usd/month, i know it strongly depends on what i will do with it... but let s assume:

    1) Don't want to build strong interaction/community things
    2) Don't want to send more than 1 communication a month and I Will give the un subscribe option in each
    3) Don't want to send sneaky offers like subscribe/pay with mobile carriers
    4) No gambling/sex/drugs/pharmacy related things cause a lot of them are teenagers
    5) I would prefer not to no sell the address to any third party (but it would be VERY INTERESTING to know how much do they worth)
    6) I would like all the process to be quick (ready made contents and offers), let's say one working day for composition and send. As i told you marketing is not my main occupation.

    Lest also assume by hypothesis that this list will grow 10.000 users a month.
    After a year i would have 120K addresses in my databases.
    I will like to discuss with you:

    1) Which is a good cheap service i can use to handle and send the newsletter
    2) A service that offers ready made CPA contents could be good in your opinion (like cpaleads, mobpartner and similar)?
    3) Given the info i wrote, have someone of you a idea on how much money this business could bring me (MIN MAX?), does it worth the effort ?

    Outsourcing could be an option for whom is interested.

    Lov u guys, thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author simonbrep
    Hi mate, sounds like you've hit a little gold mine there. 300 subscribers a day is a very good ratio - they are obviously interested in what you are doing.

    Now you need to build up trust.

    - Set up a mailing list/email sending system if you haven't already.
    - Welcome email - saying thanks for signing up, welcome to the community, etc
    - Weekly/Fortnightly/Monthly Newsletter - including site updates, latest posts, whatever it is that you are offering that's new. Here you can include ads, to your products or affiliate brands around the content of the newsletter.
    - Bulletins - like newsletters but less content - again detailing a latest post or addition to your site, with a small ad.

    Remember you want to build up trust so don't push the advertising too much at first. After a month or two you should get a good idea of what it is your users are interested in. This is the gold! Now you can base your products/offers/campaigns around what they want and really target your marketing campaigns to your users needs.

    Now you can increase the frequency of your email campaigns and also what your site offers. I reckon that as well as boosting sales, you will massively increase those daily signups.

    Keep working, keep posting and keep planting seeds!
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