Buying Email lists

I have been monetizing purchased data for over 16 years using PPL(pay per lead...lead generation) offers. I use these types of offers because there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form to generate a commission. Conversion rates are typically much higher because it's a free offer and the offers I send have broad mass appeal. So the potential to generate high volume exists. In addition, I also send some other types of free or almost free offers and even a limited number of offers that are purchases. However, these are very selective, as they still have to have mass appeal.

What I do and what you are proposing is very different. First by sending the users to a squeeze page is going to reduce the number of user that see your offer. Then you have a single offer that you plan to promote. Which is going to limit your potential conversions, because it's a single offer and if they are not interested, then you are done. Where I use many offers, which greatly increases my chances. Then your offer requires a purchase, which again is going to limit potential conversions.

At the very least I would ditch the squeeze page and any data you purchase, you want to have it cleaned by a reputable list hygiene company. I'm not saying it can't work, I'm just trying to show you the difference between monetizing data and buying data to try and generate traffic for a single offer. Which is why some say buying data can be extremely profitable and others say to never do it.

What you will want to do is not just go and buy a list. Buy a small sample and test it and see how it performs. Then you can either go ahead and purchase it or try and negotiate a lower price to help improve the potential profitability of it.

thanks Diablo for your response. I assume you monetize by using broad appeal CPA offers? do people mark your emails as spam alot? I heard that can get you in trouble.

Email Marketing as an Outbound Marketing tool. it's profitable if done well.

You need to know:
what you're buying, (Quality of the list).
how you gonna mail them and how long can mail them.
And a strategy of How to keep them. (I believe you already have one )

Cheers.

Hi calidream217, you can purchase a big e-mail list from anyone but make sure the list is not very old. Because a lot of email ids becoming invalid everyday. You have to verify the list to get only active email list and can send out your opt-in page to get new subscribers. It will not be considered as spam when you send out opt-in page. You should insert unsubscribe link too to avoid spam.

Thanks

I have huge email database from different country. Lots of my clients use email database for increase his sales and for getting good leads also.

Sounds like you have got a plan. If the list that you buy is big enough and recent enough that you might get a valuable optin list.