Making a Living online - The Email Dream

Wish all the best for you.
I have started working online at a young age. was 15 yrs old. started learning about website/domain/dns webhosting and google adsense. did not made any profit then but i learned a lot stuff. I launched a small web hosting business. had few clients made little profits. then I sold it. at the age of 18.. I invested those profit and started learning Linux and mail servers and doing email marketing... Now I'm running a small business. where I configure mail server for clients and I send mails on clients behalf. I'm still learning advanced stuff on Mail Server, Linux, Email Marketing and Email Deliverability. I'm making small profit now online and I'm working part time. I have other job offline.

My goal now is to be able to work full time online. generating 6 figure online.

Hi sendizo,

reading your story I know that you're going to hit your goals any time soon. The persistence you show over such a long period of time, together with that entrepreneurial DNA is the perfect "cocktail".

How is your Email Marketing journey going? Did you learn from anyone specific?

Ive started lot of time ago with lots of methods,
ppc cold selling, uploading videos, etc.

Til i found Email Marketing which is predictable, mathematic and suistanable.

There are lot of methods over there, but i found Email Marketing the best one for me, cause Adsense can ban you, Facebook can disable your advertising account (it happened to me due to their error, and they reactivated me again) , etc.

But i found that, once i have a list, it's mine and i can nurture leads and establish a relationship with them

I've been into email marketing since 2010 where I worked as email campaign manager.
After few years, I've decided to get into freelancing and use my skills to help clients get results.

Even though I had marketing strategy background, I dived into development of HTML emails and design. I studied as much as I could to learn proper ways to code those emails and make them display perfect in most email clients.

For the last year, I'm slowly transitioning back to more of a strategy/consulting role. Development is fun and I have steady stream of clients, but I feel like I could offer so much more with my knowledge and skill sets.

And since you want to have a very defined niche and positioning, I have to let go of development side and focus all my efforts on consulting/strategy for marketing purposes. I still do development, but I'm not actively searching for projects like that.

So most of my work right now is helping clients launch their products and set their automations.

I've started writing a blog about email marketing this year and this is something I really focus on right now. I try to provide as much value as I can about emails.

My main struggle is traffic and lack of time for all the promo stuff. I'm doing personal outreach and grow my social networks in order to get some traffic going in. But more and more I think I'll just need to create some awesome resource(just need more time) and use that along with ads to get people coming in. So if you guys have any ideas what would be useful to you or maybe have some areas you would like me to cover on my blog, feel free to let me know. All ideas are welcome!

I also have a side project which I plan to work on in the next couple of months. The focus of that project will be helping people with eating healthy and getting their gut health back. This is something I really want to do as I've been struggling with gut health issues myself for the last couple of years and know how hard it is to change your whole lifestyle to start healing up.

Keep on hustling warriors!
Cheers!

I have been self-employed building an offline residential HVAC business for the past 8 years, done over 3 Million in revenue. Scalability is a bitch and a good reason for me to want to get out. Managing employees, trying to make sure they have enough work are a full-time job. Finding licensed skilled labour is a challenge.

I want to build an online business and teach my skills to others in running offline business, I want to offer personal and business development skills,

I am thinking a blog with an email marketing campaign and offer some free ebooks, as well as paid books, and consulting services

I read about people making 10-50K per month on email marketing, I am still trying to sift through all the BS, alot of people are making money teaching people how to make money,

How many people are actaully making my by selling a valuable service, and not a scheme.

It reminds me of the days before the internet

"get paid to stuff envelopes from home" when you buy the the package, you get to stuff envelopes that promote "get paid to stuff envelopes fro home"


I would love to know how long it's taking people to get $1K , $2K, $5K, $10K, a month? and are they selling something that they can be proud off and not just scamming people out of there hard earned money

For the past 16+ years, I have been monetizing 3rd party data (email) using PPL offers.

The reason why I promote PPL (pay per lead...lead generation) offers is because there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form, so conversion rates are typically much higher than offers that require a sale to be made.

I favor offers that have a make, get or save money benefit to them.This is what has overall worked the best for me and they tend to have the greatest amount of mass appeal (will be of interest to a large general audience). So the potential to produce high volume exists and they are fairly easy to cross promote on the back-end.

Some of the verticals that I have done extremely well with are: insurance, debt, education, credit, loans, assistance, discount offers, mortgage, homeowner offers, etc...

The bulk of the offers that I promote pay $20-$40 per lead. I also promote offers that pay more and less, but the amount of the payout is not the key deciding factor. How well an offer converts can be just as important, if not more important.

For example, you could have an offer that only pays $9. However, if it converts at 2X or better compared to a $20 offer, then it will perform about the same or possibly even better. You could also have an offer that pays $90, but if it converts poorly, it may not even be worth sending it.

Bottom line, it's far easier to get someone to fill out a short form than it is to get them to take out their credit card and make a purchase. So why beat your head against the wall trying to sell someone this or that, when you could simply provide free information to users about something they actually want / need and get paid well doing it.

Anyway, that's what I do and it works well.