Email marketing to Buisnessess

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I recently acquired a large email list of most businesses in my area, the list is over 12,000 emails.

Since this will be the first time I will be sending email to them, I wanted to know how I should be approaching this list of emails since they are brand new, brand new to me that is
#buisnessess #email #marketing
  • Profile picture of the author PatriciaS
    Well, what are you selling? Might want to start your request for help with that.

    What kind of businesses? ALL, or one or more specific categories or industries?
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  • Profile picture of the author DIABL0
    What do all local businesses want...more customers.

    So try and work something with that angle.
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  • Profile picture of the author 786miller
    I'm actually in the process of making my website making a job board website. So I was thinking I could just blast an email regarding that to all 12,000 maybe ill get a sale or at least create brand awareness
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  • Profile picture of the author 786miller
    Ive actually never made sale as an affiliate marketer, I keep trying but never get a single sale, can anyone give me some SOLID and PROVEN way to make that first sale.


    Would be really appreciated
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  • Profile picture of the author depotgang
    I hope you have a way of emailing them. Most autoresponders don't let you simply import data from a list.... if you have a way to email them and you can actually inbox the email Inwould focus on selling local businesses social media tools.

    Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author DIABL0
    @786Miller

    I've been promoting CPA / affiliate offers for over 16 years.

    However, I do it quite differently than most.

    I heavily promote PPL (pay per lead...lead generation) offers. This 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 compared to offers that require a sale to be made.

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

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

    The bulk of the offers that I promote pay $20-$40 per lead, but I also promote offers that pay more and less. You don't want to get too caught up on what an offer pays because how well it converts is just as important. For example, if you have an offer that pays $9, but if it converts at 2X or more of a $20 offer, then it will perform about the same or possibly better. At the same time, if you have an offer that pays $90 and it converts poorly, it may not even be worth promoting.

    Bottom line: it's far easier to get someone fill out a short form than to get them to pull out their credit card and make a purchase. So why struggle with trying to sell this or that, when you can provide free information that users want/need and get paid well doing it.

    I drive traffic by acquiring 3rd party email data, which is data that the users have shown an interest in a specific vertical(niche) and have given permission to receive messages from third parties. You get the opt-in record for every user and it's 100% can-spam compliant.

    By acquiring data, I'm building assets that I then own and can market to over and over at very low cost. So I control and can drive traffic on-demand to the offers I'm promoting. Which is key to CPA / affiliate marketing success.

    However, 3rd party data will rarely be as responsive as a high-quality opt-in list you build yourself. But it really doesn't matter because it is much cheaper and highly scalable compared to convention list building.

    So the initial data that is acquired isn't the most import part of the process. The real key to making it work is to always be collecting your opens / clickers, segmenting, and removing unresponsive users. That way over time you are building smaller, but more responsive lists that you should eventually be able to send less and make more with each mailing. Essentially you are converting the data from quantity to quality.

    In the end, I have consistently been able to produce leads / clicks at a fraction of the price of mainstream list building / marketing. Which is why so many fail...they can't generate cost effective traffic.

    Basically, I monetize the data using PPL offers because they offer the path of least resistance to generating conversions / $$$ and converting the data into cash producing assets.

    Obviously, there is far more to it, but done right it can be extremely profitable. Everyone that I know that is in the business and knows what they are doing, for the most part, does 6-7 figures. While that's a huge range, much comes down to one's ability to scale and effectively build / manage the infrastructure needed to scale.

    Something to think about.
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    • Profile picture of the author 786miller
      Please show me the links for these pay per lead offers that you speak of.

      I would highly appreciate it.
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  • Profile picture of the author DIABL0
    Sorry, I never show what specific offers I run.

    However, you can easily find PPL offers by signing up to networks and seeing what they have / payouts. You can also check offervault and odigger as you will find them there too. However, they may not be the highest payouts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nikhil Bansal
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    Hello

    I have a problem regarding email marketing. If I have no subscribers so it means I don't do email marketing? it is true.
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  • Profile picture of the author morrisedwards
    Well, it depends on many factors like what is the location of your business, product or services provided by you etc. So, for this many factors can effect.

    And you can also join Email marketing courses or see online tutorials to know the exact strategy that can be applied to build-up your business.

    Good Luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author spartan14
    Dont make the mistake to sell with your first post .Send them first some email with total value and build trust then start seling to them
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  • Profile picture of the author Asha Prakash
    Well first check the quality of the email list which is very important, understand your target audience what would they require so that you can make impressive email template so that the reader doesn't get bugged reading your email. Subject line is most important in a email campaign, most the reader will first see the subject line, make sure the subject line doesn't mislead the client.All the best
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  • Profile picture of the author GrowthMonger
    Sorry, but we need alot more detailed description here to give you some proper advice. So please edit and add what is necessary.
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