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List Size?

by cborgrx
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I just started building a list. How big a list would you say that it would take to earn $1000/month if you were in the IM niche....how about same question in the healthcare niche? Thank youn advance
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Neither IM nor healthcare is a niche, really: they're both "markets" (and healthcare in particular is one of the world's biggest).

    Originally Posted by cborgrx View Post

    How big a list would you say that it would take to earn $1000/month
    It's not measured according to the size of the list, really.

    "The biggest list", in most niches/markets, will very, very rarely also be "the list that produces the most income".

    It's all about how you generate the traffic, how well-targeted it is to start with, how you opt them in (with a squeeze page, or some other type of opt-in), how you set their expectations and maintain your continuity-process, build trust-based relationships with the subscribers, how well you use the first 2-3 emails to maintain the open-rate, and so on.

    The income-determining factors really are mostly qualitative, rather than quantitative: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982
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  • Profile picture of the author surfer30
    It is not how big your list. But its all about the value you Give to subscribers and the relationship you have with them which requires value and trust and support. there are some gurus with small lists and make Great money. if you have a list of 1000 subscribers it will make you $10 000 a year as an income.
    each subscriber is 1 $ . you pay $2 for traffic to get a suscriber and he gives you More money later.

    Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author jamescanz
    Originally Posted by cborgrx View Post

    I just started building a list. How big a list would you say that it would take to earn $1000/month if you were in the IM niche....how about same question in the healthcare niche? Thank youn advance
    All I have to say to that is:

    Quality > Quantity

    The answer can be anywhere from 1 all the way up to as many subscribers as you can think of

    (within reason, of course)
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  • Profile picture of the author Edwin Torres
    Honestly list size doesnt always mean more profits. I know people earning thousands with a list of 400 people.

    Its all in the relationship you have with that list and that only happens by providing value and being genuine.
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    • Profile picture of the author cborgrx
      I should clarify my original post. I appreciate all of the above comments and I certainly realize that the real value is in the relationship built and the quality of the content that I am sending out. I guess what I should have asked is the rules of thumb that you hear people throw around like each subscriber is worth $x amount per month and that sort of thing.
      Thank you
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by cborgrx View Post

        I guess what I should have asked is the rules of thumb that you hear people throw around like each subscriber is worth amount per month and that sort of thing.
        This information simply isn't collated anywhere, so nobody knows.

        (It isn't "available to be collated", if you think about it, is it?).

        The sometimes-cited so-called "average figure of $1 per subscriber per month" is just a totally random fiction, signifying nothing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart Walker
    The figure banded around is each sub is worth $1 but that's because John Chow once used it as an example in a blog post and now it's the figure that everyone repeats.

    There's no truth in it.

    Some people will not even make $0.01 from each sub. Others will make way more than $1 per sub.

    It depends. On a 100 different factors.

    Build smaller, yet higher quality lists, rather than big untargeted lists and you'll likely see each sub being worth more.
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