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10,000 Highly Targeted List... Not Monetized

by junkofdavid2
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Okay so I have a list of 9,770 business school students/gradutes on Aweber.

When that hits 10,000, Aweber will charge me $169 per month!

My list is NOT monetized, and NEVER HAS been, other than the original One Time Offer ($97 ebook set) when they first opted in for my free eBook. I had very good response with that $97 one time offer, but then I've earned NOTHING from the list after that simply coz I didn't work on it.

(Yes, yes, I know you want to scold me for being 'lazy' LOL, but I really don't have much time since I also have a very busy "day job").

Is there any way to just sorta "load" or "install" a *set it and forget it* sequence of emails (content + affiliate offers mixed, maybe 80% content to 20% affiliate offers) into Aweber?

Since these are business school students/graduates, "entrepreneurship" content plus entrepreneurial affiliate offers (and maybe 20% of the offers could be IM) would be fine.
#highly #list #monetized #targeted
  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Absolutely. That's the whole purpose of an autoresponder. So you can set up a sequence of messages that will be delivered to your leads automatically.

    Find some nice offers that are very relevant. Create at least a few weeks worth of emails that offer value and entertainment and mix some paid offers in there. So long as people are getting value and/or feel they are being entertained, they will continue to open your emails.

    P.S. I can't believe they charge $169 for 10,000 leads nowadays. I'm still grandfathered in on their old pricing where I'm only paying $39 for just under 30,000 subscribers. That's a huge difference. Thank god I signed up all those years ago ;-)
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    • Profile picture of the author junkofdavid2
      Originally Posted by WillR View Post

      That's the whole purpose of an autoresponder. So you can set up a sequence of messages that will be delivered to your leads automatically.

      P.S. I can't believe they charge $169 for 10,000 leads nowadays.
      Yes it is expensive

      I'm aware that I can 'create' a series of emails and offers, but I wonder if there's already some sort of "ready made" sequence of content and affiliate offers which I can upload just once, instead of my producing/creating/curating all of that from scratch
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    • Profile picture of the author junkofdavid2
      Originally Posted by ShareLead View Post

      Hello
      I will be interested in buying solo ads on your list.
      I have great offer for students/graduates that pays 45$ per lead.
      We could partner 40/60 if you want.
      Just hit me by PM!
      My problem is that until now I don't really know how it works. I find it a complete pain just creating a new message on Aweber which I find to be extremely user un-friendly. So all the more, I don't even know how a "solo ad" would work... is it sent as a broadcast message or what? Is it an embedded ad inside an email?

      Sorry for my ignorance..

      *One thing I cannot do, btw, is sell the list; as I promised in the opt in that I would not sell their emails to anyone (not referring to you ShareLead)
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by junkofdavid2 View Post

    Is there any way to just sorta "load" or "install" a *set it and forget it* sequence of emails (content + affiliate offers mixed, maybe 80% content to 20% affiliate offers) into Aweber?
    Yes - that's exactly what autoresponders are for.

    Your list is potentially worth a lot of monthly income to you, if you handle it wisely and carefully. Aweber's $169 per month is a drop in the ocean compared with what you might be able to earn from a list like that who are your own genuine subscribers.

    It sounds like you need to familiarize yourself, in detail, with "how Aweber works"?

    There's a lot of information on Aweber's site, of course, and this might also help: https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...nder+tutorials
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    • Profile picture of the author junkofdavid2
      Originally Posted by joecason View Post

      but if you have not monetized in a while and worked on building a relationship, people will forget about you and you will be flagged for spam or they will unsubscribe.
      I'm confident that they remember because:

      1) I have a very unusual unique (extreme) name, and

      2) I do send them broadcast updates/freebies once in a very small while, like when I launch a new Youtube video or when I launched my book on Amazon (became an Amazon 'bestseller' but I don't consider that monetizing coz it was only 99 cents and commission 33 cents; I just did it for reputation)

      In those cases in #2 above, I got only 3 to 5 spam complaints out of 7,000 to 8,000 emails sent; so well within Aweber's rumored "allowable" 1/1000 complaints.

      However, ever since Gmail's "promotions" tab, I only get around 600 opens out of the 9,000 or so emails sent (Any suggestions about that?)

      I started building the list around 3 years ago, so the average age of subscriber is around 1.5 years I guess..
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  • Profile picture of the author aks000
    YOU are a millionaire and you are worried about 169$.
    Start promoting paid offers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Camron
    Just sent you a pm
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