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A "How Are You?" email to 8,000 of my mailing list. I'm not sure whether this can help.

by Raja Kamil
19 replies
This morning,
I thought about doing something different for my subscribers.

Actually, with this list alone, I have make couple of thousands dollar this year.
Which mean, I use this list to promote things.

My habit of selling to my list is always give value first and at the bottom of the email promoting stuff. I believe most of us doing it so.

But, I just trying something that I never had seen before, at least to the mailing lists I subscribed.

I just sent a "How Are You" email.

The email consist a few lines only, and this exactly what I wrote :
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Dear (name),
Raja Kamil here.
How are you?

Truthfully,
Raja Kamil
(my blog url)
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I'm not sure how the result will be, I'll update how its going.

Meanwhile, if you have experience some kind of this email, whether you wrote it or been sent from others, please share it here.

Maybe the result is varies.




.: UPDATE :.

1. Update 1

2. Update 2
#email #how are you #list #mailing
  • Profile picture of the author liftedjesse
    Interested to know how this turns out?

    I have a site launching in 5 days if you're interested in sending out a link soon too. PM me for details.
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    I predict you'll be spending a good portion of your time over the next few days reluctantly responding to a lot of emails, in the role of therapist or agony-uncle.

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  • Profile picture of the author DrewClement
    I foresee a lot of unsubscribes in your very near future.
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    • Profile picture of the author Raja Kamil
      Originally Posted by liftedjesse View Post

      Interested to know how this turns out?

      I have a site launching in 5 days if you're interested in sending out a link soon too. PM me for details.
      I'll update how it's going.

      Originally Posted by DireStraits View Post

      I predict you'll be spending a good portion of your time over the next few days reluctantly responding to a lot of emails, in the role of therapist or agony-uncle.
      Huhu;
      I've anticipate a few answers and thus, I've setup an autoreply email.


      I'll reply on email that's unique.

      Originally Posted by DrewClement View Post

      I foresee a lot of unsubscribes in your very near future.
      I hope it's not correct but maybe it's too soon to predict what'd happen.
      I've being with them about some years.
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      • Profile picture of the author WillR
        Originally Posted by Raja Kamil View Post

        Huhu;
        I've anticipate a few answers and thus, I've setup an autoreply email.
        I'm confused. You are trying to reach out to them on a personal level yet the moment they reply, they are going to get an auto reply email? I certainly predict a number of unsubscribe or spam complaints coming your way very soon.

        Imagine your phone rings one evening, you answer it and it's your local pizza shop. The guy on the other end of the phone says "Hello my friend, how are you this evening?". You say "Great!". Then he says.. "Hang on, I'm just going to play this recorded message to you...". He then presses play and you hear a pre-recorded message play over the phone.

        Does that sound stupid? Wellllllllllllllllllllllllll... just sayin'....
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    I sent out a mailing like this once.

    Had three people add me on skype

    10 email me back

    And one unsubscribe.

    This is with a list of about 30
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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      Originally Posted by Skid_Roe View Post

      I sent out a mailing like this once.

      Had three people add me on skype

      10 email me back

      And one unsubscribe.

      This is with a list of about 30
      Bahahaha!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Raja Kamil
    Here is some update.
    Already got 3 replies.
    One said .."I'm great", the other one just said "fine", and the last one said, "I'm fine".

    Unsubscription till now : 1
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  • Profile picture of the author Raja Kamil
    Originally Posted by Skid_Roe View Post

    I sent out a mailing like this once.

    Had three people add me on skype

    10 email me back

    And one unsubscribe.

    This is with a list of about 30
    That's 30% of response. Quite good. It's hard to get your email open even 10% nowadays.

    Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

    I think it's always good to be personal. I plan to push myself further in this direction with my own readers.

    So many people don't that it begs the question, why not? What is there to be afraid of?
    Yeah, when you say this I remember a story of 5 red shoes and 1 orange shoes.

    They all have same design and put in a row.
    Guess which shoe will get noticed first ?


    Originally Posted by ghostcash View Post

    Nah, I think the option below is most likely :p



    Originally Posted by WillR View Post

    I'm confused. You are trying to reach out to them on a personal level yet the moment they reply, they are going to get an auto reply email? I certainly predict a number of unsubscribe or spam complaints coming your way very soon.

    Imagine your phone rings one evening, you answer it and it's your local pizza shop. The guy on the other end of the phone says "Hello my friend, how are you this evening?". You say "Great!". Then he says.. "Hang on, I'm just going to play this recorded message to you...". He then presses play and you hear a pre-recorded message play over the phone.

    Does that sound stupid? Wellllllllllllllllllllllllll... just sayin'....
    Perhaps it may sound stupid.
    But so far, I response them 100%.

    The autoreply just to let them know that I'll reply them soon if I have too.
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    • Profile picture of the author WillR
      Originally Posted by Raja Kamil View Post

      Perhaps it may sound stupid.
      But so far, I response them 100%.
      I am not saying the idea is necessarily stupid - although I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve by doing it.

      Originally Posted by Raja Kamil View Post

      The autoreply just to let them know that I'll reply them soon if I have too.
      This is where your tactic falls apart. Why is there any need for an autoreply? When my friends email me do I have an autoreply set up to let them know I am going to get back to them soon? No, hell no. I will get back to them when I have time, and they know that. Everyone knows that.

      It just doesn't fit with what you are trying to achieve. You are initiating the contact and then when someone replies, you are automating things - silly. How important is that person going to feel? And how much do you think THEY will think you value their response?
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      • Profile picture of the author Raja Kamil
        I am not saying the idea is necessarily stupid - although I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve by doing it.
        It's an experiment.
        Do you have mailing list?
        How do you interact with them?


        This is where your tactic falls apart. Why is there any need for an autoreply? When my friends email me do I have an autoreply set up to let them know I am going to get back to them soon? No, hell no. I will get back to them when I have time, and they know that. Everyone knows that.

        It just doesn't fit with what you are trying to achieve. You are initiating the contact and then when someone replies, you are automating things - silly.
        Considering this as a compliment, thanks
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        • Profile picture of the author WillR
          Originally Posted by Raja Kamil View Post

          It's an experiment.
          Do you have mailing list?
          How do you interact with them?
          I'm all for experimenting, believe me. But what will this experiment prove?

          Yes, I do have mailing lists and I do try and keep things personal with all my subscribers too. Thus the reason I wouldn't have an autoreply for anyone who responded.

          But in saying that, we all do things differently - that's the beauty of IM. There are actually no RIGHT answers here. There are things that people find work better for themselves but it doesn't necessarily mean the same rule applies to everyone.

          I hope this experiment is useful for you! Best of luck!
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          • Profile picture of the author Raja Kamil
            I hope this experiment is useful for you! Best of luck!
            Agreed, there's no right and wrong.
            That's why I'm sharing what I'm doing this morning perhaps it will
            trigger a better idea. Who knows.

            The result of this experiment will reveal on the next blast next week.
            More open rate, more clicks and hopefully convert higher for every offer
            I promote.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rough Outline
    I agree with Will, you're trying to be more human with them by talking to them on a personal level and when they respond, you're shoving the 'robot' back in their face.

    It's a good idea and already looking like an interesting experiment but I wouldn't have done it in this way.
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  • Profile picture of the author Raja Kamil
    Wow, I got an unexpected result.
    If you refer to my first post, I told that I have my blog url
    after my name.

    Refer below :

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    Dear (name),
    Raja Kamil here.
    How are you?

    Truthfully,
    Raja Kamil
    (my blog url)
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    Guess what, I've one product of mine at the sidebar.
    And, I just got a sale. Wow, this really is something.

    And when I refer to my stat, there's a lot of referer from the email
    which I believe was from the email I sent this morning.

    I'll update more later.
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  • Profile picture of the author Raja Kamil
    Ok, here is the update after almost 24 hour.

    Email sent : 8215
    Unsubscription : 6
    Email reply : about 30 emails
    Traffic to blog : hundreds
    Sale from blog : 1

    I hope this experiment will benefit others.
    About the autoreply, it's happen that it was not functioning
    due to the different email I used.
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  • Profile picture of the author KristofferIM
    How many sales are you usually able to produce with a mailing? Lets say you are promoting an affiliate product or maybe something that's been sitting in your arsenal of products for a while but you haven't been doing any promotion for it for a while.
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    • Profile picture of the author Raja Kamil
      Originally Posted by KristofferIM View Post

      How many sales are you usually able to produce with a mailing? Lets say you are promoting an affiliate product or maybe something that's been sitting in your arsenal of products for a while but you haven't been doing any promotion for it for a while.
      Usually, within 24 hours of sending an email, I'll get 10 to 30 sales.
      That's when I write about the product specifically.
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