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Auto-responder series - next steps?

by MonopolyMan
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So (on the advice of the Warrior Forum) I've started up my first list building project on a couple of info sites because the direct traffic just wasn't converting. I've got a few thousand uniques per month and plenty of products to offer them.

So I'm running an overlay plugin with an Aweber account, seems to be working fine and I'm hoping for a good optin rate.

I took newsletter posts from the affiliate section of the product and put a link at the top and bottom and set them to send once a day for a week.

What are my next steps?

Do I run the rest of the news letters for the full two weeks? It would be more link impressions but if they didn't convert by then I'm not sure they're going to.

Do I start promoting other products? Do I prune the list after a few weeks to make room for new subscribers without having to upgrade?

Thanks for any pointers on this, it's going to be my first list and I'm hopeful to see the results.
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  • Profile picture of the author petelta
    I'm assuming you mean pop up opt in with "overlay opt in"...you will probably see a 10% conversion rate from that if you are getting traffic from good sources. Which brings me to ask where is this traffic coming from?

    You are using newsletter messages that have been used elsewhere which leads to the chance that you are showing your audience the same content which won't go over well. At least rewrite the content for a better response.

    Focus your newsletter on one product at first and make that work. Focus your emails and your opt in freebie towards the product at hand to help conversions.

    Take it one step at a time. You have a sales funnel up so now it's time to send traffic to it. From there track and test the results you get.

    Don't worry about pruning your list just yet...you need a list first.

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    • Profile picture of the author MonopolyMan
      Hey Petelta, thanks for the reply.

      The traffic is organic search traffic, and it's highly targeted for the product I'm promoting. And yes I'm using popup domination.

      Well at 10% I'll have about two weeks or so before the 500 subscriber limit is maxed so I'll need to either upgrade or prune after that.

      Thanks for the advice, I'll rewrite the newsletters and most of them are niches I know quite well so I can add some value to it.
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      • Profile picture of the author gotteeth
        Wanted to offer my "two cents."

        Most pre-made niche autoresponder email packs (52 emails, for weekly delivery) don't do a good job of communicating like someone who cares for the customer. They're somewhat generic - at best.

        I've had great success with a simple program I bought about two years ago - it's called Instant Niche Emails. The woman that wrote this - nailed it. She shows you how to take any niche and build a high quality autoresponder sequence. She gives you a step by step process to gather the right information for your niche, when to sell them, when to provide content, then shows you how to build an email sequence with her included software.

        My crappy review doesn't do it justice, read the sales page if you're interested.

        I've had the product on my computer for over two years, but just recently cracked it back open because I was extremely disappointed the canned emails packs I purchased.

        I want to build a relationship with my subscribers so I can make money and, provide quality content.

        Hope it helps.

        Cheers!
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        • Profile picture of the author MonopolyMan
          Originally Posted by gotteeth View Post

          Wanted to offer my "two cents."

          Most pre-made niche autoresponder email packs (52 emails, for weekly delivery) don't do a good job of communicating like someone who cares for the customer. They're somewhat generic - at best.

          I've had great success with a simple program I bought about two years ago - it's called Instant Niche Emails. The woman that wrote this - nailed it. She shows you how to take any niche and build a high quality autoresponder sequence. She gives you a step by step process to gather the right information for your niche, when to sell them, when to provide content, then shows you how to build an email sequence with her included software.

          My crappy review doesn't do it justice, read the sales page if you're interested.

          I've had the product on my computer for over two years, but just recently cracked it back open because I was extremely disappointed the canned emails packs I purchased.

          I want to build a relationship with my subscribers so I can make money and, provide quality content.

          Hope it helps.

          Cheers!
          Thanks for that, I've got the sales page open and it does look pretty good. Think I'll be giving that a try tonight.


          Nightmare though on the first test site. 150 unique visitors and I had 3 optins with only 1 person confirm. Going to edit the popup domination image so it looks a little less third party and more relevant to the niche. Hopefully that will improve things a bit.
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