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List Building In The Freebie Market

by socomplete
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Hello warriors,

It has come to my attention that promoting low paying affiliate programs does not pay as good as promoting high paying affiliate programs.

At the current time I'm having success with list building in the freebie market. Should I keep building it and then offer a membership subscription service or just focus on list building in a higher end market.


your thoughts?
#building #freebie #list #market
  • Profile picture of the author Mike Parkin
    You said your having success building a freebie list so I wouldn't stop that whatever else you choose to do, a list of buyers is better of course but just becaus someone came onto your list as a freebie seeker doesn't mean they wont spend money - I know people who have made big money using just give away events etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author jnharte
    Keep doing what your doing and test the waters from time to time. Mike is right in a sense that the "freebie seeker" will most likely buy something if it is relevant to what they are involved with. Just keep it real and always send them valuable info, stick with one niche and you should be fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adnimated
    Agreed. Just keep on doing what you do. And test some other things in between like the higher ticket item stuff.

    I don't see why you should make any radical changes in your strategy.

    Not sure what the "freebie" market is. But if you can make it work... it sounds great to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    the funny thing about it is from my experience you will sell just as many products at $500 as you will at $47 the ideal way is to start promoting them a high offer first, then a series of low to middle end offer second.

    The people who will buy the higher priced stuff will buy first, then the more low end people will buy than normal because of the price difference will make them feel like they are getting a better deal.

    It's like when your shopping for a pool table or a mattress. The sales person will take you to look at some of the more expensive items, before he takes you to the lower priced item he really wants you to buy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adnimated
    The higher ticket item just needs a better marketing strategy. It really all depends on how you sell to people. If you are constantly spamming them with short emails that are obvious selling mechanisms... you won't sell ****. Only lower ticket items. UNLESS you got a HUGE list.
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  • Profile picture of the author shawoon98
    They say, "Money is on the list" and they are absolutely right. You should build your list in any situation.
    Nobody should predict about customer behaviour. Nobody knows what will be bought by them. So, pls comment on their response only after you've tested it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adnimated
    Nobody here tried to predict customer behaviour. Unless it's commenting on what I said. Which I stand behind 100%.

    I've built a 80K subscribers list in the self improvement market, a 20K emaillist in the weightloss market AND I got a 10K moneymaking list. And then I got a few smaller lists in various other markets. I only started selling well the moment I started to mail with a different strategy in mind. That was also the point where I could get away with selling higher ticket items. Specifically higher ticket items to more people.

    But also note that I didn't try to discourage him from trying to sell higher ticket items. I just said higher ticket items require a different marketing strategy as low ticket items.

    Anyway, the only way to know for sure is by testing.
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    • Profile picture of the author socomplete
      Originally Posted by jkhunter View Post

      Nobody here tried to predict customer behaviour. Unless it's commenting on what I said. Which I stand behind 100%.

      I've built a 80K subscribers list in the self improvement market, a 20K emaillist in the weightloss market AND I got a 10K moneymaking list. And then I got a few smaller lists in various other markets. I only started selling well the moment I started to mail with a different strategy in mind. That was also the point where I could get away with selling higher ticket items. Specifically higher ticket items to more people.

      But also note that I didn't try to discourage him from trying to sell higher ticket items. I just said higher ticket items require a different marketing strategy as low ticket items.

      Anyway, the only way to know for sure is by testing.
      Wow impressive size list, did you pay for your traffic? Anyways, thanks for the heads up. You guys are awesome.
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      • Profile picture of the author Adnimated
        I build my list using PPC, JVs and SEO.

        I recently started testing around with PPV and banner ads. Banner ads seems to be excellent traffic. PPV not so. But I am not giving up easily. Even if I can make it work to the tune that I make a loss in the first 2 or 3 months... I'll be perfectly happy as the volume more then makes up for any losses during that time.

        Next on my "to-test" list will be mobile traffic. I am VERY excited about that. As I heard some incredible stories about that.

        And finally I WILL be testing direct mail. Did that for a short time. And the results were promising. But it didn't fit the vision I had for building up my company at that point.

        Originally Posted by socomplete View Post

        Wow impressive size list, did you pay for your traffic? Anyways, thanks for the heads up. You guys are awesome.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cyber Rankings
    Hi Socomplete,

    You can make good money in any market as long as you deploy the right stratergy. I have a competition list of around 3,000. Each friday I go onto the top competition websites and pick out the top 50 competitions fom the likes of Channel 5 etc. Then i add into the list a few $1 CPA offers where they have to enter there email and I get paid. If you place these offers around 4-5th in the list you should see at least 70% of the people who have opened your email filling it out.

    Afterall they are already in the competition entering mood. I only make on average $400 a week from this stratergy but it all adds up.

    I would have thought that a freebie list would be prone to competitions but i wouldn't know for sure as i have never tested it out.

    Just incase anyones wondering i use:

    Maxbounty & Peerfly as my CPA networks
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    Keep building your list and offer the higher end items first. I have found that just because people got something for free doesn't mean they won't buy. It depends on where you got your traffic and how you got your traffic.

    If you used buying type copy to get the traffic and offer a freebie just for them to see the quality of the service, then the conversion to buying should be pretty good.
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