Newbies, keep it simple: 500 clicks = full time income

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Hopefully this post is a bit of inspiration and clarity for newbies and part timers.

If you can build your list up to average 500 clicks for each email you send, you can go full time.

Yes, I know it's a huge generalization, but I think it's very conservative.
Lets do the math:

500 clicks sent
2% conversion rate
= 10 sales per email sent

10 sales x $20 (average commission) = $200 per email.

If you send out to your list just 3 times per week, you'd make $600 a week which works out to $31,200 a year profit.

And that's just from promoting little $20 commission low ticket items. You actually should be making a lot more!

So how big does your list have to be to get up to 500 clicks?


If on average 15% of the people open your emails, and 1/3 of those people click through, you need about 10,000 subscribers. If you can get just 50 subscribers per day, you can get there in like 6 to 7 months.

I can hear the experience marketers grumbling that you should make A LOT more than that from a list of 10k.

Again this is just a simple example, but my goal is to show you the light at the end of the tunnel with an easy to understand concept.

And once you get your head around the cash cow that building a list gives you, you'll be happy to know that this is just the very tip of the iceberg.

Once you have the time to focus your full efforts on your business, you'll create many additional income streams and realize that six figures a year is not a big deal in this industry.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joshua Rigley
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    I love seeing posts like this. Even though it's theoretical, I still get inspired by seeing numbers and statistics. It really helps me visualize the possibilities.

    I've personally decided to pursue the video game niche (as in actually making video games), and am working on my first project. I think it might be a good idea to build a list, but I'm not really sure how to go about doing that in this niche...

    Thanks for the post Ron.
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Palfrey
    That's like saying all you need is 500 employees all making you twice the money per day that they cost to hire. I feel a step is left out here.

    How about another one: All you need is 200 websites that make you an average of $1 a day and you have a good business.

    I'm having a bad day though, so maybe I'm just being cranky.
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    • Profile picture of the author John Durham
      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      That's like saying all you need is 500 employees all making you twice the money per day that they cost to hire. I feel a step is left out here.

      How about another one: All you need is 200 websites that make you an average of $1 a day and you have a good business.

      I'm having a bad day though, so maybe I'm just being cranky.
      Actually if you gave 500 people an opportunity to sell say a website for your company, and your profit was $350 on the front end after all was said and done... and only 2% of the people you hired made 2 sales per week then your income is about $360k per year, just on the front end point of sale profits.

      That will inspire someone who's feeling cranky dont you agree?

      Basically you are managing ten people at any given time, even though you gave the opp to 500 people ... also all of the pistons dont fire at once so sales are coming from 20-30 different people and adding up to 20 sales per week somehow... thats how networks work. I have actually done this.

      Anyone with a mailing list can understand the idea here, it translates; the numbers always do somehow.

      Man what a great business model that is... Thanks Ron for the awesome post. Im sure it will inspire alot of people!
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    • Profile picture of the author Coby
      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post


      How about another one: All you need is 200 websites that make you an average of $1 a day and you have a good business.

      The difference is one is dependent on Google!

      The other is only dependent on me sending the emails - at most it's dependent on a third party autoresponder - but these can be done in house as well...

      The difference is I can take MY LIST and get dropped anywhere with a computer and internet connection and make INSTANT MONEY by sending just one email...

      There is no "instant money" with building/selling websites...

      I'll take a list that is only dependent on my actions to gain my income rather some finicky website that changes it's mind on what it likes each week...

      It is not tough to build a list that delivers 500 clicks. In fact - one of my smallest list (about 1025) recently sent over 350 clicks...

      ... and like Ron said - if I'm getting 2% conversions I'm pissed - anything less than 10% I consider a "bomb"... (its simple math)
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  • Profile picture of the author NathanPowell
    Thanks for not over-hyping having a list. It seems like a lot of marketers out there are claiming to make a lot more than that per subscriber, and they probably do, but it's good to keep things in perspective and be realistic.

    I am focusing on building my list right now, and I've got a long way to go to get to 10k! My current goal is a lot fewer than 50/day, simply because I don't have the money to invest in paid methods of list building.

    Hopefully will be getting things rolling on that soon though, I know how important it is to have "push button traffic" so to speak.
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    Very good example. Not only will it give people hope but it will encourage people to work toward something.

    Of course, smaller lists of very responsive, highly targetted subscribers, selling a monthly subscription or a higher priced item can make much more, as you said but you were being conservative, which is good.

    The main thing that I think newbies should understand that it can take a little bit of time to build their list, but once built, it can provide a very good income.

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    • Profile picture of the author catcat
      Sounds good.

      If you followed this formula you could start working your J-O-B part time only in 3 months and invest the rest of your time into growing your list faster. This would cut down the 6-7 months to 5-6 months.
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyinoz
    Yes, I am busy working on my list right now too ... but so far, so good!
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  • Profile picture of the author ant888
    Thank you for the encouragement Ron
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  • Profile picture of the author dindocans
    That sounds interesting. Can I also go on that? I love it really.
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  • Profile picture of the author rrm
    Originally Posted by Ron Douglas View Post

    So how big does your list have to be to get up to 500 clicks?...

    ...If you can get just 50 subscribers per day, you can get there in like 6 to 7 months.
    Forget the 50 per day. Just the 50 (period!) sounds good to me.

    If I got 50 per day I would go insanely ecstatic.

    I think this is where lots of newbies get caught in the "possibilities" trap. They (we) see "if this... then that..." and then "once you get here, then you can go there" so at the mathematical end of the golden rainbow is the pot of gold. Sure, the numbers add up; it's not fuzzy math. But getting that 50 per day (or even near that) seems like wishful thinking for some of us. So the reality is that if we squeak out a few per week it would take several decades to get to those "full time" numbers.
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    Definitely a glass half full way of looking at marketing. It inspires me to see people still believe success is possible, I'm so tired of seeing all the nay-sayers claiming its impossible, its not impossible it just takes a common knowledge, and a positive attitude.

    You CAN make an average middle class income strictly working from home at your own hours, its what I do daily, as well if you take a look at my signature, there are some tools available that will help you with making a separate income as well. Godspeed guys!
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    • Profile picture of the author Kal Sallam
      Originally Posted by drtamersameeh View Post

      Well, building email lists doesn't really work these days, especially if you are marked as spam
      Hmmmmmm

      I hope your claiming this based on previous experience.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ron Douglas
      Originally Posted by drtamersameeh View Post

      Well, building email lists doesn't really work these days, especially if you are marked as spam
      If you believe that then it really doesn't work.

      The last email I sent got 35,464 opens and that was below average.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kal Sallam
        Originally Posted by Ron Douglas View Post

        If you believe that than it really doesn't work.

        The last email I sent got 35,464 opens and that was below average.
        Let's assume you had a 10% open rate then that translate to:

        (100 X 35.464)/10= roughly you have around a 350K list!

        umm

        Ad-swap ?? JK.
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    • Profile picture of the author Coby
      Originally Posted by drtamersameeh View Post

      Well, building email lists doesn't really work these days, especially if you are marked as spam
      Please don't tell my subscribers this... lol
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