Auto responder sequence

You can start promoting from day one in fact. It's not the problem of what, but the question of "how".

Of course, ideally, your follow up should be somehow related to the final offer as it should pre-sell your subscribers gently towards the product. On the other hand, there is one feature that so many e-mail marketers overlook - the P.S. In my opinion it is one of the most powerful spots in your e-mail message. Done right works wonders, especially if you mix free and paid offers there (alternate e-mails, 2 free - 1 paid, 1 free - 2 paid, any proportion, one in each e-mail), but you don't disclose whether it is free or paid. After finding a free offer or two in your P.S., your subscribers will click those links in each e-mail they get.

My follow-ups start at the beginning. So I provide information and products that one would need when starting out, then as they become more advanced I offer more advanced strategies and products.

You may find this recent thread helpful:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ales-page.html

-Ray Edwards

Maybe you're right.

Or maybe that's a very charitable interpretation and the reality is that they have no idea what they're doing?

Call me uncharitable, but "not hearing from them for weeks and then being hit with a promotion" sounds about as misguided and ill-advised as you can get, to me, to be honest. It makes me wonder what those "marketers" built lists for, in the first place.

For me, it's better always to send them content relevant to the niche in which I'm trying to promote the products.

That's what they want and expect.

That's what they opted in knowing they were going to get.

There's a process of continuity from what they originally saw elsewhere which attracted them to my site in the first place, that runs through what they saw on my site when they arrived there, and especially through what I sent them as the incentive for opting in (that item should be the biggest expectation-setting continuity-link - if it isn't, you can end up with an unresponsive list), to the emails I'm sending out in the autoresponder series. They get exactly what they've been promised, exactly when and in the order they've been promised it. That maintains high open-rates, interest-rates and attention-rates. Without that, you don't have very much. It's easy to fulfil (or even exceed) people's expectations when you're the person who sets those expectations in the first place.

See if this thread helps? http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

I have another question....

the free gift that you are giving away.. my sales funnel the product that I want to sell should be related to the free gift that I gave away? I would like to start them off as a beginner and as they get more advanced sell them more advanced products video marketing.. seo.. website flipping ect.. would like to hear your suggestions..

It makes sense to only give information out to your list which is related to the free offer you gave them that they signed up to get and also your paid product which your promoting within your follow ups

If you start to go too far off topic your open rates will start to plummet

If you build a list around making money with affiliate sites then you don`t really want to start talking about how to build a list

I keep everything on topic but at the same time there are still tonnes of related things that you can talk about so you should not ever have any problems thinking of new content

Paul

Most successful product creators are creating the market even when the product is still on the dry erase. Your first series probably need to be relevant but there is nothing wrong with getting the list interested in your next big thing either.

Start with good, useful stuff, make sure your customers get to know you. Ask them questions. Respond to their questions. Build new autoresponders with their answers. Feed off of the give and take.

If they don't bite after the first offer, send them another offer a few days later. Make sure it's clear that this is the last chance they'll get. Make sure that the offer is better, if possible, the second time.

Then, occasionally, present them with new offers and deals and new products. You'll be amazed.

IMHO the golden rule of email marketing is to email onto others as you would have them email onto you . In other words, how would you like to be marketed to?

Some other posters here have given some great advice about building a relationship and I'd just like to toss in my two cents on that as well.

On the subject of continuity, a good analogy might be dating. If you meet someone and you go out on a date and then you don't hear from them for weeks or months and suddenly they ask you to be their date for a wedding, how would you react? I would think most of us might question the motives and be hesitant to accept the offer.

Along the same lines, you don't meet someone in a bar and ask them to marry you either .

Regards,
jim

There's been a lot of good advice so far... here's what I can add:

You have a few ways to approach it... you can offer a weekly newsletter that people sign up for and in that case I would put an ad in each email but always include loads of value in the content. Or you can add them to a list for one specific reason and give them what they signed up for and then make a related offer on the thank you page.

The thing is I would like to have a autoresponse series in place when I start to some degree but Im having trouble with this.

I have an idea of the products I want to promote.

Do I introduce myself in the very beginning to ask them what they want or down the line introduce myself after my fist sales pitch? But then again I know I will get a ton of e-mail. Maybe Im making this harder than it is..