Made $144 With Mailing List (Need Advise)

Hi Albert12, first off, congratulations on making yourself some money with email marketing. That is a nice accomplishment and not always that easy to do. There are many different opinions flying around about how often one should send to their list(s). As you get to know your list better you will get a good feel for what seems right for your specific situation and list. You might ask yourself what you prefer in regards to this matter? Do you like receiving emails everyday from some marketer you just recently met? You definitely do not want to come across as being a spammer. But you also want to stay in touch so you are easily remembered. And remember to offer them something of value on a regular basis and not to just promote product sales all the time. I typically use the 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, type pattern with each number corresponding to the amount of days to wait between the next send. I would vary your product offerings as long as they are in the same niche and closely related to one another. Best of luck!

~ wmw

As often as they expect you to, in accordance with how you've set their expectations when they subscribed. It's all about expectation-setting and expectation-fulfilling.

There isn't a simple "right answer" to this question, though. It depends on the traffic demographics, what attracted them to your site, the niche, what you're giving them for the opt-in, and so on.

A few posts/threads which might help you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5300985
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7647187
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7939758

(I'm slightly surprised to see you saying that there's a shortage of good gardening products available on ClickBank, because I imagined that this was one of the potentially better and more interesting markets there. Have you looked at places other than ClickBank?).

I just looked at click bank. I guess I did find some reasonable items there. I will probably send out another launch in 2-3 days and see how they respond.

I believe once or twice a week is best. It won't annoy them and they will not read emails every day from the same person (Eventually gets marked as spam)

dude you just found the secret to 99% of other marketers never do.

Build a list.

Now it does not just go that far. You need to upsell, downsell, and keep them on your list buy giving them cool stuff!, the more stuff you give them to help them....the more chance you have of making good money.

just search this forum, tons of stuff to go off.

Most people think I have a big list in IM, but my list is small, however I look after them, and in JAN I made $XX,XXX off a list that is about 937 people.

Like I said, people think you have to have large lists....no you just have to have a list of peeople who like your stuff, and you help them.

I would rather have a few hundred subscribers that like me, than 500,000 lists of newbie seekers that hit the spam button when yoru messages come in, just some IM gurus. SOme of them have lists of like 1m and more and they saturate their lists with crap....and wonder why they get minimal results.

However the smart guys in IM like John Chow have thousands and thousands of subscribers and open and buy off their recommendations cause they do things the right way.

Awesome!!! Good Job My Friend

Great for getting your commissions! But keep in mind to build relationships with your subs

I have collected emails the non-aggressive way over the years with a simple email collection tool on my site. Nothing too special.

I've had this problem in the past also. How often do I mail my list?

It really depends.

But I found that 1-3 times a week works best so you can stay on their radar.

If you're wondering how to balance promos and free emails, I would do Frank Kerns CCPC method which is you mail out two content emails, one promo email, then another content email, and repeat.

If you don't hit your subs with hard sells you can promote / sell in practically every email.

As often as twice a day if they like you Don't let anyone tell you different.

In addition to Clickbank and other such sites, have you considered creating your own product? If you enjoy gardening yourself, surely you have some experience you could share.

Likewise, you could give your list a freebie (i.e., maybe something as simple as your list of top 5 shade plants with pictures, growing requirements, and reasons you like them) that you create from time to time to help build the relationship.

Just some ideas. Take in the advice, but cut your own path.

Ok, I sent another email blast yesterday and it appears I made $77. The list size is over 2k.

Generally speaking, sending emails two or three times a month is enough. But you’d better do email test to find out the most suitable sending frequency. By the way, what tools are you going to send email? Why not use third party software?

I sent out the 2 email blasts using constant contact and one of my subscribers complained saying the information was crap. It did have a high gravity rate. Imo, confusing.

Also, can I email blast my subscribers with something totally different than my niche? For example, some kind of make money online ebook?

I like to send emails to list on weekdays only.

I figure people are in work mode Monday - Friday, looking for more products, services, software for their business's.

But on a weekend they might switch of from the digital world, meaning that email you sent Saturday afternoon will end up at the bottom of the list come Monday morning.

That's just my thinking and from the small tests I have done I do get a higher open rate mid week.

This might be reversed with niche's that are based around an entertainment aspect though!

George B

Don't forget to build relationship with you list! Don't just keep spamming them with offers especially unrelated offers.

What would you do if people send you offers that you doesn't even like at all and they keep on doing it? Of course you will unsubscribe.

There's no standard, figure out what works for you.