Building an email list is the best way to make money in IM ?

Building an email list is good on any day, but the success of it depends on how you use it :rolleyes:

Email marketing can be one of the fastest and most profitable ways to make money online. A single mailing that takes minutes to write can, on the right day and with the right offer, net you thousands of dollars. A couple of days ago I made well over $3000 from one email - and later found that it had only gone to half of my list because of a hosting snafu.

So the simple answer is yes - building a list [can be one of] the best ways of making money. I've added the caveat in brackets because like all methods of Internet marketing it isn't for everybody.

You are very unlikely, for example, to build a list quickly and even if you could do that, you won't have a relationship with the people on that list. At least, not until you've earned it. And depending on your style, earning their trust could take anything from a few months to a few years.

And all that time you have got to be able to crank out quality newsletters (just 'emails' simply won't cut it) that entertain, emote, energize and educate. You've got to turn all those random subscribers into fans - and friends. Then they might trust you enough to buy what you recommend.

But beware - although it takes a long time to earn their trust, losing it can take just one ill-judged promotion of a crappy product you didn't check out well enough before recommending it.

Of course there are a lot of so-called 'email marketers' who will disagree with me. They will be of the view that you can just send out any old crap and some people will buy. And they are right - to a degree. You can make money that way. Just not very much and not over a long period. Their form of email marketing tends to need big lists and a constant stream of new subscribers to replace the hoards who unsubscribe. It is a lot of effort and a lot of work.

A good list that has been nurtured doesn't need to be big. My tiny list of under 5000 people out performs many a list ten times the size and provides me and my family with a very healthy full time income. I spend under 2 hours writing it once a week.

It is not the list that makes you the money - it is the way YOU use it.

Martin

If you have a list, you SHOULD be selling products (affiliate or your own) as an OTO or upsell.

So if someone opts in to a list and they are taken to the Thank You page for the free product, there should also be a paid offer on that Thank You page. Either an affiliate product or a paid product that's your own.

There's no reason why you can't sell affiliate or your own products on a Thank You page right after someone opts in. So not only are you building your list, but you're starting the sales process right away with your new subscriber.

And some people are good at making money WITHOUT lists and WITHOUT affiliate products.

Exactly.

Thanks celente, your replay gave me a BIG motivation
I will do my best to implement what you said for me. Thanks again