I have Never built an email list. Convince me to.

So you need convincing?

Well, if you had an email list with a good relationship, you'd be making a lot more than "a few quid a day".

I'm sure anybody who knows anything will disagree with you here. Think outside of the "IM" world - everybody still uses email marketing from Amazon to your bank.

I'm afraid there's no hope for you...

if that's not reason enough

I have already made $15K in one day with a list of 500 people (no product launch). On average, I make $1.50 - $2 per month with each subscriber in my IM lists and $0.10 - $0.25 per subscriber in my non IM related lists.

If it doesn't convince you, then all I can say is: good luck!


W

When was the last time you landed on a website that hadn't got an opt in form to capture details?

Of course it works. How you make it work will be determined by your willingness to work hard at it - and make it work for you.

Nobody is going to teach you about email marketing in a forum thread. It's something you'll have to learn. There are many people on here in the game for a long time that still struggle to make it work.

I can tell you that there's a lot more to email marketing than writing 400 word articles on Fiverr. I'm not having a pop at you here. Just letting you know there's a lot more to it than whatever you take away from this thread.

All you need to know for now is that many regard their email lists as the only real asset they have in this business. Unlike traditional forms of advertising, email marketing gives you the opportunity to repeatedly market to a prospect - potentially for the rest of their lives in some cases.

What most do is give them a valuable free gift in exchange for their contact information. Instead of paying for advertisements over and over again, you only have to get that initial subscription and you have permission to market to that person for free.

Thanks for the replies guys, it certainly seems that thy are worth looking into! By asking you to convince me, i was by no means saying they dont work or are useless. Its just i have never looked into them and just wanted a concensus of opinion. Seems everyone wants a big email list. Consider me Convinced.

Maybe il update this thread from my yacht in a couple months with a link to my WSO ebook about how list building can make you a fortune I kid of course! If i found that secret it would never find its way to the keyboard

If you need to be convinced, you should reconsider your career in affiliate marketing.

Convincing? How about making $300-$1k from a single mass email with little to no work? And the list I'm talking about was made 100% passive (similar to the landing page in my signature). Literally just posting the link in a couple articles/stories/blogs here and there. Nothing else (albeit over a long period of time).

So the really question shouldn't be why... but why not?

List building is the lazy marketers #1 tool.

1 - Instant Traffic, you can decide(manipulate) where you would like to send the traffic aka your list

2 - You already have potential buyers literally the click of a button away, I've probably read this a million times over but a list is an asset for your business. This would obviously only be true in the scenario where you take IM serious and not as a hobby.

If you can build a solid business without a list of any kind I'd be very curious to know the result there of and how successful that business is.

S.C

Well you certainly know how to create threads that attract some attention and stir up the pot a bit

In my experience, my email list has done more than just getting people to buy things from me.

1. Encourages Conversation - With almost every email I send out, I encourage people to reply back to me with any questions they have. You would be surprised at the amount of people who respond with a question of two.

1. Go Viral - In addition to being a great way to communicate with potential buyers, having an email list allows you to share potentially VIRAL content. If you send a cool video to your list and they dig it, they might share it and suddenly your video becomes more popular than the Harlem Shake.

1. Dominate Google - It's also a great way to get backlinks to your site and increase your search engine rankings.

Goodluck to you in whatever you decide to do!

All the best,

Josh

Hey buddy your my age lol... so email marketing, building lists, you dont need a huge list to make 1000s of dollars period, just need a small 500 list to make full time income, and scale, i was in your shoes at the age of 18 so dont worry!!!!. it will take time, money and commitment but it will work!... ive built a decent sized list, mainly from promotions, couple solo ads here and there, and joint venture deals, in different niches, im, dog niche, spirituality niche soo ehh! it can make alot of income if you know exactly how to use the information wisely! also go to google type in email marketing, list building income,, things like thus will make you want to start building that list! Giuseppe!

The first month I started using an autoresponder on my blog, I increased profits 400%

All I did was offer a freebie report, write a few emails that promoted the 2 products I was also promoting on my website...400% increase in sales.

All on the frontend too.. I just had a 5 day email series. To say it converts better is an understatement.

I can't blame anyone for being a skeptic. I didn't believe either until around 2000 or so.

I pressed the button on an email campaign and walked over a few hours later. I asked my colleagues how it went. They pulled up an affiliate dashboard and I personally saw the total. $2600. With a few clicks. We repeated that campaign throughout the month. Every time it produced $2k on average with each mailing.

Then, I witnessed it many more times in personal campaigns and client campaigns. $400 days, $90k days. It works. If you still feel you need to be convinced, go make some friends in the industry. Or go pull up the stats in the WarriorPlus.com affiliate area.

It's a great method of communicating with your leads, buyers and fans in order to promote your products brand and affiliate links.

But..

If you have other methods of communication that work, then maybe you don't have as great a need?

My advice, is to ask yourself if whether or not email marketing can have a practical impact on your business.



Cheers

Getting a list is pretty easy. Keeping it happy is a lot more difficult.

Once you start list-building treat it as your golden egg. Think LONG-TERM and don't rape it.

Besides all the advantages already mentioned when you have your email list, you can send your loyal subscribers to all the new pages you may create, to your Fan page, etc.

You have a group of people who like you and follow you. This means that you keep the traffic you got once (when they opted-in) in your list, and you use this traffic multiple times by sending your subscribers to the pages you want to promote, whenever you have something new to show to the world.

You need to convince yourself to do it. If you don't have the motivation to even begin, you'll never get anywhere.

Building an email list would be the difference between $10 quid and $1,000 quid.

The better you're at it, the more you can make.