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How To Monetize a List of 40,000 Crowd Funding

by Stephen Andrews
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I have an email list of roughly 40-50,000 people, all of which are businesses or individuals (the majority are businesses) that started some type of crowd-funding project (Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, etc).


I have their names, business names, and general market segment (Fashion, Technology, Gear).


These emails aren't the traditional one's where they hit the "Gimme Your Email to Receive 10 tips on How to Shave Your Balls Correctly and I'll throw in a free BJ" and confirmed their email. They are all from a collection of businesses that I've run for the last few years and they are emails I've gathered and previously used as a leads list.

Any suggestions?
#crowd #funding #list #monetize
  • Profile picture of the author markhimeb
    40,000, mostly businesses? You can sell them anything you want. The fact that they are not collected through the "traditional" process, gives you more power and the potential to make more profit from them.

    Not sure if you know it, but kickstarter also runs an affiliate program: https://kickbooster.me/ This could also sell well to them.
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  • Profile picture of the author cynthiaSEL
    Segment them so that you can make some tests. For example, make a squeeze page with a give away you can personally create on a topic you think that a particular segment might be interested in. Then use that *new* list of people who recently opted in to learn from you and begin giving them an education in that topic, along with some offers that you want to test. Even simply books on Amazon on that topic.

    Step through your list, testing, in smaller segments before you try to send to the whole list at once.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Stephen Andrews View Post

    I have an email list of roughly 40-50,000 people, all of which are businesses or individuals (the majority are businesses) that started some type of crowd-funding project (Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, etc).


    You didn't say If their campaigns were successful or failures.

    I know Kickstarter has/had a tendency of removing the failed campaigns in order to be perceived as a site with nothing but winners which is deceiving.

    So, are these folks winners, losers or a mix of both?

    The reason I ask is, you could possibly use a list of crowd funding losers to get your foot in the door and offer them something they originally wanted. That's up to you to figure out but it could be something as simple as a better crowd funded campaign done by you or outsourced to a pro.

    ...or maybe even a product that walks a client through the crowd funding process (AKA, hand holding) and possibly get better results.

    You already know their dreams, to be successful at crowd funding.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Andrews
    I just want to be clear: I mined almost all of these emails.

    Also, I have the amount they were trying to raise, and I can have my guy go through and mark whether their campaign was a success or failure, and also how close they were to goal.

    Virtually none of these people are going to recognize my name or email.

    Should I still follow the "Give them dope content before you sell to them?"
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    • Profile picture of the author markhimeb
      Originally Posted by Stephen Andrews View Post

      I just want to be clear: I mined almost all of these emails.

      Also, I have the amount they were trying to raise, and I can have my guy go through and mark whether their campaign was a success or failure, and also how close they were to goal.

      Virtually none of these people are going to recognize my name or email.

      Should I still follow the "Give them dope content before you sell to them?"
      It doesn't really mind. Just do something. Don't let your list be saturated by others, before you getting the chance to take advantage of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author sonjay
    one thing you can do is partner with someone with offers/ services to sell.. or even sell solo ads (stand-alone email promotion) to others.. this way, you are able to take action and maybe even clean/ segment your database..
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