Getting 75-95 new subs daily across my lists but nobody buys.

Man, make sure that you have a correct email follow up system that is providing value to the subscribers in a consistent manner. With so many of them, you should already have more sales. The product value is a good question to consider. If you can promote a program with multiple product choices, that could help you get more sales.

Consider your source of traffic. ..... that would be my best guess

What are the lists and what is the process that someone subscribes?

If you're not targeting, you are probably getting a lot of users that are not ideal targets.

Last updated: 1/23/17

Instagram Demographics

68% of Instagram users are Females.
80% of Instagram users come from outside of the U.S.
77.6 million Instagram users are from US.
Instagram is used by 31% of American women and 24% of men.
32% of all Internet users are on Instagram.
59% of internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 use Instagram and 33% of internet users between the ages of 30 and 49 use Instagram
38% of female internet users use Instagram and 26% of male internet users use Instagram
17% of teens say Instagram is the most important social media site (up from 12% in 2012)

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68% female may or may not be good.
80% of Instagram users come from outside of the U.S. (how much are from countries that will likely never buy)
59% of internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 use Instagram (not ideal to me)

i have instagram profiles designed around a certain niche. like for example one is weight loss and i give away a free guide on how to speed up your metabolism. they either text in a 5 digit code to sign up or fill out a landing page email submit. so i am definitely targeting.

not if they signup thru the text message. no way to track. already contacted aweber about this and 65% of my leads come in that way.

Clickbank products can be purchased by anybody from any country I do believe though correct?

What is the location break down for the 35% you do have info for?

What are your open rates?

Do you know the domain makeup and do you test your inbox placement?

How does the 5 digit code (text) work?

first email that gets sent out is 50-60 percent. the 5 digit code works by just texting a word to a 5 digit #. then i send back a message that says enter your email for the free gift.

Lots of money blocks here.

1 screams at me: you believe big numbers on a screen (75 plus subs a day) can physically buy products. Impossible. Only human beings buy products. Human beings who you address and bond with, 1 to 1.

I finally began earning some coin when I realized that the money is not in numbers, email lists or any inanimate objects. Never seen a number buy an eBook of mine. But when I built 1 to 1 bonds with human beings, through various online channels and cared less about numbers, human beings began to buy my stuff and hire me....plus those inanimate numbers grew too

yeah i understand that but not really sure how that helps me? i follow all of the big email marketers advise and tips on how to do email marketing. i would think that even if 90% of my subs are free bee seekers, the other would buy...

Do you know the answers to the other questions?

The first email is somewhat irrelevant, as they want the gift.

What are your open rates on follow up messages?

I would scrap or at least pause the 5 digit code and collect their email / IP.

The first thing I would want to know is the location of all users.
Then I would want to know the domain makeup and inbox placement.

Do you get buyer emails from Clickbank?

What are all the lists and what are you promoting?

Hey,

Umm... It's just my opinion but most of the subscribers are just freebie seekers and don't actually have an interest in spending anything.
Did you offer them a report or something to opt-in to your list?

It's important to warm up your list before promoting anything or even before providing value.
Do they know who you are? Frankly, I won't buy anything from someone I don't know.

You gotta introduce yourself first and let them know what they'll be getting - like who you are - what you do - what are you going to provide them - also let them know you'll be promoting occasionally to cover up the costs etc --> They just need a reason to buy anything.

Maybe I am way off of your problem but I just interpreted it my way and gave a reply here

I used to be in a similar situation (although not as bad as yours).

I had an email funnel on my site (4 autoresponder emails) for my language learning product. I was getting about 70 - 110 subs per day. But I didn't make many sales. So I simply sent an email asking people why they didn't buy. (I only asked those who had visited the sales page.)

After that got some responses and learned some of the reasons people weren't buying, I improved my marketing accordingly.

That's what I would do if I were you. It's better than guessing...

Simply change the things you are offering to them. Since your goal is to make $100 or more daily and not to make sales, try going the route of ppd or pps. The key to making $100 or more daily is getting conversions, not getting sales. If you can't get sales, try getting sign ups or downloads that you will make money from.

It has to be in the emails or it could have something to do with people subscribing that are freebie seekers. If your accidentally targeting those looking for something free, you're list could be full of freebie seekers.

If they are going to your links and not buying, it's your landing/sales page. If they are not even clicking on the links in the emails, it could be your email content. It could also be the way you're getting your subscribers as many people have an old email, second email or specific email for spam. They may use this just to get what you're giving away and never pay attention to what you send after that.

Look at what your subscribers are doing and you can start to trace the problem.

Good Luck!

Drop a link for your email capture page.

Let us subscribe and see what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong.

Other than buying your courses from pirate sites, you are doing some things right.

The obvious thing that sticks out for me is that you are building lists using aliases about topics you know little about but learn from blogs, etc. These are the same blogs, articles, etc. that are freely available to your prospects.

My guess is that the truly serious people have also read some of the same things already, and recognize a poser when they see one.

The other thing is something Ryan pointed out. You seem to be all about the sale, rather than helping people. That's another thing that will come through in your emails.

Again, my guess is that somewhere along the path there is a disconnect. Since you are getting some clicks to the offer, the disconnect may be between what you are warming them up to expect and what they see when they get there.

It's kind of like following a cloaked link here. You read someone's posts and want to know more, so you click a link that looks like it goes to a blog or something, and wind up on a Clickbank sales letter for some totally off-topic product.

That may be happening here. Do you tell people you are an affiliate? Or do you send emails as if you created the product? For a lot of people, finding out the product is by someone else and you're just an affiliate blows any trust you may have built up.

Start with your opt-in offer and follow the process through to the end looking for places that might be interpreted as conflicting. Smooth out the continuity of messaging.

And stop supporting pirates.

I do not tell them I am an affiliate but I do not lead on in any way that it is my product. I normally tell them this is what I recommend if they are having this issue.

I provide a ton of value in my emails so it's not like the emails you see gurus send out where they are all about the click and it looks like a short solo email every single time.

I actually can't believe some of the emails I see from them and wonder if they ever make any money ever from how awful their emails are.

It seems though that the more info I pack into an email the lower the click rate. As if they got some good info and they ignore the link.

Other than sounding like a real person, telling personal stories and providing enormous value, I just don't know what else to do at this point...

I always thought that getting the leads was the hard and expensive part and the sales would just come naturally but it seems like the opposite is happening to me.

Simple for me to build an email list but almost impossible to get the sale.

I am averaging about 300 clicks per day to my clickbank links btw. Half of those are from my emails and the other half are from just directly linking from a post on instagram, (and yes I do know direct linking isn't ideal but I am willing to try anything at this point).

I would recommend that you begin to fill in the space between your communication to your list and the offer with another value intensive interaction with your click throughs.

It is a bit like "warming up" an email list before they buy, but instead of warming them up to a product, you want to warm them up to "your brand".

You presented a certain "brand" at the beginning (email capture), but instead of building "your brand" you are quickly handing them off to another spiel.

This will require that you begin to create a step that fosters more authority (maybe a blog for list members where you provide in-depth information and analysis depending on your niche) and finally hooks your audience into your "guidance" - then the rest of your strategy will become more effective along with all the solid advice given to you above.

In any case, an email list is not a cow farm you can milk without "impregnating". Start inspiring and improve your dairy processing.

"It seems though that the more info I pack into an email the lower the click rate. As if they got some good info and they ignore the link."

This could be link placement - meaning it is lost in the content (or they don't scroll down to get it)....or you are SATISFYING them too much and they don't feel the need to click.

That's another good point: I don't think many folks have the time to sit through and read all the way through an email that's lengthy.

Maybe a teaser to get the right "ready to buy" reader and a link to a video (that everyone loves) and give them more quality content and the all important link.

Okay, then it may be possible that you are providing too much value and information. Zig Ziglar used to call this "spilling your popcorn in the lobby."

People may be reading your emails and thinking they don't need anything else. But I doubt it, since you say below that you are getting ~150 clicks to the product every day.

The problem may be the product you are sending them to. It may be that the vendor just isn't closing the deal. I say this because you are also getting direct clicks, which means your email sequence isn't a factor.

From earlier posts, it doesn't sound like you have any direct experience with the product you are promoting. Have you bought and used the product yourself? Or even asked for a review copy so you can speak from experience about what a buyer will get?

Look at the vendor's page. Does it have leaks? Like their own email list that will overwrite your cookie? You may be losing out on commissions.

If you chose the product because of high gravity, the product may not sell as well as the vendor wants people to believe. It's an unreliable stat that is easily manipulated.

Bottom line, you may be sending people to a dud.

Here are a couple of options...

One, take the earlier advice to ask subscribers who clicked through and didn't buy why they didn't buy.

Two, try a different product using a different email sequence. It's not uncommon for otherwise popular products to just not resonate with a slice of the prospect pool.

I bet you would make more money promoting PPL offers to this niche.

This is a problem I hear about all the time.

I know several marketers with lists of over 50,000 subscribers, yet they cannot even break 100 clicks on a single broadcast.

Now, on the other hand, my list is around 8700 subscribers, and I have no problem making $100-$200+ every day from my list. I also have a smaller list in another AR of around 2300 subs. I very rarely mail that list (maybe once a week), and it doesn't make much money. I'm able to pull around $200-$300 per month from it. It's basically just something I play around with and will often use it to do "test runs" on products I want to promote to my bigger list.

I'm in the dreaded (and often hated) "MMO" niche. This is one of the easiest niches, IMO, to break into and make money from.

However, it needs to be done right.

I've never built a list in any other niche, so I can't speak to how profitable they are. I can only say that the "make money online" niche is extremely profitable, if done right.

Most marketers have absolutely no clue how to do it "right."

Now, there are basically two different schools of thought when it comes to list building in the MMO niche.

There's the "relationship" school of thought, where you build a bond with your subscribers and send around 75% content and 25% promotional email, and there's the "churn & burn" school of thought where you email every day and send 100% promo.

Contrary to popular belief, they both work equally as well. At least they have for me. I've tried them both extensively, and the results I got were pretty similar. However, with the "churn & burn" method, I found I needed to add many more subscribers every day because the unsubscribe rate was MUCH higher. This is to be expected.

In the end, I found it was much easier and less stressful to go with the relationship building method. Why? Well, simply put, I don't have to add near as many subscribers. I went from having to add 200-300 subscribers to my list every day (and losing 50-75 subs every day) to adding around 25-50 every day (and maybe losing 2-3 subs per day on average). MUCH EASIER to do.

So, to address your problem, I'm thinking that in your niche, the relationship building aspect is going to be key. One of the tough things about niches outside of the "make money online" niche is that you cannot sell near as many products. Let's take weight loss, for example. The major problem people have, of course, is that they want to lose weight. So, once you are able to sell them a good product that helps to solve their problem, it's tough to get a second sale. Sure, there are other products you can sell, but the fact of the matter is it's going to be tougher. If you have sold them a great product that helped them achieve their weight loss goal, that's awesome. One, you have legitimately helped the person, and two, you have bolstered your reputation and gained their trust.

This is what you need to concentrate on, and why it's going to be so important to keep your relationship building going with them. You've helped them lose weight, and for that they are going to be thankful and trust you, so you need to think of the next step.

The next step won't be to try and make a second sale right away. The next step would be to shift focus to another health related issue. Great, they've lost the weight they wanted to lose, but what's next? A logical progression might be to start a dialogue about muscle toning, or heart health, or getting a "six pack," etc.

Now, your core problem is making that first sale. Without more knowledge, for instance, knowing what your open and CTR rates are, it would be hard for me to diagnose.

Right off the bat, I'd say you are not spending enough time establishing your reputation and building trust with them. In order for this to happen, you need to first get them to open your emails. Assuming that you have a solid traffic source, this means coming up with extremely good subject lines and follow up emails. If you are not a writer, then I'd suggest hiring a professional to create a series for you. This is an extremely good investment, considering your goals.

You've said that you are writing long emails and telling stories, etc. That's great, but there is such a thing as sending too much content. I would keep your emails to 300 words or less and provide them with something valuable, but don't give away the farm, so to speak. Also, you mentioned putting links throughout the content. That's a great idea. I usually put one at the very top of my email, one in the middle, and one at the end. In today's "instant gratification" society, sometimes people don't want to spend time reading a long piece of content. They want to get right to the "meat."

You had made a comment about wondering whether or not some of the people who send short emails actually make sales. I can tell you from personal experience they most definitely do. I've sent out emails that were no more than 3-5 sentences, and gotten loads of clicks.

Now, I also have to tell you that I think Instagram and Facebook traffic is somewhat overrated. I would say direct Facebook traffic is better than Instagram traffic, but I still don't think it's all that great. That could very well be because of my niche experience. As a rule, Facebook traffic is not great for the MMO niche.

I can only speak from personal experience when it comes to Instagram. I've clicked on many ads and profile links, but I've never purchased anything. For some reason, I don't like purchasing digital products through my mobile phone, and I have to say that the traffic coming from Instagram must be at least 75% mobile.

So what does that mean to you? Well, it means that you will need to concentrate very heavily on your email followup, as I stated earlier. I don't think direct purchases after a person subscribes is going to be something viable for you. In other words, if you intend to build trust, I think you should send your new subscribers directly to their download/free gift, or whatever you promised them. Do not use a "one time offer" directly after your squeeze/lead capture page. This immediately gives off the impression that all you are after is a quick sale, and that's going to be a big turn off. If you are doing that now, I'd suggest stopping. That alone may make a big impact on the responsiveness of your new subscribers.

You also need to make sure that what you are giving away as an incentive for folks to subscribe is extremely valuable. If you are using a PLR eBook or video course then that may be less than impressive. People say first impressions are everything, and that's true. So, you need to make your new subscribes say "WOW" when they read your material/watch your video.

Honestly, I think your main problem lies in either your initial impression, or your relationship building process. It seems like you've got the traffic generation thing down, and you have a lead capture page that is obviously converting pretty well.

You need to focus your energy on winning people over. What can you implement or add to your emails that nobody else has? What kind of information can you provide that others can't? Why should people trust YOU over the tens of thousands of other people in the weight loss niche?

I firmly believe if you can up your game concerning the material you put out, you will be able to start converting your subscribers into buyers.

Like I said, you're obviously great at list building. You just need to work on how you approach your new subscribers. Give them a reason to open your emails. Make your subject lines IRRESISTIBLE.

And why not reach out to other marketers in your niche? You'd be surprised how many marketers will actually be willing to throw you a bone.

Also, you may consider trying different traffic sources. It could be just that simple. You may not be attracting the right demographic from Instagram. Why not give Bing or Adwords a shot? Another fantastic source of traffic is YouTube. If you are someone who knows how to create good videos, you'd be amazed at how much traffic you can get from YouTube. You don't have to be a major player there, either.

Another thing I'd recommend is that you have a blog where you can brand yourself. Gone are the days when people would be willing to buy products on the recommendation of some nameless, faceless marketer. Nowadays, people want to deal with a REAL person, even on the internet. Especially on the internet! Our culture has started shopping online so much that it's almost become like visiting a "brick and mortar" business for many people.

People love to walk into a brick and mortar business and meet the owner, get waited on by the owner, etc. Well, it's becoming that way online, too. They want to know you, and most importantly, they want to know what qualifies you to advise them on such an important issue as weight loss. A blog can give you that "one on one" experience with your customers, if you know how to write just like you're speaking to your best friend. In fact, you might even start trying sending your Instagram traffic directly to a blog post. I find people that subscribe to my list through my blog posts are often top notch subscribers.

I think you can succeed if you give it your best shot. Above all, don't give up. You're more than halfway there, and you've made it a lot farther than most people. I think you are on the cusp of a breakthrough. Just hang in there.