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What kind of traffic you are using buddy?

I found that very counterproductive indeed, when I was promoting ClickBank offers by PPC..

Right after the opt-in, I would never want to send people to an offer page. Not at that point.

For me, it was a big mistake to do that. As people who have split-tested it have often discovered (and they tend to be the ones who quickly abandon that idea, once they've thoroughly tested it for themselves.)

I suspect there's quite a bit of misguided thinking about, on this subject. It's worth bearing in mind that it's possible to make the occasional quick sale that way and still lose a lot of money overall. Here's the key concept: the few people who will buy anything, that way, are all people who would have bought it in a week's time anyway, after receiving some email from you, so there's no real gain. But many other people, who would otherwise have bought it a week or two later, will be alienated by it, because of course it makes you look like "just another marketer", so if I did that, I'd expect a much lower open-rate for my emails than I actually get.

(Also, for myself, I need the thank you page, in order to give clear instructions, both in words and in pictures, on what subscribers (two groups: "gmail users" and "others") need to do, in order to receive my emails in their in-boxes. Again, without doing this, my open-rates are significantly lower - and I certainly don't want anything else distracting from that, because it's what the bulk of my future income depends on, and long-term future income is the whole point of building the list in the first place?).

We all started with 0 and grew. You already acknowledged that it's a small number, so I won't mention the number. You'll know/decide more as that number grows, anyway?

I strongly suspect that it's the niche you've chosen that's probably going to make it very difficult for you.

"Rather you than I", anyway.

Again, nothing personal, I promise, but both the things you mentioned that you're promoting are crap, in my opinion.

Excuse my outspoken skepchick comment, but I wouldn't touch either, myself, as a way to try to build a business (or for anything else). Sorry.


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From my experience, people who are using bing are rather older and not very good with computer. Think of some older woman, who starts IE and its default search engine, not knowing about existence of google. I'm not saying all of them are like this, but for mmo niche, you should rethink your listbuilding plan.

I would suggest using a low cost PLR product about a difficult subject that most new marketers struggle with as your 1st OTO.($10 or less)

The best method: understand your audience. There is no general "best offer" in the MMO niche.

Tom

My thought on this is "why did your subscriber join your list?" Were you offering a free course on how to make money with online surveys or a report on how to build mini-sites that rank well in Google? If you did and this is why they joined your list then those offers might be completely appropriate but if they joined your list any other reason it's not surprising that you're not making sales.

Solve the problem that your subscriber has that caused them to join your list and the sales will come if the product you are offering delivers that solution.

45 leads is nothing to feel shameful about. That is a good number to get started with in your first week. I made 2 sales right here on the warrior forum with just around 50 leads.

The sales were $100 (reoccurring) each.

I send people 'directly' to my highly converting (pre-made) sales page right after opting in.

It's only tougher if you think or believe it is.

Be careful who you listen to.