Do you have an email list?

Yes I do have one

No struggles

What's your point?

No time to split test.
This system need discipline and sometimes happened you are inattentive
and you don t have much time

Hey Jeff, I'm glad you have no struggles. Maybe you could give some advice on people that are looking to write emails that convert.

My point is trying to start a relevant conversation around what people are struggling with so I can answer questions about either of those issues.

Thanks!

Hey winner...I find that most people who struggle with the time for split testing generally don't have a content calendar.

Have you thought about creating a calendar of emails for the month and giving yourself a one day lead time before you have to send the email to your list. This would give you an extra day to split test subject line, etc.

Hope that helps

For me the toughest part about marketing on solo ads and safelist sites is coming out with effective sales copy. My advice is to play around with different titles to GRAB the readers attention.. And then you need a good email that will keep them focused on you and not clicking away. Try copying some or all of other emails that make YOU want to click and read..try and identify what grabbed you and kept you there and try and do the same. My 2 cents at least

No, I do not have an email list. I used too. But for small internet marketers, you should not. Only big times ones make a profit from them.

Have you tried E-mail Marketing before?

Oh goodie another newbie with a post asking people what they are struggling with.

I wonder where this heading.

But in the interest of fairness a couple of questions:

Who the **** are you?
What have you done?
What makes you think you can help me?

I've have a list and have been mailing almost daily since 2011ish.

The best advice I can give you, is to treat your subscribers right, so you can find out what they want and ultimately help them as best you can.

Don't invent demand, instead know your end user demographic so you can help them.

Back to the original question before the flames started shooting around...

1. Writing emails that convert: GMail is your friend, and here's why. I sign up for a lot of lists, big and small. Each one has something you can learn from. Frequency, headline writing, body copy, etc. I segment each list I sign up for in GMail using their filters options, then, I read through each seperate sender in one sitting. I'm basically building my own ongoing swipe file. Then I pick and choose what I like or don't like about each one. You can get some great ideas/ insights into how the big boys market, as well as the up and comers who are worthy of your attention.

2. Split testing: I don't split test emails as much as I should, but I ALWAYS split test opt-ins. That never gets old, and depending on what tracking system you use, it can be quite easy. I use Clickmagick to handle that, as well as other things. Well worth the price.

3. Don't understand how to make money: I do OK, mainly because of the two things I mentioned above. When I saw how frequently some of the top dogs send, I realized that my one email a day wasn't a drop in the bucket. I read somewhere that John Cornetta sends 5-6 emails a day to his list of about 500K (it's probably bigger, I'm just estimating by his convesations shared).

Having an email list is crucial to having success online. If you don't learn how to do email marketing right it's time you learned. You can spend a lot of time effort and money on concepts that don't work anymore. Without an email list you have no real business , no repeat customers, no traffic source. The key to email marketing is doing it right, learning about your particular niche and providing solutions to your audience. It's simple once you understand the process. Try not to overcomplicate anything. Always remember to only email people who opted into your list.

I believe that in present day 2015, you need to have some type of reach whether it is an email subscribers list or something of that nature.

Unless you have a solid grasp of SEO, how else are you able to control who and how to present your offers in front of hungry buyers?

I would bet you're over complicating it. Don't just pitch in your emails. Tell a story to the end user and focus on entertaining them. Add value and don't be spammy or scammy.

Email lists are super easy to convert because you can manipulate (or persuade) over a period of time.

My number one struggle is getting past the plateau of 3.5% CTS conversion. I am having great success with videos preselling affiliate vendors but I feel that my copy lacks finesse.

Only 10 more posts and then you can post your solution in your sig file...



But I will entertain the OP and share my biggest struggle...

Which is how to scale from 8-10K leads a day to 16-20K leads per day without putting people out of business on the back end.

Can you help me with that?

LOL quadagon!

I do agree that as an IMer one of the main reasons to have a blog is to get leads. Over time you will get organic traffic to your blog for sure, and if your content is quality you will have people coming back.

But a lot of people in the "make money" niche seem to suffer from ADHD. If you don't have an email list, then you can't follow up with your leads... and if you can't do that, the vast majority of people are going to forget about you.

An email list is an asset, period. A blog is an asset too, and they're both necessary in an online business. The best part about blogging is a blog post/page can bring you traffic, leads and sales for years to come, unlike an email broadcast.

But an email list is a way for you to reach out to those same people over and over again to build a relationship and (hopefully) trust over time.

The biggest thing that I try to keep in mind when emailing my list is that they're real people on the receiving end... real people who may or may not be struggling... but they are looking for answers and solutions. I try to provide the type of content that I wish I had received when I was just getting started years ago.

What's your targeted sites for email list?

I don't have a struggle anymore with email marketing. The 1struggle was taking the time out to write followup emails. I always had in my mind that "it takes an average of 7 contacts to make a sale". So i would write 7 emails, and that's it. It didn't occur to me at the time that if i had 100 emails in the followup series that i would 3x times as much money... as opposed to the 7 contact emails route.

Yeah pretty much only concentrate on building my different lists for my different sites. Everything works well except for the split-testing. having problems finding the time to do it properly

I have 500k+ and email to them daily.