What is your best strategy of marketing ?

You can see what I did here: http://www.warriorforum.com/email-ma...t-scratch.html

Just always keep this in mind in all of the steps you go through in building your email list: Always FOCUS on giving value to your prospect market. Always consider asking yourself "what is it for them?" If you believe that they will get very valuable info, service, or product, then you are in the right path my friend

For the past 15 years I've been using email to promote affiliate/cpa lead generation offers and this is the basics of how I do it.

The technical term is PPL: Pay Per Lead. Which you can do direct through affiliate programs or sign up to CPA networks, which will have many different PPL offers you can promote. You can even go out make deals directly with companies to generate leads, but the former is much quicker.

The reason why I like generating leads is that there is no credit card required, all the user has to do is fill out a form in order to make money. Also, you will typically find that the conversion rate for leads (since it's free) is much higher than that of a product/service that requires a sale to be made.

I favor leads that have some type of financial positioning...have a make, get or save money angle to them. This has overall worked best for me, as they tend to have greater mass appeal, so the potential to generate high volume exists.

There are many leads that perform well that pay $20-$60 each and more depending on the vertical. This is key, as I rarely promote a PPL offer on a front-end campaign that pays less than $20, because I want that higher pay out($20+), so it's takes less conversions to make a campaign successful. If your promoting an offer that pays $10, then you need twice as many conversions to make the same amount of money, as one paying $20. The only time I will promote an offer on the font-end that pays less, is if I know in advance that it has an above average conversion rate. Leads that pay less and product/services that do require a sale, I promote them on the back-end.

The way I generate traffic is through data(email) acquisition deals. These days I pretty much just acquire targeted data that I can get real-time or same day (exclusive and non exclusive). When I say that it's targeted, I know what the users are interested in and I know that a PPL offer exists that matches their interest. I also generate real-time co-reg using the same principle.

The reason why I acquire data over using other methods to generate traffic is for two reasons. Fixed low cost and I'm getting an asset that I can use over and over to generate traffic and promote other offers. The key to making this work is to start small with any new source and to test the data first to make sure that you can break-even in a reasonable amount of time, before spending a bunch of money.

All I care about is breaking-even on the data and this is simply because once I break-even, then I have a asset(as mentioned earlier) that is now fully paid for, that I can continue to use to generate traffic and promote offers at a very low cost. So at this point, turning a profit is pretty much inevitable. Once I break-even, then I will typically test to see how aggressively I can get away with promoting other offers and to do this I just watch my stats and back off if anything starts to become unacceptable.

If you read about building a list, most everyone says that you need to build a relationship by sending quality content. This is not required with sending PPL offers, as it just doesn't make any significant difference in conversions, so it's less work. You just keep sending offers until the user unsubscribes. This may sound bad, but you will be surprised that a high percentage of users will stick around for years.

Basically I'm just monetizing data using PPL offers because they offer the path of least resistance to convert the data to cash. The above is really just a simple overview and there's more involved, but it's a great business! Everyone I know that's in it and knows what they are doing does 6-7 figures. Which is a wide range, but it all comes down to how aggressively you are able to scale it and effectively managing the infrastructure that come with scaling it.

If this is all new to you, one of the best ways to get started is generating co-reg. While the cost per record is higher, the cost to get started is low and the process is real simple. But most importantly, you will learn everything that you need to know from the marketing side of the business, which will make scaling and making data deals less overwhelming, compared to trying to do it all at first.

Anyway, a bit different than most do, but something to think about.

Keep building your list and never stop building it. Don't get lazy and just depend on traffic, it can be unreliable and just cost a lot more money. Since you are building an affiliate list, I would suggest getting on social media, forums, blogs and anywhere you can get the word out. It's hard work and having many approaches to your marketing campaigns that will help you. Have you consider using text messaging software to build a list rather than an email list? Just throwing it out there since statistics favor it heavily over email list.

I'm a full-time IMer and have tried a ton of different things. I totally agree with building your list, but that can be pretty difficult in most circumstances (unless you are spending massive amounts of time with SEO or spending a good amount f money on paid traffic.

Bar none, the fastest and easiest way to build a list is to create a product and sell it and when someone buys have them hop on your list to get the product. you can take advantage of already existing marketplaces with customers ready to buy, JVs, affiliates etc., and buy creating a product you are adding value. The best part is that you are getting paid to build your email list (most of the time).

If you want to know what strategy works best for you then experiment on your strategies.

Heh the OP reminds me of a guy who was bragging to us kung fu students at a meetup, all of whom had been training for several years and some for over a decade...he didn't know us and bragged about his skill level from another school, and finished with, "And I've been training hard for SIX MONTHS!"

Four months, my friend, is barely enough time to figure out which way the sun is coming from.

OP:

> Who's the audience you're trying to help?
> What problem(s) do they have that you're trying to fix for them...that THEY acknowledge exist?
> What solution(s) do you have to help them with?
> What revenue target are you trying to reach?
> What does your traffic & funnel plan look like?

Answer those questions and you'll have the bones of a functional, consistently earning business.

Leave it all up in the air and the most you'll ever have is an inconsistent hobby.

Maybe you should try the secrets in the free ebook in your sig. You should make $5,000 in Clickbank in two weeks.

Yeesh...

Oh goodness gracious we wouldn't want it to take a long time for you.
Gosh No !!

You got on the Warrior Forum to find the easiest and quickest way to make that 5K in your
Sig , right

Word of advice: slow and steady wins out every time. This is not a sprint but a marathon. Many people here have spent years to find success. Don't be insulting to them.

Nose to the grindstone, sir



- Robert Andrew

This seems a popular system:

Join warrior forum

Post meaningless sentences in threads until your SIG shows.

Continue to post in unrelated threads so everyone sees your SIG.

When no one clicks post a topic asking for help (that'll get you SIG seen a lot). Make sure to add nothing to any discussions

Retreat from forum when people ask why you don't just use the method you are advertising.

Release a WSO on how to make money

Retire

The quality of members and threads on this Forum just keeps getting better and better....

There are only two ways to market...

1. Free - Which takes longer to build it up. The key word is build if you use a free source like youtube or something you wont get rich on 1 video. You have to do a bunch.

2. Paid - Faster traffic and the benefits of paying for traffic is that you can test quicker and make adjustments to find winning stuff.

My suggestion is not to fall for all the Hype online, just pick 1 source of traffic and stick to it... Traffic means that is where everyone hangs out at. Take for instance FACEBOOK that is where majority of people hang out at that is traffic.

So pick 1 traffic source that you visit online regularly and advertise there

or

Pick 1 traffic source that your target market hangs out.

So if you personally are on FB 5 hours a day then advertise there

or

Let's say your target is "Gardeners" and they hang out at a popular Gardening Forum, then you hang out there and advertise there.

The best strategy to build an email list is to click on the link on your signature, download the free ebook and read it.
Cheers.

Build a list, but rather than focusing on the number of subscribers, you should focus more on quality... because after all what you really want is to make money. When I first started out with list building I cared too much about the quantity of the subs rather than the conversions I can get, and as a result I lost a lot of money building a freebie seeker list and earn absolutely nothing from it. Just don't make the same mistake I've made as a beginner - you need to focus on quality, not quantity

If you didn't get a chuckle out of this, you need to relax.

Comic relief is a valuable contribution to the forum!!

The Best strategy is Implementing what you have learnt and stick with only one method till it works ... am trying with PPC using Bing ads sometimes i lose sometimes i win but am sure i will learn till master this method .. Good Luck

building your buyers list is the most essential thing for you

Affiliate recruitment is my marketing model.

I would suggest you promote your website using promotion services such as RankCrew(dot)com or SEOLinkVine(dot)com as they will help generate TONS of backlinks to your niche / product aff sites ...

MORE BACKLINKS = HIGHER RANKINGS = MORE TRAFFIC = MORE SALES...
It's that simple!

The above backlink generation services will build backlinks for your site automatically and from HIGH PR sites and save you tons of time, energy, and money down the line!

Hope that helps

You made $5000 in 2 weeks. You're obviously not a beginner. I think many people here could learn from you. Can you tell us more about that?

Provide help and value to people, they will find you when they need more.

The best strategy my coach has me working on is an Email Marketing Strategy.

Includes driving traffic to a Squeezepage, then capturing their email. then build a relationship with the client via email through content (information of value) or promotional or combination types email.

Therefore, you can offer products that helps to solve clients problem over and over again.

Leilani

I have utilized social media, word of mouth, and guest blogging on my website. I believe that your strategy isn't static, it has to adapt to your target market.

I built a 15k list by running an FB competition. Spent about $1.5k to obtain but it was all self generated which was the best thing.

Have a product your willing to give away, direct people to a 'join competition' opt-in page.

The product has to be very specific to the interests of your demographic for this to work.

Good luck!

Currently building my list using solo ads. The trick is your funnel. Have a useful report to give away, a OTO page and a downsell page.

The trick is to make your ad cost back with at least 1 or 2 sales and reinvest in list building .

Start with small budget (I bought 100 clicks at a time to test the vendors out) and scale from there.

Oh yes, your headline must be very compelling too.

A simple business model is to effectively combine Affiliate Marketing and Email Marketing together. You end up building a list of subscribers that you can market to over a long period of time.

Hope this helps.

Leilani Sniffen