Buying email lists

Udimi is a popular place for buying lists. However, it is much better to build your own list of subscrbers who have specifically opted in to YOUR service.

This question has been asked and answered many times. Please search the forum for relevant posts.

IMO, a much much much better approach than "buying an email list eventually" is to begin today to build your own email list in a niche where you have a competitive advantage.



In my experience, most of the lists you buy on eBay and elsewhere are worthless; or even worse, they can put you and your reputation at risk.


Why? Simply because people selling these lists do so to make a quick buck without concern for the privacy of the people on the list or the interests of the list buyer. Many of these lists are simply collections of random scraped names off the Internet and rarely do they contain addresses of subscribers that have opted in to anything.


Often these lists are very cold, sometimes being copied from other email address lists selling online. So as the buyer, you end up with a list of stale, old, hammered and dubious origin addresses generally good for nothing. I have heard of instances where deliverability to entire lists is less than 10% and conversions have been 0.


With legitimate list "sellers," they usually only rent you their list of subscribers for a one time mailing and they send out your message - you don't "buy" their list to keep it yourself for continued mailings.


There are legitimate list brokers like Nextmark that are worth considering ... however ... you can still lose your shirt on such a service if you don't understand what you're doing, don't know how to properly target your offer, don't write compelling sales letters, or have an offer that converts well. It's a very risky approach for a newbie and sometimes even for veterans of IM.



That's why I believe you are miles ahead to grow your own list.


I know the dream of having a large list of your own immediately with the push of a buy button is very tempting. Don't give in to the urge. This is one shortcut to a quick subscriber list that almost always turns into a complete waste of time and money.


Do you want a real business? If so, build it yourself with an audience that actually wants to hear from you.



Steve

Thanks.

This actually makes a lot of sense.

I'll be thinking on strategies for building my own list

I've been buying / monetizing email data for almost 18 years. However, I get fresh data that is targeted to specific PPL (pay per lead) offers. I'm basically just converting inexpensive leads to real-time leads that are then worth significantly more. Also, it is far easier to get someone to just fill out a form than it is to get them to make a purchase.

If you're talking about the MMO niche and trying to sell something. You will probably be better off building your own list unless you can find the right targeted data, as much of what you may find may be too general. That way you can specifically target and build subscribers that are interested in what you are offering and would be more likely to purchase.

Not that it's not possible to make buying data work for you. If you go that route, I would just purchase a small sample and test it first. If you can get an ROI, then buy more.

Definitely build your own list with emails / contact information that are really working.

In my experience, some of the contact information from the lists you buy are either old email addresses which they don't access anymore or they don't exist at all.

DIABLO is right, you can always try purchasing a small sample and if it does work, buy some more.

This is an interesting post as I have never wanted to buy a list. My reasons is that I feel a "store bought" list isn't targeted enough to justify the price of it. One example, I feel when you create value, and people support that value (such as creating youtube videos etc), people think similar to your particular mindset. When you get people to think similar, they will follow and naturally opt in to your email list that you created organically. What you need is then a platform that you can use for that, I use builderall to build my funnels, and also websites. It pays for itself now over and over again as I use it for online marketing, but also creating websites for local companies. There are several platforms out there and lots that are great. Think of also your business costs ROI, for everything. Going the easy route by buying a list may not always be the best direction to go.

I think you are on the right direction, a list is very very important. Just keep in mind that taking the time grinding it out to build your list organically, can make it much more enjoyable when your conversions are higher than buying a random list that you "Hope" will bring you sales. Food for thought

Going out and just purchase a list is something you have to look deep into. 1 How was the list built
2 what is the market for the list. 3 how old is the list. Has this list been used 400 times. Now you can purchase new lists but you are looking at a great expense I decided to use that money in advertising and build my own list. you can ask. Igor Kheifets Hope it helps.

In my opinion you should begin to build your OWN list because buying a list is very risky and shady in my opinion. The people on the list you are buying opted in to receive information from a different person and by writing in your own style to the list you can lose all your subscribers in an instance.

You should start to build your own audience and your main focus should be to provide value. Real VALUE. By doing so you will generate goodwill with your audience and this creates trust. Basically the money is not in how big the list is, the money is in the relationship you have with your list.

If you are genuinely helping people by providing them the best information you can, your audience will trust you and that opens the door of selling your products or affiliate products that further HELP your audience to achieve whatever they want to achieve.

As a conclusion, with a small list of people that trust you and value your advice, you'll be rich.

Search "safelist mailers" on Google and try your email marketing strategy on these lists. It will cost you zero or next to nothing. And then decide whether you want to go further with email marketing.

Nothing is more better than organically growing your email list. Just letting you know. Cheers.

The first thing that comes to my mind is why would anyone want to sell a list of "buyers". I do not forsee anyone selling an active list that has a healthy list of buyers.Maybe my opinion is wrong .
Do some resesrch before you buy into anything to minmize ,offset against the risk of loss.

your mail server can put down to spam . It is not good idea.

Buying an email list is hardly a good way to marketing, honestly. Except you create a email list by getting someone find for you with specific requirements.