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Poll how many emails is too many? Listbuilding Poll

by entrepreneurjay
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Poll how many emails is too many? Listbuilding Poll

If your building your list through adswaps, traffic etc.... How many adswaps a week do you recommend and why? If you have an autoresponder set up, or if you use one how many preloaded messages do you use?

I am taking this poll because I want to provide value to my email list, but at the same time be able to build my email list up fairly quickly.

How do you as Email marketers accomplish this? Get rid of the autoresponder messages pretty much altogether except for a few? Limit the number of swaps you do a week?

Your input is appreciated!
#emails #listbuilding #poll
  • Profile picture of the author CurtisN
    Marlon Sanders said this in another thread:

    Originally Posted by marlon View Post


    Jit is a MASTER of that model. A master.
    To which I replied:

    Originally Posted by CurtisN View Post

    Yep, just wanted to echo this.

    Most of the emails that Jit does, at least for the list that I'm on, are ads for other people's squeeze pages.

    Each ad swap he does brings in X subscribers + in OTO and back-end sales.

    He sends at least one email a day (possibly more sometimes), so you can assume that he's getting a lot of emails promoting him back.

    This means that he's getting lots of new subscribers per day, plus $100s or more in OTO sales, all from simply doing ad swaps.

    And the beauty of this system is 3-fold, IMO:
    1) He builds a huge list that is trained to expect the type of emails he sends.
    2) The money he makes from OTO and back-end sales is pretty good on its own.
    3) When he promotes a launch (I estimate about twice a month), he does extremely well because he's sending his subscribers to squeeze pages, just like he normally does.

    Jit is the only guy I know that swaps seemingly all the time and "gets away" with it, if you know what I mean. He builds his list, makes money, and lands on JV leaderboards, all without pissing most of his subscribers off.

    Pretty sweet

    Curtis
    So to answer your question, I'd say: "As many as your subscribers are used to getting."
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  • Profile picture of the author impact-productions
    I'm not a big fan of AdSwaps, but they do work - providing you have built up your list in the right way.

    As Curtis says, you can build your list up to expect regular e-mails. I favour the daily model, but some people mail more than that. You can that slot the ad swaps into whatever gaps you have in your schedule.

    Because my mailings are always pretty well mapped out, including my own product launches, good quality products from affiliates, plus publicising my latest blog posts, I imagine I'd struggle to fit in more than one AdSwap a week. But, I'd imagine that making it that bit more special would make this convert than just piling out AdSwap after AdSwap to your list.

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  • Profile picture of the author GhWriter
    personally I consider an ad swap as another way people have found to fake their way to success. They can be used properly but some idiots have taken it into their small brains that this equals valuable content.

    like anything, too much of it makes you just another spammer in my book. occassionally, like maybe one every 2 weeks maybe, but I consider that just another promotional email.

    instead fill your follow up list with valuable articles. build your own reputation for providing value, don't just send all your traffic to the competition.

    My follow ups are

    Day1-6 high quality article, apx 800-1000 words of valuable information with soft sell for a product,

    Day 7 hardsell product review of the product soft sold for 6 days with a limited bonus

    day 8 survey asking for their personal feedback on what exactly they are looking for help with. This allows me to target direct problems, and gives me ideas for content for my site, blog, and future emails. also do a soft sell that is promoting my own website or blog.

    day 9 valuable article again related to the niche. soft reminder that time is running out on the limited offer.

    day 10 hard sell final notice for special bonus offer.

    Then, after that 2 articles/ week with soft sell email, a free report once a month( anywhere from 5 -20 pages),

    1 hardsell every month with a different product review.

    then, I will also occasionally (once or twice a month, unless i am involved in a product launch) send out a broadcast message with a hardsell promotions. again your ad swaps would fall into the promotional emails, you can soft sell them if you like in your articles, but just sending people to get more emails with some free plr report that is nothing but a sales pitch for a product is a waste of time. i personally unsubscribe from these type of lists, and i always go by the golden rule. Treat your customers how you like to be treated in everything you do online.

    although you want to monetize your list, you dont have to hard sell them all the time. this will drive people away, especially in niche markets. Remember, if you are an affiliate your job is not to sell products, your job is to recommend good products. Leave the selling up to the owner and the Sales page.

    If more people would learn this, less people would fail at affiliate marketing.
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