Should i buy an E-mail list????

I would highly recommend you stay away from that for right now. I learned that most lists consist of people who are freebie seekers. And if you can provide any free information to them that is valuable, then they will not pay attention to you. Building your list manually by creating relationships with people is the best way to go in my opinion. People like to buy products and services from people who they know and trust.

1-No, there are a lots of scam companies are selling email list on the internet.
2-No, list may not be opt-in which get you in trouble.
3-Yes, if you buy it from someone who you may know.

I am going with no on this subject. You want to build your list with people who you know are interested in your particular niche. If you just spam a bunch of random email addresses you will not know who is interested and who isn't.

Bottom line is you should build a squeeze page, generate traffic to it, and build your list that way.

Hope that helps.

I have an adult webmaster list for sale if interested

don't buy lists its not good. The better way to build your list is to drive traffic to your squeeze pages and do adswaps.

No. A productive list will be one where YOU build a relationship with them right from the start - you don't want to come in half way and take over someone else's list. Besides, there is usually a pretty good reason why someone is selling an email list.

Not a good idea.

Quit looking for shortcuts and just build a business.

You'll be glad you did it the right way!

Yes, you absolutely should buy a list. IF you want to screw up your business right off the bat.

Otherwise, listen to all those recommendations you referred to in your original post. If you need more people to say "no" before you decide it's not a good idea, stick around.

Ron

I would only buy a list that contains a min of IP, date/time of sign up and the site that the recipient signed up at and pref contains the link to the privacy policy. The privacy policy needs to state that their info may be sold/they will receive third party messages. Then you are covered legally...it's not some scraped list and your not spamming the recipients.

This is not to say you won't get spam complaints. So at this point you really need to have the list scrubbed by a qualified company to remove any known complainers. This still won't guarantee no complaints, but will greatly lessen the possibility.

Then you want to set up with a mail friendly service that will provide server/IPs and won't shut you down for getting some complaints.

At this point you want to set up reverse dns and sign up for any and all Feed Back Loops that you can get. A feed back loop sends you a copy of the message a receives when they click the Spam button. That way you can remove them from the list.

Then you want to make sure all the mail you are sending is can-spam compliant. So you need to set that up.

I wouldn't just buy a list. I would first buy a random sample of the list and test it to make sure that it's going to be profitable in the long run to send. Because if your thinking about buying, so are others and others probably already have. So this means your response rate will be lower and your unsubscribe rate will be higher than what you think it will be. So you need to know what you are doing to make the purchase profitable. Because it's no longer about marketing to the list what you are interested in selling them...your niche(s), it's about marketing what they are interested in/what will turn the highest profit.

Anyway, that's the "short of the long" of buying lists. It's not just buy a list and send it. Majority of people that do that typically walk away saying I'll never do that again because they lost money, got complaints and their service turned off, etc... But it can be extremely profitable if you know what you are doing.

When I first started I too thought that buying someones list would be a great idea. I did not know that spamming was part of that deal.

Create a good product and affiliates will sell it for oyu and you will get a great list of your own

been there done that lmao you may get some gold but chances are your going to get slammed with complaints

Time and patience is all you'll need to build a quality responsive list,put in the hard yards now and reap rewards for as long as you have a good relationship with your list.Buying a list may seem like an easy way to go,but easy come easy go.

don't buy email list. You never know the quality of the email list
Instead I suggest buy media buy and bring them to your optin page

For what your most likely doing it will not work. Start as everyone here is suggesting. You need to learn mailing first. You can buy lists in bulk, but you need to know how to clean it, segment, then drive the traffic through funnels. Also delivery rates will suffer if you do not understand how to get by ISP's from a dedicated. Stick with Aweber and an organic list for now. Good luck.

no it's really a bad idea. I hear a lot of people say Email Marketing is not a good way for the stuff like CPA

Do not buy an email list. You want people to Opt In to your emailing list.
Because if you buy an emailing list & send out offers, most likely those emails will go straight to spam or junk. Which is not effective at all & there is the possibility of fake email addresses & being scammed for an email list.

Great ways to build an emailing list is too create offers & have an opt in option available. That way you have valued email address, people who actually want to see what you have to offer privately before it hits WSO.

Just my opinion on the matter.

Even if you buy a list (bad idea to begin with), what are your going to do with it? Aweber won't let you import the names into their service (same with many other quality auto-responders) without a detailed audit trail (double opt-in), the form the opted in from, the date they opted in, etc.

If you use your own email client, your deliverability of emails will be much lower, maybe very, very much lower than if you send emails through a quality auto-responder service.

Just grow your own and give your subscribers some value in what you deliver. --Mike

i would rather use the money on SEO...such a list seldom bring you sales..unless you are super lucky...

No I would not buy an email list. What are you going to do with it. You can not enter the email addresses to a reputable auto responder service. Emailing then from your own email address will get your account closed and most of the emails will not get past people's spam filters.

I have received email lists as bonuses with IM products. Really they are pretty much worthless because there is no viable way to make any money with them without hurting your business.

The answer is 'No'. Build your own list. Those companies sell the same list to multiple buyers and this seems a spam sort of thing.

Short: don't buy, create from start instead. Otherwise you will learn nothing.

STOP!!

One question from yourself, will you read the spam emails?

If you think it still working, then it might be 0.01% it does.