Average Conversion Rates for your lists?

Nobody can accuse you of being in a hurry.

I'm only being cheeky: you may be right - this might work well for you. I promote one a little earlier, myself.

It depends on soooooo many different things ...

Traffic demographics (that's a big one), niche, their expectations, what you've shown them so far, what you sent them for signing up and whether it contained a promotion at all, whether they opted in through a squeeze page or a content-rich site or something in-between the two, whether they already know you're an affiliate, how closely targeted they are to what you're promoting (that's a huge one), what you've sent them in the intervening emails, what the open-rate is, whether it's a niche in which they'll probably be on 16 other peope's lists, and I'm only just warming up, here: I haven't even got as far as thinking about the product's sales page yet ... :p

Seriously, Laurent, nobody can begin to answer this without knowing soooooo much more ... but good luck with it, when you do your first promotion!

*gasps* I'm getting really good at asking stupid questions
I guess i'll just have to go test, tweak, rinse and repeat..

I agree with zeus66 but my conversions are approximately 8 to 9% in all and larger on a free offer.
Regards
vivi62

Hi Laurent, for a freebie-seekers list, conversions will be lower. I thought I saw you mention somewhere that your niche is skincare, but I may be hallucinating. Anyway, the point I wanted to make was, different niches have different conversions.

I know this isn't directly the answer you're looking for, but you might want to get in touch with some other marketers in your niche. You can swap notes and see what works and what doesn't - most people are heaps friendlier than you'd expect!

Also, conversions depend a lot on how much your list trusts you and would believe something you say. There's going to be a huge difference in conversions if I were to recommend something vs if Paul Myers or Willie Crawford were to recommend something!

Finally, I would sell to them quicker, but then I would try to also speed up the "like and trust" part of the sequence. People tend to lose interest fast. I've found that the first 14 days people are much more interested, and gradually their interest either fades, or they subscribe to a lot more lists, which means your emails get buried down and not seen as often!

Hi Laurent,

The number one thing you need to consider when trying to figure out how good your list is going to convert is are you attracting buyers or freebie seekers to sign up for your list.

If the leads that you are attracting are just looking for free stuff then you may convert one occasionally, but most likely you are wasting your time.

If the people come to your site for example with the organic traffic through Google with the word "free mp3" or "mp3 info" you won't get many conversions with your list. But, if they come through a word like "buy Move Like Jagger mp3" or "what store carries Maroon 5 song Move Like Jagger" then your list will be highly converting.

Too many people focus on the mechanics of building a list when they should be focusing on getting someone who will buy to read their list.

The sale starts long before anyone reads your email.

Terry