What do you do with 10,000 Opt In Emails?

Yeah. We know.

I'm seriously considering asking Thomas to set up a "bad word" filter to change the phrase "Shireen here" to something like "Insert pointless artificial branding slogan of your choice." It's not a good idea to recommend spamming here. And sending email to that list would, at least for the OP, constitute spamming.


Paul

C'mon, you want to send an email to a list you don't know anything... how will introduce yourself to the list. if I am among the list and I receive a mail from you, which i don't know how you got my email, I will just opt-out. You need to ask your friend how and what purpose did the members opt-in for, before you can send any email to them. Hope this help...

Quick answer...you can't.

You'll simply waste time.

I know you'll ignore all the advice you've been given
so I guess you'll just have to learn the hard way.

ok, I get it. You know where your friend got the list and it is "legal" per you based on what the subscribers signed up for that you can now email them something.

Well, most people have spam filters and if the email comes to them from someone other than who they ok'd in their address book, they will probably never see the email anyway. So you may re-consider if you want to waste your time on this.

However, if you do have the "legal" right to send an email to these people and realize they do not know you and did not directly opt in to whatever you will be sending them, I would start out with something in the subject line to remind them from whince this came.

For example, if they opted in to get the Iphone, then say,

Another Offer From Your Free IPhone Submission

At least, this way there is the chance they may remember that they did this and then open the email.

Then at the beginning of the email in small type of a subhead that they signed up for the Free Iphone.

Then start off with

Here is another great offer for you
and proceed with an offer.

I would offer them something along the same lines
of what they already signed up for but
make it your own thing so that you can
get these people on your list.

And, if they have opted in to win a free iphone... I then promote applications etc. on my very first email. and make a new list out of it.

I don't have much knowledge in this but .. still .. I have seen the mobile related ebooks on clickbank.

Hi

The iPhone is only the incentive to get their info.

Since they aren't Opting in for anything other than a chance to win the iPhone, the idea of these types of CPA offers is usually simply to get contact and demographic information for a list.

That's why the pay-outs are so low. They are getting poorly targeted leads with demographic information (survey) attached.

You use the demographic information to then sub-divide the list into potential markets to target.

How detailed the demographic information is will help you be more targeted for cold offers.

Like facebook advertising, you would send offers targeted to your most likely demographic.

These lists number in the millions and are usually owned by marketing companies who sell off targeted segments based on the customer's demographic needs.


However, in your case you know ONE THING all these leads have in common! They gave up their personal information to a CPA offer for a chance to win an iPhone.

I would just keep sending free CPA offers to the list.

"Want a new Kindle Fire for free? Complete this simple survey"

"Get a FREE Visa gift card in time for Christmas."

"1 in 10 WIN!! Simple survey!"

etc...

Mahlon

PS/EDIT:

This may seem like spam but if these are emails gathered from CPA offers like this they will get tons of emails from their information being sold to companies and marketers. As the OP said it is "legal".

Right now I am new but if I put myself in your situation then I must do one thing...

Let's suppose I don't know anything about the list.

1. I must choose a topic/niche related to both men and women.
for example: magic, astronomy, astrology, tarot, millionaire mind set etc.

2. Then I make a great, very very great, free report on that topic.

3. Promote that free report with single email to all of them and make a new list with it...

4. After that I send quality content to that new list and monetize it.

In this way, I convert the (unknown) list according to my choice... I hope if I have tried this then I must have got 500 true emails by following this way ..

Now I don't know how much it's effective. I am new in this internet marketing. Seniors know well and better... But if I were you... I must do this... and then keep on improving myself and list.

The issue I see with it is that even if you can email them because somewhere in the small print when they opted in for a free iPad, they were giving permission to be emailed by partners, from the point of view of the subscriber, you're still sending them unsolicited email. They didn't specifically opt in to receive offers from you.

I've opted into stuff in the past and gotten offers from partner businesses and it's usually generic stuff like PC repair, credit check, gift certificates from various chain restaurants or department stores, etc.

I've never actually signed up or bought anything from these emails though. Not only do I not have an interest in the stuff they're promoting (untargeted), but there's also the issue of even if I recognize the brand sending the offer, I don't know if the offer's really from Wal-Mart or if it's some phisher/scammer trying to get info from me, so I don't trust them.

If these big companies are using this as a marketing method then presumably they're making money from it, but I'd guess that it works for them due to sheer volume of names they can contact, even if their conversion rate is extremely low due to the unsolicited nature of the contact.

Doesn't answer your question, but just sharing my experience as someone on the receiving end of these partner offers. Put yourself in your prospects' shoes. If some company you didn't opt in to receive information from emailed you out of the blue, what would that email need to say in order to get your attention, let alone get you to buy something?