Succeeded with some sales but failed with my LIST..

So ... you certainly haven't completely "failed with your list"?

And you already know that people mostly buy after subscribing and being on a list.

I can offer you a couple of good threads to read. (Not much, but it might just give you a little nudge in the right direction?).

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5300985

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7594459

Don't look at it as failure look at it as education

One of the things I do to keep a good responsive list is send my subscribers back to my blog on a regular basis for free content

If no one is buying based on your recommendations it's for one of 3 reasons or a combination of 2 or all of them

1. They don't trust your recommendations enough
2. The offers you send are not relevant
3. The offers you send have very low conversion rates

It's always one of these so have a think which one it might be

My blog helps to build trust and I know exactly what my list are interested in

List building does take time to learn because you will often spend a lot of time making mistakes before you see good results, this is just the name of the game

Paul

First off, you need to gain the trust of your list through education. Once they perceive you as an expert, they will be ready to open their wallets as well.

I do not where you leads came from, but the respomsiveness of a list depends on the source of traffic that you used to get those leads.

well do you just send them offers or do you send them valuable and helpful content regularly?

You cant just keep sending a list nothing but offer or you will lose your list. Make sure to survey them regularly and find out what they need help with the most, then create a piece of content that actually helps them, no strings attached, it is ok to invite them to check out an offer at the end, but yo uhave to give, give and give some more.

I don't know if more free stuff is the answer... One of the most re-occurring themes I've seen concerning list building is that people often build a list of freeloaders.

Meaning that people build a sizable list, but all they want is free product, nothing paid for. If you release more and more free product, you might find yourself selling nothing but free product.

Try analyzing your plan and size it up against what has been said here, especially Alexa Smith (I hear great things), and so far what I've read from her has been living up to the expectation

Everything's already been covered.

Don't mail affiliate link after affiliate link, and offer after offer.

Give them VALUE.

I like what one gentleman said; post some GREAT content on your blog and then promote that.

Create some webinars, then promote that.

Create a Skype chat, then promote that.

Find some awesome content on another site, then promote that.

If you promote affiliate link after affiliate link, they'll get the picture; fast.

Ask them what they want; then provide solutions.

Pretend that your BEST FRIENDS are on the list; your FAMILY MEMBERS; would you spam the hell out of them? Or try to help them?

Food for thought

Firstly ,well done, your own product, making sales, and the beginning of list, Kudos to you !!!!, I think you should be sending links back to your blog where you need to be posting quality, informative content, that help your subscribers with issues you have had in the past on overcome them. Tip......make your a/r sequence 80% content, 20% pitching. that way they will (if you post good stuff) happily and eagerly open your emails, if you pitch all the time, they will more likely unsubscribe

You should send out a survey to your list so you can get feedback about what they want to learn about. Once you understand what they are interested in, start providing them with free information about the subject. Next, create an ebook or a video course that is related to that information and sell it to them. It's important to understand what your list actually wants to learn so you can promote the correct products that will give you the highest chance of making sales.

Spot on. You need to show the people on your list you care about them. Simply treating them as a number won't cut it

Chris

What may work better is if you send them emails talking about a certain problem, one that they've probably experienced and may not know how to solve and may be looking for an answer to.

Tell them after you've reminded them of this problem to keep an eye on their email because you are going to share how you solved that problem. The first email makes them start thinking. The second one you made them wait for an aswer and now they want to see it. They want their problem solved. In the next email, give them some free info on how you solved the problem.

Do this a few times. It builds trust. You pointed out a problem and solved it for them. Now they know that when there is a problem, you are the one to listen to. Do the same thing now, except use your product as the solution to the problem.

If you have a blog, you can do the same thing. In some of your posts, you will put affiliate links but you have to make them want to click it. I talked about vision requirements for pilots in one of my posts. I talked about glasses, eye surgery, color blindness, etc and gave good information on the post. The last paragraph on the post I said wrote the following:

Natural eye exercises

Since I'm getting to the point where I may need reading glasses, I have considered this a million times. I just don't know if it really works or if it doesn't. This is one of those things that I've heard two sides on. Some people swear it works and some say it doesn't. Just like some people love Chiropractors and some say they don't do anything. This one is for you to decide. I have attached a link at the bottom of this article for you to read more about it. I see ads for this all the time and every single time I am tempted to spend the money for the chance that it will work and I won't need to wear glasses. After all, I got eye surgery so I wouldn't have to wear glasses! If anyone decides to try it and buys it through the link below, please let me know if it really works because I've been dying to try it and I don't have the money to spend right now!

Can you really eliminate your glasses and improve your vision with simple eye excercises?

The question after that part of the post was a link to an affiliate product. I didn't force them and even said I didn't know if it worked but I played off my own feelings. I personally wanted to try it. If someone has glasses (pointing out the problem) and you give them free answers (the answers in my posts) then you can throw a link in there as a possible solutions (just as I did above). I made a sale off a post that took me 15 minutes to write and the link is there forever. They wanted the solution, all I did was offer it to them after reminding them of a problem.

I hope this helps!

Wow great answers. I suggest you take sometime to take a deep breath and think about your list and leave all sale expectations behind. If you come at it from a point of helping them out and being someone of value the sales will follow. Hell they might even ask you for your opinion.

Funny that when we think about people as a sale they don't end up as a sale. They end up as pissed off people. You have the right idea now connect your mind, your intention and map out some goals. Then hit the auto-responder.

At least you have 1200 people still on the list. That means you have some new ideas and the desire to make it work. You will be fine if you follow the advice of the fine people who came before me.