Email to your list every day?

If you don't have something valuable to share every day, I certainly wouldn't even attempt it. A few times a week is the most I've done, and if I happen to hit on an offer that the list just goes crazy over, I will resend that same offer a few times, then give the list a break for awhile.

I certainly wouldn't just send a bunch of freebies. People get tired of that too.

Bottom line, if you don't have something valuable to share, then don't.

And if you do follow through with your 30 day plan, watch your unsubscribes daily. That might give some insight into why they unsubscribed other than they are just tired of seeing you in their inbox daily.

One of my lists is a 31 part series about List Management (in sig) and it goes out every day and is double opt-in only.

No hard selling in it aside from recommending free products in the signature.

Surprisingly it has the least amount of un-subs.

However, my other lists are every 2-4 days mixed with advice, freebies, and sells.

So you give them only ebooks you made correct? How long are they usually?

Hi there,

I try every other day! I sometimes do broadcast! Some internet marketers do email marketing everyday but they usually have a good following and a nice community! Those marketers have a knack building real relationships with their audience!

Some marketers send emails everyday and they are full of LINKS and that's a real TURN OFF to be honest!

You have test really but try every other day or 3 times a week first until you start interacting with your following!

Good luck

Yoan

you would generally want to email them every day for the first few days, 4-7

but I don't think it would be required to email them everyday for 30 days, you do want to emial frequently maybe 2-3 times a week but everyday for 30 days might be overkill unless you were consistently providing great value in each of those emails.

I know when I first started - if anyone emailed me everyday I would hit the unsubscribe very quickly. There was only one person I stayed subscribed to and he gave honest and helpful insights and information, with the occasional sell thrown in. I think its all about how you structure it and if what you have to say is genuine.

Until 30 days ago, I was emailing my list once a week and I noticed less and less response, and then I started to email every day..guess what happened: my list is becoming more and more responsive..I have over 10% open rates in every mailing.. Of course I'm really careful with what I send to them..
Yes, I have some more unsubscribers, but overall my list is more responsive and I found emailing on a daily basis is better for my list..
That doesn't have to mean that it will be better for your list, but I would try if I was you..

Best of luck

I would not advise emailing your list every day unless you want to see your unsubscribers go through the roof. I would focus on only emailing your list when you have something valuable to share with them.

You have to find a product or service that your list can benefit from on a regular basis. In niche marketing be the source of what your list 'must have',and then they will eagerly await your emails.

Seldom do I send emails to my subs in a certain niche and I often receive emails from my subs that they would appreciate an email every time the site is updated.

In response I explain to them that the site is in fact updated daily, so I would have to send them an email daily which sometimes leads to email management and general management problems. The time and expense is not profitable. The main point is I keep my overhead down, so they do not incur higher fees. That always makes sense to them and for those that still complain I just say 'goodbye' and remove them from the list.

Jeffery 100% :-)

in general, if I get an email every day from someone ( and it is a promotion or ad ) , I unsubscribe almost immediately. I find it very annoying. if you mail every day, you should have something new or worthwhile to talk about. otherwise, every 3 or 4 days is good.

For the first week they opt in they are very responsive so it it good to email them 7 days in a row with valuable information.

After that I would recommend only sending them an email 2-3 times a week. Lets face it we are all real busy and don't have time to spend hours every day reading emails.

As to what to send to your email list. Just have a quick look around the forums or facebook groups and see what type of questions people are asking.

Then do a quick search and find the answer to these questions. This way you are giving your list information you know they want to read.

if you're not a douche...and your product or service will add value to the person you should be emailing your list daily...I've been doing this for 6 years and I have data that backs up as long as you're adding value there is nothing wrong with mailing your people daily.

Edwin,

With all due respect, I looked at the MMO squeezepage in your sig and to be honest it is no different than hundreds of other MMO squeezepages found in hundreds of sigs on this forum.

I scanned your domain and found what you are selling. Same as above, to be honest it is no different than hundreds of other MMO offers found in hundreds of sigs and after optin offers on this forum.

Its okay to follow the heard because the heard will not stomp all over you since you are dragging up the rear. But at some point the rear gets a little nauseous, you can't see where the heard is going for all of the dust, you stop and go at the hears own pace. You can learn as you go for sure, but you are not in control of where you are going, and when the day is done - you may not know how you got there.

Aside from a pat on the back for "doing it right" you still do not offer a way for people to start profiting from the offer. Here is why... promises of 'knowledge' is not the same as 'proven resources' that produce an income.

You got something going for you.. you only need to turn those offers into verifiable resources to earn your list an income.

You asked earlier where do ideas come from. Put your self in your target customer's shoes and ask yourself what can you do for your list - not what your list can do for you. Sometimes it all comes together for some people and for others it never comes together.

When it does come together you may find yourself as the leader of your own herd! Thats the difference between marketers that follow the herds and marketers that lead the herds. They make available a solid product or service that produces real verifiable results.

Hope you make it.

I email my list 1,1,1, and on the 4th day I start to email twice per day and pretty much follow the same sequence. I guess I'm the opposite from some emailing more and more

Every attempt of me emailing everyday has resulted in 0 sales... even when mailing for at least 60 days.

Swap that with emailing every 3 days, and my results are dramatically different.

Erm I think there is no "One Size Fits All" answer. It will be totally dependent on the list that the person has. Why not segment 2 different list and test it out so that you can test it out.

I'm mailing my list twice a day...and making more money than I ever have in My entire life, so are my coaches...

Value doesn't come from the plr you give away but from the insight and bond that ONLY you can share with your subscribers that pushes them towards the end result you initially promised them.

#Truth

Everyday is too much even if you do offer value it just becomes irritating to see your emails there everyday so I will always unsubscribe.

Every 2 to 3 days seems to be what most use on the lists I am on.

I will only start my email follow-up messages after 2-3 days after they subscribe.
I will specifically inform them of following topics I will be covering for the next one month.
I have a product to sell after 4-5 follow-up messages. The product has to be relevant/useful of the follow-up messages. After the end of the email message series, I will request them to join my another email follow-up series(triple opt-in, if you call that) .
This is important cos I will identify the true followers and continue to give them good stuffs.

Always separate buyers from the subscription list. These guys are VIP!!

If you're giving value in your emails you can send even to emails per day. I mean, who's not interested in learning from an expert who's giving real value?

I'm mailing once a day but I'm always trying to give the best value that I can possibly give.

Maximum of 4 times a week is enough to keep your subscribers connected to you.

I'd unsubscribe very quickly, and so will some of your list. That in itself doesn't necessarily make it the wrong thing to do, though, for you. You need to test.

After testing in 4 of my niches, I now use the same approach for all my lists, sending emails on days 1, 3, 6, 10 and 15 and thereafter at 5-day intervals, with valuable content in 2 emails out of 3 and a promotion of some kind in 1 out of 3.

I certainly wouldn't ever want to "promote" in less than 1 in 4 emails: I have to pay my mortgage.

I thinks that sending out mails every day is a little too much... I would go for every 2-3 days...

Personally unless you are running a "deal of the day" type site or something similar sending email to your list daily is too much IMO.

Although I don't have a list this is an interesting thread. I have had several marketers mail me offers twice and even thrice a day. I unsubscribed from their lists after a few days. The few I stay subscribed to are the ones I can recall having sent me some useful information in the past - even it is one useful piece of information that I could use.

Most marketers send useless free reports that seem to be created for deletion after an "email opt-in" and others send me an email containing 2-3 lines with 2 affiliate links and a subject line that no one will believe. In the case of one particular guru marketer whose first name starts with the letter M it seems impossible to unsubscribe from his list. He sends promotional emails only, with a frequency of 1-2 emails a day. I am sure he must be getting a lot of sales.

LOL there are people giving you their "opinion" but not giving you their "experience" from earning hundreds of thousands of dollars online...

Be careful who you listen to my friend.

I'm giving you my real word in the trenches experience.

-Ryan

Keep in mind that your auto-responder may eventually close your account if you receive too many spam complaints.

Not sure if you are using AWeber or not, but they have been known to proceed with this action.

I know very successful marketers (some of them my clients)
who email every day and sometimes twice per day and they
have a faithful following. But you'll find that you need CONTENT
to sustain this model and the best kind of content is your own
life story and the news.

You can start by telling a story about your life (like a Facebook
update) and tie in a marketing lesson with this. You can also
comment on what is hot in the news and also find a lesson
to share with your list. In this way you always have bridge
to lead your readers to your "real" message.

-Ray Edwards

The thing you have to keep in mind is the expactations of your subscribers. If you tell them upfront that you are going to send them an email every day, they know what they're in for. You just have to be consistent.

The problem with most lists is that they give away a worthless ebook in exchange for an email address, and then try to gain the subscribers' trust through follow-up messages. The only reason they signed up for the list was not that they wanted to receive tons of emails. They want access to the ebook which more often than not is not really that great, after all. However, if you present the list itself as the 'free gift', then people will sign up only because they WANT to receive your emails. And in that case they can't wait to receive your next email!

test test and test.

It will depend on what your promise them in return for their email address.

Personally, I'll only email if I have some valuable tips or a special offer for them.

A big problem, I believe, is that many people only have one product to offer which makes it hard. If you are only promoting 1 product and they don't buy it initially, then they probably never will.

A lot of real corporations such as Kogan only email special offers.. but then again, I signed up to receive these offers, so no problem.

But if I sign up for free tips etc,and only get promos, then I get p1ssed off and unsubscribe.

So i guess it comes down to what you want to do... send offers ro build a relationship / brand with your audience.

Sal

Anyone that emails me every day is going to get ditched.

I dont even see my mum every day, let alone hear from some marketer.

Take them to your headquarters. What is the head quarters you may ask? Your blog if you have one. There is where your bonding , trusting and liking is going to take place. Encourage interactions, comments, feedback. Learn what they want and then send it to them. You are creating a following and a community of your own. Don't depend own plr stuff that somebody else hashed up. Be creative and genuine. It's ok to be a novice. Just remember you may be a couple of steps in front of another newbie, but you do indeed know just a little bit more than they do. When you've established that bond, they will wonder why you haven't emailed them. That's when you know you're giving them what they want and not a lot of junk. Hope this helps bro.

I'm surprised that no one actually mentioned this but I'll go ahead and say it... you're asking the wrong question.

The problem with asking how often you should email is that its based in an attitude on treating that list as if it were a numbers game. Remember, first and foremost, behind each email is a human like you and me.

A better question to ask is Why did they subscribed to my list?

Say for example, they wanted to get a freebie. The moment you send the email with the download, they are done with you. They unsubscribe and even mark the email as spam. I know that because I'm like that, I'm like that because I already have this ingrained in mind that the following emails are only the same promotional stuff that every darn marketer already does. Its routine.

However, say I subscribed because I wanted to learn the latest news in the IM world. It could be a blog, a forum or a newsletter. It doesn't matter to me how often you send it because I've committed to it and I see it as resourceful and time-saving. I knew what I signed up for.

Its about expectations.

What does your list expect from you? What do the people who sign up to be in your list want from you? Your job is to answer to that expectation. Even better, over deliver it!

Once you get that sorted, that's the only time when you start thinking about what the content of your emails should be.

Part of my sales funnel is that I have 5 different email sequences, each serving a different purpose. More than half of my new subs signs up under all of them. Which means, yes, its possible that I do send them 5 emails a day. But they don't mind because they were expecting that and plus all the content I do share is priceless.

Pro tip: If you are going to send emails frequently, keep it short. As in, just one small paragraph. Keep it in small chunks with valuable info. Its easy to swallow and people appreciate the short-and-to-the-point style.

Hope this clarifies some things for you and helps in your planning.

Cheers,
Marco Ong

Hey Edwin,

Started building my list recently and have some freebies and some buyers.
I never tried to send them daily emails.

I some time send them a set of my own Articles as PLR.

Some time I send them some PLR ebooks.

I also send them MRR ebooks and advise them to start making their own
selling website with a little modification in the ebook.

I will test your idea of sending 30day emails to my small list.

Thanks
Satya

I only email when I have something to share that's of some value. Sometimes that's every day, sometimes it's a couple of times a week. I don't want to waste my list's time - in the same way I don't want my time wasted. So if you have something valuable to share go for it. If not, my opinion is don't do it.