Sent an email today and made a sale...

Article marketing. I then offer free guide when they subscribe

Great news just keep building your list and the sales will continue!

I do send out 5 part email series over 2 weeks after they receive a free guide upon sign up. After that I just send occasional emails..

I only have an open rate of 20% at the moment, but I know this is because my list is cold after not emailing them very often. I am hoping to turn this around!

May i see your squeeze page to capture list? Im also interested build list but don't know where to start.. Somebody offer me $2k to coach me from beginning till im be able to make sales..

I know nothing about list building.. But im already made plans.. here my plans..

1- Create squeeze page and setup with autoresponder. Aweber or Getresponse better?
Where to get product to give?

2- I plan to make sales with clickbank affiliate

3- I also plan to buy solo ads

But i don't know how to do that and where to start.. Please advice..

Thanks anyway for your sales.. Make me eager to start list building

Any info as to how I can find details of a special offer for the Autoresponder Madness course. Couldn't see anything on website - is there an offer on this forum :confused: Appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction

You absolutely need provide value to your subscribers. If that's just affiliate products you promote you have to be different from hundreds of other affiliates that promote the same stuff. That means adding something from "just you", the reason to buy from you. Not someone else.

Congratulations and all the best!
Marian

Congratulations!

1200.

How do I go about buying some solo ads :confused:

Well done - it must have been one of those "making your own luck moments".

You know, really, that this isn't enough, I think?

I'm guessing that when you say "occasional emails", you're talking about "broadcasts"? Personally, I hardly ever use "broadcasts" at all, for all the reasons explained in this thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7301227 (and stopping using broadcasts was a very favorable development for my overall income).

You need a proper autoresponder series. What you're doing at the moment, one way or another, is sifting muddy water for gold, finding plenty of gold and then letting almost all of it slip through your fingers again. You know this really, right?

Ouch! :p

There'll be people here who'll tell you that a 20% open-rate is above average "for the industry" and that houshold name marketers have lower open-rates than that. Whatever you do, don't listen to them. Some household-name marketers do have lower open-rates than that, but they have totally different business models from yours and mine, and operate a very high-turnover, churn-and-burn, SEO-based system which has nothing to do with your article marketing business or mine at all. You and I need (and can learn to get) a much higher open-rate than that. It's a real learning-curve. List-building and list-communications are pretty hard work. But not as hard as convincing yourself that a 20% open-rate is "better than average in this industry".

If the traffic is coming from search engines, a 20% open-rate is one thing; but for article marketing traffic it's another thing altogether.

Sure ... well, you know what the problem is, which is fine. You'll turn it around.

It'll be far easier to improve the open-rate for people you're about to sign up than people who have already signed up. Open-rates are determined by things that happen immediately before, while, and immediately after people sign up. To change them later is really difficult. It's true that you can, to a small degree, with things like "different subject lines" in emails, but it's tough, and those differences are going to be pretty small. That's mopping up the floor rather than turning off the tap.

As the saying goes, it's easier to give birth than it is to raise the dead.

So, here are three threads whose contents can help you increase your open-rate a lot ...

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

(ii) Contacting your subscribers: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5300985

(iii) What you're giving them in exchange for their email address (this is hugely important, because it sets their expectations and forms the backbone of your continuity-process, as discussed in the first link above): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7642288 (see the 6 bullet-points).

And good luck!

Yeah in email 1 or 2 depending on the list I'll either ask them to send me a reply telling me the one thing that's really holding them back or they are struggling with and then study the responses or I'll ask them to answer me a few quick questions on a survey and then study the data and put it to use. Helps you know what sort of content they want and expect from you.

This 10-20% open rate thing that gets banded about as being 'good' in the IM niche, is this for peoples freebie lists or buyers lists? If I had open rates so low on my buyers lists I'd be horrified. Freebie list maybe because a lot of people will grab your freebie just for the sake of it being free so it's understandable they don't really care about your emails.