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Email list size to income ratio

by randalblanchette
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I joined safe swaps and have built a list of just over 100 opt-ins. My question is this: How big of a list do you need to have to get $3000 a month income?

I know that is a pretty open ended idea, I get that. But I have read a bunch of places that each email is worth $1 per month (or something akin to that). So I am building a list.

I did the numbers but they do not seem to be coming up with that 1=$1 ratio. Thus far I have offered the list a number of items ranging in price from $7 to $27 and only have a buy in of 3% which is not where I thought it would be.

My goal is to get to $3k a month so I can sustain me and the families needs where they were before I lost my job due to outsourcing.

Anyone have any clues for me to follow?

Thanks in advance for any help rendered. ~fistbump~
#autorespoder #email #email list
  • Profile picture of the author bravo75
    I had a list of around 6000. They lapped up all the freebies but hardly any of them bought anything I recommended. I had a list of freebie seekers.

    In order to really profit from a list, you have to build trust, a rapport and it has to be a buyers list where people buy from you repeatedly.

    It's getting harder and harder to do because everyone and his dog is trying to build lists these days. Most are doing it wrong. Sqeezepage>>Freebie giveaway (PLR)>>Start promoting>>> Get $1 per optin>>>Laugh all the way to the bank.

    I don't believe this works anymore, especially in the IM niche. It's like banner ad blindness, people are so used to them that they don't even pay attention anymore. Some will optin, get their freebie and unsubscribe or just ignore the Emails.

    In order to really profit from a list, you have to really offer something out of the ordinary.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by randalblanchette View Post

    My question is this: How big of a list do you need to have to get $3000 a month income?
    It's not really answerable in this form, Randal.

    One person might have a list of 1,000 people which produces $3,000 per month in income; another person might need a list of 9,000 people to produce the same.

    List size is actually a comparatively minor determining factor. There are probably five or six or seven things more important than that.

    In the four 6-month-long split-tests I've done myself, for listbuilding, building each time two different lists from the same traffic, the smaller lists (and they were significantly smaller, too) have always produced significantly more income, because the people were opted in to them in a different and much better way. Factors like that are typically far more important than subscriber-numbers.

    Originally Posted by randalblanchette View Post

    I have read a bunch of places that each email is worth $1 per month (or something akin to that).
    Yes, there's a lot of fiction around, online.

    It can be a third of that. It can be three times that. That isn't even a meaningful average. It's just fiction.

    Originally Posted by randalblanchette View Post

    Anyone have any clues for me to follow?
    Here you go: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982
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