My List Building Plan - Please Help!
A few months ago I started list building. In around a month or two I got 400 subscribers. Sounds great, eh?
Well out of those 400 subscribers, when I'd blast out an email, my best open rate was an astonishing record of 9.6% (if you can't tell, i'm being sarcastic). So out of all these subscribers there was only a few active ones that actually opened my emails.
To be honest I know where I went wrong and blame myself entirely. I only had one goal with the list, to make money with it. I didn't care about sending out quality content. I only cared about making money, so all I done was try and sell to my subscribers in each mail i sent out.
Despite reading TONS of content on email marketing I just ignored all the advice. I wasted two months building a list.
This time I'm going to do it different, I'm going to take a whole new approach. Instead of focusing on making money, I'm going to focus on sending out high quality content that my readers will enjoy and benefit from. I am still going to try and make money from my list but it's not my main focus.
My Plan
1000 subscribers over the next 2 months. Only roughly 16 new subscribers every day, so it shouldn't be hard reaching my goal.
Set up an autoresponder, 2 months of content. Send out 3-4 emails every week. In every third or fourth email I will be promoting a product, and the rest will be high quality content, e.g list building strategies, ways to get traffic, ways to make money online, etc.
My main goal with my new list will be to build a relationship with the subscriber and try help him/her with their online business as much as possible.
Any advice or suggestions on my plan will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Happy marketing,
Adam
Gone Fishing....
Blogger at RicherOrNot.com (Make Money online blog but also promoting ethical internet marketing)