You will often find "the easy way" is in fact the hard way and the "hard way" is often the easy way.

Keep doing what you are doing - don't give away your hard work to other marketers for free (that's what they want you to do)

You want to lose your subscribers and gain a bunch of junk ones? Swap away.

Your best bet would be to keep doing what you are doing and sell to your list - if you need an extra income source then write a report teaching exactly what you are doing to get 50+ subscribers each day with such ease - sell it as a WSO (If done correctly it should bring you in over £1000 in a short period of time)

Hope I answered your question,
Peace,
Gh0zt

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I buy solo ads, but don't sell them. Why? Because I like stealing people from others list, but don't want others stealing from mine.

You definitely need a way to monetize your list, but selling solo ads may not be the best way.

(Disclaimer: There are many tenured warriors selling solo ads and doing it right who would disagree with me here.)

If you do go that route though, please, be one of the few decent solo ad vendors out there that gives good quality service. General customer service stuff, no bot traffic, etc.

If you were setup right you could be monetizing your list as it grows. Then if yo ujust keep doing what you are doing you could continue to grow your list and make money at the same time.

The problem with ad swaps is that the quality of the list will decline very rapidly, it's not about how many people you have on your list, it's about the quality of your list.

One of my small lists of less than 2,000 people has produced over 20k in profits

You can have a big massive list of unresponsive people, but in reality what good is it doing you? The point of having a list is to make money, not just to have a list for no damn reason.

I'd stay away from adswaps and just mail out your own offers, and keep doing what you are doing to build your subscribers

Ad swaps work great and they will continually work great for a long time. You just can't overdo it. That's why clickbanking (prolonged ad swaps) and swapping funnel clicks is becoming more and more popular.

It also depends on how you inform your list about what you'll send. If you mention them straight away you'll send a "free offer" sometimes they might understand better if you offer them value all the time otherwise. But i still sugdest only doing 1-3 ad swaps every week max.

What you can do though to swap every day and not lose the quality of your list is swap PS clicks. Here's an example:

[high quality email content]

Have a nice day,
Your Name

PS: If you're interested, here's another
great -> Free Offer (link to swap partner)

This way you can swap clicks every day and you don't jeopardise the quality of your list.