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Managing A 1 Million Subscriber List

by bogumil
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i have a email list of approximately 1 million people who are loyal followers of mine, and i want to find an effective and inexpensive way to contact them. i find that sending a news letter to a list that big is just way too expensive with services like icontact or aweber. anyone know of good and inexpensive alternatives? thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author imontie
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  • Profile picture of the author bogumil
    last time i was considering going with aweber they wanted to charge me over 1200 per month.
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  • Profile picture of the author JayMartins
    So that's $1 for every 833 subscribers.. not THAT bad.
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    • Profile picture of the author BrashImpact
      ummm...... AWEBBER what are u waiting for ? U could be doing 100k JVs like
      Steve said. Spend it too make it, i have products for JV's. Put that sucker on
      Awebber like Yesterday. i wouldnt even be thinking twice

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  • Profile picture of the author CurtisN
    Something tells me those leads were bought or somehow acquired in bulk. If someone had the skill to acquire a million subscribers, they would've subscribed to an autoresponder service like Aweber long ago and would be making ridiculous amounts of cash in any niche.

    Also, could you please explain what you mean by "loyal followers of mine"?
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    • Profile picture of the author Adeel_Chowdhry
      Originally Posted by CurtisN View Post

      Something tells me those leads were bought or somehow acquired in bulk. If someone had the skill to acquire a million subscribers, they would've subscribed to an autoresponder service like Aweber long ago and would be making ridiculous amounts of cash in any niche.

      Also, could you please explain what you mean by "loyal followers of mine"?
      Hit the nail on the head.
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  • Profile picture of the author babarapho
    How did you get the list. To get a list up to this, that means you must have been using an autoresponder. As you have said 1200 is not bad with Aweber. With your 1million list you could have been making lots of cash every month that would have covered this cost.
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  • Profile picture of the author bogumil
    I actually never used any of the email lists companies like Aweber. I used software installed on my websites and gotten the email from people who wanted to sing up for my health newsletter. The problem with this software is that it takes forever to email the newsletter to a large number of people because you must break them down into small groups.
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  • Profile picture of the author EmailMarketing101
    I can help you, and it will only cost you $7.00 US. Please send me a message.
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    • Profile picture of the author suhail3007
      do u do email marketing ?
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  • Profile picture of the author EmailMarketing101
    better yet email me at andpro111@yahoo(.)com
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  • Profile picture of the author ebusinesstutor
    Originally Posted by bogumil View Post

    i have a email list of approximately 1 million people who are loyal followers of mine, and i want to find an effective and inexpensive way to contact them. i find that sending a news letter to a list that big is just way too expensive with services like icontact or aweber. anyone know of good and inexpensive alternatives? thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author rodcook
    I agree with Etutor Above

    Host Gator Server account for Bandwidth and set up php mail script you can get someone on here one of techie boards for less than a $100. Now if you get complaints you have to keep your IP addresses cleaned up that can be time consuming. With 1 million email you will have complaints I guarantee.
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  • Profile picture of the author bogumil
    Thanks for all the help guys.

    Has anyone ever tried this software:
    Bulk Mailer | Email Sender | Fast Mail Software
    It sounds really good and I am thinking of buying it. From what I been reading about it, it seems like it would be a very effective and economical way to keep in touch with my large list.

    With in the next 2 years I will be releasing a lot of different fitness products like my online fitness e-book(www.absiq.com), a physical diet book which will be published and sold at all major book stores in North America and UK, and a new home workout DVD so I am trying find the best ways to utilize my list to drive massive sales of all my fitness products.

    Thanks!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author EmailMarketing101
    Yes that product works! I have a product similar to it. Just make sure your the program can act as its own mail server.
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  • Profile picture of the author Martha Richardson
    Find a company that offers email list hosting using Lyris software. Lyris is geared to handle large lists like this. With a list your size, they may need to put you on a dedicated server. Yes, it will cost, but you get what you pay for, and proper hosting for one's list, especially of this size, is nothing to go the bargain basement route with.

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  • Profile picture of the author bogumil
    thanks for all the tips gang. keep it coming!
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  • Profile picture of the author Asura
    I have a dedicated server for sending emails. Let me know if you are interested.
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  • Profile picture of the author racky
    Well best Way to do that to use thing anonymous Account.

    We can handle that.............

    Let me know If your are intersted.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cphelan
    Do not have enough posts to start a thread, figured I would post here.

    I am currently managing the launch of a product. While trying to recruit a friend of mine as a JV, he did not have time to promote, instead sent me a zip file containing over a million email address's.

    Not sure if there is anything I can do with this. Not sure how he got it, dont believe it is an opt-in list.

    Looking for advice on this. The list of emails pertains to the niche I am going after.

    Any suggestions are appreciated.

    Thanks,

    -C
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    • Profile picture of the author Martha Richardson
      Originally Posted by Cphelan View Post

      Do not have enough posts to start a thread, figured I would post here.

      I am currently managing the launch of a product. While trying to recruit a friend of mine as a JV, he did not have time to promote, instead sent me a zip file containing over a million email address's.

      Not sure if there is anything I can do with this. Not sure how he got it, dont believe it is an opt-in list.

      Looking for advice on this. The list of emails pertains to the niche I am going after.

      Any suggestions are appreciated.

      Thanks,

      -C
      Hey C, that's GREAT if you're ready to start your new career as a spammer. Of course, there ARE laws against it, so your new profession could be short lived.

      Seriously, why would you think it could possibly be okay to email to addresses that did not optin to receive it?

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      • Profile picture of the author Cphelan
        Originally Posted by Barry Richardson View Post

        Hey C, that's GREAT if you're ready to start your new career as a spammer. Of course, there ARE laws against it, so your new profession could be short lived.

        Seriously, why would you think it could possibly be okay to email to addresses that did not optin to receive it?

        Barry
        Thanks for your sarcasm.
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        • Profile picture of the author Martha Richardson
          Originally Posted by Cphelan View Post

          Thanks for your sarcasm.
          You're welcome, but I think YOU'RE being sarcastic now. I could have flatly said, "That would be a stupid idea", but I thought my original reply was more entertaining. Regardless, it WOULD be spamming.

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  • Profile picture of the author Cphelan
    Do not have enough posts to PM yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author benjihull
    Was trying to get bogumil to pm me.... for a possible deal.
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    • Profile picture of the author bogumil
      Originally Posted by benjihull View Post

      Was trying to get bogumil to pm me.... for a possible deal.



      Hi There!!!! PM Sent!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author kameek_bala
    Nothing problem i have autoresponder with one time investment i will give the details after that you will be have your own name responders.Can we have a JV
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  • Profile picture of the author iAffiliateMan
    Did you just copy/paste a text email creative?
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  • Profile picture of the author iAffiliateMan
    Bogumil,

    I'm curious. If you are indeed mailing to that many people (even slowly), how is it that you have not accumulated enough to cover the start-up cost with a company like AWeber?

    I do understand the desire not to move a list to AWeber, because it forces the subscribers to re-opt-in. I believe iContact allows you to move lists in without re-opting in. However, I don't believe they are very cheap, and they will ask questions, but as long as you obtained these subscribers using legal, white-hat methods, you should have no problem with those.

    In any case, I'd say they are a good bet. Another would be List Marketer, but they're expensive as well.

    You'll get what you pay for.
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    • Profile picture of the author rickdearr
      I have experience with iContact and a large list (600K+) if they have not heard from you in awhile you will get spam complaints. iContact will work with you to resolve those, you will need to fill out a form with IP they signed up from, time date etc... if your original system did have all that info you would be fine going with iContact. (You will be paying each time
      you mail, but as someone else noted, you should be making enough on each mailing to more than cover the cost of the mailing.)

      I have looked at other dedicated mailers in the $5K plus per month that take care of all the list cleaning and keeping on the white side.

      You may want to try the dedicated mailer of your own for a short time to get the cashflow going then switch over to one that handles all the cleanup etc... later.

      Good luck,

      Rick
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  • Profile picture of the author FrontLineMentor
    I thought you bought the list but you built the list?
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  • Profile picture of the author NixTheNews
    Dude,

    Start marketing to 50K to 100K of your list. Get some funds together from that and then GO TO ALL 1,000,000. At least ramp up to that. If they are really "buyers," you have a GOLDMINE!!
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  • Profile picture of the author thinkrich
    If this is a genuine posting and all information is correct, then
    Bogumil should be aiming to generate at least $1 per month off
    every subscriber.

    This means that, if legit, then they should be making...

    ...wait for it...

    ONE MILLION DOLLARS PER MONTH!

    Where do I sign?
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    i have an offer for you .
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  • Profile picture of the author Ashley Wright
    I don't mean to be rude but if you getting 1mil of subscribers, £1200 is a great investment as like a few members have said you should be able to convert them figures into some serious cash
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  • Profile picture of the author audio90
    with that many subscribers, you will get attrition when you ask them to re-opt in again with a new service.

    However, how good are these leads with your software? did they opt in to begin with, is it easy for them to opt out, are many of the emails active, is your email not being seen as they're hitting spam filters?

    I had similar problems until I went with aweber. I used software to email out.
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  • Profile picture of the author BigCashDetective
    They have newsletter management scripts you can buy which will slowly email everything, to not set off spam filters...although a lot of it still does get flagged as spam
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