Miakiru - thanks for the explanations - I looked at futureclicks.net. It looks like you know exactly what you are doing! Does it work? What is your conversion rate? Do you capture many visitors? What do you do with them once they are yours? Peter
Well mostly I just want people to continue to read my blog. Most of my posts have comments, but I haven't really set up a list or anything... Plus my blog isn't very searchable T_T;; I only got visitors through the feed on this site (and I just sold my feed for a month to another member), as well as a few directories. Paid $10 and had my blog submitted to 1,111... as far as the stuff I'm advertising, I hadn't had any conversions through that... Revenue is only about $10/mth through adsense, so I'm thinking about selling. xD
Miakiru - that doesn't sound too good! I am sorry.. I have a niche blog-type publisher marketing site that has been going for around 5 years and if you type in any of the major key words such as Subscriptions Marketing or suchlike it comes up in the top few if not at the top. That is www.subscriptionsstrategy.co.uk But it is very niche so I have accumulated just 500 registrants who I sell various services to. I have another www.wizardwordz.com and this sells a sales letter wizard -- do it yourself sales letter generator. I have found if I don't post regularly, it starts dropping on the google pages. I have collected 5,000 names through Adwords and sell them the wizard. The other sites I do consultancy for: so they are clients. I write copy to bring in new and repeat business. That is my major source of income because as a marketing copywriter I am one of the top in the UK and my email messages usually pull in around twice as much as any other copy. So I charge around $1400 a day for doing that. But to be honest, it is not easy finding clients so I wait for them to find me. Most publishers in the UK don't understand marketing. Life goes on .. Peter
Whikis - these days, we try hard to convert visitors. We have many techniques to accomplish this. It's a measure of success. But as far as the converted visitors are concerned, there is no pressure really, just benefits and he or she can easily 'unsubscribe' with current responsible auto-responder systems. What is surprising is so few website I look at try, are any good at, capturing names - which is what leads to repeat business. It's like someone going into a restaurant or shop and not being expected nor encouraged to return! What kind of business person does that? We are all on this forum involved in direct marketing - but the cost of entry is now so low (a website is cheap to set up) that the net is filled like a waste bin and we just do not have the time to find anything any good. The World Wide Waste bin. Peter
I am in the "website traffic building niche" and I send people to a squeeze page to get names and emails. While I have a variety of sites, I generally convert around 30% of my visitors to subscribers to my free newsletter. In addition to this I use email marketing via an autoresponder to send tips out and mix in the occasional offer. This leads me to have around a 5% conversion ration for sales. I am in affiliate marketing, so I feel this is pretty good. So: 30% subscribe to my email list and 5% buy something from me
Mlord - yes, if you are converting 5% of leads into sales with email promotions you are doing really well, better even than most direct mail! The product we sell on my main client's site costs around $65 a year subscription. The very best we have done is converting 1.45% of emails opened into sales. That is regarded as almost unbeatable - and is, so far. Could be the niche has a lot to do with it .. Peter
That us good business. The target is probably to lift the number of visitors to the site, without having to pay for them? Pete