Emailing list and emailing your promotions/ offers- What is % success rate of getting sales from email marketing? Also do you build your own emailing list over time from existing/old customers or do you buy email lists? How effective are email lists purchased from others?
Never buy email list! The sold list of people would be like "huh?? Who are you??" And hit the spam button. I find that the people that I build relationship with convert much higher than all the other people on my list. Some of the people on my list do not take action for over 3 months. Some people will never buy anything period. That is all part of the game.
The % of sales you get from an email list is totally dependenton how targeted it is to your products. I advice you not to buy email lists, they convert bad and some times they are illegal.
I agree with above, email lists are overly used and usually many are abandoned email accounts. Email marketing can be effective if you are able to obtain email address through your own database may be a forum, membership based sites, your contacts.
Slowly build up your own list. It might take several weeks, months, years, but in the end, it is your own list of people who you can build relationships with.
Don't waste your money on buying email lists because many of these emails could be wrong, deleted, or old. So all of those would be no use to you.