As an experiment, over the past couple days I created a simple website, signed up for aweber, and last night I started sending traffic to my website using Adwords... So... after the first day in business, here are my results: Website visitors: 15 (all via Adwords) Opted in to my list: 4 (plus one more who opted in and then out again) Spent on Adwords: $3.54 I know the numbers are way too small to say I see any trends, but I'm kind of impressed that almost 1/3 of my visitors opted in. Now I've just got to find something to email them! I have no idea what is normal or what to compare this to. What is a typically a good opt-in rate? Thanks.
I don't know what your selling but I hope some of the people opting in to your list are being presold to buy something, because if you aren't ready to get some conversions from them then you are going to end up pretty far in the red pretty quickly
Not preselling anything in particular yet. It's just an educational experiment so far, but I'm sure I can come up with something. But then you might become my competition So anyway, is a 1/3 opt in rate considered good? or bad?
That's really good opt-in rate.. But yeah, wait for more visitors to get the bigger picture. And to improve the conversion test different kinds of opt-ins (change headline, change text, change colours etc) Keep up the good work, if you'll continue on like that you'll have a big list in no-time.
Are you offering them a gift to opt in ? That can increase the opt-in rate substantially. Rebtl has a good point though, if those people arent being presold and setup for buying pretty quickly you will spend a lot on PPC, hosting, aweber and the like before you can turn a profit. I guess the key will be how well those that opt'ed in convert to sales when you try.
spending $3 for 15 visitors is really a waste of money... Why doingthe promotion by yourself and spend nothing? There's alotto tutorials in this forum..all youneed is perseverance and hard work..
That's average. Proabably above average, since most do not like squeeze pages. Are you sure they are all legitimate e-mail addresses?
A free 5-page report on how to do something. Actually, you have no clue if it is a waste of money or not. It all depends on the industry and what you get your visitors to do after they click. It works out to $0.20 per click - nothing wrong with that in itself! Sorry but I can't make any sense of that. Yes. I'm using Aweber which uses a double opt-in system. As of now I'm at 43 clicks and 10 opt ins (net after 1 opt out) - which is a 23% opt in rate. Now I'm going to work on optimization and finding some sort of product (perhaps an affiliate product) to sell. Any suggestions (from successful experienced people) on how to find a product and how to effectively sell to lists, or where I can find that sort of information?
Since most people back out of a squeeze page, I'm still trying to figure out why you would even continue using it. Anyway, good luck with it.
Be careful. If you spam them with your first email, your list will quickly dwindle to zero. It is one thing to build a list. It is a whole other game to get them to stay on your list after sending for first mailing. Another thing to consider, of those that do stay, your next chalenge will be to get them to open your email, if it even gets past spam filters. Some say a decent open rate is 25%. So after spam filters and taking into account the avg open rate, I would guess that only 2 of your 10 subscribers will even read your email on average. So as you can see, there is a lot more to consider when comparing dollars to subscribers.