I'd like to contribute to the forum by showing you exactly what I did in order to go from 0 list, 0 daily cash, and 0 clue what I was doing to making $50/day online in just a few short months... Quite simply, I built an email list, but here's what I did to make money while doing so... There is more to it than that though, and I'll share that here. Obviously you'll need some tools: 1. An autoresponder 2. A squeeze page 3. A PDF, video, or audio to give away in exchange for an email address 4. A one time offer (how to make cash) 5. A safe -swaps account (optional) To start from scratch was not easy, but it taught me alot about how email marketing works... There are several routes you can take such as buying traffic or producing products, but I had no budget for those things, so I took the free traffic route. 1. I signed up at google alerts 2. I already had a profile and signature at a popular forum (WF) 3. I built a squeeze page giving away a PDF on traffic 4. I had a one time offer related to this PDF that I sold for $7 which was more traffic strategies 5. Once I had a list of 250 people (this took me about 3 weeks) I started contacting other marketers to do ad swaps. Ad swaps You can do these just about anywhere, but if you want to go the 100% legit route, I'd suggest using safe-swaps. I didn't start that way because it wasn't around until a few years ago. The way I would find swap partners would be to contact other marketers who were emailing me and ask them. I would also review the Clickbank marketplace and contact product owners in my niche to see if they'd want to do an ad swap. I did ad swaps for the next several weeks and built my list up to over 1500 people... Next is where the money started adding up... I made a schedule! Here it is... Sunday AM - Ad swap Sunday PM - promote a product Monday AM - ad swap Monday PM - blog post with some content for my list Tuesday AM - promote product Tuesday PM - promote AM product again Wednesday AM - ad swap Wednesday PM - promote new product Thursday AM - ad swap Thursday PM - promote a different product Friday AM - ad swap Friday PM - promote product from Thursday PM Saturday AM - Weekend sale Saturday PM - Weekend sale ending For Saturday, what I would do is gather some PLR or do some interviews with other marketers, package it up in a PDF, and let them know that the weekend sale price is $7 and literally stick to it. ONLY allow people to buy it for 1 day (Saturday). If you make sure to give value to your list up front (in the giveaway you use when they first sign up) then you should be able to promote products to them quickly as they'll see you as a trusted authority in the niche. Now... here's probably something that alot of marketers won't tell you... In order to promote products every day or every other day, you need to do it in a way that solves problems. So, instead of just emailing your list and saying, hey, check out this new product, you want to say something like this... Hi, I realize that you value your time (so do I) so I wanted to share this with you because I know it will help you (whatever the product is about, make money faster, get more traffic, use wordpress better, get more pay per click traffic, get more blog traffic, etc) and then put your affiliate link My main goal is to pick through all of the junk and only provide you with the best (whatever the product is about) products available... This one is definitely recommended, check it out now... aff link To Your Success, Bryan That is the exact schedule I use and it makes an average of $50/day. Of course there are more advanced techniques to ramp this up and that is what I will be writing up to share in the days to come. I hope this is helpful to anyone reading. Thanks, Bryan
This is a great post Bryan! It is very generous of you to post this here. I especially liked your comments about selling to your list by "solving problems". Brilliant! Marketing 101. Don't sell what you think people want. Sell them what they need to solve their problems. Great post man!
Good post mate I'm going to finish reading it in the AM cause my brain is shutting down lol. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
thanks to reveal your strategy and also I like it much because it is one that does not cost you anything to try. I also think evryone can do this it is not difficult nor is it time consuming but in the long run it is profitable. Also thanks for the tip to get personal in the emails not only copy paste a swipe from a internet marketer guru.
Great job and share! Now in days with all the Google animal updates, having a targeted e-mail list is even more powerful. It's impressive you started without investing in solo ads to get your list up to the capacity needed to do swaps. I look forward to your next post with more of your strategies.
Just Brilliant, cant say more than that. But @Ibah13 I want to ask something here from you. Is this the only thing you do to promote your website?
That was a good post. It spells out a good system, and a good system is what makes money. It's why a franchise also works so well because it's a step by step system.
Great strategy. Your point about not trying to sell every time an email is sent is on target. I usually also give away something to my list every few weeks. This encourages the opening of my emails.
This is very interesting. I will definitely give this a try in the morning. How many sales did you get on your first Saturday?
Great tips! Thanks for sharing! One key point is that you need to take care of your list as you build it. So while you will send them the usual product recommendation, make sure to send them valuable information from time to time. This helps build trust with your list and makes them feel that you are not just out to sell all the time. Have a good day!
Thank you for sharing these awesome tips on how to make money online! This is very helpful for those people who are wondering what are the steps in order to be successful online.