Hi! I just join more than 1000 yahoo groups that are allowing to post me... Can anybody guide me the best way to use these Yahoo groups for marketing purpose in less time... I can open each group seperetly to post, this can give a lot of time.... Can anybody tell me the way to post with single mail to all the groups. thanks
I am sorry to say but you have made a wrong move. You can get targeted traffic and do excellent marketing using yahoo groups. But 1000 groups is not my choice of doing it. I would suggest you to concentrate on 10-15 groups of your niche and promote.
I was planning on starting a thread on this topic so I'll just do it here instead. You can't post to multiple groups at once, but this makes posting much, much easier. How to market on Yahoo! groups You'll need: - Firefox - the clippings extension - a Yahoo! account The clippings extension allows you to store multiple bits of text, or clippings, and insert them into web forms via right-click. It's like having multiple clipboards. What to do: 1. Install the clippings extension. 2. Open Firefox and go to your clippings manager. 3. Create 5 new clippings. (Link title, Link description, Link URL, Message title, Message body) It should look like this The link title text should be the title of your site, link description is the description, url is the url (minus the http://), message title is the title of the message to post to the group, message body is the message itself. I usually start the message body with the URL of the site (including http://) for reasons I'll get to in a bit. This may seem like a lot of work, but once you have the extension installed and you do practice on a few groups, it's a breeze. 5. Once you have your clippings filled out, find groups to "market" to. The group doesn't even need to be remotely related to the subject you're marketing because you want to aim for the same demographic of users. If your website is targeted toward young men, look for any group that young men may be members of etc. Also, you'll find bigger groups by browsing the group categories rather than searching. 6. After finding a group, check out a couple things before bothering to register: - Does the navigation on the left include "Links"? If not, you won't be able to post your link. That's one strike. Even if you do see Links, you still might not be able to post yours, but the possibility is there. - Does it look like messages are being posted by the same person(the group owner)? Or are there messages by lots of people? If the messages are all by the owner, they probably don't let anyone else post so that's strike two. If it's a large group, all I look for is the ability to either post my link or a message. If it's obvious I can't do either, there's no use in registering. 7. Assuming you've found and joined a group with lots of members that either lets you post links, messages or both, time to start marketing. Go into the links section and, if you can, create a new folder. If you can't post links, skip this step. This is where clippings start to come into play. Right-click in the link title box and go to your clippings in the pop-up menu and click on your link title. It should appear in the title box as if you've pasted it. Do the same thing with the descriptions and URLs. I usually create a link folder that contains my link and then add my link to the general list of links. 8. If you can post messages and they're not screened by the owner (on the posting screen, you will see a message if the messages are being screened or not), Go ahead and use your clippings in the right-click menu to pop in your message title and body then send the message. 9. Repeat steps 5 through 8. Each group only takes 20-30 seconds once you get the hang of it. In case you're wondering about the effectiveness of posting messages in groups, it's not very effective at all. But during this process, you're not just posting a message, you will also have emailed thousands and thousands of people in the process. If you'll notice during the group registration process, Yahoo! asks how you want to receive messages and the default option is by email. Many people either don't see that or want to receive messages by email so every time a message is posted in the group, it gets mailed out to those members. The reason I mentioned starting messages with your link in step 3 is so that these email messages will have your link in the preview area of their email program (assuming they have previews on). This means they can sometimes click through to your site without even opening the email, making the process of getting to your site that much quicker and easier. So, that's how to take advantage of Yahoo! Groups. I don't even think of them as groups anymore, they're really like big mailing lists just sitting there for the taking. I've used this method for several websites over the past year and it does work very well in getting traffic to your site. If people like what they see, you'll have repeating traffic too. I mentioned one of my blogs in another thread that is still getting hundreds of unique visitors per day after a year of inactivity and I used this Yahoo! Groups marketing technique to market that blog a year ago. It got thousands of unique hits per day following my marketing blitz and I'm guessing the majority of loyal readers came from that same batch.
I wouldn't do as Cesay described. People don't expect to be marketed there (except from the list owner), so you have to do 2 step here. Here's a simple way you can build your own list from groups. First you want to start posting in some of the biggest groups you selected. Be regular for a few days and make a handful of replies. Make quality replies, not spam. If you can do it for longer, the better. Then create a short report on most pressing problems of your niche. Then write casually to the group saying you just wrote a quick report on how to solve 10 biggest problems while doing X. Give them your website link. People go there, and they find a forced opt-in. They opt-in and only then get a report. There's your list!
That's good advice Lucid. Personally, I would give that a try to begin with. But 1,000 groups. . .Wow! How will you manage them all??? Your inbox is going to kill you! ^_^
there is an easier way from all this , simply put them in a text file and add them one by one to your yahoomail's address book , and start sending from your account to about 40 groups at the time .
Wow, this is SPAM man... The best way to do this is locate those big group related to your niche subject and email the group owners but make sure you select about 10 largest group related on your niche and send an email to the group owner to offer him a very good affiliate incentive or offer him something attractive to make him want to promote your product to his/her list on the group. Repeat for few more similar group and look for the result, if it giving a good feedback then continue to approach more group owners.
what i understand from that they are unmoderated groups (1000 !) , and is using your yahoomail for sending is spam ??
The problem is that we get a lot of emails after joining the groups. How to avoid that? Lastly my friend told me that he has around 60K mails in his yahooo account.