So, I decided to set up an entire page for me to handle my list a little bit better. Well, its more of a new list, because I am taking a couple of my lists, combining them, and sending them all a message to join this new newsletter. Its called GoldenLeaflet.com. It is going to be a weekly newsletter of the MMO niche and I will be sending work at home opportunities to my subscribers every week. I am going to be selling slots for these weekly messages. I will review the product and page myself first. I think this will help MMO vendors if they want to get their site out there, and help affiliates if they want to keep up on what new products are coming out. (Although websites like nichejunky and cb-analytics do this very well also.) When I'm done transferring my lists, I should have over 50,000 subscribers. These are subscribers that actually willingly subscribed to GoldenLeaflet knowing it will be sending work at home opportunities to their emails, so I know they will be highly responsive. I am eventually hoping to make some money from MMO vendors helping them to promote their prelaunches and products. Please give me your opinion on the look of the page and this overall idea.
I don't mean to bump this but I would like some feedback. If I had over 50,000 subscribers, how much could I charge for a vendor to put his ad in my newsletter?
Let me get this straight. You have access to third party lists, when you email them they will never have heard of you or your content, thus potentially looking spammy by default, you have to transfer/re-optin 50K subs, your deliverability is probably low if you're not using aweber/getresponse, and on top of all that you want to monetize lil' adspots in the newsletter... Let's assume a 20% CTR on the links in the newsletter. That's 10K clicks spread around throughout however many links/ads you might have. I think this is being extremely generous on a cold list that is being pitched weekly with the same stuff packaged in different ways. I wouldn't pay squat for it. Another reason is this - if you own a lucrative list of 50K, why the fuck are you not absolutely killing it on your own? I would NEVER sell or let ANYONE in on that if it was my list, unless... well unless I knew there was risk, it was a cold list, it was UNresponsive, it was too general, yadda yadda... N.
1st Damn, okay, well the people I am emailing are subscribers to my current website, and have been let known about my new newsletter. This is not "spammy" what so ever. 2nd About your question as to why I'm not using it to make money myself. I was thinking about doing that. I'm kind of new to this, I have always been a vendor and have never tried to promote other's products. The entire reason I'm doing this is to set up for my new product I am about to release, which in case means the only reason I am doing this is for myself. I just thought it was an idea to sell a spot. But now that I think of it I guess it doesn't make much sense, because if I wanted to I could just promote as an affiliate and earn the commissions. 3rd.. I am also new to this forum, I never understand why almost every time someone posts, some punk smart ass like yourself has to give some shit talking response, thanks for the advice you could have left out the attitude. I'm on my way up and I will be a top vendor on Clickbank within the next year. I know this. I guess when my post count gets higher I will earn more respect from people here on DP. Until then I'll just keep making my money and keep learning so that I can make more money. I'm at 6 figures going for 7 by the end of 2010.
1. Ok that's better then, sounded like you were 'acquiring' lists. 2. If you're not sure how to monetize it and you never have before, you should let a smart ass like me help you I DO have experience with lists much bigger than that, of various capacity (buyers, free optins, newsletter, etc). 3. In time, you will learn to appreciate that the seniors will give it to you straight, no sidetracking or agenda's. I have nothing to benefit here other than trying to make you see this from my point of view, and not to sound like an asshole but my point of view counts. Trying to be as realistic with you as possible in this scenario. 4. In time, you will also learn that for the most part DP is full of... well you'll see. Sorry for the attitude, marketing is rarely full of unicorns and rainbows, I'll try to take it easy on you next time. The ad spots won't be worth anything until you do a few blasts and can gage some data. N. PS - you're welcome for being the only person to respond, after you bumped your own..
OK, NC Well thank you for the advice and i appreciate your good response to my over-irate response to your first response..... if that makes sense ...... anyway I'll keep workin on my goals and keep watchin dp. Thanks a lot and I appreciate any body's feed back that has anything to do with my stretch to success.