 could try a headline like Make $100-$200 a day with a simple site just like this one.
This will be unique to you as its your site and simply make a product around how you make your money.
Try take a look on this guy!
That's one good income generating website you have there. And I'm tempted to say that if it's working for you - then it's working for you and you can stick to it.
BUT, here's some food for thought.
I had a website (which has been sold now) where I was giving away a LOT of free information. It was extremely valuable content - something which my top competitors were offering only inside their PAID products.
That website had good traffic, good hop rates and good sales.
Just like you, I tried to build a list on that website and got very BAD responses as far as product sales are concerned.
I promised them certain benefits to sign up to the list and overdelivered, but still, my website was enough for them.
So the tricky part for me was to KEEP the valuable content on the website so as not to disappoint any visitor and yet have an extremely STRONG reason to opt in to my list (and stay on it).
What worked for me was taking them AWAY from my website, removing the dependency that they had on its content. Now, I still have that list and though the website is long gone (and it isn't the same as it used to be when I was running it), the subscribers give me good responses - they read, they reply, and they buy.
The way I do it is I have an opt-in offer at the top of the page AND a great offer a little further down so people who don't want a free lesson and book can purchase what I'm offering directly.
This works out very well for me since about 50% of the people who buy do so without ever getting the freebies I'm offering.
Do you mind revealing your broad niche? For example, is it health/beauty? MMO? Relationships? Hobbies? Fitness?
Also, in your emails were you revealing stuff that was already on your site? Did you redirect them BACK to your site in the follow-ups? Or did you just email them with no call to action?
Once they opt in, they just get emails with content that is different from what they read on the website. In the previous autoresponder that I had, I also told them a little story in parts in different emails. Kind of like Andre Chaperon teaches in ARM. I only direct them to my website when I have to share a video with them.
I guess the main problem here is to get them to join the list. My website gets a thousand visitors everyday. Out of them, 250-300 click to the merchant when I am directly linking to the merchant. When I set up the website for list building, I only get 60-80 opt ins per day. So, I guess I am losing somewhere around 200 visitors per day many of which might have turned out to be buyers.
Right now, I still get 200-300 hops and get around 10-20 opt ins. So, all in all, it isn't so bad.
That is some great advice from Sagar Mehta. That is what I will try to do when I think is the right time to experiment.
Let me get this right... you're sending an email every day, and you have a series of only 8 outgoing emails? So if someone hasn't bought within just over a week of opting in, you've "lost" them?!
I make more than 90% of my sales - across 8 different niches - at a later stage than that.
I know these things can vary quite a bit from niche to niche, and indeed from traffic-source to traffic-source, but I'm just saying...
Hey Alexa. I started this new list a few days back (on 21st) to test the waters. Nobody in my list has yet reached the 8th email. I will be adding more emails with time.
I know that it takes time to build relationship with them and see results.
But the thought of losing 200 visitors everyday which could have converted into sales is something I can't live with.
I will have to rethink my strategy and try to come up with a better offer to get more emails. Until then, I will let it be like this.
2) Send them to a download page for a free PDF report (you will lose all your hops).
3) Send them straight to the merchant page (it's deception because they gave you their email expecting something FREE).
Send them to a page with something valuable, like a free video page or a page with "5 secrets to..." or "The biggest 10 mistakes of.." or "The 3 first steps to..." and then, in that same page, after they read the stuff (or watch the video) PRE-SELL THEM and RECOMMEND THEM like crazy the product you're selling.
Squeeze page -> free video with preselling at the end and a buttom below that says something like "Click here to learn more". Then the button sends them to the merchant page.
Squeeze page -> page with 5 tips or 3 steps or whatever and then some hardcore pre-selling at the end of that page with at least 3 links to the merchant page.
You will lose hops but your conversion rate will INCREASE a lot if you do it well.
And then you just keep sending them cool stuff with your emails with small mini pitches at the end of every email.
Forget about Andre Chaperon and all the soap opera and open loop stuff.
If you have an opt-in rate of 25% then you should definitely try to increase it to at least 35%.
I don't think list building is crucial to succeeding on the internet. You will hear a lot of people talking about building a list. This is all "talk". I guarantee that more people have failed with email marketing than have succeeded with it. The reality is that all you need to make money online is a targeted market, not an email list. People are getting a lot of emails these days with advertisements. Most people use back up emails when they join email lists, and this leads to emails being read less. The reason why email marketing works so well for gurus is because their product launches are not going to just one list. All of their JV partners promote the product as well. I think email marketing works best when you offer physical products or services that can help people. However, if you plan on launching a brand new make millions digital ebook, there is a good chance that you won't succeed unless you have tons of people sending out your product offer to their lists.
It does indeed. But once you've built a relationship with them, of course, the value of your list increases exponentially, and they can be prospective purchasers for far more than just whatever you're promoting now... so it's really worth the effort.
Yes, I hear you there. It's an uncomfortable thought indeed. Well, nobody can fault your plan to rethink your strategy and try to come up with a better offer to get more email addresses: this is what it's all about.
And quite a lot of it's talk from people who struggled for ages, never made any money, and then eventually started list-building, started earning regularly, and have never looked back.
That's why, understandably, in so many conversations here, when people ask internet marketers "What's the one thing you wish you'd known at the start and/or had done differently?" the wise and almost universal answer from the successful Warriors is "Start building lists at an earlier stage".
This is history, not news - and the same is true of all forms of internet marketing, and for that matter all other forms self-employment, too, so it doesn't in itself signify much.
What's relevant about it, in this context, is of course that a far higher proportion of those who failed weren't building lists than is so for the proportion of those who succeeded.
I have to disagree with your statement. Like I said, email marketing works well if you are offering physical products or services. Then, it's a great choice. However, most people aren't offering that within the internet marketing industry. They are offering make millions right now within the next 5 minutes eBooks or some other related make money product. Nobody buys them anymore because they see the same stuff every day pop up in their inboxes. People always say that you need to build a "relationship" with the list to make it work. This is true. However, it is very difficult to build a relationship with someone if you plan on sending them a promotional "Make money right now with two clicks of a button" product. Your relationship will be just about worthless sooner or later. Unless, you have a way to get new subscribers consistently, there is no way you can succeed with email marketing long term by promoting digital products.
Wrong again! Building a list has nothing to do with whether you are promoting a physical product or not. It has to do with value and quality. You have to be different from everyone else. You have to go above and beyond with what your subscribers expect.  This is how you build a list of subscribers who want to buy from you.
Building a list has everything to do with providing value to the people on it. As I mentioned above, most people get involved with promoting make money products to their email lists. This isn't value. You can only promote a make money product so many times before the people on the list realize that you're just a salesman. Even if you are in the weight loss industry, promoting digital weight loss products is eventually going to stop working unless you