3 Quick Ways To Make Your Opt-in Email Marketing More Profitable
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You finally realize the value of a good opt-in email marketing list. After reading many articles and blogs on the subject and read countless success stories of people who make money online for free with opt-in email marketing lists you have finally decide to build one of your own. Then you come to realize that you thought you knew everything there was to know about opt-in email marketing lists and have followed the guru’s advice to the letter and you still are not able to make money online.
In fact, you might even be losing money. You might have found that even if you have a big opt-in email marketing list, only a very small percentage actually buy from you and you are not making the money that you thought you would. Being able to make money online for free has alluded you.
You chose a topic that is popular and you just knew was going to rocket past all sales records ever set, but you find yourself wondering why that didn’t happen. The most common mistake people make is simply diving in without a plan or a clue. Simply having an opt-in email marketing list and writing to them regularly does not mean you will sell them all on the first try.
For those who have started an opt-in list and have failed to realize a profit from it, there is hope to turn things around. You can make your opt-in email marketing list very profitable by adding a few twist to your approach. Following are 3 very simple ways or approaches to take to build a profitable opt-in list.
1) Get your prospects to first trust you. If all you do all the time is throw pitches at them, they will leave you in droves. Prepare their minds to be receptive to what you have to say by providing valuable information that they will find useful. Write about things that you are familiar with and let them have this information for free. If you don’t know all there is to know about a topic, there are all kinds of resources on the internet to help you get up to speed fast in your efforts to make money online for free. Give information for free that offers solutions to their problems. Doing this will set you up as an “expert.” You value to your reader increases with every single bit of useful information that you give away.
2) Join forums and make meaningful comments on competing sites. If your comments are helpful to others you will gain respect and a following from other members. Be sure to have a link to your site in your by line for people who like and appreciate what you have to say to follow to your site. Never be shy about asking other forum users to join your opt-in email marketing list.
3) Provide solutions to a problem or challenge that your readers will likely have. Most people are surfing and looking around on the internet for things that will help them. If you are the one offering solutions via your opt-in email marketing list, whether that is some product or a service, they are more likely to not only subscribe to your site, but become a customer as well. Remember, facts tell, solutions sell.
The certain truth is, the money will only flow when and if your subscribers believe and trust in you. They want a product or service that will be a worth the money. People are not going to buy something from your recommendation if they don’t know and trust you.
There is one axiom of marketing that you should keep foremost in your mind. It is very simple really, “Pain Sells.” People are very motivated to avoid pain. Do your research with this in mind and you will strike oil in that well. One of the most effective ways I have found to help people avoid pain is to offer them a way to make money online for free.
You can not look at list building as an overnight way to lots of sales. There are the lucky few who do find that, but for the rest of us it is a building process to grow your opt-in email marketing list to something that is large and profitable. By making sure that you are always providing valuable content to your subscribers your relationship will change from curiosity to trust and respect. That is when you will find your sales growing if you are offering them products or services that provide solutions to their challenges.
July 28, 2008 by Daniel Hatcher
Filed under Email Marketing



