First Stab at Building a List
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With my focus being primarily on PPV I felt it natural to at least try out building a list for a long term asset which I could actually rely on rather than hit and miss campaigns. I chose a niche based on various recommendations, emails and my own input how to go about actually getting cheap enough opt ins in a pretty general niche.
I had the PPV campaign running for about 4-5 days and it was an absolute rollercoaster, the very first day actually turned a good profit off the bat so not only was a building up emails they were converting on the very first offer I presented to them instantly after opting in.
I launched this on a Thursday/Friday afternoon, I can’t remember exactly but the campaign did shockingly bad sucking up all of the profit and pushing me into the red about $60. Spend was the same, optins were down and had 0 conversions each day so that got me worried a little. Thinking it maybe the weekend I let it run another couple of days just to see if things would pick up, on Monday it ran at a slight loss again but the optin rate was back up so at least I was getting something for my money.
These were the stats for those days, I have paused it to try and concentrate on the emails I had to see if I could do anything with them because I didn’t know what to expect:
Spend: $255
Revenue: $167
Optins: 132That 132 is the number I have at this minute after a bunch of them have unsubscribed throughout the period. I have a total of 5 follow up messages pretty much being every other day, I was keen to see how those turned out and add some more to the list so that I have the best chance to get into the black and make some profit from them.
Today has seen a number of conversions from the auto responder taking the overall income to $235, leaving me just $20 in the red.
I’m hoping to report back over the next few days saying that the list has turned a profit, once this has happened I’ll probably turn it back on and allow it to gather more emails as I know 130~ is really low but it’s a start.













October 20, 2010 at 8:43 pm
If you manage to keep those 130 subscribers for a long period of time they will most probably generate you more revenue in the near future.
What sort of niche are you building this list in?
Great blog btw =)
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Richard Reply:
October 21st, 2010 at 12:11 am
Yeah it would be good to build up the list which I could easily do just unpausing it but I want to see what the reaction is I get from the follow ups first.
It’s in the financial niche
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October 20, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Hey Richard, thanks for sharing the numbers. It will be interesting to see how it performs over the next few days.
Like pretty much everything else in online marketing it will take time to get your list building program humming along and really efficient. The best thing is that a strong list is a great long-term marketing asset, so even if it isn’t profitable right out of the gate, it will keep generating revenue for you down the road.
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October 21, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Building a list via PPV is easy as hell. Sometimes its tough to really monetize it well though. Looks like yours is doing great so far. Keep up the good work!
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NegBoc Reply:
October 28th, 2010 at 1:36 am
I got very similar numbers doing offers and signups on a different niche also with PPV . Interesting.
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October 21, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Cool study!
How are you getting emails? You should vary the ways you gather them.
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Richard Reply:
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Yeah I plan on testing that next week. At the moment I’m just popping the opt in form on ppv through different angles (1 mainly that’s getting traffic)
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October 21, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Awesome! Once you break even, everything is profit after that.
Keep us posted!
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Richard Reply:
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Cheers
that’s the plan.
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October 25, 2010 at 10:27 pm
I tried some list building ideals myself and it is not as easy as the videos and instructions would have you believe. I am not using paid advertising like yourself, so getting sign-ups isn’t as easy. Maybe I should look at this option.
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November 20, 2010 at 12:48 am
The money is in the list! Keep it up!
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November 29, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Great read, still looking forward to an update on this as list building is something I’m getting in to myself!
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March 13, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Good post, let’s us know how you make out. You might want to change the frequency of your e-mails so you don’t get many spam accusations.
Here is a great video on some models you can use to monetize your list: http://www.joey-smith.com/listbuilding/
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