How Can I Improve My List Building For My Website?
I have had my website for almost a year now and my list building techniques stink. I know that having a targeted email list is the best way to be able to sell your products and make money, but I just can’t seem to get it right. Right now I only have about 75 names on my email list and I only see about a .25% conversion with the emails that I send out, so I am really not making that much money. Can someone point me in the right direction for a list building technique that has worked for them? Oh yea, my website sells natural beauty products if that helps any.
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December 6th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I was having the same problem as you until I read Matt Bacak’s “Powerful Promoting Tips” as well as his “Internet Marketing Dirt” which is a monthly newsletter that he sends out. It really helped me out and increased by sales by about 30%. I went from having about 50 people on my email list (for a site that was 6 months old) and now my site is about 15 months old and I have about 500 people on my email list and see a conversion of about 3% for that list.
I have heard that a conversion rate over 3% is pretty good. The way that I see it 3% of 500 is 15, so if 15 people off the list buy my product that is valued at $30 then I just made $450 off a simple email that took me 15-20 minutes to write and send. Check out http://www.mattbacak.com for more info on what helped me make more money with list building. He has tons of ideas and they are strategies that he has actually used so he knows that they bring results. They did for me.
December 6th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
75 names is not many, but even then your conversion rate should be greater than .25% anyhow.
initially you need to increase your website traffic through SEO, linking, posting articles on other sites, this will help you build the list.
as for increasing the conversion rates, the problem must be your pitch, try incentives such as 2 for 3 offers, really highlight the benefits of your products and what they can do for your customers, also checkout some of the NLP marketing stuff
December 6th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I think you must use forums in your niche. You can search for an e-mail grabber/harvester and you take mails from forums. Think before you harvest e-mails because if you get greedy and spam with mails you will get banned. For example if you want to sell children’s books you search for forums where you can find mothers and so on. For natural beauty product you find all the women forums. Think than act!