Comments on: Ten Steps To A Responsive Email List

By: Brian D. Hawkins

Brian D. Hawkins — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:18:42 +0000

I can see both point of views. Give something away to grow the list and some will say your list quality will suffer. Personally, I think it can be done properly without hurting the list in the right niche and when well thought out.

For example, I use to have a health product that I knew worked and worked well. I gave a free sample to let the customer try it out for themselves. Over seventy percent came back to place an order and many became long term customers. That only works if the product is good enough and renewable. A sale/coupon once in a while sent to the list would increase sales by over thirty percent on average.

With that said, I’ve tried similar techniques on other products/lists with complete failure.
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By: Email Campaigns Creator

Email Campaigns Creator — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:54:20 +0000

I read here many posts about Free bribes, somebody is agree and somebody is not.
In my opinion a good bonus is the most powerful thing in the newsletter sign-up wars. I think that it is better to give a great first order discount and even to have zero income from this order than having 0 orders in future.
So nourish and cherish your customer!

By: Neil Tortorella

Neil Tortorella — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:02:59 +0000

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By: Brian D. Hawkins

Brian D. Hawkins — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:31:26 +0000

List building truly is a tough business, but it can be very rewarding once mastered. At least that’s what I hear lol
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By: dave@home improvements

dave@home improvements — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:21:58 +0000

Thanks for the tips on building a great email list. I have been using Aweber for 3 months now and only sold one eBook through an email, and spent 40 bucks on the service (first month free), I know that it is a numbers game though and I have managed to get close to 100 niche targeted emails…just need to make it profitable, which I really suck at – at the moment.
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By: Brian D. Hawkins

Brian D. Hawkins — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:28:18 +0000

It’s true Steve, and the continuous testing and maintenance.
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By: Steve from LizardSEO

Steve from LizardSEO — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:02:40 +0000

Nice post, and good information. May new website owners think it is an extremely easy thing to build a good email list, but as this list so nicely points out, there is a lot of thought and effort that goes into a good list.

By: maxsinclair

maxsinclair — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:43:10 +0000

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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:30:13 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:25:17 +0000

Hi Tim, That’s the big debate when it come to free gifts for subscribing. I’ve offered it in the past and will probably do it again but it really can dilute the list.