Top 5 Ways to Monetize Your Email List rahman A majority of B2B marketers say email is the most effective channel in generating revenue. - B to B Magazine I agree! It's easy to make money from your email list. _________________________________
Sponsor: "Discover How You Can Create A 7 Figure Mobile Apps Business From The Worlds #1 Apps Master Chad Mureta. He Opens The Doors To His Complete Apps Empire System At Exactly 9.00AM Eastern Today For A Very Limited Time So Dont Miss Out!" CLICK HERE===> http://www.demc.com/apps.html _________________________________ Last week's issue began reviewing a 10 step plan on how to make your email list into a profit machine. If you missed the first five steps click here to read my previous article - How to Make Money from Your Email List Today we'll review making money from your email list even if you don't yet have any of your own products / services to sell. Here are my top 5 ways (steps 6 - 10) on making money from your email list beyond selling your own wares. Step 6: Sell paid membership subscriptions. A free email list segues easily into a paid content offering. Create a paid option for your subscribers that offers more content, more resources and further information. Be sure to include a paid members only forum. Answer customer questions and allow paid members to discuss issues with one another. Wordpress makes creating a paid members section to your web site easy. Step 7: Become an affiliate. Affiliate marketing is big business on the Internet! When you are an affiliate you sell other businesses' products / services to your audience and the merchants then pay you a commission for what you've sold. Find products / services that you like and use. Then market those items to your email subscribers. Here's a list of popular affiliate marketplaces where you can find merchants' products / services to promote: Step 8: Establish joint venture partners. When you have an engaged email list of 500 subscribers or more you can market that audience to other businesses. Reach out to other small businesses that you know and create partnerships. Offer to promote their business to your list if they'll promote your business to their list. You can also make arrangements to sell their products / services to your audience. If you have no products or just a few - with a joint venture you can easily double your product offerings. Think about who you know and start reaching out to them. The right joint venture partner can becomes your business partner. You do the emailing and they do the product development and servicing. Step 9: Sell advertising. Yes, selling advertising is one of my favorite revenue generators! When you have a responsive email list, other people are interested in sending their offers to your list. The advertiser gives you their email message to send out to your list and you send it out. You can sell solo email ad messages or you can sell advertising in your email newsletter (like the top sponsor ad at the beginning of this newsletter). I offer both types of adverting opportunities with DEMC advertising. List your newsletter in ezine directories like these to help advertisers find you - Directory of Ezines Email Results Also be sure to do a Google search for - ezine directory - and post your newsletter in as many directories as you like. Step 10: Gain expert status for personal advancement. When you develop an email list and a following of subscribers you become an expert on your subject matter. As a result of being an expert, people will come to you for advice. Your email list can result in you becoming well known in your field. Experts have money making opportunities made available to them regularly. You'll be - - Asked to be a consultant
- Requested as a speaker
- Offered enticing job opportunities
- Given a book deal
Step 11: Warning - Don't Ever Sell Your Email List! Developing an email list takes time and effort. Your subscribers trust and rely on you. As a result of your relationship you are able to make money from your list using the strategies discussed above. Whatever you do, don't break your subscribers' trust. When people sign-up for your list, they want to hear from you - not another person to whom you may have sold your list. Build your list, keep it to yourself and profit from it! ### Abbie Drew DEMC Editor Please Share Today's Issue: |