Why Should I Stay On Your List?
The reason I decided on writing this post is because I saw this thread on the infamous Warrior Forum: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/261433-what-makes-you-unsubscribe.html
Before I get into the post it is really useful to see what is going on within your niche and marketplace via forums and blogs and it can help you so much with what you marketing endeavors.
So I came across this post thanks to Kris Mainieri posting the link via Facebook. Even though the post is speaking about why others unsubscribe you want to take this on board so you can take it into your business.
So what you need to be doing is looking how many people are unsubscribing from your list each and every week. It is all good building a massive list but if people are unsubscribing then you are really starting the relationship from scratch with new subscribers all the time and you are actually not building a long-term relationship with your current subscribers.
So your main aim when it comes to listbuilding is keeping your current subscribers for as long as possible because the longer they stay subscribed, the more they learn from you which equals the more they start to respect you and the more chance of them buying from you in the future.
It is all about following trends within Internet Marketing and this is no difference you need to keep an eye on which emails are working for you i.e. whether its Open rates, CTR or unsubscribed and take note of this as if you realise you send out an email with the subject line – Payment Received: and your unsubscribe rate is through the roof! Do you think you will send out an email in the future with a similar headline? (Some how I don’t think so…)
Some of the main reasons I have found out for people hitting the unsubscribe button are as followed:
Not recognizing getting an email from you
Haven’t found value in a while
Pointless
Constant sales pitches
Misleading headline
So it comes back to the case of basically just “been yourself” and separate yourself from everyone else, don’t get me wrong not everyone is going to like you and stay subscribed that is just fact but for example if you are on Frank Kerns list you know in his email he promotes but the way he goes about it is so cool that you don’t mind it! So separate yourself from the crowd, see what others are doing and basically learn from their mistakes and I GUARANTEE your subscribers will love you for it!
Here is a great tip which can help your unsubscribe rate. What you can do is at the bottom of each email for example if you are in the golfing niche what you could easily add is:
You are receiving this email because
You signed up at www.golfingnewstips.com
So by doing this at least if your subscribers open and read your email they know exactly why they are receiving the email even if they have not heard from you in a while and they are then less likely to hit unsubscribe I have learned in the past.
This is a short post but at the same time very useful so I hope you can take it all onboard and put it into practice.
What’s Going On…
I thought it w
as only right for me to create this blog post to let you know what is actually going on in my business right now! Well as of right now I am looking to expand even further into different ventures within Internet Marketing and as you are either a customer of mine or a loyal subscriber I think that it is only right for me to keep you upto date!
Well the main thing is that we are growing, I have two products which I will be releasing before the end of the year so you should really like that! If you’ve been a part of any of my training, or webinars so far then this is gonna be even suppppperrrr betta! (If that is a phrase!)
Another thing, in the next few days I am launching a new blog! Do not worry this one isn’t going anywhere, but what I am creating is a blog which will soley be to point you in the right directions, of tools and products online, as there are so many! I want you to become as successful as possible and with this in mind I do not want you going broke before actually making any money! So I will only be recommending resources which I personally use in my business! And tell you exactly how they can help you also!
Also a few people have been asking me whether I will be doing any group training’s and it has crossed my mind! I am not sure when yet, but I fell it would be great to meet you guy’s and basically teach you face to face, in a room what is working in my business now, so watch this space for that!
I do promise to put together some more videos and webinars for you guy’s but as you know there is only 24 hours in a day 
I had kinda left this blog for a while which was poor of me, and now I have 2! :O
Last but not least, if you are a subscriber to Conquer Internet Marketing, I have not killed the magazine guys! At the time when it was started it was a great idea, but as the year has gone on it has been hard to juggle the magazine along with everything else. The magazine will be “hibernating” for a few months, until after my product releases which I will let you know the dates for nearer the time!
I don’t want to bore you much longer! Also if you are a subscriber of mine I have something very special for you, which could change how you take on Internet Marketing and start to make more money than you are making now so do look out for that!
As usual I wanna here your thought’s! Just drop a comment below…
Have you got a F.O.O.T problem?
Yes I haven’t gone completely crazy! (Yet) and I am speaking about Internet Marketing, not a problem that you’re going to have to go see your doctor about so don’t sweat!
What I am actually speaking about is a great problem you should have within Internet Marketing and that is Focus On One Thing. Pretty neat right? But it is so true! It mainly is something that newbie’s have the problem with coping with but still occurs sometimes with us experienced marketers.
For a totally newbie to Internet marketing, the Internet is a whole new world, and there are so many different roads to take to start making money online! But we are only human and we can only fully focus on one thing at a time! So with IM the list is endless on how you can make money online, whether its product creation, affiliate marketing, continuity programs, CPA etc, the list goes on and people don’t believe me when I tell them you can actually make money online!
Then to top that off there are many ways to also get traffic (Because with out traffic we have nothing!) i.e. video marketing PPC, Social Marketing, Facebook Ads and again the list goes on and on.
So the thing is what exactly do you choose and how?
What I say is you find someone who is actually making money online, now you do not need to know them personally or hire them as a mentor etc but actually follow them and see what they are doing. So if this were me, I would pick a guru within Internet Marketing who I really respect and see exactly what they are doing!
So how would you would start.
As you can imagine everyone has to start somewhere that is the truth and the guru’s I the game now are no different! Also what you have to take into consideration what a marketer was doing maybe 10 years does not always apply to now, for example a few years ago Google AdWords would have been most marketers portal to riches online but not today because of the Google slap blah blah (You know the rest)
But with the power of Google, what I would do is type in the Guru who:
- I respect within internet Marketing
- I know they make serious money online
Have you ever heard the saying if you hang around with the rich you become wealthy or if you hang around with the poor you become poor… The saying actually is true its all to do with mindset etc, but we will come to that another day. So am guessing what you want is to be rich right? Who doesn’t! So what we would do is go over to our trusty friend Google and get our thinking caps on…
So what I would so is I would want to type in a Guru who fits the criteria (Which is not hard to find guys,) so for example I would type in Ryan Deiss as I have learnt a lot from him personally, obviously choose whoever you think is suitable for you.
So I would go to Google and what do you know all these pages. So what I would do is I would list down what I see Ryan doing so for example (Do this now if you want) on Google I see Total Access club which I know Is a membership site, I see an opt in page called social media matrix and so on.
So I would go through a few pages of Google and see not what I can copy but what I can use in my business, so maybe already am thinking, I need to have a membership site within IM or I need to have multiple squeeze pages etc, as I can see Ryan doing this and the truth is, if it was not working for him he would still not have them up on Google its that simple and so on.
So now already you have a focus, you also have a role model within Internet Marketing which I believe is the most important thing of all. So now you have done this you would then decide, what is X Guru doing to make the most money, fro example sake again, what I would do is opt in to the guru’s list and monitor what they send me, whether its products to buy etc, and go into detail at looking at the prices why they are recommending them etc
So I have now figured out that the best way to start would be by creating a membership site, then creating my own products, then going into building my list and selling affiliate products to that list.
So now you have a focus you know exactly what you want to do, and what I say is do not worry about what all the other guru’s are releasing etc, only focus on buying or learning from that one person, obviously in some cases you won’t be able to pay the price that they are offering on their products but the saying I use is “Watch what they do, not what they sell” you will learn a lot more from just watching how they sell etc in most cases, than actually what you will get from buying their product!
So go find you guru, start stalking them and then you will start to develop the all-important F.O.O.T Problem
