CPA Offers List and Own Offers List-How I Manage My Lists
Below is a brand new clickbank account i set up 7th-Jan 2012, then sent
an email blast sent to it. No PPC, or PPV cost involved, so its 100% profit.

My lists comprise of 3 types of list.
1. CPA list
- hit and run type of list. consumer type products,
Since i have no control over the offers or its quality, its hard to build any loyalty
with a CPA list, tuned to freebies and free trials.
When i find a high converting CPA offer, i will blast it out to this list.
2. Prospecting list - people that can grow into my customer list. I don't
send CPA offers to them. Only offers i have control over to ensure the quality.
3. Customer list - people that bought from me. niche, and always buy.
Some go into monthly rebills because they tried and like the product, and they
sign up a monthly package. This very important list, i may even call them up
to ask how they are doing.
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Prospecting and Customer List
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For Prospecting and Customer List, its important to take care of the list
which results in significant open rates and click thru rates.
When my lists emails a questions.
- reply will be "let me make a video for that". because a 2 min video can explain
things so much clearer then a 5 page report. once that video is done, it will be
blasted out to the entire list. and then a link to the video will be added to
the autoresponder. videos are made quickly with camtasia.
When I receive a number of similar questions, and it seems there is a
need for that.. I will create an info product for it. (and maybe later on
look for physical products)
-High quality products require work, but it lowers the refund rate SIGNIFICANTLY.
The new product will be blasted out to the list for initial sales...
and then a link to this new product is added to existing sales funnel, for passive sales.
The benefits of cultivating your own list and being a mini advertiser, the income
becomes stable and it grows like a little money tree. Nurture it in the
beginning and it will blossom to a very nice healthy stable income.
Not to mention when adwords or facebook accounts go down, ads get retro
disapproved and traffic stops, having email traffic as a backup plan is a lifesaver.
Update: 19th Jan 2012
here's a trend on how stats look like 11 days afterward.
another piece of intel, this list is about 65,000. Focused Group.

Good stuff.
Got any email marketing stuff on how to convert/nurture your prospects into buyers?
aweber? or are you using a diff esp?
Yep Sherman is right I was managing my clients site where it's a totally legit site, all I did was added a aweber form and it screws up. Cost per click increased by 300%.....
Interspire Email Marketer XML-RPC + Amazon SES = non-standard idiot newbie mailer footprint, 99.9% deliverability, $0.10 cost per 1k emails.
If you want killer subject lines, I'd recommend checking out Dean Graziosi. I'm not in the Real Estate niche and have 0 interest in it, but I regularly subscribe to a ton of newsletters to see which ones are good examples of marketing and his subject lines time and time are the only ones I actually pay attention to.
Goto the user account where you want to enable functionality, Advanced user settings --> Allow this user to use the XML API, put in http://domain.com/iem_path/xml.php. Put in the same username as you login with, and (re)generate an XML token. Hit save, and now you can make a Remote Procedure Call with valid XML to save contacts to your autoresponder instead of throwing the default HTML form they spit out onto your site. That way you can harvest peoples' information however you want but save it more intelligently and without the footprint of someone who uses some copy and paste HTML from aweber, GR, IC, Mailchimp, etc
http://www.interspire.com/emailmarke...umentation.pdf
For you guys using amazon ses, whats your experience in the bizopp/IM/mmo type markets, and them shutting you down?
Im really interested in this combo, i wonder often how much business i lose on aweber. As far as i can tell im inboxed on the big providers.
Can you share how you got to 65,000 subs?
65,000 is a big list for paid traffic. How much did it cost you to get that?
Would be also interested to know cost to opt-in 65k mail!
Using adwords to drive the leads? Great idea on using microsoft Outlook.
OP, what email service do you use to collect those opt-ins on the landing page?
This is a really cool thread! You mind sharing what traffic sources you are getting your optins from?
20% optin @ 1500 clicks would give you 300 optins.... so maybe the page/niche doesn't usually have high optin numbers.
20% opt in on cold traffic isn't too bad. 30% would be a lot nicer.
Great info thank you. Im about to start building a CPA list. My thoughts are similar in that this is a hit and run list. I am wondering what your experience is in how many days and how many offers you can send to a double opt in cpa list before you start getting complaints etc.
As submits are generally annoying im guessing day 1 promo will burn the list and annoy people and thus future emails dont get responses.
I would love to know your options as i need to decide how much promo can i do on a cpa list.
emailing your CPA list is TOTALLY different than emailing a list where you are the expert.
Its like night and day different.
With the cpa offers they're just buying the product... usually for a trial... and you are just a person at the company in their minds.... vs. them buying YOU, your story, and when they get an email from you, the expert, they already know who you are etc.
It can be done... but in our weight loss stuff, man... the response was *so* awfully bad.
maybe OP will have another perspective... and I'd be really interesting to see/hear/learn how he's doing it.
I like the expert model better.
Great thread, very interesting. At 20c CPC, I'm guessing FB traffic, and with such a consistent ad-spend, its gotta be a large niche that doesnt burn out that fast.
Good job on killing it man!