See Much I've Made from Email Marketing

Published: Mon, 10/05/15

You're getting this email because you expressed an interest in the Simple Profits System that I emailed you about on September 21st.

It means you're interested in email marketing and I want you to follow through - so much in fact, that I'm going to reveal some numbers throughout this email.

This is why you need to take action on that product:

My last email to my list brought in $3400 in 3 days.

My list is a buyers list just as Art outlined in the SPS system. It was built exclusively by offering products for sale on WarriorPlus. Add in a commitment to quality sharing of information and I've made this a very successful part of my online business.

If you're TRULY committed to building your own email list, I want you to do three things (all of which are covered in more depth in this email):

Go get Tom Glover's Ultimate Success Plan - you'll learn how to create set-and-forget sites that will grow your list for you without having to constantly create new products AND how to get traffic to those sites
See my tips below for additional success with SPS (below)
Read the complete disclosure of my own email marketing income (yup - I'm going to tell you how much I've made below)

Ultimate Success Plan

Here's how to take the SPS system into the five to six figure a month arena for any niche with LESS work and expand beyond the WarriorPlus selling platform:

Ultimate Success Plan

This product will keep you from plateauing out on WarriorPlus - which is where I've been for awhile now. I've done really well building an email list using WarriorPlus BUT I've only barely started to scratch the surface of the possible audience outside of WarriorPlus.

This product is about setting up an entire cycle outside of WarriorPlus that you can use to sell your own products and/or grow your list more quickly with less work because you won't need to continuously create new products over and over and over.

You'll learn:

The 3 pieces you need to build in order to funnel names to your list from outside of WarriorPlus (which means you can make the Simple Profit System minus the WarriorPlus part work for any niche and not just internet marketing)
Why you're probably driving people away from signing up to your list and how to stop doing that
The psychology behind email marketing and making the relationship work
Why email marketing is trickier these days and how to overcome those challenges
Why traffic is "never, ever a problem"
How to use PPC to get more traffic and why it will be profitable to do so with these higher opt-in rates

This product is the perfect companion to Simple Profits System. It's cheap, it's very strategic in nature, and because it includes a great deal of information around quality habits and behaviors it's something I know from experience you must follow in order to succeed.

Combine the product creation methods in SPS with the steps in the Ultimate Success Plan to promote the same product outside of WarriorPlus for massive scaling of your email list.

READ MORE HERE: ULTIMATE SUCCESS PLAN

The product itself consists of 13 videos - each about 10-20 minutes in length. They're easy to follow but it's hard not to get caught up in thinking about how passionate and informed the presenter is in his topic!

Under each video is a comment section where Tom is actively answering questions from members. I've seen things like this where the seller isn't participating but that's not the case here and it means you're going to get much more support in actually carrying out the steps.

I saw a total of 3 upsells:

Upsell #1 - Ultimate Domination Training - a compilation of four years of tips and strategies Tom and his team have developed for use in their own business. I skipped this only because the topics are things I already fold into my own business but if they look like things you need to learn more about (how to sell without selling, for example) then you may find this usefull.
Upsell #2 - The complete template of a successful campaign that you can literally plugin and start using yourself. This gives you a huge advantage because you can see how all the pieces of a successful campaign actually look. I find this makes it easier to duplicate with your own campaign.
Upsell #3 - 30 Day Challenge - Follow Tom and become a success story in just 30 days. If you need someone to drive you to take action, if you like having a plan to follow and a way to check your work, this is a reasonably priced way to make sure you follow through.

Simple Profits System Tips

While your purchase of Simple Profits System included a bonus from me, additional tips for success kept coming to mind afterwards. I want to share those here.

Tip #1 - If you create a WSO, put the link to your WSO in your signature line on WarriorForum. While the forum rules state you cannot put affiliate links in your sig line nor can you link to a site you don't own you CAN link to your own WSOs on the forum.

There are two reasons this is good for you. First, if you comment on the forum at all then others who read your comment will see your offer in your sig line and may follow it to get your product.

Second, when affiliates apply to promote my products I often check out their WarriorForum profile. If I don't know them and they don't have any history on which I can rely to make a decision, I deny them as an affiliate. However, if I see they have their own WSOs showing in their sig line I'm more likely to approve them because I know I can track them down through WarriorPlus if necessary. You might get approved more often to promote other products on WarriorPlus if you show a link to your own WSO in your signature line on WarriorForum.

Tip #2 - Test selling your product for $5-7 at 100% commission rate. If someone signs up to promote it they'll make 100% of the money from the sales but you'll get some of their list to sign up to your list AND you know they're buyers. If anyone buys it without going through an affiliate link you'll make 100% of the sale and that will help offset the cost of listing the WSO.

Tip #3 - Post in WarriorForum. Don't post about your WSO - simply participate in discussions on the forum. Find topics around which you're knowledgeable and join in. This will give your WSO additional exposure because the link to your WSO will be in your signature line in the forum discussions.

My Email Marketing Income

I want to MOTIVATE you to carry through with these programs so badly that I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to tell a large group of people how much I've made creating my own products and promoting other people's products as an affiliate.

This is a little uncomfortable for me because I make that money from you (my list) so it feels like I'm saying "Hey, look how much I've profited from you!". I truly hope you don't take it that way. I try very hard to make sure to create and promote only things I think will really work for you because they've worked for me.

However, my goal has always been to help others replicate my own success. Examples, facts, and case studies have always been important for helping me with my own learning - so, I'm sharing.

First, let's look at my email promotion for the Simple Profits System and then I'll tell you how I got here.

I have several email lists and there's some duplication between those lists. Almost all of those lists get the same emails. Only one of them has an actual follow-up series of emails in place.

I don't have a giant list. I started my email list with nothing - no idea how to use Aweber, no affiliates to help me sell my products, and no idea how to use WarriorPlus or the WSO section of WarriorForum.

It took me a couple of hours to research the Simple Profits System product, put a bonus together, and write the email. Boom - $3400.

The email I sent on 9/21 promoting the Simple Profits System was sent to 3806 people. Of those people, approximately 1200 people opened the email. A total of 558 people clicked the link in the email and I sold a total of 309 products for a net income of $2847.97.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, the seller was running a number of contests for affiliates. I never pay attention to contests. Often, I only find out there was one after the seller contacts me and asks where to send the money I won. (There's a tip in here for you - don't focus on contests - focus on people and products. If you win a contest count it as an unexpected windfall!)

I won TWO contests for that product promotion even though I didn't send the email until a day or two after the product came out. I'd won $600 in total.

That's $3447.97 in just a matter of days from one email.

(By the way, I had great open and conversion rates with that email. Save it in your swipe file and use it as a template in your own email campaigns! You can get a copy here: http://archive.aweber.com/revwr123/G3rcn/h/Simple_Blueprint_to_400_Day_and.htm )

How did I get here? What did I do to get to the point where I could send an email and make thousands? I didn't even WANT to build a list at first!

I was afraid of list building - the responsibility, the idea that I might have to interact with people, the confusion about what to do once I had a name on my list, and the expense that might be associated - and that fear kept me from getting started.

Someone pushed me past that fear and I want to do the same for you.

I launched my first WSO in April 2011. I didn't understand the value of an email list. In fact, I didn't even have an email list when I first launched the product. I was only valuing the product and that's how I priced the product. I set the price at $29 and didn't fully connect how selling at a lower price could result in more sales and more names on an email list.

Someone encouraged me to create an email list and walked me through how to get buyers of my product to sign up to my list.

In total, I've launched 31 WSOs since April 2011 (wow - I hadn't realized how many I'd launched...). I've sold 23,970 copies of my products for a gross revenue of $360,019.22.

Of the gross revenue, $105,471.04 has been paid to affiliates. (While I didn't have them initially, they did eventually show up.) ;)

That's about $255,000 in 4 1/2 years or an average of $56,000 per year. The first year was very slim, the second was better, and each year thereafter has continued to improve as the size of my list has grown.

In that same time, I've made $63,903.82 as an affiliate promoting other products to my list. That's an average of another $14,200 per year.

That's an average of $70,000 a year earned from having built an email list using WSOs.

Some points to keep in mind:

I don't actively try to recruit affiliates for my products. I've simply drawn attention over time by reputation. At best (and this happens about 40% of the time), I send an email to a few regular affiliates less than 24 hours before I launch (for which they rightly chastise me for not giving enough notice....).
I don't do upsells. All product revenue is a straight sale of one product.
I rarely promote products to my list. It goes in clumps - sometimes I might send 2-3 promotional emails a month. Other times I might go months and months without sending a promotional email. It all depends on what's going on in the market at the time and where my own focus lies.
I don't have sales pages outside of the WarriorForum.
I never did the free or near-free WSO method.
I almost always offer 50% commission rate to affiliates. I think I once tried a 75% or 100% commission rate but I prefer the 50% method for where I am today.
I create my own products and do my own WSO sales pages.

All of the above means that I don't squeeze my list to death, I don't spend a ton of money creating products, nor do I leverage all the methods the "big guys" say you need to follow to make email marketing a success. Having a list does not consume large amounts of my time.

You don't have to go at it like the "big guys". You don't have to be an expert in how to build a list. You don't have to have a pile of affiliates. You don't have to know exactly what you're going to do next. You don't have to do it perfectly from the get-to.

You just have to get started and take time to understand the concepts. The Simple Profits System and the Ultimate Success Plan are going to help you with both of those things.

Now, promise yourself you're going to pull that Simple Profits System book back out, you're going to watch the Ultimate Success Plan videos and you're going to get busy! ;)

Sincerely,

Erica Stone

erica@extremereviewer.com