The whole idea behind building a substantial targeted email list of prospects and current customers for your home based business is to make sales and profits. However, you aren’t going to accomplish this goal if your email list isn’t monetized properly.
There are many ways you can monetize your list such as promoting affiliate products, advertising private label rights merchandise, creating and selling your own product and by directing your visitors to your Google ad sense and Amazon monetized affiliate sites.
The important thing to remember throughout the whole process is to make sure you have a good mix of content related auto-responder email along with promotional messages loaded and ready to be sent to your members. Don’t commit the cardinal sin of pumping out email after email which does nothing more than advertise to your subscribers over and over again and which usually results in alienating your prospects to the point of losing members from your list.
Another critical point which must be monitored on a regular basis throughout the whole routine is your member’s response to your messages. How often are they being opened and are they responding to your offer and how often are they replying? It’s vital that you check these rates regularly to find out if your campaign is working as planned and to discover if you need to make some adjustments in order to improve your open and response rates.
Before sending out ads to your list you must make sure you’ve established a trusting relationship with your members by sending out quality content on a regular basis which is of value to your readers and with no strings attached in terms of attached promotions. Once you’ve established in your own mind that this rapport exists you can proceed with your email marketing campaign confident that you will receive the desired response.
In order to maintain a long lasting relationship with your prospects you should make it a point to add value to every message you send; even your promotional emails. This is another way to gain their respect and to show them you appreciate their interest in your products and your business.
You have to demonstrate to your subscribers that you didn’t just entice them to sign up to your list so you could sell them your products. Everyone likes to feel appreciated, even people who are, in a lot of ways, anonymous business prospects.
Treating your members with the respect they deserve as potential clients and current customers will make it easier for you to monetize your list and reap the rewards further down the road. Relationship building will also contribute to the longevity of your home business by creating a loyal following who will remain on your list for years to come.
An effective way to monetize your list with affiliate merchandise is by buying a domain name for each product you’re promoting and direct your list members through this link to the vendor’s web page. You also need to include, in your email, certain keywords which trigger a response from your target or niche and attract their attention. These keywords, of course, must be related to your market, your product and your audience.
Monetizing your email list is an ongoing process which begins as soon as your visitor subscribes and continues throughout the life of your business relationship, which if done correctly will be a long and lucrative one for you and your home business and your client.
