Brass777
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I am trying to MANAGE a magic email opt-in list that wont stop growing, I have to THROTTLE IT.
I do not know what to do with it and when I try to start creating workflows I get overwhelmed and lost..because of all the moving parts and I am cheap and don't want to buy into autoresponders and pay $100 + a month.
Rundown:
I started a SLOPPY survey in the healthy food audience, very very broad.
I placed super low budget ads to the survey lander and hit a nerve, this was in Dec 2019! To make a long story short, in 1 week I got over 6000 responses and 4000 emails from that one ad that cost $110. I then tweaked it and placed variations of the ad but never pay more than 1-3$ a day per ad. I let the ads run on auto pilot for 2 years, at $1 a day, and 2 ads running. I now have 40,000+ emails and could have 1 million if I scaled it up, but I do not know how to manage this, I have contacted "GURUS" but they want a check for 4 and 5 figures before helping me.
I have tried to set up work flows myself but stop because the moving components break, like I started using GMASS and Zapier and got lost in moving technicalities (And I am I.T. Trained!) because I am trying to connect the spreadsheets collecting emails to an email software like gmass.
Now, I started internet marketing in 1997, made websites and sold eBooks online it was fun but long work because of static HTML. Back then we used the Warrior Forum to exchange ideas and business opps. I had a mentor, someone that was spamming the world making tons of money and showing me how to do SEO the right way...kind of. He helped me get to about $1000 a week in sales, but I was at my computer 11 hours a day, so I got burned out fast.
He as a unix engineer, I have not been able to find a mentor since those days. It is so hard to find mentors these days, because you have to pay them BIG money. So I guess its hard if you don't have the money to spend, or would rather spend it on business ideas.
So now, because I also am so busy with my day job and life, I just let it run in the background collecting more emails, it just wont stop..and something tells me if I went international...well, I could build something really big.
Any THOUGHTS anyone?
I do not know what to do with it and when I try to start creating workflows I get overwhelmed and lost..because of all the moving parts and I am cheap and don't want to buy into autoresponders and pay $100 + a month.
Rundown:
I started a SLOPPY survey in the healthy food audience, very very broad.
I placed super low budget ads to the survey lander and hit a nerve, this was in Dec 2019! To make a long story short, in 1 week I got over 6000 responses and 4000 emails from that one ad that cost $110. I then tweaked it and placed variations of the ad but never pay more than 1-3$ a day per ad. I let the ads run on auto pilot for 2 years, at $1 a day, and 2 ads running. I now have 40,000+ emails and could have 1 million if I scaled it up, but I do not know how to manage this, I have contacted "GURUS" but they want a check for 4 and 5 figures before helping me.
I have tried to set up work flows myself but stop because the moving components break, like I started using GMASS and Zapier and got lost in moving technicalities (And I am I.T. Trained!) because I am trying to connect the spreadsheets collecting emails to an email software like gmass.
Now, I started internet marketing in 1997, made websites and sold eBooks online it was fun but long work because of static HTML. Back then we used the Warrior Forum to exchange ideas and business opps. I had a mentor, someone that was spamming the world making tons of money and showing me how to do SEO the right way...kind of. He helped me get to about $1000 a week in sales, but I was at my computer 11 hours a day, so I got burned out fast.
He as a unix engineer, I have not been able to find a mentor since those days. It is so hard to find mentors these days, because you have to pay them BIG money. So I guess its hard if you don't have the money to spend, or would rather spend it on business ideas.
So now, because I also am so busy with my day job and life, I just let it run in the background collecting more emails, it just wont stop..and something tells me if I went international...well, I could build something really big.
Any THOUGHTS anyone?
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