If You’re Not Making $1/Month Per Sub with Email Marketing

“Back in the day, the marketing gurus told us we could expect to earn $1 per email subscriber per month. Is that still true?”

question I was asked on a recent consulting call

This is an easy question to answer… but the answer isn’t easy for most entrepreneurs to hear.

Because, in truth, the answer is both yes and no.

Most marketers and entrepreneurs I know don’t come close to pulling $1 per subscriber per month.

But there are some that do significantly more than $1.

One of my clients averages $2.38

Another gets $5.27.

I’m sure there are businesses that generate even better numbers.

But this kind of performance doesn’t happen magically.

In my experience… most of these businesses share 3 characteristics:

1) They email their lists every day. Multiple times on some days. No apologies, no excuses.

2) They SELL in every email… even when the purpose of the email is to educate.

3) They’ve developed proven front-end AND higher-priced back-end offers — and they constantly promote them.

Sure it’s a considerable amount of work, but these 3 ideas will get you a lot closer to where you want to be in terms of revenue and the impact you make in the world. 

Make Email a Bigger Profit Center for Your Business

If your email marketing efforts aren’t producing the kind of results you wish they’d give you…

Or if you’re looking for a way to strengthen what’s already working…

You may be interested in the upcoming Make Email Great Again Convention. “MEGA Con” for short.

email marketing summit 2020

It’s a FREE online summit for anyone who wants to make more money with email.

I’m one of 15 email marketing experts sharing promotional ideas and success secrets we’ve used to bring in piles of cash for our clients and our own businesses.  

The insider tips and strategies you pick up could change everything for your business.

My MEGA Con session covers what we’ve called the “Fear the Reaper” promo.

You’ll also get to go inside the minds of heavy-hitters like David Deutsch, Dan Ferrari, Matt Bacak, Kyle Milligan and more.

The summit starts February 10, 2020 but I encourage you to sign up now.

Have a productive day!

2020: The Year of Learning Less

It’s January 24th in most of the world. If you’re part of the small percentage of people who hasn’t already given up on your new year’s resolutions, GOD BLESS YOU.

You’re a rare individual.

I want to share a weird twist on the 80-20 principle that you can apply to your resolutions — or anything else you want to do.

I saw a top 10 list of resolutions for 2020 (taken from a survey of 275K Americans):

1. Actually doing my New Year’s resolution
2. Trying something new
3. Eat more of my favorite foods
4. Lose weight/diet
5. Go to the gym
6. Be happier/better mental health
7. Be more healthy
8. Be a better person
9. Upgrade my technology
10. Staying motivated

For most people, at least 7 of these things will involve reading books, watching videos or buying courses.

They gotta learn a better diet, discover the secret to staying motivated, etc.

But here’s the thing (and where 80-20 comes into play):

I want to encourage you to…

… Learn LESS in 2020.

Why?

Because too often, we wait to start doing what we resolve to do… because we want to learn a little more first.

You know, to make sure we do it the right way. (That’s what we tell ourselves, at least.)

Before you know it, you’ve listened to hours of podcasts — and you’re probably more confused than when you started.

It’s easy to spend 80% of your time “learning”… and then struggling to spend 20% on execution.

Chances are you already know 80% of what you need to know. And that’s 100% good enough for you to get started.

And you’ll learn the rest once you’re in motion.

When you make your decisions in 2020, get into action as quickly as possible.

Read fewer books. Read more people. Read more rooms. Get more hands-on learning and derive data from that.

If you do that, 2020 will be like no year you’ve ever experienced before.

Podcasts from the Ghost Town

Sometimes it seems like I forgot about my website… like I don’t care about it at all.

I do care. It’s important to me that my site be a source of valuable insights you may not read/hear anywhere else. And maybe a little inspiration from time to time, too.

So, I find it interesting that you may have heard my voice on OPP (other people’s platforms) more often in 2019 than my own properties.

copywriting podcast interview chicago

I made a conscious effort to get on more podcasts last year. I fell way short of my goal, but I did have my most active year to date.

If you’re interested in catching up on what I haven’t shared…

Here are the podcasts I appeared on in recent months (the first 2 just went live today):

Best Business Podcast with Daryl Urbanski

3 Marketers Walk Into a Podcast

Swift Kick Show with Timothy D. Craggette

Experts Unleashed with Joel Erway

Seek the Greatness with Kweku Duncan (on his YouTube channel)

Slipstream Marketing Podcast with Richard Lomax (video)

#TwelveMinuteConvos with Engel Jones (my second appearance)

Hope you enjoy and get something useful from them!

Speaking of ghost towns, did I ever show you the email I wrote for Agora Financial back in 2016? It’s a little wild, but I was pretty proud of it at the time.

Agora Financial email copywriter

Has nothing to do with anything. It’s just what I thought of when I said “ghost town.”