As I have only been in the game for a short period of time, can someone please tell me If one should be saving all Emails for future use? Meaning: I am gathering thousands of Emails as I do my dirty deeds on CL, but have just been deleting them. I see many posts' about buying and selling Emails, so do my Emails qualify for 'buying' status ?

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well if you were collecting these emails in a manner where the people knew they were opting in, I would definitely say keep them. as it's not an opt-in thing, I wouldn't worry all that much about keeping them.

I'm working AFF in CL personals, so about 20% of the people the respond (at the end of the day) are willing to join the site, which they do. I was thinking more about those address'. They opted into the site so they just might opt in to something similar down the road? It just seems like a bit of a waste to just toss them -

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why not use some sort of a squeeze page that collects their info before they get to AFF? that way, you've got their stuff.

I just noticed you said you get 20% of the people who actually sign up to AFF.. Isn't that a bit high? That sounds like one hell of a conversion rate.

It could be high but I would not know as I do not know the scale. I am at this 24-7 working hard and fast until my eyeballs pop out from screen exposure. I like to think that my strong point is wordplay, so my combination of clever Titles, and actually showing a potential sale that I am a real (25 year old college girl) by replying to something they said in the first initial response is VITAL. When they say "are you real"? Instead of pasting the common reply 'pitch' I take the time to say "yes I am real bla bla bla". It hooks them, but it takes more time obviesly. I do all my CL ads by hand and they stick like glue for long periods of time. I post then wait ....... for a few days until the lack of response inspires some jackass to flag, and thats when I get busy replying. So yea about that - I mean if I reply to each response properly, I would say atleast 15 will bite out of 100 give or take. Is that good? because Im sure I can do better. I focus on quality vs. quantity ya know?
Also I push ALT, and have this imaginary local group set-up that has bi-weekly local parties and is always looking for new members - meaning: In my reply to the response I say "hi, Im glad you responded, we are a swingers/group sex organization and we all choose to meet at ALT to discuss our next party and review possible new candidates etc ..." They come in packs to be excepted because they actually think its taking place in their city that night. Follow?
I use this as one of my tools and it seems to work the best.

Thanks for the help