@nuclearrap - scraping emails is pretty inefficient. The list you get is pretty untargeted and so won't convert well. That's why spammers need such massively large lists. Even with a .0001 success rate you can make money if you send out 2 or 3 million emails. That's also why laws had to be created to control it though.
This is exactly why I left cold prospect emailing. (1) It takes too much effort to mail that volume, (2) it takes too much effort to work with ESPs, and (3) conversions consistently suck.
My current list of 50K or so subscribers does better than my old list of 2.2M of cold leads.
The best way to create an email list is by collecting email addresses from your buying customers, and the next best is to create an opt-in list by collecting email addresses from potential customers. I'm sure that's what OTrap does.
Something like this, but I put a twist on it that I've never heard of anyone else doing, and it REALLY helped with keeping the list from getting too full of freebie seekers.
A targeted opt-in list of 10,000 emails will typically have a much better result than an untargeted spam list of 2 million.
Living proof. My old list of 2.2M used to earn me about $200-400 a day. My list of 50K now does ... more than that.
Substantially.
I'm learning that I should have connected with someone like OTrap long before we went ahead and launched this. I've never really done the affiliate thing, always been client side work / consulting for our firm.
I've done a LOT on the vendor side as well.
My big question is this - There's a few of you in this thread that would be our target market (affiliates with big, and more importantly, converting lists). What can we do to entice you to promote our product? Review copies? Editorial rights to the Pitch Page? We've already started making a bunch of buttons (for normal aff's but I'm looking for a few big dogs).
There are 2 main things you can do to get the big, big guys, and this goes for any Clickbank offer.
(1) Make sure the offer converts, and converts WELL.
I normally hit an offer a time or two, but there is an offer in the marketplace right now that continues to convert so well that I have promoted it for almost three weeks straight. I've sent almost 20,000 hops to the guy for no reason other than the fact that I make a lot of money promoting the offer.
(2) Offer to reciprocate traffic to your top earners.
Most of them have their own offers. They like getting traffic to their offers as much as you like getting it to yours, so offer to match them click-for-click (if you have to use SEO or paid advertising and get the traffic over longer periods of time, they'll be cool with it).
Really all it takes. Make sure that in your tests, it converts well (5-10% with at least $3 EPC), and offer reciprocal traffic.
