(METHOD) 'The Reaper' => 2K+ per Month

TheJaguar said:

I've been lurking around these forums as a spectator for a while and I feel its time for me to give back to the community. I have a method which I have been using for a little over a year now to make decent $. I call this method the “Email Reaper”.

Premise: As any decent email marketer will tell you the hardest part of email marketing is to actually get a list of emails (quality clean lists of active emails that will not bounce) and to acquire this list for free in a continuous manner.

Using the method I will share here, you will be able to get large amounts of active emails and targeting meta-data on the owner of the email (name, age, sex, job, education). And best of all this will be free, and whats more… The owners of those email accounts will be handing you this information hand-over-fist…

STEP 1: Pre-requisites
For this method you will need to get a catch-all email (an email box on a domain that will "catch all" the emails)

STEP 2: Reaping Emails
You need to go on free job posting sites or social media (think Craig’s List, Facebook groups etc..) Create a set of accounts. Each account will be used to promote job offers. Create a job offer for simple jobs that do not require too many educational credentials to apply to (secretary, tutoring, etc…) post the job offers on the job boards / groups you have signed up for and ask potential applicants to submit their credentials / resume via email to your catch-all email address. Your job offers should say something along the lines of “Looking for a math tutor for my 12 year old daughter who needs help with her homework if you are interested please foreward your resume to myemail@address” or “Single mom looking for a babysitter Thurday evenings 6pm-8pm if you are interested in this job send me your contact details via email at myemail@address”….
Then sit back and collect email addresses and meta-data.

STEP 3: Segmenting Lists
Next step is to create segmented lists using the email addresses you have collected. Ideally your emailing lists should be segmented by sex, age, and location. This will allow you to target your promotions.

STEP 3: Promoting
Sign up to an emailing platform (ex Aweber or MailChimp) these will allow you to blast your emails to your list for free up to a certain limit. Then sign up to an email marketing affiliate network and select offers that are appropriate to segmentation that you will be targeting.

Pro-Tip for extra-credit: Rather than sending purely promotional emails, take a little time to create small newsletters (8 articles, 5 lines each) and place your affiliate ads in between the articles. This will have a double effect : first email providers (gmail, yahoo, etc..) will have a harder time flagging your emails as promotional content (spam), second your readers will actually open the emails; which will ultimately lead to higher ‘open’ rates and thus higher conversion ‘rates’.
Send daily email blasts (no more than twice per day otherwise you greatly increase the chances of being flagged as spam). And sit back and watch your email list turn into cash.


In conclusion, a little math:

Email list size: 5 000
Emails sent per day: 2
Days per month: 30
Open Rate: 24.79%
Email average Click-Through Rate: 4.19%
Average Click-Through Conversion Rate: 30%
Earnings per signup: $2 (Adwork Media offers)

5000 * 2 * 30 * 24.79% * 4.19% * 30% * 2 = $1869 per month

Any questions/comments let me know in the comments section below.
Good luck out there. Go make your paper!

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