What would you do with 400k email list?

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ecomgoat999

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The list is 400k, and it's only emails, no names, nothing. It's been sitting on my desktop for months because I have nothing on it and no way to monetize it.
I had only one piece of information: they all use Paypal. That's it. So it's safe to assume they buy stuff online.

But still, it's worthless without any other information.

But I decided to test a sample of this list and imported 100 emails to one of my dropshipping stores (the one I use for testing).
I created the most idiotic email, the subject was generic, and I put zero effort into this test.

And the open rate was 78%! They all opened the email in the first 60 seconds. Even got a few clicks.

What would you do next?
 
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if you have drop shipping stores I would start there and send the users to those. filter the people who open and figure out what niches they will open emails from and then you could try other offers based on the types of emails they open
 
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You can try to promote some affiliate programs or some products.
 
if the email list is clean. promote affiliate products to it.
 
ecomgoat999 said:
The list is 400k, and it's only emails, no names, nothing. It's been sitting on my desktop for months because I have nothing on it and no way to monetize it.
I had only one piece of information: they all use Paypal. That's it. So it's safe to assume they buy stuff online.

But still, it's worthless without any other information.

But I decided to test a sample of this list and imported 100 emails to one of my dropshipping stores (the one I use for testing).
I created the most idiotic email, the subject was generic, and I put zero effort into this test.

And the open rate was 78%! They all opened the email in the first 60 seconds. Even got a few clicks.

What would you do next?
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Your numbers are already amazing - just continue doing what you have already done.
You may also want to offer an affiliate FREEBIE - plenty of those to warm the list after an optin that requires to input their name.
 
I'm still working on my affiliate website, but my dropshipping stores are good to go. I will test further with larger segments and some universal products that everybody needs. I will update here. This is going to be a fun experiment, mainly because I am closing my dropshipping business next year and focusing on affiliate marketing, so the email blasts that convert could be a gold mine.

I am open to any suggestions, and gray hair is my hard limit.
 
You can earn money to It by promote affiliate products.
 
I sent an email campaign to 11.000 emails today and got one abandoned cart. Not much, but it's something. This costs me 11 USD per email blast, so I will probably send 4–5 more to see if I can get some more information.

I tagged the ones that clicked and didn't unsubscribe or mark as spam and gave them a tag (the product they clicked on). We are in business; it will take some time and money, but I think this has some value.
 
You can sell them once you're Jr
 
I don't think I would get much money. If it starts converting, I can make a shitload. on my stores. If it doesn't, well... it's worthless.
 
I think you should build a system to discount codes and send them an email that includes an affiliate link. Discount codes from major shopping websites would be more effective than your dropshipping store
 
nodoma said:
I think you should build a system to discount codes and send them an email that includes an affiliate link. Discount codes from major shopping websites would be more effective than your dropshipping store
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This is a great idea. And easy to set up quickly. Thanks!
 
I might just do that! I got one sale—not much, but it's a start—70 USD product, 50 USD profit.

I'm in the green with this list, email campaigns cost less so I'm going to push it harder.

Bounce started to grow as I started to send email blasts to larger segments, so I will try to segment them right away based on page views and session duration (I'm still not sure how to do that; Shopify is limited when it comes to customer journeys).

Thanks for all the advice, guys; let's make some cash!
 
You can try an evergreen niche that would appeal to the general audience and see what happens from there.
 
Yes, that's exactly what got me a sale, some bathroom product that's been popular for a long time.
 
Market to it probably.
Jokes aside, I'd personally focus on using it to promote affiliate products or services with a recurring payment.
 
ecomgoat999 said:
I sent an email campaign to 11.000 emails today and got one abandoned cart. Not much, but it's something. This costs me 11 USD per email blast, so I will probably send 4–5 more to see if I can get some more information.
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In n email campaign, unless those are emails you got as an opt in on your site, 11K is nothing.

Try 10X that and see what you get.
 
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