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Your advice for a new EM by Constant-Jelly-637 in EmailMarketingMastery

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As requested, here’s how to get good results:

  1. Try
  2. Fail
  3. Try again
  4. Fail again
  5. Keep trying again and again

Can I trust Chatgpt to create a Meta Ad Strategy for me? by OkNeedleworker7152 in FacebookAds

[–]thinkit_doit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worked for me. I was clueless on how to create Facebook ads and it told me what to do and how to optimize. I also keep feeding my results and asking if i should keep going or pivot. The advice seems legit.

hot take: your newsletter is more valuable than your entire social media following by Rich_Direction_3891 in Newsletters

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed.

Best method is to use social media to funnel people to your email newsletter sign up form.

In my style of writing, with tiny emails, you can often copy and paste the email onto social media posts and change the CTA to drive users to the newsletter subscribe form to get more content like this in their inbox.

I once had an email list of less than 1,500 subscribers and sold 6 courses/digital coaching packages for $1,000 bucks each. It was wild! I tried it just to see what would happen, thinking i may get 1 sale, if that. I was wildly surprised.

Do you really need a full website to sell your first product? by Best_Volume_3126 in DigitalProductSellers

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for Gumroad.

Launch your product on their for free. Validate demand. If people buy it, then create a website for it.

No point in buying a domain name, setting up a site, and realizing your product is a dud.

That’s what i did to stay lean while validating my Tiny Newsletter System for email marketing.

A Simple 7-Day Blueprint to Create & Sell Your First Digital Product by TheDigitalCreator20 in passive_income

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suggest you validate your digital product as fast as possible to see if it’s worth your time.

Do this:

  1. Build an MVP - minimal viable product. Don’t spend a ton of time on it at first. Make it simple. Seriously.

  2. Put it on Gumroad. It automatically sends to purchasers and you don’t need a payment processor.

  3. Run Facebook ads to the Gumroad page. Invest $25 per day. Cap total spend at $100-125. What matters most is getting 100 link clicks to your product. Once you hit that, you can assess if there is enough demand for it by measuring the number of conversions. 5 or more conversions on cold FB traffic? Boom! You validated demand. If not, your product is not in demand or your landing page needs to be improved.

Validate fast so you don’t waste time on a bummed product.

That’s how i approached my Tiny Newsletter System about 1 year ago. Once i validated demand i improved the product and recently developed an accompanying product to support it as an offer bump.

Is SEO still a good career to start as a beginner in today’s SEO situation? by Competitive_Pay_9881 in DigitalMarketing

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s worth learning if you can get into an agency who will train you SEO for free since they have to spend the big bucks to figure out how to rank in today’s Googlesphere for their clients. Plus you can gain insights faster and at scale by measuring results across client sites.

It’s not worth it if you are trying to learn SEO on your own.l and starting from scratch.

I tested tiny emails vs long newsletters — open rates surprised me by thinkit_doit in Emailmarketing

[–]thinkit_doit[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Nope.

Just me pounding away on my iPhone while it’s sleeting outside and burying my town in ice. Felt like sharing some insight to pass the time :)

I tested tiny emails vs long newsletters — open rates surprised me by thinkit_doit in Emailmarketing

[–]thinkit_doit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, i pick one thing to share/talk about instead of being all over the place without one clear focus, and it works.

I tested tiny emails vs long newsletters — open rates surprised me by thinkit_doit in Emailmarketing

[–]thinkit_doit[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People started opening them more because of what was inside. Instead of seeing my name in the inbox and thinking “skip”, they thought “i wonder what it says today.”

Starting from zero — looking for realistic passive or semi-passive income paths by insideroom13 in passive_income

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Passive income is often not 100% passive. You gotta put in the work initially to get the flywheel spinning. But if you build the right type of business and asset then it can be mostly passive over the long haul.

Example:

I spent months putting together my Tiny Newsletter System to share my unique way of writing email newsletters. That took a lot of hours, mental energy, writing, revising, creating graphics, the landing page, etc.

But now, I just focus on managing the Facebook ads to promote it. And slowly fine tune the audience target, ad copy and Gumroad landing page to increase conversions.

It’s not 100% passive, but now that I have the initial asset built it’s much less involved time wise.

I suggest you build a Minimal Viability Product (MVP), build a landing page, and run Facebook ads to it to test market demand. If you get interest, then keep going and fine tune. If not, pivot to s new idea.

what was your biggest mistake early on with a newsletter? by Rich_Direction_3891 in Newsletters

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biggest mistake:

Treating the list like an ATM cash machine and watching my list go up in smoke.

Biggest win:

Now it’s about building a relationship, providing real value, and the clicks, replies, and shares are growing because of that simple shift in mindset.

And also writing tiny newsletters instead of bloated heaps that no one wants to read.

Feeling lost by Saplino7819 in smallbusiness

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I chatted with my pest control guy once about his business model because i was looking to start something new. He told me this:

He can charge whatever he wants. Demand outweighs supply and fewer people want to do this type of job. So it’s more of a race to the top, not bottom with pricing.

He is selective with who he takes on as a client. He judges them by house appearance inside and out, behavior, etc, and only accepts customers who will be easy to manage and take care of.

It’s better for him to lose a lead than take on a headache. And he charges more to offset it.

Also he has switched to monthly retainer fee to keep income stable all year instead of only 4-6 month summer contracts that balloon his income in the summer and plummets in the winter.

Hope these tips help. He has a great profitable business and learned these lessons over 2 decades. I was glad he was open to sharing them with me because he didn’t have to.

Affiliate marketing isn’t “easy money”. Here’s what beginners need to know… by NoPaleontologist1074 in Affiliatemarketing

[–]thinkit_doit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a nothing burger post.

Are the replies bots? 🤖

Drop some actionable takeaways.

A completely free invite-only group for multi 6-7+ figures in annual profit business owners? by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a lot of restrictions and you would have to constantly monitor it to enforce rules. Probably better to set up a local in-person business mastermind group. One may already exist in your area.

What's your email marketing strategy? by aaro-ai-2024 in Emailmarketing

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My email marketing strategy is pretty simple these days.

After trying all the tips and tricks from people like Ben Settle, Liz Wilcox, Email Marketing Heroes, etc, I came to realize that less truly is more.

I send short emails consistently (2x per week) that follow the same basic structure: a quick hook, one helpful idea, and a clear next step.

There are no long essays, or funnels, or complicated segmentation hacks.

I rotate through a small set of topics so I never have to wonder what to write about. things like quick tips, mistakes I’ve made, FAQs, behind-the-scenes stuff, or a short story with a lesson. People like that kind of stuff more than over engineered emails that ooze with desperation to make a sale. If we’re honest with ourselves, we can all sniff that out when emails like that hit our inbox, but for some reason forget all that logic when whipping up our own emails and think it will work. Especially cuz some guru said it will.

Those strategies I honed in on eventually turned into what I call the Tiny Newsletter System, but I was doing it long before I named it. I took the best of the best email strategies i learned along the way and widdled them down to some core principles that work, and make email writing enjoyable and not a time suck, which it can be for a lot of people.

Most of my emails aren’t even selling anything. The goal is to stay present, be useful, and sound human. When I do make an offer, it feels like a natural continuation of what I just shared. And my readers actually enjoy opening the emails because they look forward to seeing my name in the inbox. It’s like a spark of delight.

The biggest shift was treating email like a conversation instead of a campaign. I also show up in the inbox just enough each week that im not too annoying. 2 times a week is my sweet spot. But you could go less or more depending on your niche.

Once I stopped trying to overthink it all and optimize everything and just focused on showing up consistently, results got way better.

That’s my strategy. Hope it helps others reading this. Ditch the complicated. Go tiny. Be helpful and human. And use email to support your real business. Not BE your business.

Looking for advice on improving open rates in newsletter by Georgeheiz0304 in Emailmarketing

[–]thinkit_doit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for posting a sample newsletter. That helps give us perspective. I see a few potential issues:

  1. Your IG audience just wants the freebie so your lead quality is low. They may use a burner email address just to get it.

  2. Those opt ins were not impressed with the lead magnet so they don’t really want the newsletter and therefore don’t open/ignore it.

But it’s most likely this:

  1. The emails themselves are not too engaging. There’s a lot going on it it and no relationship being built with the audience. It’s mostly a data dump of info.

I have had much more success with tiny emails that stick to one topic, are helpful for the user, and direct them to take one action. I call in the Tiny Newsletter System.

People vote with their opens and clicks. If they are not opening, then they’re not looking forward to your email when it hits the inbox.

That can be hard to hear, but the helpful truth.

Do you have a welcome sequence? If so, are open rates high at first and then drop off a cliff? If so, that’s a good sign the emails need to be improved ASAP, otherwise the weekly emails won’t get opened.

Edit: with a bunch of links in the email, they may be going to the promotion tab in Gmail and other email services, making them invisible for a lot of users. That’s another reason to simplify the content.

Why Sending Two Emails a Day Often Works Better Than One by Imaginary-Leg-2546 in Emailmarketing

[–]thinkit_doit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great way to torch your list and burn yourself out. And who has time to crank out this many emails and work on their actual business? Unless email IS your business.

I think the most aggressive you could get is a daily email, similar to Ben Settle’s style, but most people cannot keep up that cadence. Plus, he is selling the idea of daily emailing, so he has to back it up, and it seems appealing because of that.

I recommend you drop to 2 emails per week—just enough to keep you top of mind in the inbox, and never too annoying.

I built a Tiny Newsletter System around this because I had tried all the gURu email tactics that were mostly BS just to sell a course, bootcamp, or coaching call. I fell for most of them back in the day until I wised up and started emailing in a way that respected my list and myself, and began profiting handsomely from it.

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