by Mohamad Zaki Hussein » Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:35 am
Hi Jordan,
The fastest way that I've found so far is to participate or organize a cross-promotion event, like the giveaway JV out there.
I never organized one in the IM niche, only participate in some of them, and it can give you like 200-700 subscribers in a couple of weeks, depending on how good the event is.
For example, in the last 117ChristmasGifts (organized by Henry Gold and Reed Floren), I got about 700. Actually, my autoresponder said I got 615 subscribers, but I think the tracker is not accurate, since I also saw an unusual inflow of "no referrer" subscribers to my list.
I think my result is not so good there, maybe because I was giving an old gift. My friend got about 1900 subscribers even though her listing in the giveaway was below mine. She's giving an in-demand gift at that time, i.e. an article submitter.
Now after experiencing those giveaways in the IM niche, I tried similar method (but with far smaller scale) in the health and fitness niche. There are only 7 partners involved here, all of them are marketers who are also experts in their niche (fitness expert, trainer, etc.), most of them only have small list like 500 or 1000.
The event run in a week and the result is 267 subscribers. Actually, about 397 people signing up there (this may not be an accurate stat, because if memory serves, I also tested the opt-in form, so that probably got recorded also in the stat), but most of them do not re-confirm (I use double opt-in) and 6 of them already unsubscribed.
Well, I think that's it for now and I hope that helps.
Regards,
Zaki