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35514 Responseshttp://blog.mindvalleylabs.com/email-magic-how-it-took-me-only-125-days-to-make-a-months-worth-of-income/355/Email+Magic%3A+How+it+took+Me+only+1.25+Days+to+make+a+Month%27s+worth+of+Income2008-01-25+09%3A31%3A34Mike+W. to “Email Magic: How it took Me only 1.25 Days to make a Month’s worth of Income”

1. January 26th, 2008 at 7:18 am Understanding Internet Marketing

   Con­grats on the good results… and thanks for post­ing the sam­ple emails and video here, that’s some great content.

2. February 14th, 2008 at 8:32 am Jason

   Sounds ter­rific but it needs to be tested. Some­times even the best-sounding schemes do not work. I’ll try this with my list and let you know if it works or not. As Pres­i­dent Rea­gan said: “Trust but Ver­ify” ) How­ever, hav­ing said all that, many thanks for tak­ing the time and post­ing a blog entry this intel­li­gent, detailed, and straight for­ward. I espe­cially appre­ci­ate the swap files. I’ll be revis­it­ing this blog fre­quently for sure.

3. February 14th, 2008 at 9:40 pm Mike W.

   Jason,

   The title tells you the results I got when I did this (I think I men­tioned it in the video also). Using this method I got 1 month’s worth of rev­enue in only 1 week.

   For best results, I rec­om­mend using it in con­junc­tion with a nice pro­mo­tion or offer. The email tech­nique (and gift) will warm up your list and then the promo will seal the deal.

4. February 18th, 2008 at 1:27 pm texthunter

   Like the tech­nique, and will try it with my new site, http://www.clientranger.co.uk

5. February 18th, 2008 at 3:48 pm Kim Stacey

   First of all, I thor­ougly enjoyed the video tuto­r­ial. Nicely done!

   Sec­ondly, I appre­ci­ate a num­ber of ele­ments in your chain of con­tact… the focus on plan­ning is won­der­ful — so many clients I’ve worked with have abbre­vi­ated processes of two email con­tacts: announce­ment and reminder. I’ve used the “appe­tizer” with one client, and the recep­tion to the sec­ond email was phe­nom­e­nal, so I know it works.

   The fact that your gift PDF worked for you, with the inclu­sion of the “gift within a gift” offer, was an excel­lent touch. Adding that viral “share” might have proven very suc­cess­ful, huh? Next time you’ll remem­ber to do that — and let us know how well it work, ok?

   What I’ve learned in email mar­ket­ing cam­paigns could fill a large room, but under­ly­ing all that knowl­edge is the real­iza­tion that every list is dif­fer­ent. Know your list, fine tune your cam­paigns, and always be will­ing to try new things!

   Loved the post, and the video. I’ve book­marked your blog, and will return to learn more from your cre­ative thinking.

   Thank you!

6. February 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm Clint Lenard

   Great infor­ma­tion, Mike! I enjoyed the Video and I will def­i­nitely be giv­ing this a shot very soon!

   Thanks,

   Clint

7. February 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm AainaA

   This tech­nique when used can not only boost your mar­ket­share, but also push / incite oth­ers ‘exposed’ to it to want your product.

   Do not for­get to add ‘psy­cho­log­i­cal’ words to incite your buy­ers / read­ers but also remem­ber to ensure that the down­load­able s/w is worth ‘acquir­ing’ online and NOT FOUND ELSEWHERE, and that it is exactly what your buy­ers want.

   Do not for­get also to give the lit­tle some­thing extra — for exam­ple, a dis­count coupon to your next con­fer­ence or some­thing you can give which is of value that will keep your audi­ence happy to talk about your prod­uct / ser­vices — word of mouth mar­ket­ing is viral enough.

   Last, but not least — apply to every­thing — not just pro­mot­ing of your e-books — it works equally well in tra­di­tional brick and mor­tar busi­ness, offline.

   Always, always, whether you may realise it or not — some audience{s} may have for­got­ten click­ing on that link — so remind them gen­tly, and always, always offer them an opt-out link just in case they want to opt-out from receiv­ing future emails or reminders. Even gen­tle reminders some­times can ‘incite’ peo­ple to trash them as ‘spam’.

   Best Regards,

   AA

8. February 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm Ellie

   Mike, wow, short and sweet and to the point. Also, you reit­er­ated impor­tant steps for empha­sis and as a reminder, and you were really easy to follow.

   In a few short words, you were able to con­vey to me how you did what you did, and the rep­e­ti­tion made it more memorable.

   Now… whom shall I email my test swipes, to? Hmmm… Golly, I don’t have a huge list.

   And, I will have to get cre­ative and come up with an awe­some ebook and free gift that pro­motes some more consumables.

   Now, where is that ebook that you spoke of? And what was the free gift that sold even more for you? Of course I want to know.

   Thank you for this info, it’s really some of the best info out here that’s eas­ily do-able right away. You have me as a loyal fol­lower, but I’m not so sure I will be able to do what you have done.

   you obvi­ously have a much greater gift writ­ing ebooks, per­ceiv­ing what peo­ple need and want, and get­ting a nice email list of folks to contact.

   But, I want to try! I’m going to have to give it a go and will let you know what hap­pens, if you want!

   Thank you, this blog is awesome.

   Ellie from http://www.cdin.org

9. February 18th, 2008 at 10:55 pm Debi

   I wasn’t bored, but I did think the pace was a bit slow… and per­haps there was too much rep­e­ti­tion for a not-really-rocket-surgery con­cept. I think you could cut 4–5 min­utes, and in doing so make it seem more “excit­ing” and/or “high energy.”

   I like the method, though, and the Black Fri­day tim­ing for it was brilliant!

10. February 18th, 2008 at 11:48 pm Amit

    Hi Mike,
    This isn’t rocket sci­ence but it is so unfor­tu­nate that many mar­keters don;t really know the real power of e-mail mar­ket­ing. It has been proved again and again that if used cor­rectly, e-mail mar­ket­ing is more prof­itable than any other cus­tomer acqui­si­tion or reten­tion tools!
    The deadly sins most mar­keters com­mit is send tons of e-mail within a short span of time — whether it’s an affil­i­ate prod­uct or launch. Peo­ple just don;t like to get both­ered and I know I’m the one to press the unsub­scribe but­ton when I see — “Hey last chance to buy XYZ prod­uct!!! Get Now!!!” when I have received that same last chance e-mail time and time again.
    Its my hearty prayer that those idiot mar­keters per­son­al­ize e-mails for me..and read this post a hun­dred times before mail­ing me those “last chance” offers again!

11. February 20th, 2008 at 11:34 pm Orchid

    Hi Mike,

    To tell you the truth, i didn’t fin­ish view­ing the video. Everything’s in black & white only. Adding some colour and charts or images might help to break the monot­ony and help illus­trate your points.

    But, Yes! Please keep on mak­ing these video tutorials.

    Thanks.

12. February 28th, 2008 at 10:46 pm G.Sreenivasa Rao

    It is step by step, detailed and a bit inter­est­ing. I could not under­stand why you have stopped with main dish only. Any way, we con­sume or at least taste many side dishes dur­ing the din­ner or lunch. Have you ever tested the idea by extend­ing the logic of din­ing fur­ther? I believe you are exper­i­ment­ing already with that idea.

    No tech­nique really works for ever, espe­cially in Inter­net mar­ket­ing. Sus­tain­abil­ity of Inter­net mar­keter suc­cess depends on how quickly and eas­ily one helps the peo­ple to become suc­cess­ful and in the process he becomes more suc­cess­ful. Sadly, many gurus are here, but no true leaders.

    After read­ing the feed­back and reflec­tion on it, regard­ing mak­ing it viral by shar­ing (Kim Stacey), I have a thought to share. Viral has two dis­ad­van­tages. It elim­i­nates the exclu­sive­ness and does not feed the self­ish­ness motive. If a book is really good and some of the ideas can be imple­mented by me, I feel even more self­ish, not to dis­close it to my other mar­keters. I believe this would be the rea­son for so many books which are really solid never make the list of best sellers.

    The clev­er­ness of the offer is in the book which they pro­moted– 6 Psy­cho­log­i­cal Trig­gers That Will Make Your Vis­i­tors Buy From You Today and Tomor­row. That book which I down­loaded will help in other areas of life also if applied. Above all, the title is com­plete, spe­cific, and pur­pose­ful. Peo­ple are no more excited about the free PDFs. They are look­ing for process, and real stuff which they can use for long time to come, in dif­fer­ent contexts.

    By the way, how a IM would see or per­ceive his list? Most of the inter­net mar­keters, going by the offers I receive, assume that the list is there just to receive offers, and more offers only. Yes, in the mask of infor­ma­tion, they try to sell every­thing under Inter­net mar­ket­ing. Unfor­tu­nately, we don’t have money to buy each and every offer. After some ini­tial pur­chases, almost every one becomes skep­ti­cal of the offers. No amount of Money back guar­an­tees really work, when the trust level itself is low. Trust deficit can­not be ful­filled so quickly.

    As a sub­scriber to your newslet­ter, I know your arti­cles are researched and well writ­ten. Your response rate might be high due to that fac­tor also. Suc­cess of any offer depends on the trust and rela­tion­ship under­neath to a large extent. Any ideas on how to assess my list per­cep­tions on me and my rela­tion­ship with them!

13. July 9th, 2008 at 3:38 am Travis

    Mike.….where do you get the list of emails from to start the process you describe in email magic? I am new at the email marketing

14. November 1st, 2008 at 7:55 pm Golfspy X

    How do you limit the link to only 3 days?

    Thanks!

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