As part of my “indoctrination series” – the first set of emails that I send all new subscribers and members to my new Mailing List Mastery membership site, I send out a simple survey to find out what my new followers really need.
Do they have experience doing email marketing online?
What are their biggest challenges?
(sign up here to receive the survey – it comes on about day 3 of the follow-up email sequence)…
Well, in a recent response, I was surprised when one young lady asked,
“Can I really get and keep this money?”
What struck me was the pure innocence of the question – the excitement, mixed with disbelief. Is this really possible?
Fact is, there’s a lot of money being made in all sorts of unexpected places. Makes me think of the musicians whose songs hit the top 100 charts, where just a month before they were out on the streets without any hope.
Or the kid whose simple iPhone app idea took off, and now he’s worth millions while still living with his parents.
Well, my friend – along with all of those success stories are lots of smaller stories. The guy who pays his bills – and then some – by playing guitar. The woman who makes that extra $1,000/mo to cover her kid’s child care because she started an app.
Maybe those guys didn’t create home runs…but no one would argue that their unconventional ways of making money weren’t making a difference in their lives.
The same is true with email marketing. There are a select few who make millions sending emails.
And for each of those…there are thousands of others who are making a living, a full-time income, and even more who are simply supplementing – making car payments, buying vacations, or just taking their wives out to dinner once a week with their email marketing profits.
I don’t know what your goals are, but with the right techniques, you can get there. It’s been done before, and it’ll be done again.
The only question is, who will do it. Will it be YOU?