Letter to a New Internet Marketer

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I received an email from an acquaintance of mine who has just recently started marketing some PLR products on the internet. The email I received from him was obviously from his personal email address book since I could see email addresses for his relatives in the “TO” list. The TO list included my address as well.

This is frequently a mistake newbies make. I wrote the following letter to him and I thought it would be of help to others.

First, I hope you don’t mind a little critique here. You sent this email out to your personal email list. If you are following proper email etiquette you should put all the addresses in the BCC field. Using the “Blind Carbon Copy”, each person will not see your entire email list. Some people view this as an invasion of privacy. If I were less than honest, I would copy your email addresses off the email you sent me, and start sending all your friends and family advertising. They would hate you for that. So always use the BCC for doing this kind of mailings.

In fact, in many circles this is categorized as SPAM. If you do too much of this through your personal email account and someone complains, you may find yourself suspended by your service provider. You should actually build a double opt-in list on an auto-responder service such as Aweber. But that is another topic for another day.

Have you got any other marketing methods you are using? I have been investigating some low cost. Here are some of my favourites which have a very low cost.

1) You should join the www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com This is a free course that focuses on selling in niches. They are in the preseason now and will be heading into the course in August. Dan Raine and Ed Dale are from Australia so you wont’ be able to enjoy there accent … but that’s life. I highly recommend the material.

2) I wrote a short course and blogged on how to use Twitter for sales. Here is the PDF Automating Twitter. It is based around a training product called Twitter Traffic Machine This short course is $27 well spent. It is huge value for the money. My twitter accounts are now up to 46000 people and I drive 100’s of people across my websites every day. (I should note that I am using some other techniques above and beyond the Twitter Traffic Machine techniques, but the TTM techniques are the basis for starting out.) You will drive significant traffic by just following Twitter Traffic Machine .

3) Check out ViralURL. The basic membership is free and there is an up-sell. I would highly advise taking the up-sell to Gold or Platinum. I have a Platinum membership which allows me to send out 3000 emails every 3 days for a year and I don’t get email from other members. The Gold membership is less expensive, however you get email from other members. I get about a 0.1% response rate for email I send out to the membership. Not bad considering the source. I would also advise you to create a new Gmail address for this account so you don’t risk cluttering up your personal account with unwanted email.

4) Lastly here are some valuable resources that I would recommend if you are getting involved with email marketing.

• Learn how to write good marketing email. Email Promos Exposed (I don’t advise the up-sell on this one - Just take the free training)
  
• Here is a free PFD on my website for killer headlines 7 Quick & Easy Headline Formulas – Your Instant Reference Guide to Creating Dynamite, Attention-Getting Headlines
  
• Here is a free PDF for a Social Media Marketing Blueprint.
  

If I can be of any help let me know.

Watch your email because I will be announcing some new services that will be aimed directly at helping the new marketer.

Regards,

David Perry

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