Smeltzer Email Marketing Journal the Solo Ad Experience

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That's the most perfect thing I have read in a long time, about IM. It'd be great if all aspiring marketers realized this. Well said Smeltzer. The Ecosystem!

I just like to say. You know methods are great and all. they can really bring someone out of a bad situation and fast too. However it is not the way.

The web is an ecosystem. Everyone who makes money online spends money online. Even Doc he spends money online. He has workers and such he has to pay. P I am sure he spends even more then that but that is besides the point. Methods do not really fit in the ecosystem of the net. They are outside the ecosystem so can only last for a certain time frame if they ever work at all. A lot of methods are DOA before they even are told to anyone. Yet this does not stop someone from trying to sell it to you.

If you are to truly ever be successful online at anything you must fit within the ecosystem. You must have a product or service that fits the need of the ecosystem. You must also give back into the ecosystem by buying products/service/labor. No one man no one guru is above the ecosystem. To think such is a foolish thing.

In the case of this why it works. The solo-ad market is it's own ecosystem. Those who sell also buy and those who buy also sell. In this case we buy our traffic from Cory so we are immune to this part but he also buys traffic himself so our part in the ecosystem is given to him to fill. Even us as students if we are to succeed faster will have to go out into the world and buy solo ads.

Well here we have just some general ramblings. Some may see what I am talking about. Others may just see an old guy rambling. Either or hope you enjoyed today's ramblings

 

[Smeltzer]

Another day another dollar. Made another 64.00 while playing video games.Seriously? I play and can make money toooo???? If this is not the life I do not know what is. Anyway this brings up my total to 1658.

Well today my MMD brother Cash joins the ranks making money with us online. To me this is great news. This means now I have at the very least 2 other people I can make money with. I have two other people to dominate with me and work out deals and plans with. I see this as a win win. Not only am I winning but my MMD brothers joining the force are gonna win as well.

Well about it for today. Enjoy your day.

 

[Bizzoyce]

Yes indeed, Cash is with us. And I know of a few more MMD members that are just starting this adventure as well. Maybe they will open up a journal maybe they will stay silent for now. All I know is that they will be making money.

 

[Smeltzer]

Okay guys. Little update sorry it is late.

Well time for a confession I went out shopping today as is custom for me to do on monday. on monday I do my shopping for the week pickup any supplies I may need through out the week so I do not have to do a lot of traveling through out the week.

While out I was passing allll these Fast Food shops. Got me to thinking about the old days and welll one thing led to another and I stopped at Taco Bell. Let me just say I do not have the stomach I did when I was in my 20's. The Mountain Dew and Taco Bell is NOT a good mix.

So today I been mostly just trying to deliver my customers and I am gonna need a day of rest. So been pushing through to get these guys done at all cost and then rest tomorrow and maybe tomorrow evening get back to selling and being on track.

So yeah no income today more of an income loss due to shopping.

Was checking out Graphics cards tbh I purchased mine about 6 months ago. Should be something extremely better out there now. There is nothing. Nothing to justify the cost. Not much of a increase in power or performance. Looks like I am hoping Santa comes out with something new by xmas. Let's see what happens. Shouldn't We be seeing the 8k series from Radeon soon? Figured it should have already came out but ehh guess not.

 

[light]

I am very inspired by your progress. Eager to join the program, but still awaiting approval.

 

[Smeltzer]

ALRIGHTY THEN!!!! (as Jim Carey would say)

I am Booked solid till Saturday night. I made 214.00 Would have been more but I have someone working for me on a commission basis. Would have been 262.00 otherwise. So this brings me total using this system to 1872.00!!! Can I get a what what?

So for the next 3 or so days ALL I have to do is just Schedule emails to go out. Heck I could even set it all up right now and go on Vacation till Saturday and not worry about a thing. How cool is that?

Well how is that for an update? For the next few days you just get me rambling about odds and ends lol.

 

[Cory Friedman]

That is what I am talking about man. Is the greatness of the system... You can book your spots in advance schedule it all up and take a rest. I got a guy who booked 2 full weeks doing a crazy discount the he schduled both weeks of emails in advance and he took off and went to Cacun with the $6k+ he made from that promotion...

 

[Smeltzer]

Welllll today was a very eventful day today. I am keeping this journal not only for the good but bad and the ugly as well. Today was a little bit of both. So out of fairness today I will share everything.

Well to start out I was awaken by my cat trying to unusually awaken me by biting my foot. Now she never does that so I was like WTH. Then I kept hearing bloop bloop of skype going nutter balls. Well if it is not my ol friend Bizz. The noise probably upset her so she tried to wake me.

So what was Bizz doing trying to wake me up? Wellll we had a small mishap with GR. Oddly it was RIGHT AFTER I just paid them 200.00 ohh how coincidental right? Kinda upset they have no refunds or no recourse they suspended me for some bullshit about TOS and I broke none of there TOS. Not only that they got Bizzy as well. They also got a few others I know too.Soooo WTF. Screw you guys.

So we alerted Cory to the problem. I was hoping and a praying we would get back today. I did not want to screw around and not doing anything and just sit around and worry all day so I forced myself into action and sold *cough cough* 90.00 worth of clicks. IF you are keeping up by now you know that is 1971.00 I mean yeah I could have set on my ass and do nothing. Yeah what if we would not get a new AR? What if's. Oh well I made money anyway.

So my Bro contacts me telling me the details of the new AR account how to sign up set it up and all that good stuff.I get it set up and yeah okay it is a little slower blasting out the messages my bounces on my first email where crazy high. But you want me to be honest I actually LIKED IT BETTER. You can doo all forms of neat things like create aliases without giving 100 forms of ids and pen names.All just via the template menu. The open to click ratio is OUT of this world better then GR. GR I was getting 50 percent open to click and on this I am getting really close to 100 percent open to click ratio. This is great as that means I can focus on getting them to OPEN the emails.

So you know what GR screw you I got someone else who wants my money. Yes it may not be allll flashy like you but it gets the job done. I get more clicks per open and no more of you lying to me in your support tickets or overcharging me like a mofo cause you can. So there take that. You know what time it is.

Well there you have it said my peace. Been wanting to move from GR every since there support lied to me out right and essentially told me I was smoking da crack pipe. I got to tell this story as it is funny and hows there customer service in action.

A couple days ago GR we down for about 6 hours or more. No emails where sent nothing. You can look on there facebook page and see this. I contacted support about 8-10 later they get back to me. "what do you mean everything has worked fine on our end and everything is going as normal the problem had to be on your end" Really so you gonna tell me your server did not send out my schedhulded emails cause it was a problem on my end? I kindly pointed it to them on facebook to look at facebook people had the exact same problem. I also know other people in the groups having the exact same problem. I said so you gonna sit there and lie to me? He comes back ohh no one was lying to you it was a problem with our log-in system everything was running fine..... REALLY???? I was logged in just fine the emails where schedhuled that morning and because there was a problem with your login it effected your servers ability to deliver pre-schedhuled emails. What a crock of shit. Go lie to someone else. I know better.

Anyways I no longer have to deal with bullshit like that now. Thank you team!

 

[Riverside]

That was an interesting story, thanks for sharing it

And it's funny that you didn't stop selling clicks while your autoresponder account was suspended

Yeah I've heard it's a common problem in the solo ads biz, you can get your AR account banned because of **** complaints or shit like that. I'm glad you found an even better alternative to GR, can you tell us which one it is?
So you just imported your list into the new AR?

 

[Smeltzer]

That was an interesting story, thanks for sharing it

And it's funny that you didn't stop selling clicks while your autoresponder account was suspended

Yeah I've heard it's a common problem in the solo ads biz, you can get your AR account banned because of **** complaints or shit like that. I'm glad you found an even better alternative to GR, can you tell us which one it is?
So you just imported your list into the new AR?

Yes sir! I am proudly using emailsender.org . It has its share of problems but it beats the alternative. As for **** complaints I barely had any it was just shit man. They ban people for financial reasons not for any other reason.

GR bans for bounces.

It is an auto responders job to handle bounces this is what you pay for.

GR bans for **** complaints.

You have an opt-out form in every email. They have all opt-in data IP and time in which they signed up. So it is WHY they want this data so they can present this whenever there is a case of ****. So by banning people due to **** complaints they are saying hey we are not doing the job you pay us for.

GR bans for co-reg and buying subscribers.

Yet they own one of the largest co-reg called get subscribers. Really? So they can sell you subs and make money then ban you and keep your monthly payment all for profit.

As you can see we are talking about some very unethical business practices in which they are practicing. Not to mention they lie to customers in support tickets. I mean this is just a badly managed company all together.

 

[Riverside]

Yeah it looks like a bad business with an even worse support desk... I'll remember that when I I'm in need of an AR service

Anyway now you're back on your feet with a new provider, that's cool and your list is gonna keep growing!

 

[arnoldhard]

Thanks to Smeltzer, Perhaps I should move out GR. But my subs is in the process.

emailsender.org let's have a look

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the pricing is cheaper than GR,

GR:100000 = $450
ES:1000000 = $450
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[CashCleaner]

Thanks to Smeltzer, Perhaps I should move out GR. But my subs is in the process.

emailsender.org let's have a look

+++++++++++++++++++++
the pricing is cheaper than GR,

GR:100000 = $450
ES:1000000 = $450
+++++++++++++++++++++

I would recommend whilst in phase 1 of the list building to stick with what you have.
Once you encounter issues with GR you now have a contingency plan.

 

[Smeltzer]

Pretty uneventful day today. STORMING LIKE MAD here. So just hoping I do not lose electricity. If I lose electricity it will mean no internet for hours and hours.
Today just played catch-up from the past few days. I finished with the big 600 order plus a nice healthy over-delivery. I am working on the three and it was slated to done by monday and I hope to have it done by noon tomorrow. So have not really sold or tried to sell as of yet.though to be honest I do have people who do want to buy and would buy right now

Well think that is about it. Everything is going GREAT except this storm and hoping it will die down in a few.

 

[Smeltzer]

LOL Right after I posted this my partner who gets sales for me sold a 300 clicker.

I told my partner yeah go ahead and send me half you keep the other half and tell them it will be done in 72 hours...

So now for an income update.
I had my partner keep half so my partner sent me 49.50 so keeping up with the income update that brings me up to a total of 2020.50

Broke the 2k barrier.

 

[Riverside]

So it took less than 6 weeks to reach $2k! :dancing2:

 

[arnoldhard]

Good Job Buddy, I just hope I can reach 2000$ in 4 weeks..

 

[Smeltzer]

Alright for today. I have made just today 117.00 would have been more but like I stated giving half to my sales person. Even at that that brings my total so far up to 2137. Now I would like to hit 3k within the next week. Just hoping I can pull it off.

So far everything has been going gravy. The new AR has it's share of problems for the price I am not gonna complain one bit. The saying is you get what you pay for and right now I feel as if I am actually overpaying for what I am getting.

So there we go. I am booked up for a few days but I do not think it will stop me from selling at all

 

[Smeltzer]

SHIZAM okay guys here is the skinny.

I have been having someone "sell" for me bigger packages. At a seriously reduced rate. We are splitting the profit. right now I am booked till Saturday. All I have to do till saturday is just deliver emails. I done made my money

Today I made 82.50 yet again. This means my total profit for this venture as of right now is 2219. Now lets take into consideration now I am not even selling. I am just letting someone else do that while I focus on a few of my businesses. So as you can see everything is going better then good.

I mean yes it is true if it was not for me splitting the profit with my partner I would be banging out 2.6k or more about now but hey it is what it is. I am helping someone while still turning a profit and freeing up time in the process so it is all good in my book.

 

[Riverside]

Yeah basically it's money going into your pocket while you just have to click a few buttons