Is this a good plan......?

[Sean Clark]

Hey Richard, Hey Charles...

I would be happy to tell you of my experience with Rent-A-List.

They guarantee a 50% "click" rate and you can track your
campaign in real-time.

I recently purchased the 2,000 targeted advertising campaign to
test my new solo ad for my site (which I do often).
My campaign started on the 6th...and it actually finished today. I
paid about $200, and made about $600 ($400 profit). So in my
eyes the solo ad was effective.

Not all of my campaigns are a success of course.
If you are going to use their solo ad service, I would recommend
promoting it to a free venture...the open rate of their 400k list is
about 3-5%. It can be good for building a list, however, they mainly
like "free" products...so trying to squeeze sales out of them is hard.

Personally, I recommend sticking with the targeted advertising
campaigns. They currently have a 60% "Hump" day - basically 60%
discount on all services. So if you are going to test, today would
be a good day to start.
Are there any advertising solutions that have worked for you?

Any specific questions please don't hesitate to ask
Best Regards,
Sean

[Sean Clark]

ooops...It ended at 12pm today...just missed it.

Sorry,
Best Regards,
Sean

[Chris Douthit]

I agree with Sean, rent-a-list is a good service if you use it correctly. I would not recommend trying to sell straight to the list, but rather sending an offer which requires the recipient to opt-into your personal list.

Once you have the recipient in your own database, then you can try to sell.

[Sean Clark]

I agree with Sean, rent-a-list is a good service if you use it correctly. I would not recommend trying to sell straight to the list, but rather sending an offer which requires the recipient to opt-into your personal list.

Once you have the recipient in your own database, then you can try to sell.

Couldn't have said it better ;D

[Richard Legg]

Thanks for the info Sean.

That's typically the model I follow anyway - getting the optin first - so I'll definitely check them out soon.

Getting stuff to convert isn't the biggest problem for me - with a lot of ezines it's been actually getting visitors to the website in the first place.

The guaranteed clicks thing should help, although it looks like it's incentivized.

I'll give it a shot anyways

Thanks,

Richard

[Jennifer Nalleweg]

Thanks for the details on rent-a-list Sean!

I looked into it and it uses hits4pay.com to get the emails out, but yeah, if it's profitable for you, then it's definitely worth giving it a try.

As for using it for split testing, are you able to change your copy mid-stream to test it, or do you just run several versions of the same ad to see which was more effective (say sending one version to 1,000 people and another to another 1,000)?

Thanks,
Jennifer

[Sean Clark]

Thanks for the info Sean....
I'll give it a shot anyways

Thanks,
Richard

Don't be thanking me just yet...let me know how it goes for you...and if good, then you can thank me

[Sean Clark]

Thanks for the details on rent-a-list Sean!

do you just run several versions of the same ad to see which was more effective (say sending one version to 1,000 people and another to another 1,000)?

Thanks,
Jennifer

Hey Jennifer,

Yes, I would running two or three different versions. They can how pause a campign if you would like to change something.