Making $3000+ weekly (emailing)

**kickapooh** · 11-10-2011 12:18 AM

Here is one of my 8 'online dating' email campaigns. Each one with very similar stats but this particular one had made the most revenue in the 6 days. The one which was doing the worst had earned $776.

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After lots of research I selected a dating website and prior to even signing up I messaged the lead affiliate manager. Here is exactly what I said;

Hi. I presently work as an affiliate for another popular online dating site. I know the affiliate manager really well and we have been friends for a long time. My question is this. I provide traffic to them through the use of emailing. However my emails are not 100% compliant but I do include an opt-out url and deduct their suppression list for every email blast. Whenever too many complaints come in, I create myself a new account, he cancels my old one, removes all my private information from their system then switches my income to the new account. Next, I start again. He does this to cover his own butt so it works out nicely for us both. Are you interested in something such as this? I earn good money with them and he is extremely happy with the conversions he gets from my traffic so its a win-win. If not, no worries. I just think that being honest concerning this stuff from the beginning is the way to go.

He decided to test out my traffic and ended up being happy with the results. I've been with them for almost 2 years now.

I currently launch campaigns on 3 different affiliate accounts set up with their site. The first 2 accounts I use solely for emailing. The 3rd account is for whitehat traffic along the lines of banner advertising, Facebook ads, YouTube and off-line traffic. Here in this particular thread I will only discuss my emailing campaigns.

The vast majority of my emails are scraped online. I don't target any specific niches or keywords. I set up several Windows VPS boxes with a good email scraper, load large lists of common names and words as keywords and let them run 24/7.

I get lots of scraped emails each day in this manner. Now from here I remove dupes and divide the email lists up into parts. Next, I import them into different VPS boxes with Interspire IEM installed. Each is scrubbed against a large list of spamtraps along with their suppression list as it is being imported. Then I send out a very simple message to the lists. It's normally something similar to;

Subject: Hi

Message: Hi there. How are you all? We may be driving down to your area soon and I thought maybe we could all go grab something to eat and get together for a while? I'll keep you posted. Talk with you soon. Mike

Generally the people will think it is from somebody they used to know or assume it had been sent to them by mistake. Nevertheless given that it is not attempting to sell them something, most people will simply delete it after reading it. The important thing here is that most of them will not mark it as spam and simply by viewing it, helps my IP's reputation.

This way I can efficiently parse out all of the hard bounces and end up with a clean email list that's free from most spam traps and suppression emails. Then I export them to another group of VPS boxes which are utilized for sending out my real ads.

I try to keep my own ads short and very simple. All of them say something like;

Biggest Singles Website On The Planet
Over 29 Million Members
Costs Nothing To Sign Up
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The campaign I use when emailing pays me for every free lead. I start at $2 per lead till I receive my 1st paid join. The pay rate fluctuates dependent upon my conversion ratio. They pay out every 2 weeks so what I do is blast out emails as fast as possible for the first 7 days for my 1st account. Next, I switch the traffic to my 2nd account and send as many as possible to it for 7 days. Then I cycle back to the 1st account and begin again. When I do it in this way, my 1st account gets tons of free signups during the first week, then throughout the 2nd week, some of the free joins will convert to paid members and make my conversion ratio better for that pay period. Now, no matter what I am guaranteed to make at least $2 for every free lead but a lot of the time I will be at $3 Or $4 per free lead when the pay period ends.

I'm not going to crunch the numbers here because when it comes to affiliate marketing, what you earn each paycheck is always different thanks to fluctuations in conversions as well as how many joins you end up receiving. Having said that I will say that cash is no longer something I have to worry about. Of course I have to be careful because BlackHat emailing is a dangerous game to play. I have never had any problems, knock on wood, but yeah it's something I am very meticulous about.

There are lots of online dating sites out there with affiliate programs. When selecting one I would suggest registering directly with them rather than through one of the big affiliate networks like (MaxBounty, CJ or Azoogle for instance). One thing you need to research when registering for any affiliate website is what other affiliate marketers are saying about them. I believe each of them shave leads. The key is to find one that doesn't shave too much and ensure that your conversions stay pretty consistent. If you work with one that makes you a lot of money the first few paychecks, then you observe a drastic decrease in conversions, 9 times out of 10 they have started shaving too much and they are not a company you should stay with.

The one I selected stays extremely consistent and pays out every two weeks just like clockwork. They keep my info safe and let me know when I have to make a new account. They also let me sign up using bogus info and are very flexible with how I would like to get paid. I'm not going to mention the site I use in this thread because they would not appreciate it if all the search engines started displaying that they were BlackHat friendly. However, if you wanna give them a shot, send me a private message and I'll tell you there.

For those of you out there wanting to make money online, give some consideration to affiliate marketing in the online dating niche. The bottom line is sex sells, period!

If you have questions go ahead and ask.. I will do my best to answer them all.