If you got an unresponsive email list, there are 6 possible reasons why your email subscribers aren’t responding to your offers. Listen to discover why your list refuses to buy from you.
6 Ways To Fix a Dead List
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Now, a lot of people come to me and ask me where, “I got this list of, say, 2,100
subscribers, and I’ve had this list for a few weeks now, and I mail them every day,
or I mail them three times a week, and these people are just not buying. They’re a
bunch of tire-kickers. What can I do? How can I turn tire-kickers into
non-tire-kickers? How do I turn them into action-takers?”
When that happens, a lot of times there’s really … I mean, there could be a few
reasons why that happens, actually. On this episode what I want to do, I want to
give you the six reasons why your list may be kicking tires right now.
Now, I’m not going to offer you any particular solution on this call. But what
I’m going to do, I’m going to make you aware of exactly why they may not be buying
right now, so you can go and you can figure out the solution that works for you,
based on the results you’re getting.
So the first reason why your list is just full of tire-kickers, is probably
because you don’t sell to them enough. This is an issue I’m seeing most often, where
people tell me, “Igor, my list isn’t buying.” So then I ask, “Okay. So how often do
you mail them? How often do you pitch them?” Oftentimes they’ll tell me, “Okay, I
mail them once a week, or twice a week, or three times a week.” “Okay, cool. And are
those pitch emails? Are those emails selling anything?” And they’re like, “No, those
are pure content emails. I send them tutorials, and helpful articles, and stuff like
that.”
Well, obviously, if you’re not making offers, they are probably not going to buy
from you. That’s just simple math. Your income will always be directly proportionate
to the amount of offers you’re making to your list. That is pure math. That is pure
… I mean, just a very, very simple principle here. If you want to make more money
with your list, start pitching them more aggressively. If you’re afraid of maybe
alienating your list or pissing your list off, it’s only because either you have a
bad relationship with the whole process of selling and the whole idea of selling, or
your list has their own mindset about buying. Which, if that’s the case, you should
get rid of that list and get a list that wants to buy.
That’s why I always recommend my customers to get into a passion market and into
a passion niche like golfing, or weight loss, or make money online, or investing,
because these people want to buy stuff in that niche. They actually experience
pleasure when they buy things related to that topic, same as car enthusiasts or
sports fans. They’re, like, getting a kick every time they buy. It’s like an
adrenaline rush. So that’s the audience you want to have; it’s the audience that
wants to buy stuff from you, and not the audience that will get upset with you for
trying to sell them something.
Now, the second reason on why your list may be full of tire-kickers, is because
you don’t sell them what they want. This is the second most common thing that I’m
seeing in the marketplace. A lot of times, people will go out there and try to sell
things they wish someone sold them. And that’s the absolute most backwards approach
you can take with marketing things to your list. I did it, and I learned that lesson
the hard way.
What I tried to do, is I really tried to give people what I thought they wanted,
and I literally spelled it out. I said, “Okay, here’s what you’re usually being
sold. Here’s what I’m giving you. Here’s how it’s different. You should buy this,
because this is exactly what you need.” Now, nobody bought when I did that. But when
I just went out there, I investigated the marketplace, and I found the
highest-converting offers in the marketplace and I pulled out all the commonalities
between all these high-converting offers, and then I built my own offer that was
similar to that offer, guess what? I flourished. People started buying without me
even trying to convince them, because I was selling what they want.
So if you’re trying to sell people what you think they need, or something that
they don’t want in the first place, well, good luck with that. It doesn’t matter how
great of an email marketer you are, it doesn’t matter how big your list is, you will
not be able to make money this way.
The third reason why your list isn’t buying from you is probably because you
don’t speak their language. There’s an actual disconnect in the language. I’ll give
an example. So a couple of weeks ago I ran a promotion to an offer that I would not
usually run. It was a joint venture with somebody who I respect and admire. What
they sell is investing advice. On one hand, it didn’t quite fit my audience. On the
other hand, this person positioned the investing advice uniquely as a business
opportunity, which my list always responds well to.
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So usually when I run a promotion to my list, I walk away with anywhere from
$50,000 to $70,000. Sometimes less, sometimes $30,000. For example, I just finished
a promotion where I netted $20,000 in commissions. Now, with this person though, I
only made four sales. So I actually made less than $2,000 in commissions, because my
list simply was not interested in the language. The language that this person was
speaking to them was investor language. It was the language of somebody who was
speaking to other investors, rather than to “biz op” seekers. And as a result, there
was a disconnect in communication. Even though I sent a lot of traffic to that offer
and I did my best to position it correctly, that communication disconnect played a
key role in that entire promotion.
Now, I know it wasn’t because of the offer itself though. You may think, “Igor,
what if it’s an offer? What if it’s something other than that?” But, no, because the
offer was packaged in the same way that other successful offers I ran to my list was
packaged, so I knew for a fact it was the communication style and the communication
wrapper, if you will, and not the product itself.
Now, the fifth reason why your emails aren’t being opened may be as simple as
your emails are not being delivered. I know it’s kind of common sense, but many
times people don’t even check. They sort of just mail the list, and they don’t watch
their open rates, they don’t watch their click-through rates, and they come back and
they’re like, “Oh, my list is not responsive.” Then, you investigate, and what you
find is that their open rate is less than 1%, and they get maybe three clicks per
email. So, naturally, even if they were mailing for the next year every single day,
they’d maybe generate, I don’t know, maybe 50 or 100 clicks to that offer, and they
may make one sale. So it’s pure math.
Again, just like the first principle, when I told you that you may not be
pitching your list enough, it’s the same thing. If your message is not being
delivered, if your emails are not inboxing, then obviously you’re not going to make
a lot of money, because there’s no eyeballs on your offer.
And last but not least, the sixth and final reason why I believe you may not be
getting the best response from your list, where your list may be just full of
tire-kickers, is because you’re marketing to the wrong crowd.
Now, this is the hardest one to swallow. Because if you’ve been trying to market
to a certain crowd for the last six months or the last six years and it hasn’t been
successful, admitting that you’re marketing to the wrong crowd may be one of the
most difficult things you’ll do. But, as it often is, one of the most difficult
things you do can also become one of the most profitable things you do. Because the
moment you realize that crowd is not the best crowd for you, you can move on to
marketing to a different crowd that will be way easier to convert.
We’ve seen it time and time again when businesses kind of reinvented themselves,
when they moved from one crowd to another. I don’t have any specific example come to
mind right away, but if you study any of Dan Kennedy’s work, he always talks about
how they take some kind of course, or advice, or a franchise. An opportunity they
did with chiropractors … they take you to dentists. Or they develop a marketing
system for a guy who sells sheds, and they redevelop it and take it to doctors.
Right?
So you can always change the crowd. You can always change the “who” you’re
marketing to. And as a result, you may experience instantaneous explosion of
profits, just because you switched the person that was buying, and not what you’re
selling. So that’s a big concept, and it can lead to an amazing breakthrough,
literally overnight.
Could there be other reasons why people are not buying from you right now? Yeah,
there could be other reasons. Maybe your traffic is really bad. Maybe just the
overall time of the year is really bad. I mean, it could be other things. But,
primarily, these six things are the first six things that I would look for if my
list suddenly stopped being responsive. Because I know for a fact if I don’t pitch
my list often enough, and if I try to sell them what they don’t want, and if my
emails aren’t being delivered, then obviously it’s not going to happen. And if my
communication is just off, if I’m not talking their language, again, they have no
reason to trust me. They don’t have any reason to hold me as an authority or trusted
advisor, so they probably don’t want to buy through my link.
So, again, these principles are timeless. These principles are not rocket
science. They’re definitely not brand-new. Marketing experts and gurus have been
talking about these principles pretty much since the dawn of internet marketing. But
it is worth reminding. It is worth going over again and again if you’re not getting
the kind of results you want to be getting in your business.
So think about it. Go over this episode again, write down these six principles,
write down these six areas that you need to examine, and I guarantee you will most
likely find that one or two of these things is what’s causing your low income right
now from that particular list.
Again, it could be different, because it could be building a list in a different
niche, using the exact same principles, the exact same language, the exact same
follow-up sequence, the exact same framing, the exact same technical setup, and all
of a sudden that works, simply because the crowd wants to spend money, or because
your language is hitting it right, or because you’re offering them a product they
actually want to buy, and on, and on, and on.
So consider that next time you’re looking into why your dead list is not opening
your emails or buying through your links. That said, thank you so much. This is Igor
Kheifets. Until next time we chat, have a good one.
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IGOR KHEIFETS
Igor Kheifets is an amazon best-selling author of the List Building Lifestyle: Confessions of an Email Millionaire.
He’s also the host of List Building Lifestyle, the podcast for anyone who wants to make more money and have more freedom by leveraging the power of an email list
He’s widely referred to as the go-to authority on building large responsive email lists in record time.
Igor’s passionate about showing people how to live the List Building Lifestyle.