The Core

Like Rumbas I have really never build an email list on any of my sites and I always kick myself for not starting it 10 years ago. When I see the "gurus" that can send an email out to their list pushing the next big product release and make a few hundred grand off just a few minutes of work I make myself sick.

With my football jersey site if I would have been collecting email addresses and sending out info when a new player is signed and their jerseys are available or something like that I could probably add a nice chunk of change to my bottom line.

I don't think that I'm overstating to say that this may very well be the most important thing you hear. ever.  (and by "you", I mean anyone reading this, not just Andrew.)

Quote from: jimbanks on November 28, 2010, 12:15:03 PM

All I will say is this :

The money is in the list

Turn your traffic into an e-mail list and you will bank like crazy. Typically people that subscribe to a lifestyle/coaching thing will not do anything with it, but will buy every other program that promises they will come out the other end richer/wiser.

If you promote one offer then you are giving the partials to the persons who owns the offer for free.

If you capture their data and then in the thank you e-mail send them the offer, if they don't signup then at least you can try them with other things.

Ancillary income streams have become a big deal for me now. Exit pops, cross sells, one time offers, upsells. It's the same traffic always.

i generally focus on ecom promotion, and my (limited) experience with fb for retail has not been good...

Seen the same thing. I have tried out a handful of retail campaigns and only one was ever in the black and that was only for a day. I know I haven't spent enough time to really get a handle on things and I know there is potential there. Just haven't cracked it yet.

Great to have you around Tedster. Glad you found your way over here.

I have bought some stuff on Amazon from my Droid before. It usually happens when my wife is looking at something in a store and I buy it on Amazon for less than it is in the store before she can get to the register. Can't remember buying from anywhere other than Amazon though.

I will check out digitalquill and datafeedr and see how they compare. Thanks and I will report back as to how they compare to what I have used.

Anyone have any experience with datafeed plugins?

The best one I have used is http://blogpig.com/products/csvpig/. It is pretty simple to use and does a good job of quickly building a WP site based off a datafeed.

I have also tried http://www.csv2post.com/ and it is decent but not quite as good as CSVPig.

The other one I know of is http://www.datafeedr.com/ but I have never tried it.

You guys have any experience with any of these? Are there any others I should check out?

I have been using them to build some simple, quick super targeted sites like http://giantsworldserieshats.com/ and http://aluminumstockpots.com/. Nothing super exciting about those sites but I have been seeing them get 1st page listings in Google in about 2-3 days. I usually just go manually comment on some related blogs, give a link or two from other related sites I have, and they are good to go.

Looks good to me. Agree with all of it.