I just thought I'd share a method I've had a lot of success with during the last two years because somebody on WF gave me a ton of help and told me to pay it forward.
This tactic is pretty straight forward, basically you look for businesses that are closing down/have closed down in your niche. You approach these businesses and offer to buy their membership lists from them.
For example, brick and mortar video stores are a dying breed so whenever one goes out of business I'll contact them and offer to buy their membership lists, if I can convince the owner to sell (and in most cases I can, sometimes you have to be sneaky and offer them a personal finders fee as any money you offer the business itself will be used to pay creditors).
Generally you will just get first name/last name/address/phone number. Once I have this information I'll write a sales letter that will basically say
"Dear [persons name] Blah blah blah has closed down, we are sorry for any inconvenience. Forunately netflix has offered all of our customers a free 30 day trial. List benefits of netflix over crappy video store"
Obviously you need to split test like you would an online campaign and see what works and what doesn't.
In some cases they will just give you their whole databse, this is when the real money rolls in. Let's say Samantha owes $20 in late fees, you send her a letter saying that you will cancel her debt if she signs up for netflix or one of other offers below.
You can also look at how often somebody hires and phrase the letter differently (thank you for being one of our best customers, here is your reward!)
Video stores are just one example, any business which keeps your personal information works just as well. If there is no aff offer available then just contact other local businesses in the area and offer to either sell them the list of charge like XX per new customer you send them. I often provide this service for some of my local SEO clients.
Requires a little initial outlay and some testing, but as always once you get it dialed in you make mega bank.
Dunno if something similar has been posted on WF before, but if you have any questions ask away.
This tactic is pretty straight forward, basically you look for businesses that are closing down/have closed down in your niche. You approach these businesses and offer to buy their membership lists from them.
For example, brick and mortar video stores are a dying breed so whenever one goes out of business I'll contact them and offer to buy their membership lists, if I can convince the owner to sell (and in most cases I can, sometimes you have to be sneaky and offer them a personal finders fee as any money you offer the business itself will be used to pay creditors).
Generally you will just get first name/last name/address/phone number. Once I have this information I'll write a sales letter that will basically say
"Dear [persons name] Blah blah blah has closed down, we are sorry for any inconvenience. Forunately netflix has offered all of our customers a free 30 day trial. List benefits of netflix over crappy video store"
Obviously you need to split test like you would an online campaign and see what works and what doesn't.
In some cases they will just give you their whole databse, this is when the real money rolls in. Let's say Samantha owes $20 in late fees, you send her a letter saying that you will cancel her debt if she signs up for netflix or one of other offers below.
You can also look at how often somebody hires and phrase the letter differently (thank you for being one of our best customers, here is your reward!)
Video stores are just one example, any business which keeps your personal information works just as well. If there is no aff offer available then just contact other local businesses in the area and offer to either sell them the list of charge like XX per new customer you send them. I often provide this service for some of my local SEO clients.
Requires a little initial outlay and some testing, but as always once you get it dialed in you make mega bank.
Dunno if something similar has been posted on WF before, but if you have any questions ask away.
