Originally Posted by Robbie

Porn Nerd, I have done mailers to my members list before.

They do work. BUT...only when you offer them a deep discount (half off, etc.)

The problem being that once you do that, the info gets put on a surfer forum with the link to the discount join.

So now you get a few extra joins too. Great! Right?

Yes and no. Because now your current members get pissed because they feel screwed because they paid full price.

It's kind of a delicate balancing act.

I've made some good money with email campaigns. But you can't do them all the time. They only really work a couple of times a year. After that you just start becoming an annoyance to your members and you get a reputation for "spamming" even though you really aren't.

You know the kind of companies that send you a freakin' email everyday until you finally end up blocking them because it's so annoying (talking mainstream companies).

You don't want to end up like that.