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Originally Posted by tj2050
Looking for some advice and input into my idea.
The concept:
A daily email newsletter
-contains ~3 interesting GQ/Popular Mechanics/Weird news headlines
-contains 5-6 static NSFW images + a gif. Each one links out to a gallery somewhere.
I know email is very old school. But that's the idea - not too many others in this market right now, and once the list is large enough it means pushing my message to a lot of eyes every day.
I've already got it up and running and it has grown to 400 double-opt-in subscribers in about 2 months. Complying with can-spam laws and getting in-boxed has been easy. The open rates are acceptable at 20-30%.
For the moment totally focused on growth, but I'd thought this would grow a lot faster and I'm disappointed with the result.
I've done some ad buying on TrafficJunky (abysmal results on every creative/landing page I could dream up) and posting on Twitter, which has been the main source.
Are there any other sources to find potential subscribers? Are viewers totally opposed to seeing porn in their inbox, or giving their email address to an adult site?
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People have tried doing this for years, it tends not to work.
The thing is many will not read them and probably get irritated. Lets face it, they do not want to be at work or next to a family member and a porn email pops up.
Also it is the design. I get a lot from sites giving updates as an affiliate, and most of the emails look bad.
by all means try doing email thing, and see how it goes. but i suspect after a few months you will think sod it.
You may be better just doing a blog and setting it up to send updates to those who want them.
Personally I think doing twitter posts would be easer and more effective and less hassle.