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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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Daily is a bit to much even for spammers btw.
You also speak of how many have opted in but of all those is your unsubscribe numbers?
There is also a big chance you're not going to the inbox but spam so maybe they aren't paying attention.
If you're a business webmaster board who sends it out weekend or less then emails are useful - if you're merely attempting to get people to show up at your site by playing the shell game of look at this article and then insert your name and links everywhere then it's spam
How much effort has been done on the seo for the pages?
Is there any other traffic company you've used?
There are many ways to increase your traffic and subscriptions - maybe contact me on skype and we can talk.