Email marketing is one of the best ways to develop passive income. If you use an autoresponder company (and you definitely should), you can write and store emails in your account that automatically get sent out to your list subscribers. These emails can contain links that sell products you believe in—either your own products or products you’re promoting as an affiliate.
You could choose to store enough content to last a year or more, if you wanted to. Write 100 emails over time, add links to them, and load them up into your autoresponder account. Set them to deliver every few days or a couple times a week or whatever works for you.
How is this passive? It’s passive because these emails will go out to new subscribers at the preset intervals you’ve determined ahead of time. Ideally, you’ll design a list-building funnel that will work for you day and night. So, someone who joins your list today will get your email sequence in order—they’ll see the emails where you teach things and emails where you sell things. They’ll buy from you.
More people will join tomorrow, more people will join a month from now, and more people will join six months and a year from now. Those people will get your email sequence in order. So you’ll have hundreds and hopefully thousands of people receiving your well thought out, well-monetized autoresponder sequence. This can earn you some fantastic passive income.
You could be lounging on the beach, sleeping, traveling, or working on another project altogether and still be earning passive income from your autoresponder series because your emails are being delivered without any further effort on your part, after you set them up the first time.
Does that sound like a dream? There are few things better for online income and building a real business than email marketing. Focus on earning passive income from autoresponder emails and you can truly choose your income.
More On What Autoresponder Emails Are
As a short refresher, autoresponder emails are emails that are sent automatically by your email autoresponder company. Examples of these include GetResponse and Aweber—I use and like Aweber.
You’ll start by including a Welcome email. This email will go out to new subscribers as soon as they subscribe, after they confirm their email address if you are using double optin. This welcome email will introduce you and give people an idea of what to expect from being on your email list.
You’ll then write and upload additional emails that will go out to your audience at the intervals you determine. You might want them to go out every day at first. Or, maybe just every other day. Or, maybe once or twice a week is better for your audience. You don’t want to overwhelm people with your emails but you don’t want them to forget about you either.
Some of your emails will be very informative. Some will focus on relationship building—showing your email list subscribers that you honestly and truly do care about them. Other emails will be monetized—either with links to your own product or products you’re promoting as an affiliate.
More on How to Monetize Autoresponder Emails
Which products should you promote within your autoresponder? I highly recommend that you hand pick these products very carefully. Don’t choose something just because you think it’s going to make you a lot of money. Part of your success in earning money passively with autoresponder emails is building relationships along the way. People have to come to trust you and your recommendations.
So, pay attention to your market and what they really need and want. What are their biggest needs, passions, and desires? It can really help to investigate which products are already selling well, what people are talking about on forums, and what’s most posted on social media.
In addition to making sure the products you create or promote are needed and wanted, study whether those topics and products are actually making money. Sometimes, people are interested in a topic but aren’t really willing to pay for information related to it.
You’re in this business to make money, so it makes sense to follow the money. What’s selling? What has staying power as an evergreen product to promote?
That brings up another topic—evergreen products vs. trendy products. Generally, you’ll promote evergreen topics within these long-term autoresponder sequences. That’s because you don’t know what will be hot a year from now. You want the products you promote to be just as fresh and relevant six months or a year from now as they are right now.
That doesn’t mean you should never promote trendy products—those can be huge moneymakers. You will just promote those as broadcast emails instead of autoresponder emails. Broadcast emails go out to everyone at once instead of on a timed basis (based on when someone joined your list) in the autoresponder sequence.
Write emails that are designed to presell the reader on buying the product. Whether it’s your product or an affiliate product, your goal in the email is to get people to that sales page. Not only do you want to get them to click through and land on that sales page, you want to pre-sell them on buying the product before they even land there.
That means knowing what their emotional points are. What are they desperate for? Connect with them on a personal level with the email. Don’t mention the product until their emotions are stirred and they’re reminded how desperate they are for a great solution… the solution you’re presenting to them.
Don’t be shy about including links to the sales page within your email, as well as a call to action to get people to click through your link.
Monetizing autoresponder emails isn't difficult at all. It's literally just a matter of linking to the sales page. But the way you do it is important. Pay attention to how email marketers you admire do it. Sign up for other lists in your niche to see how they do it. You’ll find your groove and what works for you.
Testing Different Monetization Options
Since this autoresponder series will be a great asset for you, it makes sense to tweak it to higher profitability over time. If a certain promotion isn’t selling well, try switching it out with something different. Or, take a different angle with the way you’re pre-selling in your autoresponder email.
You might be surprised at what works or how a different way of phrasing things or a different subject line or call to action works. Your skills as an email marketer will improve over time as well.
Even though your goal is for this to be a great passive income stream for you, you might want to revisit your existing autoresponder emails every once in a while to tweak and test so that your passive income ultimately increases over time. The better your conversions, the better your income.
Sending Emails in Groups of Three
I highly recommend that you consider not monetizing in every email you send out. Sometimes, the build up is needed to get people really interested in what you’re talking about and selling.
You can do well in groups of three emails. The first email in a series can be one that introduces the topic related to the product you’re ultimately promoting. It can stir up emotions and make people feel the pain they have from an unresolved problem.
The second email in a series can touch on those emotional points and start to reveal the solution. You can do some light pre-selling in this email.
The third email in the series can be a more specific, hard-selling email that directly asks for the sale.
This type of thing can work well because it builds up to the sale and gets people interested. Send a different series/promotion set of three emails every week or so for a potentially great, passive income with emails that convert far better than average.
Successfully Earning Passive Income by Monetizing Autoresponders
Hopefully, you’re getting really excited about the possibilities here. You can set up many different list building funnels and autoresponder email series that essentially run on autopilot. You can earn a nice passive income this way. Do yourself a favor and invest your time into email marketing, because it truly can help you build a real business and earn a fantastic passive income over time.
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