by Ana Hoffman | Join Ana on Google+ Here

All email addresses are not created equal…
Have you read Blog Tyrant‘s guest post on Traffic Generation Cafe yet? You’ll find a lot of great tips on how to avoid making stupid mistakes and increase your email optin conversions.
However, what happens after you did convince a visitor to give up their email address in [click to continue...]
by the Blog Tyrant | Join Ana on Google+ Here

The whole point of big traffic is to grow a massively engaged email list.
It’s those email subscribers that allow you to build a sustainable blogging income that lasts for many years.
You need them badly.
But there are so many subtle forces at play on your blog. Things that affect how many people sign [click to continue...]
by Ana Hoffman | Join Ana on Google+ Here

I‘ve been hearing a lot of discussions lately as to whether building an email list is still a valid way to create more business and increase income.
Sure everybody’s doing it these days.
Sure many people will subscribe just to get your freebie and will unsubscribe the first chance they get.
Sure some subscribers will [click to continue...]
by Ana Hoffman | Join Ana on Google+ Here
Funny how things work out sometimes.
Just last week I sent out a special “keep your money” email, in which I told my subscribers the reason I thought they should stay away from Pop-Up Domination.
And by the way, it didn’t have anything to do with the “are pop-ups good or bad for your site” [click to continue...]
by Ana Hoffman | Join Ana on Google+ Here

I know, I was shocked myself.
Here’s the scoop: I usually do regular cleaning of my Aweber optin email marketing list.
About once a month I would say.
I currently have 4 lists and each one of them has people who at some point unsubscribed or entered wrong email addresses, usually hoping that I don’t [click to continue...]