Question came in asking:
How big should your list be before you start seeing sales?
(the op had a list of 1,200 subscribers)
Now some “pro marketers” say that you should be able to convert at least 5% of your list into customers.
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And it's nonsense like that, that causes problems for those who are just getting started with building their email list.
Hard numbers like that don't apply when building an email list.
Like the whole
“each sub on your list is worth 1 buck per month”
Those aren't facts or hard numbers to build your business around.
It's different for everyone who builds an email list.
I know marketers who have a list of about 300 subscribers who earn well over $10k per month.
And I also know marketers who have lists of 30k subscribers who have to launch products every week to keep their incomes at a certain level.
Again hard numbers shouldn't be taken as facts when building a list.
Each list is different.
Each marketer is different.
How your lists responds to your emails is different than how they'd respond to my emails.
Once you wrap your head around that, the size of the list won't matter nearly as much as the relationship you have with them.
Isaiah Jackson