CL Marketer? Here’s a Little Tip to Make Some Extra Cash from Existing Leads!
Now most of us that are into CPA are using Craigslist in some way, shape or form to collect e-mail leads and then mail them our offer. This is so you can get a little bit more personal, avoid looking like spam (which gets your ad flagged quickly) and lure the person in and get their interest peaked before you spring them with your offer. This blog post will show you how you can get an extra sale from a large number of your existing leads with a very minimal effort.
I’m not going to cover getting your existing leads already, you can find this in a couple of posts here and is fairly common knowledge. That being said let us just get to it.
Basically the idea here is that you are going to take existing leads – no matter what campaign you have running – and getting them to buy some anti virus software from you. This is not a new idea but it seems like a lot of people missed it and it brings me in quite a few extra sales so I thought I’d just lay out exactly how I do this – I run this with all of my CL mailing campaigns.
So you will do everything as normal, send out your delayed auto response with your sales pitch and make your sales on whatever product/offer you are running. For the sake of making this clear to you I will pretend that I am running a campaign to promote a CPA credit offer. So I’ve shot off all of my mails to the leads I collected today, now I’m going to harvest and save these e-mails for my next step.
I personally use Gmail accounts so I am going to link you to the free mail extractor I use, if you use Yahoo!’s then a Google search will probably yield you a comparable solution. I use the extractor from Vallery.net and save all of my e-mails to my desktop; next I’ll manually log in and delete all of the mails in my account to continue with my credit offer campaign. Note it will limit the number of times you can extract, luckily with Gmail you can simply ad ‘+numbers’ to the end of your e-mail and it will appear to be a new one (as an example change your address of wowhaxor@gmail.com to wowhaxor+56@gmail.com and etc.).
I will now go and create a new e-mail address, if you can afford a domain this is great because you will have a bit more creditability and make some additional sales. You will be posing as an anti virus unit of Craigslist, so a domain such as ‘clantifraud.org’ or something to make your e-mails seem more legitimate. If not simply choose a good sounding account and make a new Gmail, I would highly recommend a hosted mail though as you are only forking over like $5 for a method that will make that back with a deal of profit on your first conversion.
Now I wait about 3 days to send a mail (I will continue to harvest mails daily and date them on my desktop to be sent out after 3 days) this gives the lead a chance to first complete the original offer that you targeted them for. It is time to send the mail now, I simply import the contacts list into my mail client (gmail will let you import via .CSV if you went the free route as well) and send out a message to all of the users that goes something like this:
Dear Craigslist user,
Our records indicate that you may have been in contact with a website about a credit (replace with your offer) offer which was e-mailed to you as a follow up via a Craigslist advertisement on the 10th of September (todays date minus 3 days). Various reports indicate that this website is highly malicious in nature and has most probably infected your computer with a virus designed to steal and/or compromise your personal and financial data.
Since this virus is custom coded and very new most anti virus programs will not pick it up, the following three programs contain virus definitions that will detect and remove his malicious virus; it is highly recommended you use one of these programs to scan your computer:
Link1 | Link2 | Link3
Sincerely,
Craigslist Anti Virus & Fraud Department
Obviously the stuff in red is not placed within the ad but simply there for you to see where to change your information. In addition the three links at the bottom will be to three different anti virus programs that run through ClickBank. I provide three instead of one so it looks less promotional – these offers are great because they even pay out recurring commissions in many instances and are usually north of a $30 payout to you.
This method works great and with only 5-10 extra minutes of work allows you to turn your previous leads into a second sale, often even yielding sales from leads who failed to bite on your initial mailing.
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