@Angela – So glad you enjoyed the challenge and got your messages up and like you said, at least you got a bunch up this month that you may not have made time for. Great job!

@Jeric – How awesome that this helped give you such a great jump start. You did really well this month and now you’ve motivated me to go in and do some recordings too.

For myself, I changed the “gift” for my subscribers BUT it wasn’t for the better. I thought that it may increase my subscribers but it just didn’t. I’m going to leave it up for a bit because oddly I just checked and my subscribers have in fact increased *just* today. So we’ll see what happens. I also got the 269 messages put together, just need to put them into “html” format. I believe I’m going to change from using text now.

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who participated! It’s been a really great time and hope you continue on with me onto March’s challenge. I’ll be posting the winner in a new blog post shortly.

Congrats everyone!

@Angela: Great work! I’m sure those messages would help you and your subscribers a lot.

For me, I’ve redirected some of my objectives to other tasks. Here are my updates for the challenge:

- Finished my free gift for subscribers. I initially planned to give a live recording from one of my talks but the audio can’t be heard well. So I turned it into an ebook instead and also recorded it into mp3 for those who want to listen on the go. Both formats will be available for download when they subscribe.

- Completed 8 followup messages in my newsletter. These messages are in the form of a mini-series of life lessons.

What I was not able to accomplish is setting up my autoresponder, which is my goal for this week. I will be doing also the other tasks that comes along with it like the opt-in form and the Thank You page.

Thank you very much for this challenge. This really helped me jump start my site. Thank you also to everyone who supported me. I’m sure this world will be a better place with more people like you.

Cheers!

Just wanted to check and let you know I’ve been working like crazy down to the last minute to get this challenge complete. Here’s what I did:

Affiliate Marketing List – 30 messages
Email Marketing List – 22 messages
Podcasting List – 1 message
Wordpress Website List – 28 messages

Total – 81 messages!

Thanks for the challenge Vera. I really felt great as I set up each new message (sprinkled with affiliate links) as they are going to continue to work for me long after (even years!) this initial work put into them. Of course I’ve still got plenty of work to do but the challenge helped me get a big batch of it completed.

Angela

Altinkum – Awesome on the personalized emails! Your clients will be happy with it I’m sure. Copy to sell the form is the words you use to sell your sign up. If you take a look at mine at the top I’m offering “5 outsourcing sheets” free when they sign up. I prompt with a free item and the words I use hopefully gets them to sign up. I’ve recently changed this because I wanted to make it more compelling, we’ll see how it goes.

I have also put on opt in form on my new site so people don’t have to inquire about a property to receive news.

Next step is to set up Auto responders.

BTW Vera : I see above in your post “Copy to sell your sign up form”. What does this mean?

The more the many-er

My list is small: I started the site in October of last year, but hopefully this one small step will help me grow my list faster.

Thanks for the push!

@Christina – how are you doing? Are you meeting your goals so far?

@Glennette – That’s great news about getting your ecourses posted… how many days in each ecourse do you have? How many messages will you add today? tomorrow? or will you do a power session? What’s your plan?

@Angie – Thanks for joining us! The best thing you can do is just start mailing them, and have your messages come from the heart. Be genuine. Don’t let a fear of getting started hold you back, you have a good list and you can start using it. I think if you’ve been somewhat paralyzed from getting on this, I think a really good goal for you is to just get it over with and email both of them. It doesn’t have to be a huge long-winded email, just something short and sweet works too. Just be true to who you are and your business and it’ll be great!

@Altinkum – Yippie! Kudos to you for just outsourcing it and getting the job done. Why not have someone load your content as well? A great goal for you may be to just start communicating with those 2 new clients. I recently sold my house and our realtor had an autoresponder set up but it was only to log in to see the details of what was happening with my property, I was hoping for more personalized messages. Yet I was thrilled to see him doing at least that because it was truly a step ahead of other realtors. Awesome for you!

Great job everyone! I can’t wait to hear your progress and if you haven’t done so yet, you should click the “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” when you submit your comment.

The site was my WordPress site. Thanks for the offer but just paid someone to completely scrap the lot and start again. It was my own fault, Oh the shame!

Anyway, reloading content but might be done in time to carry on with my tasks. My area is real estate and I have just taken a new property on my books so i am thinking a personalised email to each of them. Fingers crossed I can join in.

I do have a sign up forms on my main site and a mailing list page. I also have a blog list that I set up not too long ago through Aweber but totally messed up and it started sending me all my past blog posts. Thankfully it was a new list and only I was on it at the time and Aweber was able to help me stop it quickly. So it’s glitches and techy stuff like that which makes me so nervous to do it.

Anyway, I would like to figure out something small to accomplish before the end of the month. I’ll be back to see if you have suggestions but I think I’ll want to send out a note to both lists ultimately.

Thanks for listening!

I will also email my list more often with great offers and information. I may set up some autoresponders for my primary list but I haven’t decided yet what those would be.

Glennette

I actually just sent an email out to my list about 30 autoresponder plr messages I bought to customize and add to my email list.

I currently have 7 lists – my main internet business list and then six internet marketing method specific lists. My goal for my six specific lists is to get a minimum of 52 autoresponder messages each, loaded with helpful messages and of course great affiliate recommendations.

I don’t imagine I’ll get anywhere near 312 messages finished by the end of Feb but taking a good chunk out of it in the next couple of weeks would be a step in the right direction.

So my challenge for Feb is to go through all my messages, make sure they are relevant, useful, up to date and filled with appropriate affiliate recommendations.

Since I’m probably going to get an accountability question – I’m going to aim for 10 new messages added per week.

Angela

@Jeric: I love that you’ve redirected into something that will be valuable for your readers.

@Kimberly: Looking forward to seeing you join us here.

@Altinkum: Which site was it that got hacked? Maybe we could help you towards taking steps so that it doesn’t happen again. Some sites are more vulnerable than others too.

I just heard from Vera and she’s having a technical difficulty and isn’t able to post here at the moment. She’ll be back as soon as her tech glitch is fixed…hopefully soon!

@Kimberly: You’re welcome to join the contest at any point. Just post a comment here with your plan and what you’ve accomplished for that month’s task

@Jeric: good backup plan with the special report