HearAndPlay generated $8,000 in its first month from a 700-person list
Jermaine Griggs · #715 HearAndPlay.com: Turning $70 Into A Multimillion Dollar Instruction Web Site – with Jermaine Griggs · Apr 23, 2012 · at 43:09
Jermaine Griggs describes early revenue numbers for HearAndPlay.com after rebuilding the site and marketing to his initial email subscribers.
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“They come to my site and it took me two years to get 700 people. And for many people listening, 700 people, you know, it doesn't sound like a lot, but when I think about it was that same 700 people. That gave me that 1100 dollars in that one day, and I, I'm not saying it was 1100 dollars a day, it would taper down to 200 dollars the next day, 300 dollars the next day, hundred dollars off that same 700 people. So my conversions, I haven't done the math or, you know, or didn't know to do the math back then, but my conversions had to be insane for a 700 person list to get me 8000 dollars that first real month after changing the website.”
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