In which the question is asked:
“How far do you go with segmentation in your businesses/with your lists?”
Answer:
I don’t beyond the very basics.
And even that isn’t much, since my buyers lists are not on BerserkerMail, they are in a car some joke is one step away from being an actual shopping cart… My buyer’s list that I’ve been using since 2009 and would be a tremendous pain in the gluteus assimus to switch is simply on a platform that does not play “nice” with anything —including Zapier.
Thus, I basically do zero segmenting.
But I also don’t need to, either.
My business model is so caveman simple it’s not all that necessary. And since I’m not greedy, and since I have a life outside of trying to goose every last penny out of my list and then telling everyone about it on social media for clout, it’s all good around here.
That said:
Like a lot of things up in this game, whether or not one should segment depends on what you’re selling, and the logistics of what you’re doing. If you do eCommerce, for example, you’d be foolish not to segment, slice & dice, and do everything you can to get that figured out. A lot of people have listened to one-too-many email goo-roos talking out of their arses and think there is a one size fits all way (their way, of course) to this while bragging to the 5 people who give a crap about how complicated they make everything when they don’t even really need to.
It’s not all that different from a lot of funnel guys.
I still remember this blue flame special back in my old elBenbo’s Lair Facebook group who tried pounding his chest about this 30-point funnel full of mazes or whatever… when guy didn’t even have an offer yet.
It’s all aesthetics with some of these funnel floozies.
Very little actual substance.
And that’s why they yip and ankle-bite when called on it.
I’m not really sure where else I am going with this.
Except to say, simple is often better with funnels and list segmenting. Especially if you want to use my email methodology in the paid Email Players newsletter.
More on that here:
Ben Settle