How to Make Money with Email Lists: Finding the Right Traffic Sources to Collect Emails, Profitable Niches, and Monetization Strategies

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When it comes to collecting email addresses for newsletters, many affiliates question the need to do the work themselves. Their doubt is understandable: why collect the database yourself when there are countless email lists available for sale online?

Some affiliates choose to collect emails manually, but few have the experience to identify the best traffic sources for this purpose.

The MyBid team decided to investigate this issue, and in this article, we will provide answers to the following questions: Is it worth buying ready-made email databases for advertising purposes? Which traffic source is best for collecting emails? And in which niches is it most profitable to collect a database for email marketing? Please read on for our insights.

Why purchasing ready-made email lists is not profitable​

It's rare for people to buy a couple of thousand email addresses and then make money from them. There are several reasons for this:

• Ready-made databases have spam traps: Email service providers use spam traps to catch spammers. Usually, these are abandoned email addresses or emails created specifically to trap scammers. Developers intentionally add these addresses to sites that often experience user data leaks. Since only spammers send emails to spam