Would you bid $1... to have me promote you to my list?

Following the recent discussion of list swaps:

Lots of people in this group could do list swaps, and get new subscribers to their list for free... but they aren't doing it.

I've learned one thing through cold, cruel experience:

In situations where people won't take something for free... they will take it if you charge for it.

So I got a question for you.

I have long been itching to try running an auction, the way marketer Travis Sago teaches and practices.

An auction works just how you think:

Different people bid what they are willing to pay... the winning bidder takes the prize.

In this case, the prize would be a solo ad in my newsletter.

(Basically, a single email I'd send to my list, dedicated completely to building you up and to promoting your unique offer.)

I would also work with you directly to define and refine the offer in your ad... so as to entice the greatest number of qualified subscribers or buyers to go to your page and sign up or buy...

... and I'd work with you to come up with a back-end offer you could offer right away, so you could liquidate your ad cost, and maybe then some, on DAY ZERO.

I've never offered an ad in my newsletter before.

I also don't have a huge list.

But when I did run a list swap with

@Alin Dragu

a few months ago — basically the same kind of thing I'm offering here, but getting paid in cross-promotion instead of cash — I drove about 200 clicks and got Alin about 120 new subscribers.

When I did something similar with Lawrence Bernstein last year, and promoted Lawrence's $7 offer as part of a list swap, I drove 157 buyers to Lawrence's list.

If those kinds of numbers get you interested even a tiny bit, here's my question to you:

If I were to make this offer, and make a monkey out of myself by running an auction to sell it...

... would you bid at least $1?

Full transparency:

I'm not committed to making this offer or to running an auction.

If there is little interest, and a grand total of 2 people comment below to say they would participate...

I will simply go and sulk, and pretend like I never even wrote this post.

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