How To Use Safelists
I could write a big tutorial about safelists but I
will keep it as simple and short for here.
The safelists came on the scene approx 10 years ago
after yahoo,topica and other groups that where around
basically stopped people from mailing to their groups
in bulk and they changed their terms.
I had a system in place where I could mail to all of
my groups at once. They where highly effective.
Not long after the mailings stopped to the groups the
safelists started to pop up. There where a few smart
people that started the safelists around that time and
have made and still make a good living from them.
The safelists of today are not as responsive as they
where 5 years ago but they are still are worth using
if you know how to use them.
They are also popular because most of them are free to
join and use. They are a good way for people starting
out that do not have a lot of money.
The secret is simply to join as many as you can
and find a way to to mail to them quickly as not
many people have a lot of time to spend on the net.
There are different forms of safelists but mainly two
types.
1)...Your traditional one where you join and send
your ads and receive ads. Some allow daily sends
and others put a time frame of 3,5,7 days etc to the
whole membership.
2)..The second type is all of the above ( # 1 )
but you have to accumulate points. Usually 1 point
means you can send to 1 person in the membership.
You will need what are called a throw away e-mail
address. The best one to use is gmail ( free ) but there
are many other free and many good paid ones out there.
You will need to make sure you delete the ads on
a daily basis so your e-mails don't bounce.
If you don't then the safelist owners may suspend your
account and you won't be able to send your ads.
If you need a gmail account just message me and I will
help you out.
Since you need to join a lot of safelists for them to
be successful,you will get a lot of e-mails.
Some people say that all people do is delete all
the ads from the other members of the safelists
and nobody sees any ads. This is partly true
but I still get signups to my various programs.
I used the safelists to help build my network
at Apsense and in approx 1 week I got about 30 signups
so to me they work.You just need to work them.
I personally look at the ads from time to time
looking for certain stuff or just to see what is out
there so I guess a lot of other people are doing the
same thing. Also there are a lot of people who are new
to the safelists and don't realize what they are doing
and so on.
What I found years ago is that you are basically
competing with thousands of other marketers to get you
ad read so I had to think of a way to make my ad stand
out from the crowd in amongst all the e-mails.
When you open up your e-mail account to read or delete
the ads you see this....
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
Where x is the subject headings of the ads.
Now see what happens.....
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
As you can see the 5th ad down is more noticeable.
All I do is use the underscore key a few times
before I start to write my subject heading.
There are many more ways to make your subject heading
stand out but I am keeping this post as short as I can.
If you want more ways just message me.
If you want your ad to be read you need to make it
stand out....simple.
If you need further assistance or you have a question
just message me and I will be happy to help.
Here are some good links to safelists.
Planetxmail:
http://www.planetxmail.com
Just click on " clients ".
Safelist Builder:
http://www.safelistbuilder.com
Just click on " Directory of Safelists ".
Here are the best points based safelists.
Safelister 22,000+ members:
http://www.safelister.com/pg.cgi/worldunite/index.html
GOT Safelist 15,000+ members:
http://gotsafelists.com/user/3379
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Comments (10)
Vps Malhotra16
Free Lancer
Are safelists effective ? or theese are simply a blind gimmick to lure the unwary to unknown? Good info indeed for using safelists thanks to you
I keep my fingers crossed any other advice ?
Cory Crabb8
Success Is Already Yours!!!!
awesome ill make sure to do just this.. >Thank you!
Rafal Mly6
Internet marketer and blogger
Great info, thanks for sharing.
KENNETH JANICKI4
CHARAGMA Book Sales
I Love to use safelists. I use these ads to hone my ad writting skills. I like to see whether a long educational letter is better than the short quick ad. Some people will read a long ad, others only look at the long ad and click the link. I use a special gmail address for those who respond. I use traxad for tracking. I have found that in two weeks time I can get 400 to 450 views and one or two serious replies which I can work on over time.
The best thing you can have in an Internet business i
Rocky Pacley7
I know that safelist have been around longer than
any 5-6 yrs. I can prove that all of your main
list building concepts come from a safelist method.
I would like to share the history of safelist with
you one day it's a heavy subject. Safelists history
has a very strong foundation!
Rocky Pacley7
The Safelist marketing concept is being used by people
who don't know about safelist everyday. Any list building
concept is the safelist concept turned list builder.
I have seen many people use list builders and do not know
about the systems they're developed from. The fact that you're
building another marketers list at the list builder is the way it
goes. If you look at the list building concept and see just how
you contribute to the list building concept by building the List
Builder owners li
Zac Josevski14
Internet Marketer
The safelists in my blog are the ones that I use daily.
The credit based safelists you need to work on them to
earn the credits so you can send but they do work.
Yes GOT Safelist is responsive.
So is Mad Vlad and Safelister. With safelister you can send
as many ads as you like provided you have the credits.
Sometimes you get lucky and get 5,000 credits per click.
To give you an example Jean about the subject headings...
The program Michael Badger I am currently promoting.
http://www.mic
Jean DAndrea7
Retired
Hi Zac,
As a sometime user of Safelists, I found your article, and Erik's response, very interesting. To date, I've had very little response from them, although this is very possibly because I don't work them as much as I should.
Since they are a free form of promotion, they are often used by newcomers to the internet marketing world - they're also useful to those of us who can't yet afford a marketing budget.
To date, I haven't used Gotsafelist - I've heard that it's pretty responsive.
Ho
Zac Josevski14
Internet Marketer
You are right Eric about people having something to sell in the safelists
but on the same token we all have something to sell whether it be on
the safelists,search engines or wherever we advertise.
Of course the more targeted your ad is the more sales/responses you get.
To me it is all about traffic and a numbers game.
At the moment there are a lot of social networking sites around but
a few years ago there was nothing except for forums etc to the best
of my knowledge.
I have built my e-mail
Eric Smith7
Online Professional
Yeah, a lot of people (especially newbies) use safelists.
I personally don't use them because i prefer to market to a target audience. For example... The majority of people who join safelists (all actually), have something to sell. They aren't usually interested in buying.
Its great to see you got 30 sign-ups from your safelist. Well done. Did you keep a record of how many emails were sent and to how many safelists ?
I use Google Analytics to check my stats and the majority of my page v