Safelists? Good or Bad..

For a long time I, like many others, shunned safelists because I thought they were either unethical (spam) or wouldn't produce results ie a waste of time.

I thought the following;

I'm Spamming people.

No I'm not. Everyone signs up to a safelist to receive mails and send mails.

It's not targeted.

In a sense, yes it is. Everyone who joins has either something to sell or is looking to find something they can sell.

People don't open the mails.

Yes they do. They need to earn credits in order to send mails themselves.

They don't actually view the sites properly.

Yes they do. Any serious Entrepreneur/ Marketer is always on the look out for the next best thing and if you're the first in you've got a great chance of being successful. People who pay $10 a month and upwards for a safelist membership are serious and are making an investment in their business and themselves. They look at every opportunity that comes their way. You might think that $10 a month, $120 a year is not a large investment but, when you consider 95% of Marketers don't make $100 a year or even ever, it's decent sum to spend.

How do you make your safelist membership work for you?

If you already have a regular “targeted” mailing list then send out your squeeze page often and inform the fantastic freebies visitors can get just for signing up. Be honest, tell them in the mail they get for signing up. That way they know in advance what to expect and are actually tuned into filling in their details. You might even put in the bit about never sharing their details with anyone, ever?

If you get commissions for sign ups at other safelists then send those links out as well. Those on one safelist will very often join another.

Always say who you are at the start of the mail. That fosters trust and familiarity. Those factors make sales.

Customise sales pages to say “For XXX Safelist Members Only”.

Include a teaser free offer and sign up box to your regular mailing list on the Thank You Page of any offer you present and make sure the Thank You Page is customised just like your sales page.

Periodically, send out an information only email sending them to a no sales adsense site you own such as tips on marketing etc. You may well get lots of adsense clicks to boost that stream of income!

Last but not least...open those safelist e-mails yourself!In the past I've got a now valued Lifetime Membership of $120 a year for a one off $10, another Lifetime Membership now valued at $247 for $20 and another for $47 that now costs $97 and has less benefits!

The best safelist I know of is here,just click here to sign up and view the fantastic commission levels too!