Your Safe Promotion

YOUR SAFE PROMOTION:

How Not to be Accused of SPAM

 

The first rule of marketing online, which can not be over-emphesized, is never to send SPAM to anyone in order to promote a website, opportunity, or service. To do so will get you permanently banned from the opportunity you were promoting, or, if the website is your own domain, will cause you to lose your web-hosting account! Spam basically is unsolicited promotional emails. No one likes it, and in most states in the USA, and quite a few countries abroad, is down-right illegal!

If you are promoting an affiliate program and send SPAM to someone with your affiliate URL in it, the recipient of the SPAM can report the site and the entire affiliate program will be shut down. Lots of people could be after you suing for their financial losses that YOU caused them if they were owed money for commissions in the program.

The main thing to remember is, Don't Do It!

The best way to insure that you are not going to be accused of SPAM is to never use email marketing. That may be a bit harsh, though, since there IS a safe way to send emails that are never considered SPAM.

No, it is not a direct contradiction. There are programs available that use only double-opt-in lists that you can mail to. Never, under any circumstance should you Rent or Buy a list. Those can be illegally obtained emails that were "harvested" from people who did not give permission to receive emails from you. They Can and usually Do cry SPAM if you send out emails from those purchased lists.

So, how can you be sure it is safe to send emails to a list? Go with a list that someone you know and trust has used and had good results with. A good, responsive list will usually convert between 2 and 8 percent of the people who open and read your ad. If the ad is done well, it can convert even better.

There are lists I have used with good results. All are double-opt-in permission "safe" lists. You can email freely to these lists, with no fear of being accused of SPAM. To view my recommendations, Visit my MSN Group:

http://groups.msn.com/YourBizSuccess/yoursafepromotions.msnw

The people in these lists have given permission to receive emails from other members of the list. They had to varify not once, but twice, that they were willing to be contacted. Thus the term double-opt-in.

There are many more safelists, but these are some I have used that are simple to start with. I will add more link to safelists as I check their reliability and effectiveness.