subject: How Can Your Business Benefit From Using Safelists and why is it such a great tool? [print this page] How Can Your Business Benefit From Using Safelists and why is it such a great tool?
You need the right tools to get results in any serious business. Most important is to get Traffic to your site otherwise it is very easy to disappear in this jungle of pages and the endless flood of all ads. Getting a lot of traffic to your site has a lot to do with where you are advertising, what you are advertising and How you are advertising. Safelists is very cost effective, even a free way of getting traffic. They are easy to use and they give great results, if you know how to use them.
Using Safelists correctly makes all the difference. They are very effective advertising tools if done right and very time consuming, if done wrong.
What exactly is a Safelist?
A Safelist is a membership site which allows members to exchange email ads with one another. This means that you will be able to email a certain amount of members and send your advertisement to them. All members agree that they will receive emails from one and other.
The most common safelists are Credit based Safelists. A credit based safelist is pretty much like a Traffic Exchange in the way they deliver traffic to your website. Every time you visit another members site you are awarded with credits after a certain amount of time viewing that page. You use those credits to send your own emails and show your pages.
Most Safelists allow you to join free, with limitations. Free members might only be able to send email to some of the members once a week. Paid members are allowed to post a few times a day, every day or every other day and to many more members.
You will get a lot more traffic with a paid membership and other advantages. If you can afford to upgrade do so. The best deal is often when you sign up - grab that if possible. The Viral Listbuilders in particular have very good and quite cheap onetime fee. You can often email 3-4000 people every 3 days for life with very good results.
What kind of people are using Safelists?
@ People who are promoting a home business opportunity. These people use safeliststo promote their affiliate programs.
@ People who are promoting other marketing services e-books, safelists and other tools that an Internet marketer need.
Targeting these groups with tools or services that can help them to get more traffic will give you much better results. Promote something that other Internet marketers are interested of. Often free e-books or memberships are working great.
What tools do you need to use a Safelist Effective?
Two email addresses, only to be used for your safelists. A contact email address and a list email address. Many safelist owners recommend gmail.
You need emails to send. It takes practice to learn how to write emails but it is one of the most important Internet marketing skills that you can develop. The Most Important is the Headline.
You can get started by reading what other people write in there emails. Do any of these Headlines, emails catch your eye? What makes these headlines, emails stand out from all the others?
If you see something you like take notes and save it. Your notes will help you come up with new and better ideas. Remember most of the members are only visiting your site to get their credits. But take every chance you get to make yourself stand out from the crowd. This will give you better results.
You can send your ads as html emails in many Safelists. Usually this is for upgraded members. A picture says more than a thousand words. Use a picture of your product, a banner, logo or best of all, a picture of yourself.
What is the difference between Safelist and Viral Listbuilders?
The biggest difference between Safelists and the Viral list builders is how many people you can contact. You build a downline (often 10 levels) of referrals under you in many Viral Listbuilders. You can send your ads to the whole downline, this can grow fast when your downline are referring new members to the program
It is a lot of work to refer new members, but you are not limited to just emailing the people in your downline. Usually you can use the credits you earn from reading emails to contact additional members. You can also purchase an upgraded membership which gives you an automatic list of people to which you can send your ads. You can also buy credits.
If your not using Safelists then this can be a start for you. Your traffic will increase, your list will grow. If you are using Safelists the way they are supposed to be used of course.
