Use Safelist Marketing Effectively

If you're a marketer with a budget using safelist marketing it is among the best free techniques to start with. If you are not familiar with safelist marketing it can be pretty simple. A safelist is a system that members sign up for either no cost or sometimes an upgraded membership to send emails/ads to other members about an opportunity. Sound confusing? Let me break it down a little bit.

To utilize safelist marketing you, the marketer must first go and join the safelist. You do that so you can market your services or products to other members. In return these marketers do the same to you. Some might think it is not a terrific audience since basically they are all trying to sell one another on something. Here's where it's essential to think. You NEVER market your primary business inside a safelist...never ever. You should attract members to your primary business by building a relationship with them. You have to remember no one wants to be sold! That is the abolute bottom line! Never forget that. A safelist is an excellent place to locate other marketers or people who have the same interests as yourself. They could find some of the tools, training and/or systems which you use for you business will come in handy for theirs. You must go into safelist marketing with that in mind. You are able to market your front end products for example a funded proposal that you're using or even offer a give away for visiting your blog and placing a comment on a one of your recent posts.

When you are doing any type of marketing online including safelist marketing you need to know who your audience is. When you are using a safelist your audience will be so many people similar to you. They're marketing their business or service. You want to market something designed to benefit that target audience. Get creative and you'll see some amazing results. Does it make a bit more sense now?

If you are trying to build your own list for the first time, a safelist is a fantastic way to start. Offering free marketing tips to members is an effective way to get them in your opt in list. You then build a relationship with those members and in time you will be able to market within that list and will probably be successful at it. Do not expect to go into a safelist though and produce massive profits right away. You need to know to be aware of who you are marketing to though and utilize it successfully.

Safelist advertising is very useful particularly because it's free of charge. This can make it great for brand new marketers who do not have a marketing budget yet. Nonetheless, it is important to remember that since it is a no cost service for you to use safelist marketing can often be incredibly time consuming. To gain credits to mail other members in the safelist you may receive many emails. You might want to set aside a certain amount of time whether daily or weekly to open those emails and build up credits. You want to make sure you limit your time though. I don't believe safelist marketing can replace all other types of marketing. It can be a piece to the puzzle. Be sure you set aside a couple of hours weekly so that you can click for credits then go on to do other forms of advertising. Don't get caught up in clicking emails all day. Monitor the time you spend.

If you want to begin using safelist marketing listed here are some of my favorite picks:

List Joe Click Here
Adsolutionline Click Here
Adtactics Click Here
The List Auction Click Here
State Of The Art Mailer Click Here

If you do not have a funded proposal to utilize for your primary business or need a front end product to try in your marketing you can visit my website and learn a little more details about the system I am using now in my safelist marketing.

http://www.KarenPore.com

Do Safelists Help?

Most of you know what a safelist is, but for those who don't let me give you a little explanation first of what exactly a safelist is. A safelist is a place where many advertisers go to advertise. First and for most because it is low cost. The concept is that you click on other people's ads and earn credits to send your ads.
At times it works, at times it does not. It's the time vs money issue. Those who have a lot of money to spend on advertising can spend the money to send out an ad without every having to click for credits. Others simply go through clicking for credits never looking at the ads. It can be wasteful, but can also work out great.

When looking for a safelist her are some things to keep in mind. How many members are there. If there are 700 members of a safelist that is not very big, you probably don't want to waste your time, or if you do then don't expect a fast return. There are not a lot of eyes viewing your ad. You can also have too many members. Some safelists have so many members that there are people who do the solo ads I talked about. They pay $25-$50 to have their ad blasted to the whole entire safelist and everyone not only gets it they click on it because for a solo ad the safelist gives you a lot more credits than sending a regular mailer.

I myself have been using safelists for a while and when experimenting with them I learned some things. A mentor had told me you didn't want to spend any time in small safelists look for large ones, so I did. One that I used is called Free Safelist Mailer. I sent several mailers over months and when tracking the ads through link tracking found most of the time the ads were never even opened or clicked on....why? Because the safelist is so large that the safelist sends out solo ads multiple times a day, after all those marketers paid money to have their ad sent and those ads are given a lot more credits when you click on them. What probably happens in that situation is members of the safelist only click on solo ads and never or very rarely regular ads because they could build up enough points in a pretty short amount of time to send an ad themselves. The regular ads don't ever need to be look at!

Don't get down yet, I have had success in several safelists. I just try to find a happy medium. Not the biggest safelist out there, but not the smallest. For example List Joe click here a pretty popular safelist seems to have a lot of responsive members. I have enrolled several people into my business using their service and it's free. Yes I do have to click on ads to earn the credits but they don't send out thousands of ads a day, maybe 15-20.

So what do you do? Think of time vs money, which one do you have more of? If you don't have a lot of time safelists are not a way to go for you. It can be time consuming clicking for credits. But if you have time the time it is worth a shot. Some pretty good advertising for FREE. You can't beat that. You will find some recommended safelists listed on my blog.

Until next time,
Karen Pore

http://www.KarenPore.com