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DO
SAFELISTS REALLY WORK?
YOU BET THEY DO!
If you've been
involved in internet marketing for any length of time, I'm
sure you've read the 'Great Debate', i.e. whether or not safelists
work, and if they do what type you should use (free or paid).
Let's not forget about those auto-submitters, are they dilluting
the marketing potency of safelists?
Well, I can say
wholeheartedly, that in my humble l'il world, safelists not
only work . . . THEY WORK GREAT! How do I know? I know because
I use them EVERYDAY, and I use lots of them. Safelists are
such an important part of internet marketing, that I can honestly
say at least 75% of my promotions are done with them. The
other 25% is divided between ezines, FFA
emails and my own list of customers, many of whom I first
acquired by posting on safelists.
I track everything
I promote, and not only do I know that safelists pull, through
ad-tracking I know which safelists pull the best. Some pull
on certain promotions, and some pull on other promotions,
then there's the ones that get responses on everything you
promote. I have my favorites, the "tried and true" safelists
that no matter what it is I'm promoting, they're responsive.
I'm no marketing genius, but when I try out a new ad, or change
a headline, etc. I'll put it in the safelists first. They're
my first line of attack. If the ad makes it there, then it'll
make it on the ezines, the FFA
emails, etc.
Now don't get me
wrong, ezine advertising REALLY works, but it is a lot more
expensive than using safelists. Here's what I mean: Let's
say you have $100 to spend every month on promoting your business,
product, whatever. Now to advertise in a good quality ezine,
especially a solo ad, you'll do good to get 4 submissions
out of that $100. In contrast, even if that only bought you
an annual membership on only one safelist (and that would
be really expensive), you can mail to that safelist EVERY
DAY OF THE YEAR! That's a heck of a lot more for your money,
and most safelists cost an average of $50 a year, some more,
but many are even less. Some charge per month, but you can
cancel anytime.
With safelists,
if you need to change your advertising, you can do it in a
day. You can stop promoting one product or service and change
to another in a day, where with ezines ads, you're actually
reserving "space", and that "space" could be for months ahead.
With safelists you pretty much have complete control of when
your ads go out. I say almost because some safelists will
mail out at certain times, but the majority of them will mail
your ad out when you submit it.
Here's
a couple of examples of how safelists have worked for me:
I promoted TrafficWave
thru safelists, and in only 8 days I had over 200 responses
and added 7 PAID members. Within 60 days, there were 50 total
members with 34 of them being PAID members. I had made the
TOP TEN Fast Track Earners for two months in a row (September
2002 - 6th place, October 2002 - 4th place).
I also promoted
AdMinder
for only 30 days and not only do I get commissions every month,
once I got my third sale, I get to use the service for ONE
FULL YEAR FOR FREE! As of the writing of this article I have
over 330 active ad codes with AdMinder,
categorized by promotion. At a moment's notice, with just
a couple of clicks I can see what promotions are pulling the
best, where they are pulling the best and what ad is pulling
the best and I'm using it FREE for ONE FULL YEAR! (By the
way, AdMinder
is currently giving the FREE year membership to anyone who
gets three sales, so you might want to look into it. They
also give you a 14 day Free Trial to check out their awesome
service.)
. . . I'd say safelists
work pretty good, wouldn't you?
To have a complete
arsenal for your marketing, safelists should be considered
essential.
There are hundreds
(probably thousands) of safelists on the internet. Some are
really responsive and others aren't. Like I said before, I
use a lot of them and I've setup a page of the ones I use,
and another page of the ones that have been really good for
me.
CLICK
HERE for ALL
THE SAFELISTS I USE
CLICK
HERE for MY
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SAFELISTS
Now almost all
the safelists I use allow FREE members, but you normally can
only mail once a week if you join as a freebie. It's hard
to really test a list when you're only mailing to it once
a week, however I have joined many a list as a freebie, and
when I get results from it, I upgrade to PAID / PRO as soon
as possible. On all the HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED SAFELISTS, I strongly suggest that you join
as a PRO, or upgrade as soon as you can, because my responses
grew ten-fold once I was able to mail daily.
Feel free to signup
to safelists from both lists (actually the Recommended Safelists
are also on the other list). I only have a Recommended list
because these safelists have been responsive to everything
I advertised on them, and I mean REALLY RESPONSIVE. If a safelist
was not responsive at all, it won't make the list. If it didn't
do anything for me, I can't recommend it.
These last few
sentences will be dedicated to auto-submitters. YES, I USE
AND RECOMMEND THEM! Oh, I still read a lot of the emails
that come in to my list/subscribe email address (and I get
well over 20,000 a day), but by using the auto-submitter,
I cut my submission time from over several hours to less than
one hour. This gave me a lot more time to answer my customers
questions, write long winded articles (grin), read more emails,
and browse for more products and services to try out. I went
the old-fashioned route of logging in, copying and pasting
for every single safelist, and once you have over 50 safelists,
it really becomes a chore, and it's unnecessary. There are
some safelists that I still manually submit to for one reason
or another, but if I'm given an option, I'd rather auto-submit.
There are a few
really good submitters out there. I've tried both iPostAd
and The
Subber and think they are very good. Both are online submitters,
so you don't have to use your computer's resources - just
login, submit your ad, logoff and go about your business.
From that point you can even shut your computer off because
their servers will do the submitting to all the safelists
for you. Both are monthly subscriptions, and while iPostAd
is almost 3 times the price of The
Subber, it has more features.
Safelists are definitely
an integral part of internet marketing, and are a resource
you should NOT overlook.
If you have any
questions or need help, I'm only an email
away.
To your success,
Julius Covington, Sr.
juliussr@yahoo.com
(304) 624-9452
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