OK If your just getting your feet wet then you might not know what a safelist is. The quick and dirty explanation is that safelists are a way for you to send e-mail ads to people without getting reported for spam, hence it is a e-mail “list” that is “safe” to market to.
Usually how it works is you sign up and provide two (2) e-mail addresses. One is for contact purposes such as Site news or sometimes solo ads, basically ads people pay for to send to the entire list. You get MAYBE ten (10) e-mails a month on this. The other one is what they call a list e-mail. This is, quite obviously, where all the e-mail from the safelist comes to. this can average from as few as fifty (50) e-mails a day to over two hundred (200) a day. Your best bet is a free account such as Yahoo Mail or GMail.
Mails coming to the list e-mail will contain credit links. This is how you earn the means to send out your own ad. Some safelists like AdTactics well let you send only to people of your membership level or below, so upgrading is recommended more, while safelists like Elite Safelist Will let you e-mail to everyone a certain number of times a day depending on your membership level.
That is the plus side. The minus side is that safelists have been around for quite some time now and, well I hate to break this to you, not many people read the ads anymore.
WHAT? No I’m not joking and here is how I know. Its the old saying “If one is doing it, others are as well”.
I’ll be honest, I am right now using two safelists, AdTactics and Elite Safelist, for my advertising, and they both are good for getting clicks to my website. The downside is, as with anything involving click for programs is people are out to get as many credits as they can so they can send out their own ads.
This makes safelists a bit confusing now. Some people I’m sure still read as many ads as they can, and that is admirable. Many though just click the e-mail, scroll to the credit link and click.
So how do you get sales like this? Simple and here is a tip you will be able to apply to anything involving credit based systems weather they be traffic Exchanges or safelists or any other program.
Tip:Watch the Timer.
Say What? OK the way safelists work is people have to wait to get their credits. you can’t just click and move on. The average time for this is about 15 seconds. Now if you have someone like myself I will, once I’ve clicked, check out the site. The larger the site though the less time you have to hook someone on your product before the timer runs out. So what do you do?
This is where experience comes in handy. The smaller the page the more time they have to click through. If you have a page that takes 10 seconds to scroll from top to bottom your lead won’t bite because there isn’t enough time to read it all. IF you put up a graphic ad, and many products have them now (an example can be found here) or a splash page (example here again a lot of programs have these now, some are even customizable) you can get their attention, often with saying a lot of what you said in the e-mail in the first place.
So keep things like this in mind when using safelists and you should end up having a easier time of things, and who knows maybe you will sell a bit more.
Author:Matt Ulmen
Website:Internet Marketer Tips
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