Can Safe Lists Work For You?
October 31st, 2009 | 
Author: Can Safe Lists Work For You?
What is a safe list?
A safe list is members who have signed themselves up for membership of a safe list which means the emails received from them are safe.
The members who are in the safe list do not know the other members but can be assured that the mail from these members are safe and can be opened and read.
Business people tend to earn from them as you can send emails through the safe list to the various individuals.
There are numerous Safe List Membership sites out there and all with different degrees of membership but nearly all offer a free membership and you are automatically give credits to send out your first email after that you would need to upgrade your account or earn new credits to be able to send another email to the membership list. One credit usually means your email will be sent to 1 member so if you have 1000 credits then your email will be sent to 1000 members.
Do Safe Lists work?
It all depends on what you want to do with them if you are just list building then this can be a very easy way to build your list. If you are promoting a product then you will probably get very poor results unless you have made a real eyeopening email with a hard hitting subject line.
Paid for list or Free?
The advantages of paidfor membership are that you can email more often than a free member.
Free members can normally only email around once a week and that is if they have earned credits. So how are credits earned? Usually in two ways by paying for them or reading other members emails by reading emails you can earn between 520 credits and depending on the Safe List you are using this could be between 1550 emails per day if your getting 15 emails a day and are give 5 credits for each one then you should be earning at least 75 credits per day giving you 525 credits every week.
Now lets look at those 525 credits a week you will be able to send your email to 525 different members every week. Let us say you are trying to build a mailing list if your email is catchy and offers something free then you are liable to get a response of around 5 per week not a lot you might think? However there is nothing stopping you joining more than one Safe List you could join 4 and that way your response to emails would be around 20 a week 52 weeks a year and you will have built a list of 1040 not bad list building for something that is free! Of course the figures I have used are very low and chances are that you would get better results depending on the email you send out and how many lists you join.
With each list you would need to provide two email address one for the Admin to contact you and one for where emails from other members are sent.
When you join more than 3 or 4 safe lists you start to have problems remembering all the login information and passwords you have used not to mention the email addresses you have given and their passwords! This is where I recommend again the affiliate ID manager to manage all you logins and passwords I use mine all the time because it is simplicity in its self at just a click of a button your at you Safe List account ready to log in and all the details you need to login are shown by you affiliate ID manager.
You can still get this super piece of software FREE from HERE
If I was to recommended a Safe List then I would recommend ListJoe I have found it to be one of the best.
Try a Safe List and improve your marketing techniques today
Good Luck
Brian
About the writer: Davin Ogden is an accomplished affiliate marketer and viral marketing strategist. He talks more about how to automate blog posting and innovative viral marketing techniques from his own blog. You can get a complimentary two week training course teaching Unorthodox Methods To Focus On Creating Profits to help you with your online success now.
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