Free advertising through safelists can be used VERY successfully in
gaining new business partners, list members, newsletter subscribers, and
most importantly... SALES and PROFITS.
"How do I know? Safelists are my
primary marketing arena and
not only have I grown subscriber lists and attained new business
partners, I've also earned THOUSANDS in the process." ~Barbie
Zabel / 100DollarBills2U.com Admin
"My business is
really growing and I owe a lot of the success to you and your
wonderful tutorial. I plan to order much more advertising with my
profits!" ~Patti
Taylor
"Safelists are the best thing I have
used in a long, long time. My turnover for safelists is quite high." ~Amy
McFarland
So,
we're going to learn how to reach
those who have already made the decision to earn money online through
internet marketing and
in fact, are already *out there* promoting.
They are YOUR TARGET MARKET! And
membership in this particular segment of online promotion is well into
the mega thousands ... and
growing!
Every 2 Seconds Another Person Joins The Internet
Community.
Every 11 Seconds
Another Person Starts a Home-Based Business!
Use this information to start tapping in to YOUR target
market now!
This tutorial is
broken up into several easy-to-manage steps. When you wish to end your
session, simply bookmark the webpage you stopped on so you can easily
return to it later on to continue where you left off.
What Are Safelists?
Safelists are online *communities* comprised of people who joined them
for the specific purpose of advertising to all other members of each
specific safelist. By joining, you also agree to receive all other
members' advertising messages.
All
safelists do not perform exactly the same, however.
1) Some
safelists are simple
ad exchanges - "I get
to send ads to you and you get to send
ads to me" - without any form of earning credits for reading.
You'll have to make your headlines and ads stand out
monstrously on these types of safelists since there is no other
incentive to open or click the link inside!
2) Some
safelists allow you to earn
credits for reading
the ads of others online in
a
member area.
3) Some
safelists allow you to earn
credits for reading
the ads of others in your own
email box.
Although you may sign up and use all three kinds, this
guide concentrates on the most successful type - those safelists that
send messages directly to your email box and offer credits for clicking
the links inside them.
HOT TIP: Promoting
your offers successfully with safelists requires that you join and
post to as many as you have the time to handle DAILY. You
cannot expect to join one safelist to post to and be successful with
that promotion. But when you spread your messages over many safelists
consistently every day, you'll be amazed at how many new prospects opt
into your system for more information every week!
HOT TIP #2: Use a
portion of your profits to upgrade your safelist memberships, one by
one. You'll be able to post more often to more people with a lot
less clicking yourself!
Before You Join Any Safelists...
Sign up for 2 email addresses to be used specifically for your
safelist activity.
You need 2
reliable email addresses that are used strictly for safelists
ONLY. One will be your *CONTACT*
email (where the safelist owners email you with important updates,
credits, etc.),
...and one
will be used for the *LIST*
only (where you will receive the emails from all other list
members).
These email
boxes will receive a lot of email, so please open two new email
accounts that are dedicated especially to your safelist activity.
NOTE: The
directions on these pages refer to free Google email
accounts because they have been found to be the most reliable to
date.
As you begin
to join free safelists, you will notice that many of them will not
allow you to join using yahoo, aol, hotmail, juno, netscape,
netzero, inbox, comcast and a host of others, for GOOD REASON. These
email providers typically bounce or totally block safelist
verification emails as well as list messages from other members.
Use Gmail.
It's not 100% trouble free, but nothing on the internet is.
Everyone I've spoken with who had email problems using other
providers ELIMINATED those frustrations when they switched their
safelist contact and list email addies to Gmail.
Joining and Setting Up Your Safelists
Bookmark this page!
Sign up for your FIRST
safelist from
the Power
Downline Builder link.
When you arrive on the main page of each safelist
you join, click around on a few of its buttons and links to get
to know it. Compare the safelist's membership levels and take
note of how often free members can mail to the list.
SAVE those
details and all other pertinent information like the login link,
your username, password and your affiliate link to a special "My
Safelists" file
on your desktop (or other easily remembered folder) as you go
along.
During the
sign up process, you'll be asked what your CONTACT email
address is and also what your LIST email
address is. Be
careful here and keep them straight!
Use the same
list email address for each safelist you join. Likewise, use
the same contact email address for each safelist you join.
Most safelists
require you to verify both your list and contact addresses. So,
once you have signed up for the first safelist, login to your CONTACT email
address Gmail account.
Open the
confirmation email message you received from the safelist and
click the link inside it to verify your email. Leave
this email open for the next step.
When you
market online using safelists, you will get a TON of email. We
are now going to give your Gmail account some instructions so that
it will label and filter specific emails from specific lists and
place them in their own little sections, not just all scattered by
the hundreds in your inbox.
When you
need to earn credits to send your own ads through a particular
list, this organization will allow you to quickly find all the
emails with credit links in them from that specific list.
- Look at the
open email you have in front of you. At the top of it underneath
the subject title, you'll see a *show
details* link. Click on it to see where this email came
from. What domain did the email come from? vitaladviews.com?
globalsafelist.com? Something else? Highlight and copy this
part of the *from* email address.
(Example: If the from address is bounce@vitaladviews.com,
you'd highlight and copy just the domain like this: vitaladviews.com)
- Right next
to the Search the Web button at the top of the page, click on
the Create
a Filter link.
- Paste the
safelist email domain in the "From:" field. Then click the Next
Step button.
- On the next
page that pops open, check the Skip Inbox option.
- Now check
the Apply Label option, and in the drop down box, choose New
Label. A box will open for you to type in the name of the
safelist (if it's VitalAdViews, type that in ... If it's
GlobalSafelist, type that in, etc.). Click the Okay button.
- Now click
the Create Filter button towards the bottom of the page.
All contact
email messages from that safelist will now be directed toward
the new label you created with the same name. You'll see your
new label in your Gmail account in the left column in the Labels
section.
Whenever you want to click for credits on that
list or read the safelist admin's special alerts & updates, go
to this folder.
Delete the
verification email and log out.
Safelist Join & Set Up Continued...
Bookmark this page!
Login to your LIST Gmail
account.
Open the
confirmation email message you received from the safelist and
click the link inside it to verify your email. Leave
this email open for the next step.
We are now
going to give your Gmail account some instructions so that it
will label and filter specific emails from specific lists and
place them in their own little sections, not just all scattered
by the hundreds in your inbox.
When you
need to earn credits to send your own ads through a particular
list, this organization will allow you to quickly find all the
emails with credit links in them from that specific list.
-
Part A. Look
at the open email you have in front of you. At the top of it
underneath the subject title, you'll see a *show
details* link. Click on it to see where this email
came from. What domain did the email come from?
vitaladviews.com? globalsafelist.com? Something else?
Highlight and copy this part of the *from* email address.
(Example: If the from address is bounce@vitaladviews.com,
you'd highlight and copy just the domain like this: vitaladviews.com)
- Right
next to the Search the Web button at the top of the page,
click on the Create
a Filter link.
- Paste the
safelist email domain in the "From:" field.
- Paste
this phrase in the "Has the Words:" field: Click
this link to earn credits Then click the Next Step
button.
- On the
next page that pops open, check the Skip Inbox option.
- Now check
the Apply Label option, and in the drop down box, choose New
Label. A box will open for you to type in the name of the
safelist (if it's VitalAdViews, type that in ... If it's
GlobalSafelist, type that in, etc.). Click the Okay button..
- Now click
the Create Filter button towards the bottom of the page.
-
Part B. Right
next to the Search the Web button at the top of the page,
click on the Create
a Filter link.
- At the
bottom left of the yellow box, click on Show Current Filters.
The filter you just made will show up.
- Click its
Edit link and paste this phrase in the "Has the Words:" field: Click
here to earn credits Then click the Next Step button.
- Leave
your previous settings as they are and click the Create Filter
button towards the bottom of the page.
All list
email messages from that safelist will now be directed toward
the new label you created with the same name. You'll see your
new label in your Gmail account in the left column in the
Labels section.
Whenever you want to click for credits on that
list, go to this folder.
Delete the
verification email and log out.
Follow the
same exact procedure for each safelist you join. Bookmark
this page as well as Page
4 so
you'll have complete instructions whenever you need them to join
new safelists. After a few times through, you won't need them
at all.
If you
make it a point to join
3 safelists per day, in just one 5-day week, you will have
joined, verified, and filtered 15 safelists!
To create
an absolute safelist marketing arsenal, I suggest that over
time, you join 30-50 safelists at MINIMUM.
Clicking For Credits
Log into both your safelist
email accounts every day to click credit links.
Generally, the credits you'll click from
your CONTACT
email account will earn far more credits with
each click than the LISTemails,
so be sure to click them first!
You don't have to click on every email
that comes through with a credit link. You can choose to
click on just enough so that you can post an ad to a
specific safelist for that particular day.
Preparation:
Before clicking, delete all the emails
that are too old, where their credits have expired. Usually,
if they're older than 5-7 days, their credit links won't
work, so clear your works space and get rid of them. Here's
how...
Login to Gmail. Find the label link of
the safelist you're working with in the left column and
click on it to open that section.
At the top right of that particular
section, you'll notice that Gmail tells you how many
messages you have stored there. Click on theOldest link
and Gmail will take you to the last page of messages you
have - they are older than all messages previous to them.
If these messages are older than 5-7
days, the credit links will probably not work anymore.
(Before deleting any of those that are within 7 days
old, you may want to test their credit links, as some
safelists allow credit clicking up to 7 days old.)
Delete all those that have expired.
If you need to delete whole pages at a
time, go to the top left of the section right under the
Archive button and click the Select All link.
Every message on that page will be selected or
checkmarked. Click the Delete button and they'll all
disappear.
Then start clicking on the oldest ones
that are still left but not expired:
- Click open an email.
- RIGHT-click on the "credit link" and
choose Open in New Tab. It pops up behind and beside the
open email page, so you don't see it or even look at it
during this activity. Keep
your attention focused on your email account, not the open
pages.
If you wish, you can configure your Internet Explorer 7.0
or Firefox browser to open links in new tabs instead of
new windows, which would eliminate the need to right-click
and choose *open in new tab* - Internet
Explorer | Mozilla
Firefox
- Delete the email.
- Open the next email & repeat, and so
on.
- When you have approx. 10-20 or so tabs
open, close them all.
- Start the process over again.
You'll find that you develop your own
rhythm and efficiency as you put this process into practice.
NOTE: Credits
are pretty cheap to buy, so you may want to combine both
clicking for credits plus buying them to cut down on your
clicking time.
More Notes on Working With Gmail
Deleting Whole Sections of Emails at a Time
In your List Gmail account, remember that
we created filters to direct incoming messages with credit
links in them to their respective labeled section for easy
credit clicking later.
Some safelist also have what is termed a
Regular or Standard mailer that members can use when they
run out of credits. These messages do NOT contain credit
links and are therefore useless to you.
And every one of them will be landing in
your List Gmail account inbox since only the messages
containing credit links are directed to the labeled
sections.
Here's how to delete hundreds or thousands
of them at a time...
Login to Gmail.
At the top right of the inbox section,
you'll notice that Gmail tells you how many messages you
have stored there.
Go to the top left of the section right
under the Archive button and click the Select All link.
Every message on that page will be selected or checkmarked.
Notice here that a new line has been
created just under where you selected All.
It says:
All __ conversations on this page are
selected. Select
all __ conversations in Inbox
Click the Select
all __ conversations in Inboxlink and all
hundreds or thousands of emails in that section will be
selected.
Click the Delete button and they'll all
disappear. Easy!
When Credit Link Messages Land in Spam
It is inevitable that some of the messages
with credit links in them will land in your spam section.
You can train your Gmail account to drop those messages in
the labeled section where they belong instead. Here's
how...
Open your Spam section. You'll notice
which messages have credit links in them because the
subject titles are preceded by their respective labels.
Select the ones you want to keep for
credit clicking by ticking off the little white box just
to the left of them.
Once you've selected which messages you
want to keep, click the NOT SPAM button at the top of the
section.
At this point, Gmail will take those
messages out of Spam and put them in your inbox. But
later when more messages come in with that label, Gmail
will direct them to the section where they belong rather
than dumping them in Spam.
What To Watch For When Clicking
While
you're clicking for credits, pay attention to the headlines you're
reading as well as the ad copy.
What are people selling? What
is catching your eye? Why? What made the ad stand out to you?
Have a notepad open
and handy to jot
down or paste notes about the successful advertising you see that you
may be able to incorporate into your own methods.
Plus, if you notice that a large percentage of members of a particular
safelist are sending ads about the same thing you are, you'll know you
have to do it bigger and better than anyone else, or choose something
else to market to that list.
While you're
clicking for credits, pay attention also to other credit-based
safelists that are being advertised. Add them to your safelist
advertising arsenal!
If the safelist is new, there's
a good possibility that special features may be in place for the
first few hundred that join.
To increase your range of exposure, join as many as you can
handle.
Your Ad Posting Schedule
Use your credits to send an ad
to each safelist as often as possible.
Some safelists will allow
free members to send every 24 hours, and some won't. Some
even allow free members to send twice a day. Keep track of how
often each safelist will allow you to send. (This information
should have already been saved in your "My
Safelists" file.)
Based on that information, make
up a schedule of which safelist to send to on which days of
the week.
For example, if
Safelist-A allows you to send every other day (or every two
days), you might schedule to send an ad to that safelist on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday of every week. Bookmark those
safelists in folders you create in your Favorites labeled
Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
Similarly, if Safelist-B
allows you to send every 3 days, you might schedule to send an
ad to that safelist on Tuesday and Saturday. Bookmark those
safelists in folders you create in your Favorites labeled
Tuesday & Saturday.
Create a Daily folder in
your favorites to bookmark those safelists that allow you to
post daily.
And so on...
For
the most benefit, leads, prospects, and PAYCHECKS, discipline
yourself to follow this schedule daily!
ALERT: I
can't begin to tell you HOW IMPORTANT it is to your safelist
marketing SUCCESS to create your own advertising schedule and to
follow it each day!
People tell me all the time that safelist marketing doesn't work
for them, but upon questioning their safelist advertising
routine, these people admit that they advertise sporadically at
best.
PLAIN AND SIMPLE:
If you're not going to commit to a daily safelist ad posting
schedule and follow it diligently using all the instructions in
this guide, be prepared to FAIL and to become one of the many
others who complain that safelist advertising doesn't work.
How do I know
this?
My own advertising results changed dramatically when I followed
the advice just given. 
Posting Ads to Safelists
Learning to navigate each
safelist you're working with is
a must. However, once you learn the basics of one
safelist, you'll find the navigation to all other safelists to
be pretty similar.
Here's
a general guideline on how to post an ad.
At
this point, we'll assume that you've accumulated enough
credits to post an ad to the list members, so you will be
sending a credit-based ad.
Login to the safelist.
Find and click on the
Credit Mailer link or button, usually in the left column.
Many safelists allow you
to choose to send your ad in text form or a colorful HMTL.
If you are sending a
text ad but a visual editor pops open for you to insert an
HTML ad, simply click the Send
Your Ad In Text link
right above the editor.
If you want to send
your ad in HTML form and do not have the source code for it,
use the visual editor to easily create it.
If you have the source
code to your HTML ad, click on the Source Code button at the
top left of the visual editor, paste in your HTML code, and
then click the Source Code button again to see how your HTML
ad looks.
Make sure to insert a
catch subject title in the field provided for it.
Also paste your link that
you want your prospects directed to in the field provided for
that purpose.
If you are given the
choice to save your ad, tick off the little white box next to
the Save button.
Then, next time you want
to post this ad, you'll login to the safelist and click
the Saved Messages link or button (usually in the left
column) to find and resend it.
Follow These Guidelines For Safelist Ad Posting Success
- When possible, send
your ad in HTML.
Enhanced, bolded, and colored text is pleasing to the eye and
draws the reader *in*, especially when most of the other emails
they're seeing are boring black and white plain text.
- Brand each email ad with your name
and photo if you
have one (get one if you don't).
People like to buy from people they know (or recognize). Once
they start seeing your name and face all over the place, they'll
assume that you must be successful and want to do business with
YOU instead of
all the nameless and faceless advertisers selling the same thing.
Remember to use this same idea in blogs, forums, traffic exchanges,
solo ads, and your email signature files, too! The
more you get yourself out there, the more people will associate you
with internet marketing success, and the more likely your prospect
will be paying YOU rather than someone else.
- Track your
ads!
You'll want to know which headlines and ads work with
which safelists and get the best click through rate.
http://clickaudit.com is
a tracking services you can use totally free.
See ProTrackerPlus on
your Power
Downline Builder link
for the best tracker out there.
- Rotate your ads and subject titles to each safelist you
advertise to every day.
Avoid using the same ad and title for each safelist, even if
the product is the same. You want each of your ads opened (for an
extra opportunity to make a sale plus for branding purposes), and
you don't want people thinking, "Oh, I saw that one already on my
other list, so I'll skip it."
- Instead of trying to get your prospect to purchase something
right away, have your credit link land them on a short
lead capture page that offers
a valuable product or information in
exchange for their name and email address. That way, you can build a
relationship with them over time and sell to them over and over
again.
EzLeadCaptureSystem offers
a wonderful whole package deal which includes your choice of many
different kinds of customizeable lead capture pages with an
autoresponder, to which you may add your own images, audio and
video!
- Post ads as
often as you can as regularly as you can.
Persistence and Consistency are the MOST IMPORTANT keys to your
success!
- No matter what you are promoting, once you start pulling in some
sales, REINVEST
at least 25% to 50% of your profits into some sort of PAID
ADVERTISING.
Safelists offer a wide range of extra advertising --
-in and on their website itself,
-on the header and footer of the messages sent through it,
-as solo email advertising,
-plus membership upgrades to reach more prospects faster.
Investigate your favorite safelists for their particular
specials.
When you reinvest a portion of your profits into paid
advertising regularly, your results (and PROFITS!) will increase
exponentially!
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