SAFELIST what a waste of time these are

For the newbies safelists are email addresses you are allowed to send emails to without being accuse of spamming.

To access those lists you have to become a member of one of the sites that maintains such a list. Like all other websites you can join for free or you can pay for better features, in doing so your email address is added to their data base and you are part of their safelist.

By becoming a member you can send every member an email as often as you want depending on the level of membership you signed up for. One particular site I am member of has well over 35,000 members so I have the possibility of sending one email to 35,000 people. On the other hand I could technically receive 35,000 emails one from each member. I said technically in reality I will not because of the rules you need to follow before you can send an email, this is controlled by credits, which I will explain later

I know what your thinking WOW!!! I could sale hundreds of my widgets… not quite that fast cowboy… here is why.
99.9% of the members are internet marketer just like yourself who are trying to sale their widgets, the members are more interested in selling you their merchandise then they are interested in yours.
99.9% of those items are exactly that widget or gimmicks not worth the time to look at, Try to find a valid offer when you receive hundreds of email everyday it is like looking for a needle in a hay stack. The site I mentioned above sends me between 300 to 400 emails every day so if you sign up to more then one site you are looking at thousands of email per day, You have the time to sift through that many emails to find the few one valid offers… not me.

Earlier I mentioned credits, in order to have a handle on the numbers of emails that are sent out these sites allows you to send emails based on the number of credits you have in your account. If you want to send an email to 5,000 members you need 5,000 credits usually.
The way to gets credits is to buy some every month (membership!!!) or you have to click on some of the emails you received and look at their offers and get credits for doing that. The number of credits vary per ad, one could give you 50 credit and another 1,000, so if you keep on clicking ads that only gives you 50 credit you are going to look at 100 ads to get your 5,000 credits, each ads will take you ½ minutes or so, you are looking at almost one hour of your time scanning ads to gets credits…waste of time would you agree.

As mentioned earlier if you pay you get different features and like anything else the more you pay the better service you will get. If you sign up to the top level you will be allowed to send more emails then the free member and you get more free credits every month. Some membership allows you to send a limited number of emails that are identified to the members as special and those normally offer more credit if you look at them. Some offer auto-releasing of ads so you do not have to go in every week and set up and ad to be sent.

Another annoying thing about safelist they are not targeted emails, your ads is randomly sent to the specific number of emails you have asked for, many time I received my own ads because the site picked my email address.

If you plan on using safelist you should monitor their effectiveness to ensure that you are getting your money’s worth. If it is costing you $25 per month to be a member and you do not make any sales month after month you are wasting money and your time in deleting all of those emails. If you are a free member that is fine but many sites have a limited time on how long you can stay a free member.

If you want your ads to sales it better be sharp otherwise it gets lost among all the other hundreds ads each member gets.

I do not use safelist hopping to make big sales but mainly to get exposure and to get ideas on how to market my own, I do not pay to be a member there are over 2,000 sites offering safelist most if not all offer free sign up.

If you want to be a successful entrepreneur you should learn the tricks of the trade, we can teach you all of them.

Pierre