Owning a list that you can send your promotions to is one of the most essential things you can do to help see to your online success. Just about every Internet marketer online will tell you that without a mailing list you don’t have anything. I have been in Internet marketing for over 5 years and one question that invariably comes up is “I use safelists, should I be using my own list?”
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Let’s go over safelists. A safelist is a group of folks who agree to get emails from other folks in the group. How it works is you can commonly join free of charge or for a fee. Everyone who signs up for these web sites automatically agree to permit other members to send them their emails. Majority of safelists these days are credit based lists so you must click on the credit links in the emails sent to you. At this juncture, you can trade your credits for mailing other members, and when they receive your email they must click the credit link to get credits and they see your website when they do.
Keep in mind that these other members are the same as you — they want to email people and get traffic but they don’t want to buy something that another member is telling them about. While you may make a sale here and there by using these safelists, it is not enough to make it worth your while.
These safelists could be employed for other types of marketing which are worthwhile. Now, if you would liek to have your own email list, safelists can help you develop it. You can get people’s email addresses by giving stuff away and having people provide you their name and email address in order to have access to the free item. This is the easiest way to start building your own email list.
Which brings us to the question “Do I need my own email list?” Yes you do, at least if you want to be a success. To explain how important it is to maintain your own email list, on average for each one person you get to sign up to your email list you will make more or less one dollar each month from. While that may not seem like a lot of money, think about what happens if you have your own email list of 5,000 or 10,000 people?
Don’t misunderstand me, you are not charging these people $1 every month for being on your email list. What this means is when you email your email list with a good subject line and good content in the email marketing a good product, you can expect to make about 1 sale for every 50 people on your email list each month. Thus, if you have 50 people on your email list and you sell only 1 item worth $50 to someone on your email list in a month’s time, that is how you get your average, and when you think about it, it’s not that tough to do.
The great thing is when it is your email list you can send your emails anytime you wish. You can also develop your email list however big you want it to be, where safelists only let you email so many people every 3 to 7 days. You can utilize a variety of strategies to develop your list as well. You don’t need to just utilize safelists. You can put a web form on your blog so people can be updated, then you can email them also and your email list keeps growing. List building is merely limited by your imagination, you can develop it anytime. Essentially, the sky is the limit when it comes to building a list.
Thus, safelist or your own email list, which one should you concentrate your efforts on? You should be making use of safelists but only to the point where it is helping you build your own email list.
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