Safelists

An often dismissed way of advertising online is by using a Safelist. It’s named that because you have to agree not to report the flood of emails you get as spam… So the emails you’re agreeing to use is therefore “Safe” from spam accusations, no matter how many come in each day. I normally get a few hundred emails daily just from the three accounts I mention below… Way more than I or anyone else is planning to read through.

Safelist’s major problem, which everyone agrees is substantial, is that no one really reads these emails. Conversion rates (people actually clicking a link in one of the emails) are down in the toilet around 0.0001%.

So why do we still use these things? Sheer bulk. If you can write (or borrow) a catchy headline that could get your email opened by someone who just skims headlines alone, then even new free members can send out their solo ad to a massive enough list to get some form of response. It’s very much like having your own list, although it would be the equivalent of having a list that people didn’t have to opt-in to, because so few will read it.

Like Traffic Bars and Exchanges, this tactic excels in the IM2IM niche because everyone else who subscribes to a safelist is an Internet Marketer too. The three biggest & best Safelists I’ve found for general use are:

Mad Vlad

AdTactics

Easy List

They are more responsive than most large lists, and also let you build credits by clicking on links inside certain emails. However, if you really want to get serious about this and investigate Safelists in depth, check out Traffic Hoopla’s directory of safelists.

Since so many people are afraid of the tech curve involved with safelists, I took the liberty of making a very detailed film to show you just how to set up and use safelists effectively, while keeping it all free:

How to Advertise for Free with Safelists