Before Using Safelists: A basic setup guide.
Safelists are a common starting place for people as they head out to
make their early commissions, and they have the advantage that they are
also the place other ‘make money’ newbies can also be found.
While they are not the most productive place to advertise, they do produce
results for 12SecondCommute and have the additional advantage of being free
to join. However, don’t start using them until you set a few basic things
in place as I will indicate below or you will will be flooded with a
gazillion return emails!
Setting Up Your Email Accounts
The basic principle behind safelists is that advertisers get together and agree
to receive email ads from each other. Therefore you can expect a lot of email
especially when you start using a lot of different lists. So under NO
circumstance should you use your main email account when you sign up for
safelists.
I use and recommend Gmail (Google Mail) it’s the best solution for safelists
and it is free. Don’t bother using some of the other free email accounts
such as Yahoo, AOL or Hotmail their spam filters will only bring you
headaches when using safelists (actually many safelist wont allow them).
Using Gmail is also the foundation for advanced tactics you can move on
to later.
You will need two email accounts, one as your contact address and one
where you will receive the actual safelist emails. So create two Gmail
accounts and name them something that you can easily remember e.g.
SafelistContact@gmail.com and
SafelistEmails@gmail.com
Joining Your Safelists
Now that you have your email accounts set up it is time to start joining some
safelists. There are thousands of safelists on the market but 90% of them are
utter rubbish. Until you have your own testing and evaluation system in place
I recommend that you focus solely on the safelists in Affiliate Funnel
It’s free to join and these safelists are proven performers and won’t waste your time.
Trust me – more is not merrier, you get far better results from consistently
posting to the top 10 safelists in the Affiliate Funnel than you will from
sporadic bursts to a a swarm of small lists, or any of the other thousands
out there.
When you join the safelists you will have to click a confirmation link, usually at
both your contact and list address. IMPORTANT: don’t delete the emails after
you have clicked the link, we want to keep them for the next step.
How to Set Up Your Gmail Labels
The labels and filtering options in Gmail are very useful when dealing with
safelists. Now that you have joined the safelists, you use the confirmation
emails they send you to set up your labels. I will use Adtactics as an example…
1. Open your Adtactics confirmation email in Gmail and click on “Show
details” in the header.
2. Mark the from email address and press Ctrl + C to copy
3. Click the “Create a filter” link next to the search boxes
4. Paste the email address (Ctrl + V) into the “From” field and press
“Next step”.
5. Check the “Apply Label” box and choose “New Label” in the drop
down menu.
6. Type in “Adtactics” as the name of the new label and press “Ok”.
7. Click on “Create filter”.
All email from Adtactics will now have this label applied and be filtered into
your Adtactics folder. Follow the steps above to set up labels for all the
safelists both at your list and contact address. This is a huge time saver in the
long run and it will form the basis for some of the advanced tactics you will want
to move on to later.
OK, that’s very basic but enough to get you started and to insure you’re set up
for more advanced Safelist tactics further on down the track. If you want to get
the very best resource on Safelists grab a copy of the Ultimate Safelist Survival
Guide – it’s not expensive and it covers all the steps above and the following:
The Big mistake
The Inbox Routine
Posting ads
Regular Safelists
Credit Based Safelists
SafeAdLists
Viral List Builders
Tracking Your Ads
Don’t post the same ad to all the lists.
How To Write Killer Safelist Ads That Get Results – Important!!!
HTML Rocks!
The Clever Bit
Use Safelists To Brand Your Name And Face
Capture Leads & Build Your OWN List
What You Can Sell Using Safelists
List Building Made Easy
The Almost Too Naughty List Building Tactics
Efficiency and persistence is the key
The Coca-Cola Way Of Thinking
When Is The Best Time To Post Your Safelist Ads?
Firefox Is Your Friend
Expanding With Upgrades & Solo Ads
Yes, They DO Work!
This was the guide that turned things around for me after a long
period of modest results using safelists and put significant
money in my pocket – it will for you too.
You can grab a copy from:
http://www.12path.com/StartBusinessMentor/SafelistSurvivalGuide/
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