Having a list that you can email your promotions to is one of the most essential things you can do to help see to your online success. You can see it on nearly every Internet marketing web site on the Internet “The Money Is In The List”. I have been in Internet marketing for more than 5 years and one question that always comes up is “I use safelists, should I be using my own list?”
Here we are going to answer this question and hopefully give you a good idea on how you should operate your email marketing. Safelists are email lists that comprise of for the most part Internet marketers. Everyone who joins these sites automatically agree to permit other members to send them their emails. Majority of safelists nowadays are credit based lists so you need to click on the credit links in the emails sent to you. These credits can then be used to send your offers to other epople in the list. Now, if you would liek to have your own email list, safelists can help you build it. You can collect people’s email addresses by giving stuff away and having people give you their name and email address in order to have access to the free item. This way you are growing your own mailing list which is much more desirable.
Which brings us to the question “Do I need my own list?” Yes you do, at least if you wish to be a success. Just about any successful Internet marketer will tell you that each individual on your own mailing list is worth about a month. So let’s say over the next year you work hard at building your list and you get 3,000 people to join, your email list is now worth ,000 each month.
This nonetheless doesn’t mean that everyone on your list sends you every month. What this means is when you contact your mailing list with a good subject line and good content in the email advertising a good product, you can expect to make approximately 1 sale for every 50 people on your list each month. So, if you have 50 people on your email list and you sell only 1 item worth to somebody on your list in a month’s time, that is how you get your average, and when you think about it, it’s not that hard to do.
You can even send out a different offer to your mailing list every day. And unlike safelists that restrict your mailings and how many people you can mail to, you can grow your list as big as you want and email them whenever you like. You can employ a variety of methods to develop your list also. List building is just limited by your imagination, you can build it everywhere. In essence, the sky is the limit when it comes to growing your mailing list.
And so back to the initial question on what type of email list do you have to use, whether you should build your own or use safelists. And the answer is both, utilize safelists to begin growing your own list.