Developing Your Own List Or Making Use Of Safe-lists -- That's The Real Question
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by: JenniferStarr12
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 Time: 8:13 PM
Keeping a list that you can send your offers to is one of the most crucial things you can do to help see to your online success. Just about every Internet marketer online will state that without a mailing list you have nothing. But the question is, should you grow your own mailing list or can you utilize safe-lists
Here we'll address this question and hopefully give you a better idea on how you should run your email marketing.
We are going to start off with safe-lists A safe-list is a membership web site made up of hundreds or even thousands of other Internet marketers. Typically, you have the choice to join free of charge but 99% of these websites have extra features for those who prefer to pay for them. When you join, you agree to receive emails from other people in the safe-list. Most safe-lists today are credit based lists so you need to click on the credit links in the emails sent to you. At this juncture, you can trade your credits for emailing other members, and when they get your email they must click the credit link to earn credits and they see your web site when they do.
Remember that the other safe-list members are like you -- they want to email people and receive traffic but they don't wish to purchase something that another member is telling them about. While you may make a sale here and there by using these lists, it is not enough to make it worth your while.
These safe-lists could be utilized for other types of marketing which are worthwhile. Now, if you are interested to have your own email list, safe-lists can help you grow it. You merely provide something of value free of charge in exchange for people's email addresses. This is the most painless way to get started building your own email list.
Which brings us to the question "Do I need my own list?" Yes you do, at least if you want to be successful. To explain how crucial it is to grow your own email list, on average for every one person you get to sign up to your email list you will make approximately one dollar a 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?
This is an average as every person on your mailing list is not going to simply buy a $1 product from you each month. What this means is when you email your mailing 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 list each month. Thus, if you have 50 people on your mailing list and you sell just 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 difficult to do.
Another thing about having your own mailing list instead of using a safe-list is you can send out your offers whenever you like. And unlike safe-lists that limit your mailings and how many people you can mail to, you can grow your email list as big as you want and email them whenever you prefer. There are also many ways that you can begin building your mailing list. Safe-lists are just one way to help you get started. You can start a blog and have people subscribe to your mailing list to be updated when you have a new post. List building is only limited by your imagination, you can develop it anywhere. The point is it is limitless.
So what do you have to you use -- safe-lists or your own mailing list? Again, safe-lists are great for helping you build your own email list, but building your own mailing list has to be your priority.
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