front of thousands or even millions of people. Alas with the creation of auto-submitters and
POP3 cleaners and the like it is less and less likely that your ads are being read.
So what can we do about this?
There are several options available to help increase your exposure and results.
Some of these following tips might seem obvious but you would be suprised how often they are overlooked.
This first ( and most important) point is:
Be Unique
How many times have you seen exactly the same title in your email box?
You open your email and have twenty that say the same thing. Even if you do decide to open one, you will only read that one not all of them.
A lot of sites give free emails and marketing material for you to use.The problem is that everyone else will be given this email to use as well.
You have to be UNIQUE!! Add your own title! Your Title is the eye catcher and you have to add a bit of flair personalisation or anything to make you stand out.
Free Safelists:
There are down sides and great points for everything and this is no exception.
These are the nemesis of safelist advertising. It is the free member safelists that make it hard for your mail to be read. People sign up ( you and me included) with a waste or throw away email adress and just auto clean or just browse for the new or "eye catching" headline, deleting everything else without ever opening it ( Hence my first point).
Of course there is a solution out there. Alot of free membership sites have credit mailing now. These are one way to get people to read your letter. Credit mailing is when you pay so many credits to post your ad and readers have to click a link in the mail to earn the points (they need points so they can send out there mail). I always look for a credit mailing system as they have a greater result for effort ratio. Remember too that you can always get more credits by a few other methods. Buying credits, paid to click advertising through the site (click an ad and get paid in credits) and of course refering others ( This is doubly beneficial as it get more people for you to send to as well.)
Auto Post Programs and Sites:
One of the best ways to save time and effort is auto posting.
I have a brilliant little free program that I am using at the moment that you just sign up to the safelist, add them to the program ( very easy if I can do it anyone can) and it will auto log you in and submit your email for you. All from your desk top.
This saves me from going to every site and signing in etc. I am a signed up to over a hundred safelists and post to around 30 daily. This would take me all night to send my emails out.
A lot of sites have auto submiters available that will send to a lot of different safelists from the one place with just one submition. This is great for saving time and effort again and I can't find any true fault with any of the ones I have tried myself so far ( except I don't seem to be able to combine there mass submitter with mine).
Paid Membership
Of course as in most things you get what you pay for, Most of the time anyway. Paid membership is one of these occassions.
Be careful of paid membership though, it can be a trap. It is no use paying for membership just so you can send out more emails to the same people.
What I mean by this is there are sites that with paid membership you can post every hour or four times a day but that is it. This is fine if each mail is for credits and your headline will catch attention. If not you are wasting your money.
I strongly suggest you look for paid membership at the sites where you only get to mail to paid members if you are a paid member. This helps insure that your mail is getting to some serious readers, and people willing to spend money to. (It is no use selling to people who don't buy anything).
There is so much more about safelist advertising that I could probably write a whole series on the subject.
Now let's get some helpful tips to help increase your results and profit:
SUGESTIONS:
1.Headlines:
At the risk of being repetitive I must reiterate the importance of this tiny part of your letter.If you are using a credit mailer system try using that in the headline e.g (Earn Credits Here) Your Title. Or offer a gift in the title.
2.Build a rapor with your readers:
Don,t just shove offer after offer down your readers throat. Tell them some stories offer gifts BE ORIGINAL. Make them want to open your mail every time they see it.
3. Monitor your efforts:
Make sure you use a link tracker or some such program to monitor your ads, a different one for each safelist if possible to see where your results come from. It is no use sending out thousands of mails to noone. Minimise your efforts by eliminating waste.
4. Believe in Yourself and your Product/Offer:
This is more a marketing general tip but it is relevant here. If you believe in yourself and your product it will show in your marketing making it more believable and therefore more likely to get results.
So show me how I have helped you. Get out there join some safelists and start promoting and succeeding now. Remember these few tips and start standing out from the crowd.
What are you waiting for I am looking forward to seeing your offers in my inbox and so are hundreds of thousands of other people so send them out to us now!
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