What Is A Safelist?
A “safelist” or “viral mailer” is an online service that provides a platform for people to promote their products or services and build their brand.
Safelists allow members to send emails to one another and to receive emails from other members. When you join a safelist service you are in effect giving the other members permission to mail you without having their emails flagged as spam.
Safelist websites are often used by Internet marketers to reach potential customers and build their email lists.
Credit-based Safelists
Credit-based safelists require members to accumulate and use credits to post emails to the members.
Typically, credits can be bought, or earned by upgrading your membership. However, the most common way to accumulate credits is to click a link in other members’ emails and then click a credit button on the landing page (usually after a countdown timer has reached zero).
The ability to earn credits by clicking links inside other members’ emails provides an incentive for members to open safelist emails and “click through” to your landing page. While they are waiting for the credit timer to count down they will be exposed to your message and if it resonates with them, they will opt in to your mailing list to get more information.
In my experience, working with credit-based safelists can be a cheap (or even free) and effective way to add subscribers to your email mailing list.The purpose of this course is to show you how to use the best credit-based safelists to maximum advantage to build your mailing list. You will learn how to attract new subscribers onto your mailing list every single day – even on days when you are too busy with offline stuff to work on your online business.
Action Items
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Transcript
0:00 Okay in this module we’re going to have a look at how to use safelists to grow your mailing list. So what is a safelist? A safelist or viral mailer is an online service that provides a platform for people to promote their products or services and build their brand. Safelists allow members to send emails to one another and to receive emails from other members. When you join a safelist service you are in effect giving other members permission to email you without having their emails flagged as spam.
0:43 Safelist websites are often used by internet marketers to reach potential customers and build their email lists.
0:52 I can’t emphasize enough that building email lists is the primary way to use, or the best way to use safelists. Don’t use safelists to try and sell your stuff cold. Don’t use safelists to say, hey join my program! Use them to build your list and you will get on well with safelifts provided you choose the best safelists to work with.
1:20 So there are credit based safelists, which I recommend that you use. Credit-based safelists require members to accumulate and use credits to post emails to the members. Now typically these credits can be bought or they can be earned by upgrading your membership so you pay a lifetime – so, a one-time only – subscription, or a monthly subscription depending on the setup of the particular safelist. However, the most common way to accumulate credits is to click a link in other members’ emails you receive and then you’ll be taken through to a landing page and you will click a credit button on that landing page or on a bar at the top of the… over the top of the landing page, usually after a countdown timer has counted down to zero, and when it counts down to zero you will earn credits.
2:22 Now the ability to earn credits by clicking links inside other members’ emails provides an incentive for members to open safelist EMAILS [LOL! I said “open safelist members”!], and when they click through they will come to your landing page – if it is of course your email that they are reading. Now while they are waiting for the credit timer to count down they will be exposed to your message and if it resonates with them they will opt into your mailing list to get more information provided you give them an opportunity to opt in by including an opt-in form on your landing page. So in my experience uh working with credit based safelist mailers can be a cheap – or actually, in many cases free – and effective way to add subscribers to your mailing list.
3:24 Now I’ve got, I’ve got many years of experience of working with safe lists. About 10 years ago I brought out an ebook which taught people how to use “viral mailer safelists” back in the day when the “viral mailer” term was fairly new.
3:46 Anyway, the purpose of this course is to show you how to use the best credit-based safelists to maximum advantage to build your mailing list. You’ll learn how to attract subscribers onto your mailing list every single day, even on days when you are too busy with offline stuff to work on your online business.
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