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Can Safelists Help Build Your Business?

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Internet Marketing's first lesson is that spam is something you just do not do. It can get you in more trouble than you ever imagined, including being banned or fined. Because of that, hundreds of thousands of people have begun to rely on and use safelists. These are gigungulous email lists of people who have agreed to let someone (anyone) send them some information about something. They end up being huge exchanges of spam among people who don't read them.

As an experiment for myself, just to see how they work in general, and to see if they do drive traffic to my sites as promised, I set myself up with four safelists: ListDotCom, Herculist, GlobalSafelist, and Croc-Ads. I picked these randomly from the hundreds (or maybe thousands) available. For all four, I entered the required information for my own email, along with a zippy headline and content. I pictured this going to millions of email boxes, finding its way to an eagerly awaiting biz opp seeker, standing out from the two or three others which safely made their way there.

Instead, my own mailbox was filled to the brim with emails. I got over fifty the first hour, about one a minute. I had over two hundred by the time I logged off for the day. By the end of the week, I was getting over SIX HUNDRED emails every day day, all promising me that I could make the most money for the least effort. Think about that for a minute. Six hundred emails a day. That's about one every two minutes 24/7. I don't even scan through them anymore. I just select all and delete.

So, here's my advice on safelists: (if you really want to use one)

1. Create a junk email account first. I have found that Gmail works the best, as it can handle the volume easily. Just make it something separate from the mail box where your regular email comes.

2. Begin with only one safe list. Wait for your inbox volume to level out. You might want to add another one, but if you start with six hundred emails a day like I did, you won't read any of them anyway. You will spend more time deleting them than reading them.

3. Track your results for a specified period of time. If your website is not getting more traffic, cancel your subscription and move on to other methods of hit generation.

My conclusion, based on first hand experience, is that there are far more effective ways to drive traffic than safelists. They might have been a good idea a few years ago, but for now, they offer no way to stand out from the other 599 emails.

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