Posts Tagged ‘safe lists’

What do I need to ………?

This was the question put to me by a very active but new Internet Marketer who had just completed all the set up videos of the free system he had just joined. I was thinking that you might have the same question so here is the answer I gave him.

You need people better known as Leads to sign up to your website. But before they are leads they are known as traffic, so how does one get traffic to their web site so they become leads that will become money in the bank.

I use traffic exchanges and safe lists. Most of them are free or cheap. Now some expects think they are a waste of time and others think they are great. As for my opinion some work great and others are just scams.

Safe Lists
If they state that you can email over one million people with one button its Bull. The one button leads to a page with about 100 or 200 plus email blusters that are all the same. You have to enter your details and message over and over and over again, you get the idea.

The best mailers have between 5000 to 80000 real members, some are free with unlimited mail outs but the better ones require you to earn credits to mail out. You earn one credit so you can email to one real person. They work faster than that. Open one email wait 30 seconds and earn 40 or 50 credits until you have build up enough to blast that message out.

When you sign up to these Safe Lists expect to receive about a 1000 emails a day. There are tricks to make handling this volume easier like using filters and folders so you can still find the emails from friends and family.

Now why do I say the credits Safe List are better? Well the person that sent you those email that you opened to earn that credit had to do the same thing. Sure you open a 100 a day to earn your credits and they open 100 a day to earn theirs, now if you have a good landing page it may just catch their eye. They go from being traffic to being a lead and if your offer is good. Money in the bank.

If you send out 80000 about 250 will be opened and 1 may sign up. Some offers work better than others do. Offer dollars in the subject line and the hit rate goes up. Proving that some people do read their email.

Traffic Exchanges
I’ll talk about them some other time.

or get more hints and tips at http://amped.net.nz

How to read a 1000 emails an hour

How to read a 1000 emails an hour
Step 1, Use Mozilla Firefox web browser with the Thunderbird
email system, If you are not using it.

Download it here.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node&id=242111&t=322

Step 2, Move your task bar which is normally at the bottom of your
desktop to the top of your desktop.This is a bit tricky.
Left click on it and move it to the top. It may go to the side first.

Step 3, As your safe list emails come in filter them to their own
folder.Filters are found under “Tools” in Thunderbird.
I use the “From” “ends with” and then the email address
after the @.
For better filtering of emails with credits in them use.
“Body” ” Contains” “Credit” and send these to a credit Folder.
For emails that have (Solo) in the Subject line,
use “Subject” ” Contains” and send these to your credit folder.

Step 4, Open your first folder and check that there is no important
messages in it as the Admin emails for the safe lists will be sent
there. Just a quick scan of the subject should do it. Now highlight
the top email, hold down shift and click on the bottom email,
they will all turn blue. Press delete.

Step 5,Open the Credit folder.Click on the first email to open it.
It will open in the firefox browser. If you do not see “Click here to
earn credits” or similar, click on delete, keep clicking delete until
you see “Click here to earn credits”. Its faster when the “click here”
is near the upper half of the page. When you see “click here” click
on it. The web page will open in firefox. If you are taken to the
web page just click on the opened email tab then delete. Keep
doing this until you have opened about 20 web pages.
After about 20 pages are opened go to Firefox browser and
start clicking the red box with the X in it.

Step 6, I find about 20 pages per mailer are enough credits,
making sure that I have opened all the solo ads as they have
the bigger credits.Now delete the rest.

I use 13 mailers so receive about 1400 emails a day.
With the filters about 800 make it to my folder.
It than takes me a hour to earn my credits and delete the rest.
Some believe that safe lists are a waste of time and others swear
by them.
For myself I send out over 50,000 emails every two days
and get about a 100 opened. So for no cost apart for an
hour of your time its cheap traffic.