Safelist advertising is a powerful, effective advertising resource
for affiliate marketers. Here's why and how to maximize your responses.
A
Safelist is a mailing list where Members can email each other. These
emails cannot be considered as spam because Member must opt-in to
receive the mailings and also have confirmed their email address. A
Safelist can be used to advertise a product or service, including
business opportunities, affiliate programs, home business products,
Clickbank products and so forth. Most Safelists work by allowing
Members to earn credits but also offer paid advertising. Basic
Membership in a Safelist is usually free.
Benefits of Safelist Advertising
1.
Affordable: Cost is ZERO to join most safelists. You can either surf to
earn credits for your own advertising, or you can pay a very small cost
for a paid subscription. Paid subscriptions allow you to post more
often and to more people. If you can afford it get a paid subscription,
cost can be as little as $10 and up.
2. Targeted: You reach a
targeted audience of other home business folks, affiliate marketers,
entrepreneurs and information seekers.
3. Legitimate: Once scoffed
at as a cheesy time-wasting practice, Safelists are a legitimate
marketing practice and have gained credibility and popularity. Spam laws
have limited the number of ways to market a product or service.
Safelist Advertising allows marketers to reach consumers easily and
legitimately with their permission.
4. Variety: There are various
forms of advertising available within Safelist programs. Members have
many options for advertising affordably and this can include Text Ads,
HTML ads, solo ads, banners, login ads, landing pages, ad rotations etc.
5.
Reach: Creating your own in-house mailing list is ideal but does take
an enormous amount of time and can be self-limiting to who is on your
own list. To reach larger, new audiences, affiliate marketers have
discovered the power of being able to post to a large legitimate list of
people. To get better results from your Safelist advertising, here
is what you need to know.
Always, always, always promote a LANDING
PAGE and NOT your website when using Safelist Advertising. Remember you
want to make an eye-popping offer and get an instant result. Your
website can't and won't do that in most cases.
A Landing Page that will generate results includes:
-Attention Grabbing headline
-Point form, punchy copy thick with the benefits to the reader
-A call to action, DO THIS! GET THIS!
-Lead form to gather contact details of the person.
-Option to subscribe to your newsletter, or receive further special offers
-More copy than graphics so your page loads quickly and command attention with words not distracting unnecessary graphics.
When
posting your ads, don't rely on just one Safelist. If your funds are
limited select 3 - 5 to get started and post as often as you can. If you
have a dud ad that doesn't get response, change it up, run a revised or
different ad.
Make sure you have some type of ad tracking
software so when you post and ad you can see the click-rate and analyze
the effective of your ads. Many Safelists offer this tool for their
Members.
The key to effective Safelist Advertising is three fold.
1) Get a paid subscription from a number of reputable Safelists so you can promote to larger audiences and more often.
2)
Promote a well-written copy-dense Landing Page with minimal graphics.
Emphasis is on eye-grabbing headline, benefit-laden copy, and ultra-fast
loading.
3) Pick only reputable Safelists.
Tell us what you think about Safelists? What are your favourites? Submit a comment below.
About the Author
Sandi
Hunter is the Director of Website Development at Worldprofit Inc.
Worldprofit provides a number of services for the small and home-based
business community including hosting, design, webconferencing, traffic,
advertising, SEO, safelists, traffic exchanges, training and resources.
This year Worldprofit marks their 17th year in business.
Republished with author's permission by Randy Ottmann TrafficMaxNow.com
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