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The Best Safelists for July 2010

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Hello July!

Yes, I should have posted this yesterday but things got a little bit crazy with my relaunch of Safelist Marketing Tactics.  It calmed down a bit last night but at that point I decided it would be a better idea to shut down the computer and watch Star Wars instead (it had been a really long time since I last watched Star Wars or shut down my computer).

Last month I mentioned that I would be testing out a bunch of new safelists.  I’ve got the results from those but I decided that I would do some individual safelist reviews to give me something else to post about later this month.  So keep your eyes peeled for those.

If the new safelists were good enough you will find their stats below.

I had a comment last month from someone asking for reviews of safelist solo ads.  Now that the new Safelist Marketing Tactics site is up and running I will try and spend a little extra money this month on advertising and let you all know the results.

Ok, here’s the stats for June.  These numbers are the results of me promoting three different splash pages for my Safelist Marketing Tactics website.

Total Clicks Unique Clicks Action Sales CTA CTS
State of Art Mailer 3,430 1,929 67 13 3.47% 0.67%
List Effects 1,151 679 40 13 5.89% 1.91%
ListBuildingMaximizer 2,547 1,018 49 9 4.81% 0.88%
List Joe 1,448 1,044 33 8 3.16% 0.77%
List Auction 1,196 658 25 8 3.80% 1.22%
Adsolutionline 2,712 1,015 33 7 3.25% 0.69%
ViralAdStore 1,515 786 29 5 3.69% 0.64%
AdTactics 1,042 566 15 5 2.65% 0.88%

“Clicks” is how many people viewed my splash page.  “Action” is how many people clicked the link on my splash page to go to the main site.  “Sales” is how many people joined my site.  CTA and CTS are “clicks to action” and “clicks to sale”.  I ranked these safelists by sales but it is also important to look at the other numbers to determine how responsive each safelist really is.

I guess this kinda ruins my surprise but one of the new sites I was testing, State of the Art Mailing System, has jumped right to the top of my list safelists.  I won’t say any more about it until I do my full review but obviously this is a site worth joining.

Not much else has changes except I would like to welcome AdTactics back into the top list.  It’s not as high as it used to be but I sure won’t turn down 5 new sign-ups.

I guess that’s about it.  Keep your eyes peeled for the new safelist reviews and some safelist solo ad reivews coming up later this month.  In the mean time, make sure you are tracking all of your results.  Those stats you see on this page are the results of my efforts promoting my pages.  What works best for me might not work for you.  The only way to know for sure is to track your results.  You can get a free link tracking from from TEToolbox.

The Best Safelists for February 2010

Safelist Marketing Tactics is 1-Year Old!

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Hello!  I’m back.  Sorry I have been kinda quiet lately but I have been busy putting together some new projects while I will be announcing very soon.

For example… You might have noticed that over the last year I have been working very hard to brand myself as “the safelist guy” and it all started with a little ebook and website that I created called “Safelist Marketing Tactics“.

Well, it’s been 1-year since I released SMT so I thought now would be the perfect time for a relaunch of Safelist Marketing Tactics!

I have a bunch of new stuff that I just finished adding.  Feel free
to drop and and check it out:

http://safelisttactics.com

Here’s what is new…

New Content

Since first writing Safelist Marketing Tactics over a year ago I have continued
to learn new and more effective ways to market with safelists.  I’ve now updated the book to include more current content including more submission strategies, more information about vial list builders, and a few changes to the recommended programs list.

Squeeze Pages

Upgraded members will now have the ability to upload a photo and submit their autoresponder code to create their own personalized squeeze page (created by the great Winter Perkins).

There’s also a 5-part email series which you can use to promote your own programs that also encourages upgrades at the SMT website.

New Promo Material

I updated the “Thank You” ad.  I hated the old one.  This one is much better.

I also added a few new promo emails which have been converting well for me lately.

New “One Time Offer”

I updated the OTO page to include some really nice video packages included which I think will convert really well with new safelist marketers.

I also reset the OTO for the first time since I launched the site.  Considering it’s been a year since I reset the OTO you might want to pay attention the next time you see it.  I may never reset it again.

Referral Contest

Why not?

The person who signs-up the most upgraded members to the Safelist  Marketing Tactics website before the end of July 15 will win… (drum roll)…

One Hundred Dollars!

I’ll be posting daily updates of the contest inside the members area.

So that’s it!

If you are already a member of Safelist  Marketing Tactics I thank you for all the support and positive and feedback I have received over the past year.  Please login now to check out all the new features.  I think you’ll enjoy it.

If you’re not a member yet… what are you waiting for?  It’s free and it’s better than ever.  Click the image below to grab your free copy of Safelist  Marketing Tactics.

The Best Safelists for February 2010

The Best Safelists for June 2010

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Welcome to June!  It’s a new month and that means it’s time for me to dig out my safelist stats from last month and see what are the top safelists right now based on my current advertising campaigns.

Not a lot of news to report for last month.  I did weed out about half a dozen smaller safelists that I had been using which were not producing a lot of sign-ups.  It was hard because most of these safelists were still bringing in a few sign-ups every month but as my list of safelists that I use daily continues to grow I find myself having less time to focus on the sites that are bringing me the best results.

That means I now have some free time to test out some newer sites and to retest some sites that I haven’t used in a very long time.  While I don’t have stats for them yet you can expect to find List Zillion, State of the Art Mailer System, and Reactive Ads in here next month.

Speaking of newer sites…  There are a lot of good programs out there that go right over my head because I can’t always distinguish them from all of the junk.  If you know of any safelists or viral list builders that are working for you but you haven’t seen me mention here feel free to post your referral link in the comments.

Ok, time for the stats.  Over the last few weeks I have been promoting my splash pages in Sweeva and have gotten some really interesting feedback.  I decided that instead of just advertising one splash page in my safelist ads I would put three of them into a rotator and advertise that instead.  I’ve been doing this for the last two weeks.  So far so good.  All of the splash pages that I am promoting on these safelists are being used to promote my site Safelist Marketing Tactics.

Total Clicks

 Unique Clicks Action Sales CTA CTS
List Effects 1,192 696 51 16 7.33% 2.30%
ListBuildingMaximizer 1,743 828 69 15 8.33% 1.81%
List Joe 1,493 1,053 51 13 4.84% 1.23%
ViralAdStore 1,706 871 45 9 5.17% 1.03%
Adsolutionline 2,497 938 46 6 4.90% 0.64%
List Auction 1,240 628 33 6 5.25% 0.96%
Got Safelist 1,954 895 60 5 6.70% 0.56%
European Safelist 735 276 31 5 11.23% 1.81%

“Clicks” is how many people viewed my splash page.  “Action” is how many people clicked the link on my splash page to go to the main site.  “Sales” is how many people joined my site.  CTA and CTS are “clicks to action” and “clicks to sale”.  I ranked these safelists by sales but it is also important to look at the other numbers to determine how responsive each safelist really is.

Not a great month, actually.  List Effects managed to hang on to the top spot again but just barely.  Everything else seems to have either stayed the same or dropped slightly.

As usual I should point out that these are my own personal stats from  promoting my own personal splash pages.  These numbers are only meant to be a guide to help you decide which safelists and viral listbuilders are worth trying.  Your results will probably be different from my own so the only way to know for sure which sites work best for you is to track your own results.  You can get a free link tracker from TEToolbox.

The Best Safelists for February 2010

Safelist Experts Tell All

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Happy Saturday!

Can you believe that anybody would want to interview me?

It’s true.  In fact I didn’t quite know how to react when John Karnish contacted me a few months ago with the idea of interviewing me for his new book he was writing about safelist marketing.

Of course I agreed.

And now you can read that interview at Safelist Experts Tell All.

Let me tell you a little about how this all came about because I think this is really great.

I’ve talked before about how important it is for you to have your own product but I can understand that not everyone out there is the greatest writer.  I’ve mentioned that one way to get around this is to simply do an interview with someone who knows more about a subject than you do.

And that’s exactly what John did.

John contacted myself and three other big name safelist marketers and asked us the important questions that everybody needs to know about marketing with safelists.

The result is that John now has his own ebook jam packed with quality content and he only had to write about one page himself.

Pretty clever, right?

What’s also great is that John is giving everyone who signs up for his free ebook access to his affiliate program that pays 75% commissions on the one-time-offer.

And let me just say something about this one-time-offer.  I think John is nuts!
This thing is waaaay underpriced.  Even if you don’t buy it yourself (and you
should because it’s a steal) you’ll have no problem converting any free members you send to his site.

So, what are you waiting for?

Click the image below to get your copy.

It’s really good!

I know because I wrote 1/4 of it :)

The Best Safelists for March 2010

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Welcome to March and a whole new month of safelist marketing.  Lots of good stuff to talk about this month so let’s jump right in…

First, the big news last month was all about the rise in popularity of safelist cheat software and the safelists owners efforts to fight it.  Well, I am happy to report that the war is over… and WE WON!  Mostly.  Andrew Baxter, the creator of the most popular software made an appearance at Net Marketing Forum and agreed to stop selling and supporting his software.  You can read the whole thread here.

Andrew also states that the developers of several other safelist cheat programs had sent him very angry emails because he had made his software so public resulting in the safelists adding anti-cheat devices.  I guess that confirms that there are still other cheaters out there but at least the anti-cheat stuff is working.

Also I want to remind everyone that while there are people using bots to click your safelist credit links this doesn’t hurt the effectiveness of safelist advertising.  When you spend your safelist credits your credits are used whether or not someone opens your email.  The bots just allow people to earn credits they don’t deserve.  This could result in more emails in your inbox but that also means more credits for you to earn.

There was a pretty huge launch last month.  List Effects is the new viral list builder from two of the biggest names in the safelist and text ad exchange industry.  To be honest, the site isn’t really pretty.  In fact, it looks a little too much like the inside of a text ad exchange… but it’s the results that matter.  And WOW is List Effects kicking butt.  Check the stats below and you will see why I am so excited about this new program.

A not so new program that I finally joined last month is List Building Maximizer.  I don’t know why I waited so long to join this one.  I guess I figure that newer sites aren’t going to have enough members until they have been around for awhile.  Obviously I was wrong.  Based on the stats below List Building Maximizer is crushing it!  If there are other great safelists like this out there that I am missing out on please let me know.

Ok.  Here are my safelist stats from last month.  These stats come from advertising my video splash page for Safelist Marketing Tactics.

Total Clicks

 Unique Clicks Action Sales CTA CTS
List Effects
 1,076 818 104 21 12.71% 2.57%
ViralAdStore 1,520 915 61 18 6.67% 1.97%
ListBuildingMaximizer
 1,757 894 57 18 6.38% 2.01%
Got Safelist 3,808 1,571 50 10 3.18% 0.64%
Elite Safelist 1,396 682 36 10 5.28% 1.47%
List Auction 1,042 737 34 10 4.61% 1.36%
AdSolutionline 2,338 917 26 4 2.84% 0.44%
FreeSafelistMailer 962 466 13 3 2.79% 0.64%

“Clicks” is how many people viewed my splash page.  “Action” is how many people clicked the link on my splash page to go to the main site.  “Sales” is how many people joined my site.  CTA and CTS are “clicks to action” and “clicks to sale”.  I ranked these safelists by sales but it is also important to look at the other numbers to determine how responsive each safelist really is.

Not counting the two new sites it looks like I had a slight drop in my overall results from last month.  That could be a result of me playing around with my subject lines.  I am surprised that List Auction continues to drop.  This could be a result of how few emails they are sending out which means less credits for me to earn for my own ads.  It’s nice to see Got Safelist and Elite Safelist doing really well again.

Obviously the biggest winners this month are List Effects and List Building Maximizer. If you are not a member of these two programs yet you are missing out on some seriously good traffic.

I guess that’s about it for this month.  As usual my stats are a result of my efforts and the pages I am promoting.  Your results may not be the same but you can use my stats as a guide for deciding where you should be promoting this month.  How do I know which safelists work best for me?  I track my results.  If you aren’t tracking you are wasting a big chunk of your time.  You can get a free link tracker from TEToolbox.

The Best Safelists for February 2010