Maximize Your Safelist Results
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Here are some simple ways to maximize your Safelist and Viral List Builder results and make more money with less clicking!
Before
Getting Started With Safelists
Before you start with Safelists, you will need to setup two
Gmail accounts to
receive the mail you will get from the Safelist sites. You need two
accounts as some Safelists require you to have a Contact address and
a List address. The Contact is used for mail from the admin and solo
ads and the List address is to receive all the other mail.
Simply visit Gmail
and create two accounts with Yourname.list@gmail.com and
Yourname.contact@gmail.com.
Once you have created your two Gmail accounts, you can then join a
few safelists.
Join The Best
Ranked Safelists
There are 100's of different Safelists and Viral List Builders on the
web and many are not even worth your time and effort to join, but which
ones?
Knowing which sites to join can be daunting at first, but luckily
List Hoopla
stops all the confusion, as it tests Safelists weekly and ranks the best
performing sites. Also the site acts as an excellent downline builder,
as it allows you to add your affiliate IDs from the various Safelists
and promote them with only one link.
List Hoopla is
free to join and means you get to find the best performing sites,
without you having to join and test yourself first.
So visit the List
Hoopla site and join a few of the top ranked sites to get you
started. You only need to join a few (say 5), and once you get used to
using them, then you can join more in the future. It is always
recommended to visit List Hoopla after the ranking updates (Thursday),
as new sites get added to
the list quite regularly.
Once you have joined a Safelist or Viral List Builder, you will be asked
for your email address, if it only asks for one address, as many do,
then simply use the Yourname.list@gmail.com address that you created
earlier. If it asks for a Contact and List address, then you simply
enter the corresponding Gmail address for each one.
Sort & Organise Your Safelist Mail
You will need to sort the mail you get form safelists, as it will make it more efficient to click for credits.
- Open your List Gmail account.
- From your Inbox open the Safelist email you want to filter.
Click the "More" drop down box above the message body and select "Filter messages like these".
- A new window will appear and simply click "Create filter with this search >>" in the bottom right hand corner.
- Click the check boxes:-
- Skip the Inbox (Archive it)
- Apply the label:
- Never send it to Spam
- Never mark it as important
- Also apply filter to # matching conversations
- Click the "Choose label" drop down box next to "Apply the label:" and select "New label".
- In the new pop-up window enter the name of the Safelist into the "Please enter a new label name:" box, and then click the "Create" button.
- The window will return to the previous screen where you simply click the blue "Create filter" button.
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Any new mails you receive for that Safelist will now appear
in the left hand pane of your Gmail account. Simply click the
folder name to display the messages from that Safelist only.
Download a step-by-step PDF Sorting Safelist Mail in Gmail with screenshots included to make it easier to understand. |
Once
you have created one filter, you will understand the process and
be able to create them for all your other Safelists.
Click For Credits Faster
Below is a method to earn credits fast, as long as the Safelist
doesn't have a captcha that needs to be clicked every ad view.
This method requires a tabbed browser such as FireFox or Chrome.
- Click the Safelist in the left pane of Gmail you want to earn credits for to display the current messages.
- Click the first message to open it.
- Find the credit link in the message.
- Hold down the "CTRL" key and click the credit link to open the ad in a new tab to the right of the Gmail tab.
- Release the "CTRL" key. Note: If you moved the scroll wheel on the mouse whilst holding the "CTRL" key then you will zoom the screen in or out. To return the screen to normal view simply press "CTRL" and "0" (zero) to reset the screen.
- Now click the older icon (>) to move on to the next
message.
- Repeat the procedure above for 10 to 15 messages.
- Now click the tab to the right of the currently selected
Gmail tab, to select it.
- Once the timer is finished and you have been credited,
simply click the "Close Tab" (Cross) icon to close the
tab.
- Repeat this for all the other tabs, to only leave the Gmail tab open.
- Return to the message and repeat reading messages as above until you have enough credits.
- Now click the return icon to return to the list of
messages.
- Now click the check box above all the messages to select
them all.
- If there are more than 50 messages, then click the link
Select all # conversations in "Mailer Name".
Message will change to show all messages have been selected.
- Now click the delete icon (Trashcan) to delete
the messages.
Once you get used to this method, you can soon earn
credits quite quickly.
I have also created a PDF to show you How To
Earn Safelist Credits Fast with screenshots, if the
above method is not very clear. If you would like a video
created to explain this then send me an email and ask. Note:
PDF updated with information on how to quickly deal with
sites that have captcha and icons to be clicked when reading
mails.
Limit Your Clicking
You need to keep track of the amount of credits that you
have for each Safelist and how many you need to send a
mailing. There is no point clicking ads from a particular Safelist if
you already have enough credits to send.
One of the best ways to manage all your mailers and credit amounts is to use the FREE BuildaBizOnline Mailer Manager.
Download a
Sample Spreadsheet. (Open Office & Excel
format with usage guide in PDF format, if you need another
format, then email me).
Also some Safelists have Solo Ads that are worth more than
normal ads, and say you need 500 credits to mail and the
Solo Ads are worth 100, then you should only click 5 Solo
Ads and not 50 normal ads at 10 credits each, time is money.
Another
good tip is to limit your daily clicking for credits. If a
site allows you to send 1000 emails every 7 days and you get
15 credits per email, then don't click 67 mails (1000/15=67)
in one day. Instead spread your clicks over the 7 days, so
you only need to click 10 mails (67/7=10) per day.
Keeping Track Of When To Mail
If you have joined a few Safelists, then you will realise
that they all have different frequencies of when you can
mail, some are 3 days, some 5 days, some 7 days. This means
you can easily lose track of if you can mail from a certain
mailer without logging in to check.
Buildabizonline Mailer Manager - One of the easiest ways to
keep track of when you can mail and your credit balance.
Spreadsheet - This allows you to keep track of not only when
to send, but also how many credits you have at each Safelist.
I personally use this method to track all my Safelists.
(Open Office & Excel format, if you need another format,
then email me).
What To Advertise
You should never advertise any type of generic affiliate
pages in the Safelists. People are only visiting the site to
enable them to earn credits to display their site and get
blind to the same ads all the time.
Do not advertise sites with long sales pages, as people do
not scroll down to read, they just skim the page and then
close the ad.
You must advertise something that is going to get you
noticed and also that ultimately gets the visitor on YOUR
list. This is the only thing that you should be trying to
achieve, if you are using Safelists. Once you have the
visitor on your list then it is essentially free
advertising. You can now email them ANY opportunity you
want, when you want.
To get people on your list you need to use an
auto-responder
to capture and manage the people on your list. You can set
them up to automatically deliver a set message queue when they
join, and also send a broadcast to the list, with any new
opportunities that you need to advertise.
To get people to join your list you need to give them
something for free as bait to join your list. But what to
offer them is the key to becoming successful with safelists.
What you need to do is target their needs:-
They Want More Traffic.
They Want More Leads For Their Business.
So your offer needs to be able to solve one of those problems.
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Always try to pick a free product that is related to the affiliate offer that you want to promote. So give away a free traffic eBook, if you are wanting to promote a traffic generation product. This means you can then set up your auto-responder series to gently recommend the paid product to compliment the free eBook they received.
Track, Track and Track Some More
If you do not use tracking when you are advertising your splash pages or squeeze pages, then you
don't know what sites or types of advertising give you the
best results. Tracking will stop you from wasting time
advertising at sites that give you no results, and enables
you to concentrate your efforts on the sites that do.
One of the best tracking tools is
The Real Tracker, that allows you to track all your
advertising from the one program. This is the one of
the Most Important tools you will need apart from your
Auto-responder to make money online.
Other free trackers: Track My Sites and Hits Connect.
Another great feature is the ability to add exit popups and ad bars to your tracked links.
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Profit At Every Stage Of The Sign-up
Process
Once you start to use Safelists and Viral List Builders
correctly, by sending people to a squeeze page. You now have
them on your list but you are not earning anything from
them, this is where setting up a sales funnel is vital. It
allows you to offer products to people as they sign up and
confirm their email address. This is most important if you
are paying for the traffic, as you can recoup your costs and
get the ads for free.
A great resource to learn how to do this is through the free
ebook The
Auto-responder Profit Sytsem.
A complete system that shows you how to start earning from
your auto-responder.
An ideal funnel set-up for using in Safelists and Viral Mailers is a simple 3 page one, as below:-
Squeeze Page ==> Confirm Page ==> Thank You Page
Download A Free Complete Basic Funnel
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Files In A ZIP File
Watch Videos For Setting Up Basic Sales Funnel
The squeeze page needs to be simple and capture the visitors attention and address their problems as stated before, to be able to get more traffic and more leads for their business.
Your confirm page should ideally link to or have a low priced product on it, such as a Pro Mailer (Easy Cash List Building System, Daily Mail Blaster works well). This allows you to get some cash flow into your business upfront, and ideally you can then buy advertising and not have to spend all day clicking for it.
Your thank you page will have the free gift you offered on your squeeze page for direct download. But here is a great place to also promote the Downline Builder for Safelists / Viral Mailers (List Hoopla). By promoting it this way, you may get multiple sign-ups to the mailers inside the downline builder from one referral, and not wasting credits promoting them individually in the safelists themselves. You can also promote these in your follow-up email series in your auto-responder.
By following this simply formula you are then building cash
flow in your business and building downlines, which both
equate to more traffic for your promotions.
Make Use Of All The Advertising Resources Available
Most Safelists and Viral List Builders allow you to also add Banners and Text Ads. Don't forget to make use of these, as they are extra free exposure for your ads.
Try not to use standard affiliate banners, and make you own eye catching ones. Read the article Boost Your Banner Click Through Rate, for some simple ideas to get your banners noticed and clicked!
If you have a really good converting banner, then convert some of your credits to banner impressions, as you will get more views per credit for a banner.
Change Mailing Subject Heading To Expand Exposure
When you send a mailing out, DO NOT use exactly the same subject heading for every email, especially when sending to the same mailer.
The reason for this is that Gmail groups mail with the same subject headings together (as shown below).
This means that the above mail was sent 3 times, but will only get read once!
If you change the subject slightly each time, then the mail will show up spread through the list of mails and not grouped together. This is more important for upgraded members as you can send multiple times a week, and if the person reading the mails only checks them once a week, you will be losing those extra mailing benefits.
You only need to add an extra character to make the email different eg.
Click Here Now
Click Here Now!
Click Here - Now
Claim FREE Bonus Credits For Top Sites
Check the Promo Codes page for the latest bonuses you can claim.
When joining a new site, always check the promo code sites to get as much free advertising as you can. By doing this you can save yourself hours of clicking to earn credits, and you can then easily test the sites and see if they are actually worth your time.
If I find any more good hints or tips, I will add them to this page. If you have any good nuggets you would like to share, then please email me at the address in the footer, or you can contact me on my social sites listed at the top of the site. Or if you want to just ask any questions, then please feel free to contact me, as I am here to help you.
All the best,
Martin Chantler.
(Reduce The Hype)