I have never been much of a fan of safelists. They all seem to make huge promises of delivery to thousands of interested prospects but mostly the messages end up in spam boxes where they are deleted without ever being seen. Would much rather spend my time on more reliable sources of traffic .

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Thanks for your commment Gerald. I take a longer term view. As long as I am getting clicks to my links I know I will eventually monetize the traffic. My strategy is to offer something free which would appeal to marketers. Then try to get them to subscribe to my autoresponder. Then I follow up over and over with a variety of offers. My main concern is to make sure I am getting real people seeing my sites. The rest is up to me to convert them. So many people are just sending traffic to generic, self replicated biz opp sites. You have to have your own site and your own newsletter they can subscribe to. The follow up with many offers not just one.

I definitely use the email more than the website announcement but why not use both? My strategy with safelist advertising is not to make straight sales. So many people think I send ads I get sales. Safelist advertising is cheap, direct cheap. But people are receiving tons of emails. You have to distinguish yourself. I try to offer something free that would interest other marketers. Afterall, everyone who is a member of a safelist is interested in advertising. My goal is to get the prospect into my mailing list. Maybe to subscribe to several of my lists. Then I can follow up over and over and propose not just one product but a variety. They eventually convert to sales and the price is way less than Google Adwords.

Hi Matthew,

Do you use the email or website announcements ? What sites are best for this kind of advertising ?

Thanks.