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Is It Best To Develop A List Or Is It Possible To Simply Use All The Safe-lists On The Web?

For those who have been in IM scene for any amount of time, you have heard how crucial it is to keep a list to email. You can find it on almost every Internet marketing site on the Internet "The Money Is In The List". I have been an Internet marketer for more than 5 years and one question that always comes up is "I use safe-lists, should I be using my own list?"
by RobertRTaylor


For those who have been in IM scene for any amount of time, you have heard how crucial it is to keep a list to email. You can find it on almost every Internet marketing site on the Internet "The Money Is In The List". I have been an Internet marketer for more than 5 years and one question that always comes up is "I use safe-lists, should I be using my own list?"

I am going to go a little deeper in this article on how email marketing must be done.

Safe-lists are the first thing we are going to cover. A safe-list is a membership site made up of hundreds or even thousands of people who are into Internet marketing. The manner by which it works is you can usually join free of charge or for a fee. When you sign up, you agree to be sent emails from other members. Mostly, each email you are sent will include something known as a credit link that you must click on to earn credits, this is known as a credit based safe-list These credits can then be used to email your offers to other members.

The primary concern with safe-lists is that no one is there to purchase anything. Frankly, you can generate money selling products on safe-lists, but you're not going to make enough money there.

However,, there is a way to make use of safe-lists that is worth your time. Now, if you want your own mailing list, safe-lists can help you develop it. You simply offer something of value for free in exchange for people's email addresses. In a short span of time you will have an email list of your own you can email every time you want without clicking safe-list links to get credits.

Which brings us to the question "Do I need my own list?" Yes you do, at least if you wish to be a success. If you ask anyone who has been an Internet marketer for a long time they will tell you that you can earn more or less $1 a month for each person you have on your own list. So let's say over the next 12 months you work hard at growing your email list and you get 3,000 people to sign up, your email list is now worth $3,000 each month.

This however doesn't mean that everyone on your list sends you $1 each month. The way it is works out is, when you have people on your email list they are more apt to purchase from you as long as you offer quality, and you should be able to sell 1 product every month to every 1 person out of 50 who are on your mailing list. To explain this much better, 1 person out of every 50 buys a product worth $50 to you each month, that equals an average of $1 per person.

Another thing about having your own list instead of using a safe-list is you can send out your offers anytime you wish. Plus, there is no limit to how huge you can grow your list. You can employ various methods to grow your list as well. Safe-lists can help you to develop your mailing list but there are many other ways to list building. You can create a blog and have people join your list to be updated when you publish a new post. List building is merely limited by your imagination, you can grow it anytime. In essence, the sky is the limit when it comes to list building.

And so back to the initial question on what type of email list do you have to use, whether you should develop your own or use safe-lists And the answer is both, use safe-lists to start developing your own email list.

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