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There is much controversy about using safelists and other such types of services. Many swear that these services enabled them to build up large lists while not having one of their own yet. Others say that they are a waste of time.

I find that regardless of what marketing method you choose to use for your own business, they all may have the potential to work depending on the person who uses them as well as the type of business you are trying to market. Much like traffic exchanges. If you are trying to sell shoes and accessories, trying to get anything going for your business in traffic exchanges or safelists, would not be a wise way to spend your time. The only people/businesses who benefit from these types of services are those who are promoting list building tools/services, and those who are promoting traffic related items.

I find that some of the safe lists that are out there are pretty good. I have only maybe tried 5 or 6 out of the possible hundred or more around, but I was just testing the waters. I found some of them though just sent way to much email for you to read to be able to submit your email ads every 3 days or 5 days or even 7 and 10 days.

I am going to tell you about one such service though. It may not be one of the big ones other marketers are pushing, but you can mail to your choice of 4 different lists, all which have ranging from 4000-24000 members. Although with the free membership your email only gets sent to 500 people a day. But if you think about it, sending out to 500 every day with that much of a choice, can really add up.
It also has a pretty good affiliate program. You get paid $10 for everyone who joins and upgrades to a pro(which is worth it if you find you have gotten some response from your testing) And the best part for me is that although you do have to read 10 emails a day in order to send your own ad, you only do it from their site once you log into your account. No clogging up your email inbox(I already have enough coming in, don’t you?)

If you want to do a test run, you can find your favorite affiliate program that is offering residual income(you know the kind that you only have to make one sale and you get paid something every month), find the email ad that they offer(you may want to add a little to it to personalize it, or change it up a little for more success), create an account from the site with the link I leave below, and then read your 10 emails required, and blast your ad away.

If you do this day in and day out(takes like 20 mins if that, from your day) to test it with all 4 of the lists there, for say 3-6 months, you will be able to see what kind of results you get. If you like the results, you can try a different affiliate promotion to see if you get the same type of results.

Be sure to track your results from all campaigns you run for your business. Hits Connect is one of the best programs I find out there to do that. It is free to join, there are tons of tools to help you out, and you can even have access to other programs you can make money with. It is worth the look and is a must have tool for every business owner as far as I see it.

O.k. so, today you were given a reason to try out a safelist that does not clog up your inbox with other people’s ads, and you can send out an email to 500 people each and every day. I think this should work regardless of whatever niche you are in, it just may have better results for make money/traffic and listbuilding businesses. I am going to be trying it out with my weightloss site next so I will keep you posted to let you know which of my campaigns are doing better.

Now, the next step is up to you. Go and sign up at Trade-A-List and Hits Connect and get started setting up your campaigns. It may take you a little while today to get it all set up, but once it is running, it will only take you 15-20 mins a day to add this extra income stream possibility into your marketing strategies.

You never know if something will work for you unless you try it. And then give it a good enough go like the 3-6 months. If you still have not made a sale in that time, try another campaign or move on, it will be your choice.

Here’s to your success! Be sure to come back on here and comment if you are having success with these programs or even if they did not work for you. Others can benefit from hearing our experiences.

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A program called 12 month millionaire was recently released by Russell Brunson, which is a 6 part audio interview with direct mail marketer. This program is based on Vince James now out of print book 12 Month Millionaire.

Vince James is a former convicted criminal, who makes more money per year than most CEOs of very large companies; He reportedly has made 100 million dollars by doing direct mail marketing which is an offline type of marketing. He has taught internet marketers ways to make money in his book. Russell Brunson decided to interview him to see how it could help his own internet marketing business improve.
Russell Brunson himself has made millions of dollars by applying the techniques learned from Vince James, and he is now also called upon to deliver lectures around the world on internet marketing.

Much of the information provided in this program would be extremely useful if you really want to take your online business offline and that is the point of this interview. Vince talks about advertising in print media, radio and TV and you could easily adapt these techniques to grow an online business. However an average internet marketer may not get most of the points in this interview but a smart marketer is probably going to pick useful points and apply them to expand his marketing business.
The topics covered in different sessions of this interview are:

Session 1:
This session is about how Vincent James, a 21 years boy gets started in his million dollars business and what is his niche and how he achieved success in it. Vincent will also talk about how he set up his membership site and sold 65,000 memberships within the 12 month period.

Session 2:
It’s about information product creation and information publisher. Vincent shared his secret on how he sold more information products through direct mailing and direct marketing.

Session 3:
This interview session is about list building and maintaining the latest information of customers and prospects. You will learn Vincent’s techniques on how he handles his list and maintains the latest contact information of his list. This session also teaches about the life time value of a customer and how you can turn these customers to be your continuous streams of income.

Session 4:
This session focuses on the advertising techniques used by Vincent that made his million dollar business a success. This is an important session on how to drive your business and convert these traffics to sales.

Session 5:
This session continues from session 4 on advertising techniques. You will see how Vincent generates his leads from commercial ads such as TV and radio advertisement.

Session 6:
This session focuses on how Vincent handles the potential problems that rise throughout his $1 million money making path. You will also learn on what actions to be taken if you find your product being cloned by unauthorized people.
This program in going to give you valuable tips on how to earn through offline marketing whether you already have some marketing experience or you are a newbie.
Click here to learn more:
12 Month Millionaire

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I know, I know…It seems like I just like to post about giveaway events based on all of my posts.

The thing is, if you set things up properly and were on a good update/notice list of all the big events, you could be gaining subscribers every month with a new event.

Imagine growing your list from 200-2000 or more, in a year just by submitting your gifts, posting some promotional links, blasting out an email to your list or a safelist, twittering on your twitter profile, throwing up a splash page for the traffic exchanges, or chatting on any forums. You can reach tons of people, and really see your list grow.

One thing I found over time though, is you really do need to build up a strong relationship with your list. Treat them like friends more than wanna be customers. If you offer solid information and advice with little pushy sales, you will soon see your sales/commissions will increase. Be patient. Sometimes it can be discouraging when you blast out an email to your whole list and only 2% of the people even open or pay attention to your email. But as you grow, so will your response rate.

Anyways, on with the show! The latest giveaway event, once again offers new and exciting ebooks and software. You need to join me and see what goodies you can find. These events are great for getting PLR content you can use to create your own products, post on your blog, create new articles to submit for directories, or any use you can find for marketing your business.

Here is the link to join! Just click on the banner below.

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Have you ever wondered how some of the top affiliates can do it? What does it take to become a successful Affiliate Marketer? What must you do to gain an advantage?It may be true that Affiliate Marketing is one of the easiest and most effective ways to make money online, but there is still a plan that needs to be followed. For those who are just starting out trying making a business with Affiliate Marketing, there are a few tools you must first acquire to make the best of your efforts for maximum results.

Tool #1 Creating Your Own Website

Although some may argue that you do not need a website to sell other people’s products,it is the best way to present a professional presence online. This website will be the jump off point for all your marketing efforts. You need to make your website clean, clear and user friendly, thus encouraging your visitors to click around and buy your products or services. Therefore, you must create a website that will cater to your prospects needs.

As most people start surfing online to find information to a problem or need, they are not necessarily ready to buy at that time. Providing useful, relevant content will help build your credibility branding you as an expert, please the search engines,and satisfy the readers who come to your site. The more your readers can trust you, the more they will listen when you recommend a product they should buy.

Tool #2 Offering Incentives

With the increase in websites and businesses starting up online every day, you need to be able to offer something of interest and use to your potential customers. If you are promoting other people’s products and services, you will want to build a list of potential
customers so you can build a relationship with these prospects. You can offer free ebooks, software, an e course, a newsletter, or free services to get these prospects to sign up and stay with you. As you contact them at regular intervals providing them information and free
offers, they will learn to trust you and in time you will see that more of them will begin to buy the products or services you recommend to them as well.

Tool #3 Link Popularity

The importance of driving highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be emphasized enough. Getting people to your site should be one of the main goals you work on. You should be doing everything you can to acheive a high search engine ranking. Link Popularity is one of the factors that search engines use to determine search engine
rankings.There are several ways that you can do this.

One of the best ways to get reciprocal links, is by article writing. You can submit these articles to multiple article directories and ezines. You will not only gain exposure, you will also have the opportunity to advertise for free, just include a link back to your site. The more sites you submit your articles to, the better your link popularity is.
Make your articles original, relevant and useful so that more websites will pick it up and post it.

There are many other useful tools you can use to become a super affiliate. These are just a few of the ways that are cost effective and efficient. Use you imagination, creativity, resourcefulness and determination and you will be a Super Affiliate making great money in
no time.

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It’s Giveaway time again!!! The Giveaway events are really flooding my inbox. I spent the entire day yesterday signing up to every event I could and submitting my free gift.

If you still have not created your own information product yet, you can still join these giveaways as a contributor and build your list. All you need to do is submit a resale rights product. You can get some from many membership sites. These sites can be expensive sometimes, although there are affordable ones that aren’t skimpy.

I have a VIP memership at a site called Resell it for Profit. I am a reseller as well.For those of you looking to get involved with list building but are in need of a product to giveaway, I am going to give you a free Gold membership that is worth $67 a year and provides you with 426 products to choose from and sell as you own. Most of these products also come with their own website files you only need to upload to your own hosting server.

You can then choose to upgrade and get access to another 250 products, you will be able to sell ebooks, software, templates, videos, and more for numerous niche markets.

Click on my link below to get your free Gold membership now.
http://resellitforprofit.com/reseller_manager/rep1/kdbbiz/Gold.html

Now click on the following links and sign up for these giveaway events before they launch and you lose out. You could receive hundreds of subscribers to your list in a month the more events you sign up for.

Multiple Sclerosis Giveaway and Fundraiser

100 Percent Giveaway

There’s a huge 1000USD referral contest, so join and start promoting the event!
Friday the 13th Giveaway

The Scotsmans Birthday Giveaway Bash

Traffic Giveaway 1.0

Peter Cottontail Easter Giveaway

Even if you do not have a list of your own at all, you can upgrade and be guaranteed that you will have your gift seen and be building your list faster. I know sometimes it is not affordable to upgrade for every event but look for the cheap ones. There are a few that you can upgrade for as low as $9.97 where others the upgrade is as high as $67. Even upgrading at one event could give you a list of over 100 for you to start with for the next set of events. Once you have a list you do not need to upgrade if you don’t want(unless you want to add more than one gift to the event or want the chance to have your gift on one of the first pages seen)

Trust me, it is worth all the work and the few dollars. Getting involved with these giveaways is sooo addicting once you get started, and the feeling you get when your inbox fills up with new subscriber mentions. They say that every subscriber on your list is worth $1 so the more you have the richer you become.

p.s. just in case you do not have an aweber autoresponder account you can get one here through my link. It is the best $20 a month I invest into my business and most internet marketers will agree. You can try it out for free with these giveaways and see for yourself. Aweber will also send you an ecourse to help you setup and get your first campaign running.

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I just thought some of you might be interested in hearing some real time stats for the first giveaway event I joined. I did not pay to upgrade and since I had a very small list of subscribers to promote to for sign up, I ended up being 163 out of 288 for gift spot which put me on the last half of the download pages. I was told because of that I would not get as many signups. The giveaway launched on the 15th(yesterday).

Yesterday I got 41 signups and today so far I have 16 at 2pm in the afternoon. There are still 12 days left to the giveaway I believe so I may end up with a couple hundred signups. Now that may not be much to some people but if I take each list and enter into each new giveaway I can get accepted for, then in a year or so I will have a big enough list to start making steady income from(providing I still offer promotions that will benefit my subscribers and not just random crap to try for a sale).

Now if I had upgraded or had more subscribers to promote to, I would have been on the first few pages of downloads and maybe have gotten more signups. I also believe that it has to do with what you are offering. Just because it is free doesn’t mean people are going to take it. It is only appealing if someone can benefit from it.

Since this is a giveaway event, you need to take into account that there will be a good percentage of people unsubscribing from your list after they have received their gift. The key is to try to keep the ones you can. I don’t like to hard sell or pester people, so I only email once a week with the occaissional broadcast in between when something comes up(like the giveaways). Some people, especially the hard hitting iternet marketers, send 3 or more emails a week. When I get those guys, I am soon off their list too.

I guess I will have to see how many of my signups stick around and buy something in the future though. So far, I have only had 2 of those unsubscribe. That is a good ratio wouldn’t you say?

Enough for today. I will keep you posted on more updates.

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Article Marketing is still ranked one of the best ways to get tons of traffic for year after year to your website. It costs nothing but your time, and the pay off is often more than you expect. For new beginners, sometimes the proper way to use article marketing may be a little tricky. Here is a great free ebook that helps to explain how to use article marketing for the best outcome.

Here are the chapters covered.
Table of Contents
Article Marketing Explained
The 4 Things ALL Articles Must Have
How to Create an Outline For All of Your Article
5 Easy Ways To Get Your Creative Juices Going
What to Do Before Submitting To Article Directories
Red Hot Tips To Get Your Articles Read
Writing a Resource Box that Makes People Click
If You Hate Writing Articles…

20 pages to help you get started on your way to article marketing success. Don’t be surprised if you soon become addicted to article marketing.

Download your free ebook here Article Marketing

I also have another free bonus for those of you who are afraid you can’t write well. Often if english is not our first language, we can use some help. With these plr articles emailed right to your inbox every day, you do not need to try to research, think up original articles, or any of the hard stuff. You simply rewrite the first and last paragraph in your own words, and make sure you change at least 30% of the article so it will be accepted as unique for the article directories. No duplicate content is allowed.

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Well I decided to do some testing for my blog and website http://mclarenbooksandmore.com I would like to share with you some of what I found out over the last few days.

First, I was wondering about Safelists, Traffic Exchanges, and free classifieds.

Safelists:

I joined only one called AdTactics. There are 7690 members. What you do is agree to recieve emails from other members. When you read the email and click on the link for thier website you will receive 50 credits per site. I spent the day receiving emails. I must have received a hundred or more over 24 hours. I spent approximately 2 or 3 hours clicking and gathering up as many credits as I could. At the end I cashed in and had 1000 credits. I emailed to 1000 members and waited to see how it would reflect on my traffic stats.
End result? Nothing! Not one single link was clicked from that site! That means that of the 1000 people I emailed, they didn’t even bother to either read my email or click through to get their 50 credits. Which means what? I am thinking that there are more than the few who are paid upgrades who do not have to read other emails to have their messages read. When you upgrade, you still get to have your messages sent to the members but can free up your time and email box. I cancelled my account. I am not wasting time with all of those emails, and not getting anything. Obviously if this marketing does work, it only works for those who pay.

Traffic Exchanges:

First off, there are tons of traffic exchanges out there! I went with Traffic Splash. I also like Traffic Swarm but found Traffic Splash to be a little more friendly and visually appealing. They have contests and surf rewards for so many clicks. So, I set about making up my text ad, banner ad, and SPLASH page to connect for the site. The SPLASH page was added to the rotation of other sites, and the text ad and banner ad waited until I rounded up enough credits to get them into rotation as well. I surfed for about 3 hours and earned about 4000 credits. I also won 1500 free banner ads, and 500 text ads. The next day I checked my stats and 94 visitors had clicked to my site and I added one new sign up to my optin list. Now this may not be a huge success, but to me, it showed me that there might be something to this I could work with. So, I am going to keep on surfing to see how it goes over more time.

Free Classifieds:

I used Kijiji and Craigslist for my city. I promoted a new course I was planning on teaching. I had a pretty good, detailed ad setup. This I checked to see how many views I received. I only received 11 views in Kijiji and 20 in Craigslist.
I received no emails to sign up. Within the 24 hours, my ad went to the bottom of the first page. Once it leaves the front page, I can expect no more views. I was not impressed with this method and once again, unless you pay for a premium listing to keep your ad on the front page, you will most likely not get much of a response.

The next venture I am going into is JV Giveaways. I have signed up as a contributor and now that I have my SPLASH page created with my optin form included, I am set to go. I have my free product ready to be downloaded in the first of my autoresponder emails, and look forward to getting many more optins and hopefully customers happening. Since I only have a small email list so far, I need to pay for the upgrade which will enable me to participate still. If I had a big enough list, I would not have to upgrade, I would just have to send a broadcast email to my list to get them all signing up for free gifts from all the other marketers who joined. I am hoping by the end of the year to have a list big enough to not have to upgrade for the next spring giveaway. There are giveaway events all year long. If you entered into enough of them all year, you could have a good list happening and get your email marketing aspect of your business off to a great start for automation.

If you would like to help me out and also land yourself a ton of free gifts, click on the banner below and get signed up for the IM Dream Team Giveaway launching on the 15th.

I am getting excited with the possibilities of it all! You should really join in these fun marketing techniques. You will be glad you did!

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We all want to be successful online. Some of us prefer to promote affiliate products due to not having any of our own yet, or just because we enjoy being able to promote so much of a variety of products. Whichever choice works best for you, amassing a targeted list of potential buyers is something we should all be setting our sights on. Although there is tons of free information online of how to create a list, it all boils down to having the traffic to build up this subscriber base.

Once you start to build up your list, regardless of how small or long it may take you, you need to treat your subscribers well. Offer freebies now and again, don’t harass with too many emails, and talk to your customers/subscribers like they matter and are not just a means to dollars in your bank. Relationships take a long time to develop and grow. You want your customers to trust you. This will take time. If you come right off and start pushing sales without offering freebies, or useful information, you will soon find yourself alone without a list after everyone has opted out.

It may be harder now to get optins due to the fact everyone is trying to accomplish the same thing but it is not impossible with a lot of persistence and dedication. So go get that Aweber.com account for $20 a month, create your optin form, throw it up on your website or blog, and set up your first 5-10 emails with your freebie promos, offers, and introductions. Be patient as it may take some time to start getting people signing up but they will. The first signup is the hardest.

Feel free to post any comments here if you would like to give other readers some tips or encouragement on how you are doing with your list building and if your list helps make you additional money every month.

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