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Safe Lists

A "safe list" is a mailing list with subscribers that have agreed to accept advertising from each other. Safe lists are useful because their members will not complain about spam when other members send them promotional material.

When you join such a list, use a web-based email account for your email address, and earn a few bucks while you read the email these programs generate. I use zWallet for this, and avoid cluttering up my primary mailbox. Every income stream counts!

In truth, I rarely read them, although some interesting opportunities do show up from time to time. I simply open them (to make sure I get paid) and then delete them.

The most valuable "safe list" is the one you create yourself. When you visit successful marketing sites, note that every single one of them offers a form for capturing email addresses. You'll find mine just below the Table of Contents, on the first page of this book. Operating your own newsletter or "ezine" is the best way to establish a good relationship with your prospective customers.

  • BusinessWorld is a hybrid, offering free weekly access to the list to Basic members, and every 48 hours to Pro members. This is a big list, and it is being heavily promoted, but, in my opinion, it isn't worth paying for.

  • EZMonee Premiere Safelist offers daily access to the membership for $12 a year. Membership in this one is included with your ProList membership, and I recommend joining ProList instead, since it offers the additional benefit of residual income potential, an FFA page, and more.

  • MBP Safelist ($30/yr, 1300 subscribers)

  • Pro-List is a new safe-list building program sponsored by the OpportunitySeekers group. It's billed as a professional list builder, and pays with E-gold and PayPal. A one-time fee of $25 is required, which means the list will be populated by motivated people. (Pro-List members also get free entry into EZMonee's safelist, and an FFA page.)
    Joined March 5, 2001: $20. As of March 11, 2001, I have earned $90. I have had very good results using Pro-List, with a response rate of 10% per mailing!

  • ProMoneyMail provides a safelist, classified ad blaster (8000 sites), FFA blaster, search engine submitter and gateway page generator. All members can mail to the entire list (3000) once per week. Paying members can email to new members on a daily basis, which means 500-800 new leads every day.

    Three levels of membership are available. Entry level is free, and pays a commission when someone you sponsor ugrades to a paid membership. Good residual income potential provides the icing for this tasty cake. RECOMMENDED.

  • Smart-List offers a list of over 3000 safe and responsive email addresses provided by folks who want to hear from you. No autoresponsers are permitted, so you know you're reaching real people. They also offer subscription to a digest with over 3000 subscribers (not the same people found on the email list), access to their message board, a free, self-replicating website you can use to promote their system, which offers a $10.00 commission on each sale.

    Smart-List offers a trial service which lets you send inexpensive ads to the entire list. I used this service to post two ads. Ghostsurfers. They were mailed to 1400 Smart-List members, 24 hours apart, and the results were disappointing, to say the least, with nary a clickthrough. The same ad, mailed to Pro-List earlier, had earned me five new members. I have no explanation for this.

    For full details, visit the site.

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