Should You Develop Your Own Mailing List Or Can You Simply Use All The Safelists Online?

Keeping a mailing that you can send your promotions to is one of the most important things you can do to help insure your online success. Almost every Internet marketer online will say that without a mailing list you have zero. I have been asked over and over if people can just use safelists and other list building programs or if they should build their own lists.

I am going to go a little deeper in this article on how email marketing needs to be carried out.

Let's examine safelists. A safelist is a membership website made up of hundreds or even thousands of other Internet marketers. You can usually join without having to pay any type of monetary fee. Everyone who signs up for these web sites automatically agree to permit other members to send them their emails. For the most part, each email you are sent will include something known as a credit link that you should click on to get credits, this is known as a credit based safelist. You then use these credits to email other people in the safelist, and on and on.

Bear in mind that the other safelist members are like you -- they want to email people and get traffic but they don't want to buy something that another member is telling them about. Don't misunderstand me, it is doable to earn money with these programs but it will be occasional, not enough to make all your time clicking links worth it.

Still, safelists have a niche in Internet marketing. Now, if you are interested to have your own list, safelists can help you grow it. Essentially, all you have to do is to bribe people with something of value that you give to them gratis and they give you their email address. This way you are developing your own list which is much more powerful.

Which leads us to the question "Do I need my own list?" Yes you do, at least if you wish to succeed. If you ask anybody who has been an Internet marketer for a long time they will tell you that you can make more or less $1 per month for each person you have on your own list. While that may not seem like a considerable amount, think about what happens if you have your own mailing list of 5,000 or 10,000 people?

This is an average as every person on your mailing list is not going to just buy a $1 product from you each month. What this means is when you email your mailing list with a good subject line and good content in the email marketing a good product, you can expect to make about 1 sale for every 50 people on your mailing list each month. This is merely an example, but if each sale you make makes you $50, there is your $1 per person each month.

You can even mail a different offer to your mailing list every day. Plus, there is no limit to how big you can grow your mailing list. There are also a variety of ways that you can start developing your mailing list. You don't need to just utilize safelists. One technique which is very popular is just by placing a form on your website or blog so people can sign up for your free newsletter. It doesn't stop there however, you can utilize any technique or program you prefer that can help you build your mailing list. Basically, you can grow your own mailing list to any extent you prefer.

So, safelist or your own mailing list, which one should you concentrate your efforts on? You should be using safelists but only to the point where it is helping you build your own mailing list.