Growing Your Own List Or Utilizing Safelists -- That Is The Question

For those who have been in Internet marketing for any amount of time, you have heard how crucial it is to have a mailing list to email. Nearly every Internet marketer online will state that without a list you have nada. But the question is, do you need to have your own email list or can you utilize safelists.

In this article I will answer this question and explain to you just how and why you should be using safelists and your own email lists.

Let's take a look at safelists. A safelist is a group of people who agree to receive emails from other folks in the group. Typically, you have the option to join gratis but 99% of these sites have added features for people who want to pay for them. Everyone who registers for these sites automatically agree to allow other members to send them their emails. Almost all safelists will have a link in the email that you have to click so you can get credits. You then use these credits to email other members in the safelist, and on and on.

The big issue with safelists is that no one is there to purchase anything. Although you may make a sale here and there by employing these lists, it is not adequate to make it worth your while.

Nevertheless, safelists have a place in Internet marketing. Safelists are a good way to start developing your own email list. You can have people's email addresses by giving stuff away and having people give you their name and email address in order to have access to the free item. This way you are developing your own list which is much better.

When it comes to building your own list, if you want to succeed in the long run as an Internet marketer, this is something you have to do. To explain how important it is to have your own email list, on average for each one person you get to sign up to your email list you will make roughly one dollar every month from. So let's say over the next 12 months you work hard at developing your mailing list and you get 3,000 people to sign up, your email list is now worth $3,000 a month.

This is an average as everyone on your mailing list is not going to just pay for a $1 product from you each month. The way it is works out is, when you have people on your mailing list they are more likely to purchase from you as long as you provide quality, and you should be able to sell 1 product once a month to every 1 person out of 50 who are on your email list. So, if you have 50 people on your email list and you sell only 1 item worth $50 to a person on your email list in a month's time, that is how you get your average, and when you think about it, it's not that difficult to do.

The coolest thing is when it is your list you can send your emails anytime you want. Also, there is no limit to how big you can grow your email list. There are also many ways that you can start developing your mailing list. Safelists can help you to grow your list but there are a lot of other ways to list building. You can incorporate a signup form on your blog so people can be updated, then you can email them also and your email list continues to grow. List building is just limited by your imagination, you can grow it anywhere. The point is it is limitless.

And so back to the initial question on what type of mailing list do you have to use, whether you should build your own or utilize safelists. You should be utilizing safelists but only to the point where it is helping you start your own list.