As I strive to put together a complete marketing system for my personal websites and blogs one area I have been studying is Safelist marketing. In this article we will answer the question what is safelist marketing and look at 4 things you must do for it to work for you.

The basic premise behind safelists is that you agree to receive email messages from advertisers and in return you get to send email messages to them. Right away one thing comes to mind for me.

I Do Not Like To Read Email.

Email is one of the biggest waste of my time everyday. So for me to do safelist marketing right away I am going to have to get rid of that notion and actually start to embrace email. You may feel the same way. So here is how we will get around that.

1. Set up a separate email account with GMail for all Safelist email. This will keep it separate from your regular email. You do that with Google and it is very easy to set up an account with them. Because of spam filter issues you are better off not to use Hotmail or Yahoo for your safelist email marketing account.

2. When joining safelists you will be better off to avoid the ones that have a membership comprised of auto submitter users. You want real people submitting ads to you and you want real people viewing your ads. A good place to start is TrafficHoopla.com. You can join 20 good safelists there.

3. Take the time to skim your emails. Just deleting all of them can hurt you more than help you. First of all in fairness how will your ads get read if they are mass deleted. Secondly you can really improve your marketing efforts by watching for catchy ads that you could use for your own emails. Not copy directly, but to rewrite for your specific product.

4. Credit based safelists are they way to go because you will get your emails open. It operates along the same line as traffic exchanges when people click on your ad and view it before going to the next ad. With safelists credits are earned for reading emails. You will get more chances to have your messages read as you build up more credits.

This is 4 things you must do for safelist marketing to work for you. This takes some effort on your part. It is not a shot in the arm marketing approach, but if done with consistency over a period of time can work to increase the business of any internet marketer.

For an excellent report with resell rights read The Ultimate Safelist Survival Guide.