Hello and welcome to February!
I don’t know about you but it’s weather like this makes me glad I work from home.
I have some big changes to announce this month but first I want to shine a light on one of the better safelist related launches that took place last month. It’s a site called “The Traffic Button” and it was released by Mike Purvis who is best known for creating The List Auction, Viral Ad Store, and Traffic Zipper. The Traffic Button is a series of free training modules which will show you how to get the most out of advertising with free viral list builders (such as the ones Mike owns). There is definitely some good content here and well worth the time to check it out.
I also released a new edition of my popular ebook Safelist Marketing Tactics. Nothing major. I just wanted to make sure the content is current and still relevant to marketing with safelist and viral list builders into 2011.
Ok, the big announcement… my tracking script died!
Yep. I was doing some routine maintenance on the database and for some unknown reason the script will now no longer recognize the tracking cookies used to tell me when people click my splash page and when they join my program.
So now I am tracking all of my links exclusively with TE Toolbox!
The bad news is that I lost all of my data from before January 13th.
The good news is that the new trackers are working great.
Since I made such a major change in the way I track my links I also decided to take this opportunity to make some changes in the way I have been promoting. Before I was promoting splash pages and tracking how many people clicked my ads and how many people ultimately joined my program.
I decided that instead of promoting the usual splash pages that I am now going to promote a squeeze page instead and track how many people subscribe to my list through that page.
Here is the page I am promoting:
http://safelisttactics.com/squeeze/?rid=1
That page is available to all upgraded members of Safelist Marketing Tactics if you would also like to use it to build your list.
The results?
Since January 13th I have tracked 208 new subscribers to my list from promoting that page exclusively through safelists and viral list builders.
Wow!
Which safelists and viral list builders worked the best?
As always I would like to point out that these stats are a result of my own marketing efforts and your results may differ. I also have upgraded memberships on most of the safelists and viral list builders listed below which normally produces better results.
Enough of that… here’s what worked best for me:
| Hits | Unique | Subscribers | Ratio | |
| State of the Art Mailer | 3,407 | 71% | 35 | 1.03% |
| Adchiever | 1,635 | 70% | 20 | 1.22% |
| Quick List Profits | 611 | 65% | 18 | 2.95% |
| Global Safelist | 1,191 | 38% | 14 | 1.18% |
| Viral Ad Store | 694 | 67% | 12 | 1.73% |
| List Effects | 405 | 65% | 11 | 2.72% |
| The Lead Magnet | 660 | 68% | 10 | 1.52% |
| AdTactics | 2,667 | 29% | 9 | 0.34% |
| The List Auction | 543 | 65% | 9 | 1.66% |
| AdsolutionLine | 1,845 | 42% | 7 | 0.38% |
| Elite Safelist | 1,695 | 38% | 7 | 0.41% |
Not bad for only half of January.
As usual, if you are not already a member of State of the Art Mailer… oh boy are you missing out!
Adchiever also continues to rock.
I am really impressed this month by Quick List Profits. While this is still one of the newer viral list builders the conversion ratio is the best on the list. I don’t know what Kym Robinson is doing over there but it’s definitely working!
That’s all for this month.
Keep your eyes peeled on Feb 13th for a brand new viral list builder launch that is definitely going to make some big waves. Also be back here next month to see what kind of results I get from a full month of building my list with safelists and viral list builders.
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