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| FFA's, Safelists and Email Marketing |
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 |
When people post their ads to FFA sites, good sites
will make them verify their email addresses before
they will allow them to post their ad. This makes sure
that there is someone real owning that address.
Not all FFA sites do this. So if you look for FFA sites,
make sure they work like that. Ok.. on with the story.
As I mentioned I started out with safelists and slid
into FFA sites. I ha-ve to tell you that when I started
to use FFA sites, things picked up. Not posting to
them, but being a member and hosting and getting
folks to post to my site. It wasn't a flood of bus-iness
but it was bus-iness.
In the beginning, I heard of tracking, but I didn't take
the time to do it. Bottom line was, I wasn't sure where
my sales were coming from. To give you an example,
I jo-ined say 100 safelists and became a member of
6 or 7 FFA pro-grams. To top it off, I was changing my
ads every couple days thinking my ad wasn't good enough.
To say I was confused as to where my customers were
coming from is an understatement. To add to the
confusion, I was constantly trying new sites to ad-vertise
with.
The question came to mind, are these ne-w things I am
trying even worth the mon-ey I was spending on them ?
Was spending 30 bucks a month to ad-vertise to 6 billion
people a day really working ? I had no way of knowing.
So I bit the bullet and went thru the hassle of setting up
ad tracking links for everything. The work was eye opening.
Whenever I tried something ne-w to ad-vertise with, I
would make a tracking link for that one pro-gram. I would
also put that link in several different ads and use each
ad for a week or so. At the end of three weeks i would
get a result on which ad worked and if anything even worked
at that ne-w pro-gram.
Let me tell you what I found out.
Everytime I tried something that offered to send out millions
of emails for me, the results were ZERO everytime.
The pro-grams that offered up 100 to 1000 addresses to
send to, almost always worked. The best were the pro-grams
that sent me 100 to 400 addresses a day.
Then it came to me. Ho-w on earth could anyone send out
2 million ads a day for me. The internet won't let that happen.
Then toss in the fact that probably thousands of other people
jo-ined the same pro-gram I did and they had to send
millions of emails on their behalf also. Think about that.
If one company was to try and send out a billion emails
a day, they would be blocked by every ISP in the world
the very first day they did that. If you think about that, it
makes a bunch of sense. Those pro-grams are lying
to me. There is no way they can deliver what they are
pro-moting. They are flat out the biggest sc-ams out there.
So.. thru the use of ad trackers and the results they gave
me, I soon learned that if it looks to good to be true, it
usually is. I stopped spending mon-ey on the wild claims
that just didn't make common sense. I focused on the ones
that seemed real and the trackers told me were getting
me hits.
After all that work, I ended up with a small group of
FFA sites and a couple of safelist groups that were
getting results. That in a nutshell was what started my
internet career on the right path. It wasn't a landslide
of results, but the results kept creeping in.
So when it comes to ad-vertising and spending mon-ey
on ad-vertising, don't get hauled in by the ones who
offer mil-lions of leads. It just can't happen, period.
Before we move on, I want to mention something
that really helped me and my bus-iness take off.
Something called signature messages. Signature
messages are those little blurbs of info at the bottom
of emails you get. Short and usually to the point.
Most email accounts will allow you to set up a
signature message that will be placed at the end of every
email you send out. You make the message one time
and that message will be included with every email
you send.. automatically with no work on your part.
This may not seem like much, but when I set up a
signature message and used an ad tracking link,
I was shocked at ho-w often folks would click that
message link.
Thomas Richmond
HTTP://OJEEZ.COM/TMOBIL8Labels: email marketing, ffa's, safelists
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