The two I mainly use are Mad Vlad and AdTactics. They are both credit based lists, which means you earn advertising credits to send your ad by clicking links in other members ads.

Now one of the main problems I see that may have been a neat trick when it started is people trying to put tags in the email's. When I say tags I mean things like [firstname] or [email]. I don't know why people use this, I mainly stick with using phrases like "Hello fellow Advertiser" or "Howdy fellow [insert safelist name here] member". This way you are acknowledging the reader and you can move on, besides most of those tags get messed up now so all you see is a very ugly "HELLO [FIRSTNAME]. That won't get you many responses, if any at all.

The second point deals with the end of the ad. ALWAYS put your name and MAIN web site. I say main one because there isn't much point beating a dead horse and putting the site your promoting under your name as you should've put that in the article. Putting up your main site, which can be your about me site if it's personal or it could be like my main site and have a list of the programs you are currently in along with your personal info. Either way it is another click you can get from them before possibly loosing them.

The third and final tip for now is something I see way to often. People forgetting to include the link of the site their promoting in the ad itself. This happens a lot more in AdTactics than in Mad Vlad for the simple reason that Mad Vlad doesn't have a place to enter your web site address though you still see some people who think people should just guess the web site address because it never seems to show up.

The main reason for this point lies with programs like AdTactics where you enter web site address so people can click the link and get credit. The problem is with this is it doesn't send you directly to the site. It opens a frame that your site loads in while a counter runs (20 seconds on AdTactics) and assigns you credits. You can not bookmark the site from here. So if people click the link and like it they can not get to it again without a direct link somewhere in the ad. Thus you can gain and loose a prospect in the time it takes them to collect their credits.

These are just a couple of tips that should help you out with your Safelist success. Hopefully using these will increase you ad productivity and let you enjoy more free time and less time worrying about how your going to get your next lead.

Matthew Ulmen
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