I know you read the title because you are reading this. That is part of what makes safelists work. You have to get read. But that is not the most important thing. Do you want to know what is the most important thing you must do when using safelists to promote your business. Read on.

Many people start with safelists because of the cost. Can you say FREE! It does take time to read emails and put your campaign together. If you have time safelists may be for you.

Safelists work like this. You agree to receive emails from other members. Then you decide which emails to read. You also decide when to email other members.

You have to ask yourself as a safelist member do you read the emails you are receiving? If not then why would someone want to read yours. This is the biggest problem with being a safelist member. If you will not read other member's emails why would they read yours?

So here is what happened. Much like traffic exchanges a credit system was developed to help get the emails read. It works like this. You get to send emails to as many members as you have credits. When you join a safelist you earn credits. If you upgrade you get even more credits. The more credits you have, the more emails you send, the more potential you have of having your email read by other safelist members.

The nice thing about this system is that people use up their credits and can not email anymore. This helps to cut down on the number of emails everyone receives.

To build up credits you can either buy them or you can earn them reading the emails you receive. Again like a traffic exchange where you earn credits to view ads, with this you earn credits to view emails.

The incentive is that you may earn enough credits to email 1000 members just from reading 20 emails. The percentage you earn is favorable enough to make you want to read them.

So this is the number one thing to do for safelists marketing to work for you. Join credit based safelists. Even if your title is bad you will still get some of your emails opened because everyone wants to earn credits. If you do it this way you will get a lot of free advertising and can even make money doing it.