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Affiliate Funnel’s Saturday Conference continues to be my #1 resource for learning how and where to market online, so whenever humanly possible I just do not miss it. Friday, during TE Live, Jerry Iannucci mentioned that he would be speaking at Saturday’s AF Conference, the topic being Safelists. This was right up my alley because (like many of you I’m sure) I have tried to use safelists many times with little to no success.  Now Jerry is the man when it comes to safelists, so I knew there was no way I could walk away from that conference and not know how to use safelists properly… and I was right!

This post is a couple of days overdue, but for good reason! I wanted to put some of the things I learned from Jerry into practice, test them out, then share how successful or unsuccessful those attempts were for me. Affiliate Funnel usually has some sort of prize giveaway, trivia type of deal and this Saturday… I won! The prize??? An upgrade to Jerry Iannucci’s Safelist Marketing Tactics woot! Now this is a site I joined a long time ago, had already been jaded a bit by my attempts to market in safelists, and never even downloaded the book…. dumb right? Yes! But the upgrade and the knowledge I gained from Jerry in the seminar gave me new inspiration to try my hand once again in safelists… and I’m so glad I did!

One thing I learned… I’m going about marketing in safelists ALL wrong. Normally, I’d copy and paste an email ad from whatever program was launching, including the headline they provide, send it off into the world and be angry when I get absolutely no signups. A) In no way am I promoting myself or building my own list, B) everyone else is coping and pasting those same emails and sending them off on launch day just like me. How did I ever expect to get great results?

I also took the time to read Jerry’s Safelist Marketing Tactics ebook cover to cover. Wow.. is all I can say. I learned SO much, and Jerry really explains it in the simplest way possible. He even covers how to use filters in your email client to organize the safelist emails, how to track your results, how to tweak your ads…. I mean everything! So my Sunday was spent getting myself organized… *gasp* organization is not my strong suit for sure! But it was so easy, and now I’m all organized and ready to go. If Jerry can get me organized, he can get anyone organized, so a huge thank you to Jerry Iannucci!

I’m so excited about everything I learned from this book, that I uploaded it to my own server so that you can grab a copy of it below, for free, no signup required… just click and download. Grab the book, and please do yourself a favor, don’t do what I did…. leave it on your computer unread for 6 months.

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE COPY OF SAFELIST MARKETING TACTICS HERE

What’s even cooler about this whole deal… Affiliate Funnel is creating a new splash page to rotate that shows the winner (me) and what I won/who gave it away (Jerry, Safelist Marketing Tactics)! So I we get promoted directly at Affiliate Funnel, me just for winning and him for giving away a prize. How much cooler does free advertising get!

Be sure to grab Jerry’s book, read it, and I can promise you… you’ll be ready to give safelist marketing another try. I’m psyched and can’t wait to share my improved results here in a later blog post.

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DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE COPY OF SAFELIST MARKETING TACTICS HERE

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I, Winter Perkins, being of sound mind and body, surfed for almost 5 hours straight last night. Yes you heard me right, 5 hours… and as we all know I (say it with me) hate to surf! It’s not the most PC thing to say when I’m so integrated into the Traffic Exchange industry, but I really just don’t enjoy the act of surfing. I, of course, love advertising in Traffic Exchanges and the results I get from building my list in them. BUT I make sure to upgrade when I can in the exchanges where I’m getting my best results or catch credit specials, so I can free myself from the task I dislike so much.

Why this much surfing all of a sudden? It’s all thanks to a tiny, awesome device with a big price tag….. the iPod Touch. My daughter has wanted one of these for a long time, but it’s a little pricey for my budget right now. She put in a huge effort at school this year, even winning a few achievement awards, so she definitely deserves the iPod. Luckily, I Love Hits is giving one away for FREE! Of course, you have to surf a bazillion hours to win lol but I’m definitely going to try as hard as my fingers will allow. I Love Hits always gives away an awesome prize every week to top surfers, but you know it has to be super cool if I’m willing to surf for it right?

I actually surfed, two… count them TWO sites yesterday! I spent some time surfing in Sweeva.com too, and visiting some really cool blogs. Sweeva of course is the Social Browsing site that’s caused some commotion in the Traffic Exchange industry lately. I love the site, and it’s one of the sites I can browse in for almost an hour before getting bored, that’s saying something for me.

Yesterday Tim Linden and Jon Olson introduced a whole new element to the Sweeva game… Random Widget Prizes! If you don’t know what a Sweeva Widget is, scroll down almost to the bottom of this page, look in my right sidebar column, and you’ll see it there. It has my picture, the awards I’ve won so far, etc. Most importantly, these widgets are all over the web: on blogs, in splash pages, on Traffic Exchanges, you name it.. they are everywhere. Now these widgets are set to randomly give prizes at any given time. You have to keep your eyes peeled because when you see a widget that looks like the one below, click it! That means you’ve won a huge prize, not only for yourself, but also for the person proudly displaying their Sweeva Widget. These prizes can be just about anything: Sweeva Experience Points, credits, hats, shirts, coffee mugs, even… Flip Cams! If you’re already a member of Sweeva, fly your widget proudly. If you’re not, signup today, grab your widget, and get ready to win some huge prizes. Be sure to look for these widgets everywhere you go, and if you see a widget that looks like this….

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv CLICK IT, you win!

Example of a Sweeva Winning Widget

In conclusion…. wish me luck on the iPod Touch prize in I Love Hits, please don’t crush me in the brackets, proudly display your Sweeva Widget, keep your eyes peeled for winning widgets, refresh this page a million times and hopefully we’ll both win some awesome prizes at Sweeva (kidding about this part of course…. or am I).

Have a great day all, see you in the surfs! Wow, I sure don’t get to say that often lol good luck!

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