My experience with the program so far
In a word: Horrible. I'm an experienced online networker and beyond any doubt, this is the WORST program I've ever seen. Highly disguised under comments of being the best and easiest. With this strong of an expression, it cannot be summarized in a few words. In short, it's not even a business opportunity (freely acknowledged by its owner and founder) but a unique emailing program.
From the user's point of view, it has no elements of business where you can take and control a positive and defined action, such as the wording in an ad or where to place it, and then measure the result to determine the best step.
You perform some actions, such as requesting additions to your openers list, with no idea of what is being said or where it's being posted. All you get is a certain number of new openers or people who are now assigned to you. You receive a downloadable list of names and emails, but there's no way to know if these are real or bots, and from this list, you proceed to send out emails. That's another story. But again, the bottom line is this is like playing the slot machines or gambling, and like gambling, some win and some lose.
My quantitative experience is that I religiously worked this program for 8 months, keeping good data, logging in, and posting daily. I invested a total of $1182 over this period and collected just $673 in commissions. I had another $112 due to me, but it wasn't payable until I hit the $300 payout threshold, with little chance of that happening with the remaining mail credits. When I resigned, I had 114,814 'openers' or contacts, which were considered by the company to be assets and could be exported to a .csv file, which I did. There was no guarantee if these were real names, bots, or otherwise, and using them, particularly under the new 'low bounce' rules, was not practical. Every legitimate 'bulk mailer' would not allow third-party emails to be uploaded or sent, so they had no value.
What I Like
Virtually nothing, other than the fact you could do this program with approximately 15-30 minutes of work time daily. I also like the fact the owner communicates regularly, typically weekly. Half of his generally hour-long updates are rehashes of the program, emphasizing that it is the only program on the internet that does all three elements of email marketing: providing a list to mail to, providing content to the recipients that can be monetized, and providing the mail delivery asset or program, including keeping the IPs fresh. After listening to nearly all the updates, you begin to learn that there is no valuable content that will tell you exactly what to do, and the disclaimer is: 'You all have different lists, and each has its own characteristics.'
What I Dislike
What I dislike is the way this is presented. It's offered as a free trial where you can learn how the program works and actually see that some people will open your emails, and that in the process, you are earning monetary credit. In my case, in the first 30 days, I earned $112.00. The catch is that you can't collect any money until you upgrade (the lowest upgrade is $97), and then you are not paid until your accrued commissions hit $300. While most commissions are eventually paid, many people report delays
Final Verdict
It's not a reliable, measurable, or repeatable business. It's an interesting gamble, much like playing the slot machines. The risks are probably about the same. The house (Bobby) will always win; for others, some will win and write rave reviews, while others won't. You will only find positives on their approved Facebook page as any negative comments are not allowed. If you have money to gamble, you can do this with as little as 15-30 minutes a day. Be sure to include the value of your time. Breaking even or only earning $500 after putting in two months or so is NOT a good investment.
I have resigned from this program and do NOT recommend it.
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I am quite pleased with Mailer.g0ld and that means something because typically I don't use Safelist as my main traffic source.
Apparently, I did change my mind and started using Safelist because I managed to make consistent sales from it.
What I did was send an email as a Free Silver member and track the result. To my surprise, I managed to get 3 clicks and 1 sale out of 600 members to whom I can send my email!
This is nuts! To think that a new Safelist help me make a sale is not my intention. I just want to see the CTR (3 out of 600 is small, but mind you, this is completely cold traffic that never heard about me before).
And for that reason, I decided to upgrade to Lifetime Gold membership for just $16 at the time I write this review.
You see, Mailer.g.ld increases the price with the increment of 0.01 for every new upgrade sale. So the next upgrade price would be $16.01, then $16.02, and so on.
What I Like
Well, I see some "gold" inside this safelist waiting for me to dig it lol. I mean, I did get a sale from the free account, so I can easily justify my decision to upgrade as a No-Brainer one.
Besides the regular email, Gold members will also get 5 text ads and 5 banner ads to get more eyeballs to the offer, and there are also Guaranteed Visitors plus Downline Builder tools that we can use to add some more exposure.
Overall, I like the member's area and the navigation is clear and easy to follow. I guess that is because the owner (Frank Bauer) has done this for a long time. He definitely knows what he is doing.
What I Dislike
Well, since it's still new (less than a year since the launch date), there are less than 3K members right now and that is a low number for a safelist.
Nevertheless, that also means that there is room for improvement and if they become bigger, the founder members will also reap the benefits such as bigger commissions and low initial investment ($16 as I write this review).
Other than that, I don't see any disadvantage of using mailer.g.ld right now.
Final Verdict
Safelist has been known as one of the low-cost methods to get traffic to your offer and build your list. It still is even today. No wonder there are new safelists emerging every year.
I joined mailer.g.ld because of the credibility of the owner and decided to upgrade for a very low investment after I get a good result as a Free Silver Member.
If you want to know whether this is worth it or not, you can just create a free account and test it.
You may get lucky and make one sale or two. Track your result and let it be the final judge before you make decision to upgrade or not. Easy peasy right? ;)
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