My Straight Talking Review of – ListDotCom
Before I get into the pro’s and cons of this service, Allow me to get a couple of points in the open and out of the way.

Am I an affiliate — yes I am.
Will I benefit – Yes either by either more people to mail to or by monetary gain.

So am I trying to sell it…… Yes and No – I’m giving an honest review of what my opinions are, whether you join or not will have to be based or whether or not, with the help of my review, you decide if it will help you and your endevours.

If it will – then take on board whaat I’ve said.
If it won’t – then I’ve potentially saved you money and effort.

So with that said let me tell you about the service.

*What it is*

A membership Site designed to help you build your own list of opt-in subscribers. It has free and paid membership options which I will discuss further on.
All the members are in the ‘money making’, ‘opprtunity seeking’ niche.
Unlike a ‘safe list’ with the way the membership is set up – each member would receive no more than 20 emails every 3 days, so their inboxes would not become overly full. This in theory keeps the quality high.

*What it’s supposed to do*

The general theory (and again how the site is set up) is that members are encouraged to ‘bring in more members’ in order to gain more mailing potential, making the site very ‘viral’, and thereby potentialy building you a large list of members from which to build your own personal list from.

*What the sale page claims*

The sales page is filled with people giving testamonials as to the effectiveness of the site.
It also offers membership ‘bonuses’ to the value of nearly $500, (some of which you would actually use at some point).
It also claims you can ‘Potential’ have a list of millions build and be gaining ‘potentially’ 3000 subscribers per month.
*The options available*

Free – Bronze,
Earn income from upgrades, and email your your downline every 15 days.

Free – Silver,
Refer 10 people yourself with a further 20 Referrals on Your Second Level.
Earn income from upgrades, and email your downline every 10 days.

Free – Gold,
Refer 50 People on Your First Level with a further 50 Referrals on Your Second Level.
Earn income from upgrades, and email your downline every 7 days.

Free – Platinum,
Refer 100 People on Your First Level with a further 150 Referrals on Your Second Level, and 200 on your third.
Earn income from upgrades, and email your downline every 3 days,
Also — Platinum members can shut off incoming broadcast email from other members.

Platinum members have their ClickBank ID’s inserted in Top Sponsor Ads placed in email broadcasts in their entire 20 Level downline network.

Platinum members have their ClickBank ID’s inserted in ads in all of the ClickBank Products owned By Admin in the Featured sites section of the members area. This apply for members in their entire 20 Level downline network.
Pro Membership – Cost a One Time $97
Pro members get the same benefits as Diamond members, except they can email 1000 Random Members Every DAY For Life! Plus earn from upgrades.

Diamond – Monthly Cost $79.95
As per platinum, Plus email 5000 every 2 days. Plus a heap of extra bonuses valued in excess of another $500 (current selling items). Plus earn from upgrades.

Diamond Lifetime – One Time Offer – $197
The lot…. 5000 every 2 days, the extra bonuses, heaps of training, clickbank inserts etc. Plus earn from upgrades. etc. etc.
*What I’ve found*This is where I give you my honest appraisal of my membership of this site.This is where I give you my honest appraisal of my membership of this site.I joined around a year ago as a Life time Diamond member and paid the OTO price of $197,This is where I give you my honest appraisal of my membership of this site.I joined around a year ago as a member and paid the OTO price of $197,I have Never had any clickbank sales from my links being placed in any Top Sponsor ads.

This is where I give you my honest appraisal of my membership of this site.I joined around a year ago as a member and paid the OTO price of $197,I have had any clickbank sales from my links being placed in any Top Sponsor ads.I have not actively promoted the site as an exclusive product in any ads, But – I have mentioned it in emails to one of my lists of around 500.

I also had descriptions and links on 2 websites that I run, The one with the list of 500 and another with a list of 600.(Both Sites also mention other list building sites).

#Sidenote# – it could be said that I should have more activley promoted the site and it’s benefits, However, I joined to promote other opportunities, Not to become a sales person for this site exclusively!

I have actively used the mailing feature to send emails to random members regularly, and I’ve also used some of the bonus products.

The Results I’ve had are that I have gained a downline of 6 people on the actual site, all free members.
I have used the mailing to advertise to and gained approximately 650 subscribers to my own lists as well as making sales for products I have been promoting.
#Sidenote# Again – it could be said that with better subject lines, email copy or products, I could have had even better responses, and I’m not about to argue there, I have found some weeks my response has been zero to minimal, but other weeks I’ve done really quite well with both sales and new subscribers. So it’s definately something that does require thought and testing!

*My Conclusion*

My honest advice would have to be – If you were thinking of joining as a free member, then I believe you should already have either, a large list OR lots of other places to promote to in order to build your downline and benefit from your membership.

If I had joined for free I would not be happy with the results at all.

That said – I’m sure it could be said that I didn’t really put everything into the promotion of the site, Even now, I would not want to’push it’ onto anyone on my lists if it’s not going to benefit them.
I personally feel the sales page is over hyped, and it would not surprise me if the testimonials were from people who already had a big list to promote the site to. ( just an opinion – not factually based )

If However, you were thinking of joining as a Paid member – Then I believe you would get Value for Money.

Personally I wouldn’t go with the Diamond monthly option at $79.95 when there is a Pro Life option for a One Time $97 and a Diamond Life option for $197!

By paying the money you at least get to send your ‘Random Emails’ to either 1000 members every day of 5000 every 2 days, This way you would be able to build up your own opt-in list ‘Regardless’ as to whether you had as poor a recruitment record as I have or not.
So in a nutshell-
I personally wouldn’t bother with the free option, regardless of the great sounding sales page. However – I would have no hestitaion in recommending either of the One Time paid options, Provided that you have your own AutoResponder to capture names and build your own list into.

*Added notes*
Just as a point of interest, One campaign I have just done resulted in over $300 commissions made within 6 weeks mainly sending an email to ListDotCom random members, as well as adding people to my own list, So I have more than covered my investment in the Diamond membership oto option.
That said – there was nothing spectacular about it – in that when one works it out – it must have been a total of 125,000 emails sent for 11 sales which works out at 0.009%
Nevertheless, I’m still happy to continue sending my emails and gaining subscribers, and with the sales I do get – it ticks over nicely.

So – If after reading this review, you’d like to go read the hyped up sales page for yourself, you’ll find it here.
I do hope this review has been of benefit to you, if so and you’re not one of my people – Do feel free to join my newsletter at my Monthly Marketing Bargains site.
Regards
Randy Smith

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