You really need to be paid Gold member at Herculist instead of a free member IMO (daily email, higher credit value on your mailings, 5 second timers, etc...).
Tips
- When clicking on Herculist emails from Gmail, also have a Hercublurb window open on a tab and maybe 2 other sites in other tabs that you get credit to click on (be productive with your clicking time!)
- Always click on the "WIN PRIZE" in the mailer landing pages after the 5 second timer ends as you can win more credits and "KEYS". Keys enable you to send a regular mailing to the whole Herculist membership (currently 135,000). I regularly get 5-7 keys a day. Use keys for the mailer. The regular mailer produces me about 1 lead per 6 mailings to be honest as they go to peoples list email & not their contact email.
- Use the Mailer/Hercublurb credits you earn from clicking on mailer or hercublub ads for the POWERBLURB (1000 credits) and not for the Credit mailer. You're wasting credits that are more productive on the Powerblurb. You can have several/many hercublurb/powerblurb ads in your hercublurb history to resubmit.
- Test different headlines, ad copy & capture landing page sites for solo ad emails, Herculblurb/Powerblurb & theZone (traffic exchange) - keep track of results with adtracking. I've been promoting our business opportunity capture pages which target CBD, hemp, travel, essential oils/fragrances, generic biz, generic health industry... . (every once in a while my adboard site I promote there)
- Test out their Most Popular Ad Package ($20) which emails 22,000+ buyers list (only 1x now and instead of 2x - just changed), Herculist, Mega-Mail (contact emails) & Smart-list multiple times (had 8-24 leads on ad package purchases I've tried so far)
Note I've bought their $20 ad package about 15 times in these last 3 weeks so obviously I'm getting ROI. Our company has multiple capture pages to use so I've been testing to see which get the best results. After you've purchased the $20 package, they will give you an option via email to order another mailing to their 22,000 buyers list for 3x. I just decided to order five of those today ($100) and using 5 of my top performing emails/capture pages. There's now about an 8 day wait before your buyer ads get mailed compared to 2-4 days a month or so before so they have a current backlog. Honestly I'd like to get more of my downline advertising here but if the ROI keeps going good... I'll be spending "much more" money here shortly. (Update - I just bought the Mega-Mail package (X's By EIGHT includes 4 buyers mailings & 6 hour i-BLAST)... that's 240 Mega-Mail sends for a total of $299.95)