My first reaction was to hit the delete key. After all, the last thing I need at this time is to clog up an abandoned email address with yet another unresponsive safelist.

If you are not familiar with safelists, they are an email marketing strategy. As a member, you can send emails to the other safelist members in return you agree to receive emails from them. A pretty simple concept. One that has been used successfully by several of the Internet Marketing gurus.

Here is the reality. You sign up for a free membership. You need to use an email address you create specifically for this list. You will want an email address that has a huge inbox like Gmail or Yahoo. You will receive tons of emails, from people in your upline and from members who have upgraded their account.

If you are a free member you need to enrol safelist members under you to send out emails. Once you bring in new members, you can send out your emails. Your email list will grow exponentially as the people you refer to the safelist refer others, and so on and so on and so on. Kind of reminds me of a shampoo commercial from the seventies.

Of course, you can fast track your email marketing by upgrading your account. By upgrading your account, you are allowed to email your marketing message to random members. If you have more money than patience, this may be the route to go. Mike Filsaime’s ListDotCom.com allows their Pro members to email 1000 random members daily. Platinum members can email 5000 random members every two days. I mention ListDotCom.com as it is the only safelist I have ever used that generated any kind of results for me.

As I mentioned, when I opened the email, about Leads Leap, I figured it was another safelist scam, and almost deleted it. I am glad I didn’t.

Yes there are some similarities. There is a free membership that requires your effort to grow your add credits. There is a paid membership to fast track your advertising. You do receive email. Although not as much.

That is where the similarity ends. Leads Leap offers a different twist.

Leads Leap has both a viral blog and ezine that you can advertise in. Let me tell you how the Leadsleap credit system works

How LeadsLeap Credit System Works (Taken from Leads Leap)

Through LeadsLeap credit system, your free text ad is shown to both our members and visitors of our ‘viral’ blog.

Basically, each credit is equivalent to one advertisement impression. The more credits you have, the more exposure you will receive.

Earning credits for free advertising can be easy and fun.

These are the various ways to earn advertising credits for you.

1) View other members’ ads.

Forget about having to login all the time to view ads. We send info-packed newsletters to you regularly. Just view the ads in those newsletters to earn more credits. If that is not enough, you can also find ads in your members area as well as our blog.

Personally-earned credit is limited to 10 credits a day and you have to remain at the advertising website for at least 30 seconds before your next ad click can be credited.

2) Refer your friends to join LeadsLeap and let them help you earn more credits.

To further increase your credit, you can refer your friends to join LeadsLeap.

No, we don’t give you credits for referring friends. It’s better than that.

Whenever any of your personal referral views an ad, you will earn 1 credit! This means if you have 10 personal referrals and each of them view 10 ads, you will earn 100 credits every day.

3) Send visitors to LeadsLeap Blog

LeadsLeap Blog is probably the first viral blog in the world that not only allows you to advertise your ad for free, but also helps you to build leads and earn advertising credits at the same time.

Here’s how it works:

We strive to share useful information in our blog. If you find any blog post that is interesting, post it to your own blog and bookmark it in your favorite social bookmarking websites.

First, people are drawn to the blog by the interesting content. Next, they see our members ads, click on the ads and help you to earn extra credits. Finally, they too are interested in posting their ads for free and they join LeadsLeap in your team.

Now can it get any better?

Yes.

One thing Leads Leap does to get you started is shamelessly bribe you. When you sign up you will receive 100 ad credits to get started. Then each new member you refer in the first 24 hours of your membership will give you 500 credits each. You will also get an ad credit for each member’s ad you click on.

Under the resources section, there is a link for free bonuses. It is the Mega Internet Marketing Video Collection. The thirty five video products alone would be reason enough to become a member. When I discovered that, well, to be honest I was blown away.

If you are reading this, then I am willing to bet that you are looking to make money on the web as am I. Chances are then that you, like myself, have tried all kinds of things to advertise and promote your website. Some free, some paid, some effective, and others quite useless.

Pay per click advertising has always been an effective, albeit a costly way to drive traffic websites. Safelist marketing, with the exception of one, has been a great disappointment to me.

How well do the ads at Leads Leap work? I don’t know yet. I have not used the credits I earned yet. So I cannot personally say it is a viable Pay Per Click alternative, although I will be testing that soon. I can say with much more conviction however, that Leads Leap is not another safelist scam. So there would be no downside to your joining.