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Article Marketing - How to Make It Work For You
Copyright 2005 Tinu AbayomiPaul
Information based marketing is one of the oldest and most effective techniques for bringing targeted prospects to your site and converting them into buyers. This is part of the reason that software, and distribution...
Ebooks are Promotional Powerhouses
Ebooks are part of the new frontier of cyberspace.
They are an entirely new medium for sharing marketing
information, ideas, techniques, and expert knowledge.
Each day the number of people accessing the Internet
grows, causing the exposure of...
Not Knowing This Explosive Email Secret Can Kill Your Mailing List
How are you doing today? I hope you are having a very prosperous day. If you own an ezine or mailing list, you know how important it is to get subscribers, especially if you want to tell them about your products and services, or you just want to...
Produce More Sales from your Email Promotions: Five Ways (Part 1)
Produce More Sales from your Email Promotions Five Ways (Part 1) Judy Cullins c.2003 All Rights Reserved. Do sales come from your ezine regularly? How many well- written articles do you submit per week to Online ezines? How often do you send thank...
Profit from Your Idea
Idea planning to come up with a moneymaking concept is much like creating a painting or writing a book. It starts with a blank canvas and visualization. Brick by Brick Write down the seed of your idea in one sentence. Describe three ways in...
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The Top 10 Easy Ezine Development and Promotion Tips
The Top 10 Easy Ezine Development and Promotion Tips
Either do it right or don't do it at all Don't create an ezine just because you're reading or seeing that others are creating them. While ezines can be a way to market your business, they are also time consuming. Remember to always market your business while keeping your integrity intact.
Tell them and then do it Create a schedule for your ezine and stick to it. If you'll be providing additional mailings - such as I do - for important Internet announcements, monthly specials, etc. tell people. On your web site, in any advertising, and then include the information in the welcome letters, too. At a minimum, send out a message to your readers at least monthly.
Don't use BCC In 1995 or so, most email programs added "BCC" as a way to send email. BCC is short for blind carbon copy or blind courtesy copy if you have never placed a piece of carbon paper between two sheets of regular paper. Using BCC, email is distributed to "undisclosed recipients" and you can see why it was the way to send out ezines. However, now if you use it for sending more than 20-40 emails at a time, you can get your email account closed. Why? BCC is the common email choice of s-pammers and your email company watches out for "batches" of BCCs.
Do use double opt-in Opt-in provides your ezine readers with the option of subscribing either at your web site or via email. The system also may send a subscriber an email letting them know that they subscribed (just in case someone else subscribed them). It is better is to use a double opt-in system sends an email to a subscriber requesting that they re-confirm their subscription.
Design It Your Way Of course, you want to reach your ideal clients, however, more isn't necessarily better. Create an ezine you can consistently produce and one your readers will consistently read.
Who is your ideal reader? Knowing who your ideal
reader is, helps you determine the best places to market your newsletter and process saves you time and money in the process. Use this Word 2000 document to assist you http://coachmaria.com/documents/idealclient.doc
Low cost ezine hosting If you have more than one ezine, you know how expensive monthly ezine hosting services can be. An inexpensive program I recommend for do it yourselfers is MOJO http://mojo.skazat.com/ It allows you (or your Virtual Assistant) to create as many ezines as you'd like, on your server, using one control panel. If you don't like touching your hosting server, ask me for my programmer recommendations.
The box vs. the link In an unscientific experiment I conducted last year my research showed that people prefer to add their email addresses to subscription boxes than to click a link to send you the same information. Create informative ezine subscription boxes and post them throughout your web site.
Don't bother using these Members of yahoogroups, smartgroups, topica, cool list and other no-cost (with ad) ezine hosting program, offer a large number of elists especially for ezine publishers. They are places you advertise your ezine and take it from me, are not worth the trouble signing up for or using.
Easy way to add ezine subscribers Gain ezine subscribers, in person, with permission based forms. Design postcards, index card or add an area to your evaluation sheet providing the name and content of your ezine, how often they'll receive it, and request at least their full name and email address.
About the Author
© 2003 Maria Marsala, Business Growth Specialist. The author of the ORIGNINAL Create Your Ezine Program. Learn how you can inexpensivly market your business using an online newsletter. Ezines help you quickly get the word out about your product or service to individuals who want to receive it! For more information, visit http://www.CreateEzine.com
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