Yes, you heard me correctly.
We appreciate all of our readers, supporters and advertisers.
This is our way of giving back.
We've created this simple program to help raise the capital we need to keep our publication online and reward our participants with quality back links as well as giving 1 lucky person $250 for every round we complete.
FernleyNews.com is not a big conglomerate news site. We are a rural Nevada community news and media site that has a global reach. We've been online since 2005 supplying a one stop shop of sorts featuring daily news ranging from school activities to global catastrophes. We consider ourselves to be the biggest little independent news source in Northern Nevada and have received over a million accesses in 2009 alone.
Many of you living in heavily populated areas may not relate to our challenges.
We created FernleyNews.com because of an influx of residents in the area that demanded more daily news and information that was not being provided by the once a week newspaper.
The credit crunch has not been kind to the weekly printed word and has resulted in even less coverage.
Our continued challenge is to provide even more news and information, not only fill the gaps, but to exceed everyone's expectations of available information.
We've also built in many extraordinary features you would not normally see on regional sites like full length movies and documentaries, community networks, local information guide, tourism information and our Exclusive Local and National syndicated "Video Merchant Gallery" to name a few.
We continue to build and expand and are determined to get ahead of the news instead of behind it.
We present it all in an easy to use format designed for the most inexperienced user to enjoy.
We work with local businesses as well as national small businesses to provide helpful marketing advise, press and a virtual marketplace to network with others and introduce themselves to the community and beyond. The majority of what we do is offered free of charge.
We are not a link farm. We are a news - media and information site located in Northern Nevada. Our readers are worldwide as well as regional and bring in thousands of readers every week.
We have contributing participants in our current round that have 1 link and some that have 20.
Because of our positioning, your link to your business, personal website, blog, social network, video page or other URL will carry more weight than all the free sites most of you have been using to advertise or get noticed.
The faster the rounds are completed, the more payouts we produce. It's just that simple.
Our goal is to generate 200 winners from our Pot-of-Gold link series.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Your contributions of $1 or more and URL/s will not only provide you with quality back links to help increase your rank and exposure, it will provide much needed capital to offset our operations costs and provide quality media for our readers along with producing many future $250 recipients.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
How to Grow Your Business - even when the Economy Sucks
Jan France
FernleyNews.com
It doesn't matter if you have a corporation or a kitchen table business.
There are many ways to bring in new customers and refresh your old customer base, Today I will give you two easy and free examples on just how to do it.
Myspace is regarded in the community as a kid thing. NOT SO.
Many businesses are using Myspace to extend their online presence. With the use of the 'friends' option, blog and bulletin, you can reach many potential customers that may not necessarily be visiting or reading your normal advertisements. You can also calendar your events.
This can be considered a sort of niche advertisement where you have total control.
With proper care in developing your friends list, your bulletins, your content and key words you can grow your little online following in time which will produce branding and a following for what you offer.
Be sure to look up Fernley360 on MySpace and add us as a friend. When you send out a bulletin or relevant blog we will get it and forward it along to our group and so it goes. Others will see your blog and forward it along their groups as well.
Local Online Communities can announce and strengthen your business.
Another way to build, brand and create customer confidence locally is to join Fernley 360 if you haven't already done so. Use your business name and logo when you create your account.
You will be able to create your own page. And for those without a website, this is a nice quick way to build an online profile for your business.
You can then create blogs that relate to your business.
If your business is related to gardening you can write 'How To' articles on various subjects related to gardening. Just write about what you know and what you do best.
By doing this you will not only be supplying folks with some great information, they will remember you for it.
With so many using the internet to search these days, it will pay off to position yourself within a community network that is actually in your community.
One more quick tip:
When writing your blog please remember to link relevant locations within your article as I have done above. This will help your readers get to where you want them to go instead of having to search or copy and past it into a browser.
With proper key words, your blog will be displayed on word searches. This, in my opinion, is more powerful than the yellow pages simply because your potential customers will be receiving relevant information and not just your contact information.
Don't take my word for it.
For more read 'What a Blog Can Do For Your Small Business' .
***************************
Comments are welcome. If you have specific questions you can send me an email.
For a better way to advertise contact us at www.FernleyNews.com.
We'll not only help you advertise for less, we'll promote and analyze your business and tell you what you need to do to shine online.
It's all part of our package.
FernleyNews.com
It doesn't matter if you have a corporation or a kitchen table business.
There are many ways to bring in new customers and refresh your old customer base, Today I will give you two easy and free examples on just how to do it.
Myspace is regarded in the community as a kid thing. NOT SO.
Many businesses are using Myspace to extend their online presence. With the use of the 'friends' option, blog and bulletin, you can reach many potential customers that may not necessarily be visiting or reading your normal advertisements. You can also calendar your events.
This can be considered a sort of niche advertisement where you have total control.
With proper care in developing your friends list, your bulletins, your content and key words you can grow your little online following in time which will produce branding and a following for what you offer.
Be sure to look up Fernley360 on MySpace and add us as a friend. When you send out a bulletin or relevant blog we will get it and forward it along to our group and so it goes. Others will see your blog and forward it along their groups as well.
Local Online Communities can announce and strengthen your business.
Another way to build, brand and create customer confidence locally is to join Fernley 360 if you haven't already done so. Use your business name and logo when you create your account.
You will be able to create your own page. And for those without a website, this is a nice quick way to build an online profile for your business.
You can then create blogs that relate to your business.
If your business is related to gardening you can write 'How To' articles on various subjects related to gardening. Just write about what you know and what you do best.
By doing this you will not only be supplying folks with some great information, they will remember you for it.
With so many using the internet to search these days, it will pay off to position yourself within a community network that is actually in your community.
One more quick tip:
When writing your blog please remember to link relevant locations within your article as I have done above. This will help your readers get to where you want them to go instead of having to search or copy and past it into a browser.
With proper key words, your blog will be displayed on word searches. This, in my opinion, is more powerful than the yellow pages simply because your potential customers will be receiving relevant information and not just your contact information.
Don't take my word for it.
For more read 'What a Blog Can Do For Your Small Business' .
***************************
Comments are welcome. If you have specific questions you can send me an email.
For a better way to advertise contact us at www.FernleyNews.com.
We'll not only help you advertise for less, we'll promote and analyze your business and tell you what you need to do to shine online.
It's all part of our package.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Bulletin: Are You Taking The Slow Way To Success?
Let's say you need to get from New York to Chicago. You can walk the 790 miles in a month, bike it in a week, drive it in a day, or fly it in a couple of hours. What's the difference? It's all about the vehicle you use.
It's the same with business success. You can spend an enormous amount of time and effort getting to your business destination the hard way (think "walking"), or you can be whisked there in a fraction of the time.
Who can get you there the fastest? That would be my friend, Bill Bartmann. A few days ago I wrote you about Bill. He's the guy who went from eating out of dumpsters to becoming a billionaire.
Bill has another distinction: Of all the firms EVER to be on Inc. Magazine's "500 Fastest-Growing Companies" list, only Microsoft grew as fast for as long as Bill Bartmann's company did.
As far as I know, Bill Gates is not spending any time explaining to businesspeople how to get ahead. But Bill Bartmann is doing just that: He's unveiling a phenomenal, new tool he's developed for slashing the time it takes to reach your business goals. It's called his "Billionaire Business System."
What's holding you back from the level of business success you want?
--Is it lack of money? Bill was bankrupt before he became a self-made billionaire.
--Is it lack of support from your family? Bill's parents at one point told him they wished he was dead.
--Is it a lousy economy? Bill made his fortune in the midst of a recession.
My point is simple: This man knows failure and adversity as intimately as he knows legendary success. And you can discover what he knows by getting in on the ground floor of Bill's Billionaire Business System.
In Bill's online system, he will tell you his secrets in his very own words. No "guest presenters" and no fluff. Just straight talk about your business, straight from Bill.
Muhammad Ali said "Bill is the Greatest at helping people recognize and discover the champion hiding inside. He teaches people how to knock out the negatives in their lives."
You can see what I mean and get your own impression of this amazing system by going here.
See for yourself why the Smithsonian Institution has a permanent display about Bill's achievements and why Harvard Business School studies Bill's techniques. See for yourself how Bill is better qualified than anyone else to help you to start or grow your business. You can thank me later.
To Your Success,
J. France
P.S. The TV show "Good Morning America" invited Bill to talk about this revolutionary new system for business success on August 18. If you missed it, to see for yourself how Bill can help you achieve you goals, just go to Billionaire University.
It's the same with business success. You can spend an enormous amount of time and effort getting to your business destination the hard way (think "walking"), or you can be whisked there in a fraction of the time.
Who can get you there the fastest? That would be my friend, Bill Bartmann. A few days ago I wrote you about Bill. He's the guy who went from eating out of dumpsters to becoming a billionaire.
Bill has another distinction: Of all the firms EVER to be on Inc. Magazine's "500 Fastest-Growing Companies" list, only Microsoft grew as fast for as long as Bill Bartmann's company did.
As far as I know, Bill Gates is not spending any time explaining to businesspeople how to get ahead. But Bill Bartmann is doing just that: He's unveiling a phenomenal, new tool he's developed for slashing the time it takes to reach your business goals. It's called his "Billionaire Business System."
What's holding you back from the level of business success you want?
--Is it lack of money? Bill was bankrupt before he became a self-made billionaire.
--Is it lack of support from your family? Bill's parents at one point told him they wished he was dead.
--Is it a lousy economy? Bill made his fortune in the midst of a recession.
My point is simple: This man knows failure and adversity as intimately as he knows legendary success. And you can discover what he knows by getting in on the ground floor of Bill's Billionaire Business System.
In Bill's online system, he will tell you his secrets in his very own words. No "guest presenters" and no fluff. Just straight talk about your business, straight from Bill.
Muhammad Ali said "Bill is the Greatest at helping people recognize and discover the champion hiding inside. He teaches people how to knock out the negatives in their lives."
You can see what I mean and get your own impression of this amazing system by going here.
See for yourself why the Smithsonian Institution has a permanent display about Bill's achievements and why Harvard Business School studies Bill's techniques. See for yourself how Bill is better qualified than anyone else to help you to start or grow your business. You can thank me later.
To Your Success,
J. France
P.S. The TV show "Good Morning America" invited Bill to talk about this revolutionary new system for business success on August 18. If you missed it, to see for yourself how Bill can help you achieve you goals, just go to Billionaire University.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Maximize your Profits and Avoid Common Mistakes When Publishing your E-Zine
It takes many years to find out what works and what does not.
To make it worse, new ideas and techniques are always emerging promising you the moon.
My best advise is to keep it simple, know the basic rules and tailor it for your specific needs.
Every business is different and requires a slightly different approach.
There is no such thing as a free ride or a cookie cutter template for success.
If you're not unique - you're toast.
Maximize your Profits and Avoid Common Mistakes When Publishing your E-Zine
Introduction
Publishing an E-zine is a lucrative business. More and more people are jumping on the E-zine publishing band wagon. Anyone can get an autoresponder and compile their own newsletters and e-courses to their subscribers at the cost of pennies. It is no surprise that E-zines are the choice of medium for list building and selling ad spaces.
However, there are a lot of mistakes made by newbies. Mistakes such as unsolicited e-mailing and not focusing on their core business are common mistakes committed daily. These must be addressed so that the profits are not wasted.
Therefore, I’ve written this guide on how to overcome these common mistakes.
Sending E-zines from their Yahoo! or Gmail
Part of the temptation for newbies is to collect a group of e-mails and start mailing out from their own personal e-mails.
At first this may seem quite harmless when you have about 10-20 people in your list, but once your subscriber count exceeds 50 people, you are going to have a very big problem on your hand.
Firstly, you will have to handle people who newly sign up on your list manually.
People who wish to unsubscribe needs to be manually removed as well – causing you massive administration problems.
The worst thing is most Internet service providers refuse to let you send bulk emails to many people at once. Of course, they set their own limits so that spammers won’t prey on the unsuspecting through their networks.
If you are not careful, you might even lose your subscriber list as well because your entire list sits within your computer’s hard drive. If you do not backup your computer.
You might wind up losing hundreds or thousands of subscribers that you spent all those time and sleepless nights building them.
Don’t be a fool – make sure you get a good and reliable autoresponder to handle all the work for you.
Signing up people without getting them to opt-in
One of the biggest newbie mistakes when it comes to E-zines is signing up on other mailing lists without their permission. You think just because they are on one of my list, it automatically gives me permission to sign them up on some other list.
Trust me – Unsolicited signups is a big no-no on the Net, and will get you in deep trouble! In the worst cast scenarios, you will be accused of spamming and you will get your IP blacklisted on the ISPs.
You must do things the proper way. When you want to build your list or invite people to subscribe, make sure you mail them a proper invitation form (or landing page) and when they manually opt in again, then you will have their permission.
Bear in mind that you must once again ‘convince’ them why they should opt-in to your new list and never ever take any shortcuts.
Not giving good or useful content
Some publishers are so obsessed with getting traffic and selling things that all they ever do in their E-zines is sell products and talk all about themselves. They use their E-zines to boast about how great they are and how good their JV partners are doing to the point that they bore their subscribers to death.
Another common problem is that the E-zine publishers load their E-zines with so many ads that it disrupts the reading pleasure of their readers.
How would you like it if you were to buy the latest computer gadget magazine (if you are a guy) or the latest beauty magazine (for women) and dig through a haystack just to find the CONTENT page? I am sure you will either have a very hard time looking for the page number or you would cancel your subscription.
Content is king. Never diverge from that. But even more important than that – relevant content for your subscribers should be the main deal.
What you must do for your subscribers is to provide useful content roughly 80% of your E-zine and leave the rest for paid ads. It is a healthy balance.
Not focusing on their business.
On the other side of the coin, there are many publishers who talk about everything under the sun by serving up powerful and useful content for their readers but they forget about the most important thing – making MONEY.
Ultimately, publishing an E-zine is about making money. You can’t do it without promoting yourself or your business. In any business, remember that branding is the most important and you have to create that awareness in your E-zine while providing good content at the same time.
Learn to use strategically placed affiliate links so that your prospects don’t feel as though they are being ‘sold to’. Talk about them first, then talk about a solution for them and then finally talk about YOUR solution for them. End everything with a call to action. That way, you will not be wasting traffic from your subscribers.
Publishing whenever they feel like it
Do you know that you should keep in touch with your subscribers as regularly as possible?
There are millions of people on the Internet. If you don’t keep in touch with them, they will most likely forget all about you and your E-zine. Don’t ever let this happen to your business! It is easier to keep an existing customer or subscriber compared to getting a brand new one!
Publishing regularly suggests to your readers that you are an organized and you are able to meet deadlines and commitments.
You must learn to set aside some time for your publishing schedule. A way to accomplish this is to construct something like an E-course in advance. Then publish them everyday or every three days. Use this time to work on another product or come up with content for your E-zine.
Even if you don’t have any special content for your subscribers, try and stay in touch with them as regularly as possible. Even a simple “Hi” followed by a link to another person’s site (preferably an affiliate program) will also do the job just fine!
Neglecting the older archived issues
Part and parcel of the process of E-zine publishing is that you move from one issue to another. As you progress on, you will find that you have many back issues in your hard drive and sometimes, people tend to neglect the past issues as something outdated or useless.
Unless your information is completely obsolete, there are many things you can do with a back issue. You can offer your archived issue as a sample issue to prospective subscribers on your website or your blog.
People do read older issues and follow your journey. You'll be able to get more of your visitors that are on the "fence" to join your E-zine, giving you a bigger list to market your products to.
Not only that, you will also attract a lot of new people looking to buy advertising space because they can check out your archived issues and check out how your ads worked out until now.
Forgetting about publishing your E-zine in RSS
RSS is one of the many ways people use to access your content without having them come directly to your website or your blog. Most of the time, E-zine publishers want their subscribers to subscribe directly through their e-mails or autoresponders because they can keep track of the size of their list.
However, neglecting RSS is very bad. Although you can’t cater to every single subscriber’s needs, enabling RSS is a way to get your readership across many different platforms. There are people out there who are lazy and would rather read everything through their feeds. Try your best to meet their needs.
Another advantage of publishing on RSS is that you'll increase your readership and sales by bypassing all the email filters. If your e-mail for your E-zine is titled ‘make money online’ you can be sure the money word would be captured and thrown into the SPAM or BULK folder as fast as you can say the word ‘spam magnet’!
Therefore, you'll also be able to make your E-zine's copy more effective because you'll be able to use all those ‘taboo’ words such as without worrying about your E-zine getting blocked.
Neglecting the ‘subscriber only’ privilege
There is a tendency for people to treat a subscriber just like any other guy on your mailing list or blog readers.
If you asked me, I believe that E-zine subscribers are one of the most important people on your list. They are people who are genuinely interested in your work and spend time reading it. You should pamper them and treat them with care because that is probably where the money is!
Since they usually follow you from the beginning to the end, you should give them a reward. For example, if you are a selling a product (for example Wordpress blog themes) and you usually sell them for $17, maybe you can consider giving your loyal subscribers a $7 discount. They will appreciate it and will gladly refer others to subscribe to your list or even – start promoting as your affiliate because they have been given the special treatment.
Neglecting the personal touch
One of the problems of bulk mailing to many people at once is that we forget to be human. Very often, if I’m on the list of my friend who is an active Internet marketer and we happen to correspond on e-mail a lot, I will receive e-mails from him and e-mails from his autoresponder.
One glance of the e-mail and I can tell whether it is personally from him and whether he is sending out to a large group.
If you don’t know how to add the personal touch to your e-mail headlines, you are missing out on a lot of readers (sometimes, those who are your subscribers as well – they could be busy with other things on their mind).
Always talk in a personal tone rather than selling your subscribers products all the time otherwise they will think you are just trying to grab their money.
Never offering any bonuses
Sometimes people forget to offer bonuses to their subscribers. They forget that once in a while, they should offer free gifts to entice them to stay on. You can also use bonuses to entice people to join as a new subscriber as well.
Try writing a free report – about the latest developments and offer them as a bonus. Tell them how much the report is worth by increasing the value your visitors place on your bonus by telling them how much it would be worth if you were to charge for it.
For example:
“I would normally charge $27 for this special report, but I am giving it away free to my loyal subscribers…”
You would increase the perceived value of your bonus and make your subscribers feel pampered at the same time.
Never neglect this powerful method!
Conclusion
There are many mistakes committed by newbies, but the worst mistake that can ever happen is to repeat your mistakes over and over again. Don’t take this for granted. If you keep on committing mistakes, you will lose credibility in the eyes of your subscribers and joint venture partners (even if you are a seasoned E-zine publisher.
Always be vigilant and keep an eye out for blind spots that you may have missed out. Keep on refining your work and you can be sure that online riches will be heading your way.
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To make it worse, new ideas and techniques are always emerging promising you the moon.
My best advise is to keep it simple, know the basic rules and tailor it for your specific needs.
Every business is different and requires a slightly different approach.
There is no such thing as a free ride or a cookie cutter template for success.
If you're not unique - you're toast.
Maximize your Profits and Avoid Common Mistakes When Publishing your E-Zine
Introduction
Publishing an E-zine is a lucrative business. More and more people are jumping on the E-zine publishing band wagon. Anyone can get an autoresponder and compile their own newsletters and e-courses to their subscribers at the cost of pennies. It is no surprise that E-zines are the choice of medium for list building and selling ad spaces.
However, there are a lot of mistakes made by newbies. Mistakes such as unsolicited e-mailing and not focusing on their core business are common mistakes committed daily. These must be addressed so that the profits are not wasted.
Therefore, I’ve written this guide on how to overcome these common mistakes.
Sending E-zines from their Yahoo! or Gmail
Part of the temptation for newbies is to collect a group of e-mails and start mailing out from their own personal e-mails.
At first this may seem quite harmless when you have about 10-20 people in your list, but once your subscriber count exceeds 50 people, you are going to have a very big problem on your hand.
Firstly, you will have to handle people who newly sign up on your list manually.
People who wish to unsubscribe needs to be manually removed as well – causing you massive administration problems.
The worst thing is most Internet service providers refuse to let you send bulk emails to many people at once. Of course, they set their own limits so that spammers won’t prey on the unsuspecting through their networks.
If you are not careful, you might even lose your subscriber list as well because your entire list sits within your computer’s hard drive. If you do not backup your computer.
You might wind up losing hundreds or thousands of subscribers that you spent all those time and sleepless nights building them.
Don’t be a fool – make sure you get a good and reliable autoresponder to handle all the work for you.
Signing up people without getting them to opt-in
One of the biggest newbie mistakes when it comes to E-zines is signing up on other mailing lists without their permission. You think just because they are on one of my list, it automatically gives me permission to sign them up on some other list.
Trust me – Unsolicited signups is a big no-no on the Net, and will get you in deep trouble! In the worst cast scenarios, you will be accused of spamming and you will get your IP blacklisted on the ISPs.
You must do things the proper way. When you want to build your list or invite people to subscribe, make sure you mail them a proper invitation form (or landing page) and when they manually opt in again, then you will have their permission.
Bear in mind that you must once again ‘convince’ them why they should opt-in to your new list and never ever take any shortcuts.
Not giving good or useful content
Some publishers are so obsessed with getting traffic and selling things that all they ever do in their E-zines is sell products and talk all about themselves. They use their E-zines to boast about how great they are and how good their JV partners are doing to the point that they bore their subscribers to death.
Another common problem is that the E-zine publishers load their E-zines with so many ads that it disrupts the reading pleasure of their readers.
How would you like it if you were to buy the latest computer gadget magazine (if you are a guy) or the latest beauty magazine (for women) and dig through a haystack just to find the CONTENT page? I am sure you will either have a very hard time looking for the page number or you would cancel your subscription.
Content is king. Never diverge from that. But even more important than that – relevant content for your subscribers should be the main deal.
What you must do for your subscribers is to provide useful content roughly 80% of your E-zine and leave the rest for paid ads. It is a healthy balance.
Not focusing on their business.
On the other side of the coin, there are many publishers who talk about everything under the sun by serving up powerful and useful content for their readers but they forget about the most important thing – making MONEY.
Ultimately, publishing an E-zine is about making money. You can’t do it without promoting yourself or your business. In any business, remember that branding is the most important and you have to create that awareness in your E-zine while providing good content at the same time.
Learn to use strategically placed affiliate links so that your prospects don’t feel as though they are being ‘sold to’. Talk about them first, then talk about a solution for them and then finally talk about YOUR solution for them. End everything with a call to action. That way, you will not be wasting traffic from your subscribers.
Publishing whenever they feel like it
Do you know that you should keep in touch with your subscribers as regularly as possible?
There are millions of people on the Internet. If you don’t keep in touch with them, they will most likely forget all about you and your E-zine. Don’t ever let this happen to your business! It is easier to keep an existing customer or subscriber compared to getting a brand new one!
Publishing regularly suggests to your readers that you are an organized and you are able to meet deadlines and commitments.
You must learn to set aside some time for your publishing schedule. A way to accomplish this is to construct something like an E-course in advance. Then publish them everyday or every three days. Use this time to work on another product or come up with content for your E-zine.
Even if you don’t have any special content for your subscribers, try and stay in touch with them as regularly as possible. Even a simple “Hi” followed by a link to another person’s site (preferably an affiliate program) will also do the job just fine!
Neglecting the older archived issues
Part and parcel of the process of E-zine publishing is that you move from one issue to another. As you progress on, you will find that you have many back issues in your hard drive and sometimes, people tend to neglect the past issues as something outdated or useless.
Unless your information is completely obsolete, there are many things you can do with a back issue. You can offer your archived issue as a sample issue to prospective subscribers on your website or your blog.
People do read older issues and follow your journey. You'll be able to get more of your visitors that are on the "fence" to join your E-zine, giving you a bigger list to market your products to.
Not only that, you will also attract a lot of new people looking to buy advertising space because they can check out your archived issues and check out how your ads worked out until now.
Forgetting about publishing your E-zine in RSS
RSS is one of the many ways people use to access your content without having them come directly to your website or your blog. Most of the time, E-zine publishers want their subscribers to subscribe directly through their e-mails or autoresponders because they can keep track of the size of their list.
However, neglecting RSS is very bad. Although you can’t cater to every single subscriber’s needs, enabling RSS is a way to get your readership across many different platforms. There are people out there who are lazy and would rather read everything through their feeds. Try your best to meet their needs.
Another advantage of publishing on RSS is that you'll increase your readership and sales by bypassing all the email filters. If your e-mail for your E-zine is titled ‘make money online’ you can be sure the money word would be captured and thrown into the SPAM or BULK folder as fast as you can say the word ‘spam magnet’!
Therefore, you'll also be able to make your E-zine's copy more effective because you'll be able to use all those ‘taboo’ words such as without worrying about your E-zine getting blocked.
Neglecting the ‘subscriber only’ privilege
There is a tendency for people to treat a subscriber just like any other guy on your mailing list or blog readers.
If you asked me, I believe that E-zine subscribers are one of the most important people on your list. They are people who are genuinely interested in your work and spend time reading it. You should pamper them and treat them with care because that is probably where the money is!
Since they usually follow you from the beginning to the end, you should give them a reward. For example, if you are a selling a product (for example Wordpress blog themes) and you usually sell them for $17, maybe you can consider giving your loyal subscribers a $7 discount. They will appreciate it and will gladly refer others to subscribe to your list or even – start promoting as your affiliate because they have been given the special treatment.
Neglecting the personal touch
One of the problems of bulk mailing to many people at once is that we forget to be human. Very often, if I’m on the list of my friend who is an active Internet marketer and we happen to correspond on e-mail a lot, I will receive e-mails from him and e-mails from his autoresponder.
One glance of the e-mail and I can tell whether it is personally from him and whether he is sending out to a large group.
If you don’t know how to add the personal touch to your e-mail headlines, you are missing out on a lot of readers (sometimes, those who are your subscribers as well – they could be busy with other things on their mind).
Always talk in a personal tone rather than selling your subscribers products all the time otherwise they will think you are just trying to grab their money.
Never offering any bonuses
Sometimes people forget to offer bonuses to their subscribers. They forget that once in a while, they should offer free gifts to entice them to stay on. You can also use bonuses to entice people to join as a new subscriber as well.
Try writing a free report – about the latest developments and offer them as a bonus. Tell them how much the report is worth by increasing the value your visitors place on your bonus by telling them how much it would be worth if you were to charge for it.
For example:
“I would normally charge $27 for this special report, but I am giving it away free to my loyal subscribers…”
You would increase the perceived value of your bonus and make your subscribers feel pampered at the same time.
Never neglect this powerful method!
Conclusion
There are many mistakes committed by newbies, but the worst mistake that can ever happen is to repeat your mistakes over and over again. Don’t take this for granted. If you keep on committing mistakes, you will lose credibility in the eyes of your subscribers and joint venture partners (even if you are a seasoned E-zine publisher.
Always be vigilant and keep an eye out for blind spots that you may have missed out. Keep on refining your work and you can be sure that online riches will be heading your way.
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