Not Just Another Ezine

Issue Number 99 In this issue: Welcome Featured Article: Publishing Your Own Ezine Or Newsletter Subscriber Comments Featured Article: How To Find A Trustworthy Online Payment System Link: Members' Lounge nothing WELCOME back to top Welcome to all, old and new! :~) First things first, I'd like to thank those of you who took the time to answer the small questionnaire I sent out last week. It's definitely given me some things to ponder, and over the next few weeks you may notice some slight changes in the ezine. Don't worry, they won't be biggies and you'll still enjoy each issue ;~) You know I don't often recommend things, but there's one that I found to be absolutely brilliant, so I thought I'd best pass it on. I've always suffered with insomnia, so when a subscriber told me he'd written a book about how to "learn" how to sleep better, I just had to read it. Believe me, I can't remember when I last managed to sleep as well as I do now. I know a lot of you will have noticed that I'm not online as much these days, and that's all thanks to the fact that I'm sleeping so much better after reading his book. It's so good that I'm not even going to put up an affiliate link for it, just the direct link. Here you go: http://ez2sleep4.ne1.net/ I also have a cool free report for you guys this week. It's called Starting An Internet Business and it's written by Edmund Loh. He's an up and coming internet marketer with true vision, and already seeing success so his name is well worth remembering. Here's the download link for the report: Click Here. I also highly recommend that you check out his new ezine. It's pretty cool and done in pdf format. You'll find a link to it in his report. I haven't done much updating to my internet marketing blog, but the ADHD blog has some new pics if you'd like to see them http://kidsandadhd.blogspot.com I've got another busy week ahead of me. I have to write up a salespage for my newest book, and then start promoting both that one and my "Focus: The Key To Success" heavily. I'll keep you updated on their progress. Until next time, get those votes in, get those interviews in, come visit me in my conference room and above all... Enjoy Reading! May you be happy and prosperous in everything you do! Anna-Marie Stewart =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This weeks download/ebook is How To Setup...: ...your online business. Visit the Members Lounge for the download link, and don`t forget to get your votes in for next weeks e-book while you`re there. Not Just Another Interview #66 is posted this week. Keep them coming. Feel free to send us YOUR interview, we love to hear what you're doing and we really enjoy getting to know you better. (Remember to add your website url too.) If you`re unsure of how to send one in, the form is in the Members Lounge, along with all the other forms and stuff ;~) As always, the link to the Members Lounge can be found at the bottom of this page EVERY week. If you need your password to update the info I have for you, please request it here: http://annamarketing.com/lostpass.php Focus: The Key To Success Learn the art of focus, self confidence and self discipline in under 30 minutes. Unleash The Hidden YOU! http://annamarketing.com/FTS  back to top Featured Article: Publishing Your Own Ezine Or Newsletter Copyright 2005 Anna-Marie Stewart You may at some point decide that you want your own ezine or newsletter sent directly from your website via email to your subscribers. The reasons for this could be anything from using the list to sell your products, sending out helpful hints and tips, or just sending out updates. Personally I used notepad to jot down the rough outline of how I wanted my ezine to look, and just filled in the blanks each week until my programmer put it all online for me. If you don’t want to do it that way, you can buy ready made newsletter templates at places like http://www.templatezone.com or http://www.writeexpress.com This one gives you over 150 newsletter templates, and a 60 day free trial: http://www.benchmarkemail.com You can also do a quick search on Google for "newsletter templates" and it’ll bring up tons of free ones for you. Make sure you make it extremely easy for people to sign up for your newsletter, and have the subscription form visible on every page of your site. Publishing an ezine that gets read is no easy task. It takes a whole lot of time and commitment. Here are a couple of things you need to do consistently if you are going to make it work for you, bearing in mind that it can quite possibly take a good couple of years before you actually start seeing some real monetary returns from the ezine. You will need to decide if you're going to be publishing only your own content, or if you'll be using other people’s articles. Both options can take a lot of time. Writing your own articles takes the time of finding topics, and writing and editing the articles yourself. Using other people’s articles takes the time of actually finding and reviewing articles for possible inclusion in your ezine. Either way, make sure the content is actually worth reading, or you'll just end up with a dead ezine. How much time are you willing to spend on promoting the ezine to get subscribers? It’s not like hundreds people are just going to chance upon your subscription form. It needs to be “out there” and visible to as many people as possible, which means submitting it to all the ezine directories you can find, ad-swapping with other publishers, getting other people to link to your ezine etc. Then there’s the question of whether to allow ads in your ezine. Are they going to be free ads for subscribing? Or are they going to be strictly paid ads? How many ads are you willing to have in each issue? Whilst giving out free ads to people for subscribing might bring you lots of subscribers, it could also end up making your ezine look more like an ad-rag than a really helpful and useful ezine that people want to read. So if you're going to offer free ads, think long and hard about how you’re going to work it to ensure maximum interest. When you`re looking to build a subscriber base all you really need is a webpage and a subscribe box, you can even do it without your own webpage by making use of list management services. A great way to get subscribers is to create, borrow, or barter something of value. Offer it for free on your site in return for name and email address. Tell them up front that by requesting the freebie, they are also agreeing to receive mail from you in the future, but that there’ll always be an opt-out link in every mail you ever send to them. Here are a few ezine directories http://www.ezinelisting.com http://www.jogena.com/ http://www.directoryofezines.com/ http://www.go-ezines.com/ Ezine/Publisher Ad Swap sites http://www.swapezineads.com/ http://solair.eunet.yu/~rottis/swap/ Ezine “paid ad” co-ops http://www.mywizardads.com/publishersonly.html http://ezineadhelper.com/join.htm Ezine “free ad” co-ops There aren’t many of these around nowadays, most likely due to the fact that they in reality only build subscriber numbers for you and not necessarily “reader” numbers. The ones I’ve found usually require you to have at least 2000 subscribers already to be able to join, this one doesn’t ;~) http://www.subscribeme.net/publishers.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-Resource Box-=-=-=--=-=-=-=- Starting Your Own Business Can be Scary! Don't go it alone. For more great tips like this secure your own 74 page copy of "Forget the Hype" today!. http://annamarketing.com/FTH ============================================= This article is available for reprint in your opt-in ezine, web site or ebook. You MUST agree not to make any changes to the article and the RESOURCE BOX MUST be included. (c) 2005 AnnaMarketing.com. All Rights Reserved Got internet marketing questions? Hints, Tips or Ideas you'd like to share with somebody? Or maybe you'd just like to shoot the breeze in general about marketing online? Come join me in my conference room. Free, immediate download here: http://annamarketing.com/room.php  back to top ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Subscriber Comments, Keep Em Coming :) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Anna, I felt like I had to write a little something to you about your latest book, Focus: The Key To Success. I gotta say I have read it 3 times so far and each time I get a little more. I swear, it's like you were thinking of me when you wrote it! This is a great read for any busy person that feels sometimes like they just can't "get it together" (don't we all from time to time?) For a smallish sized book it is power packed with insights, that I think are useful to just about anyone. In my honest opinion it is well worth what you charge and then some. Good job, yet again! Warmest wishes to you and yours, Dennis Edell www.mywholesalegiftwarestore.com Wow, thanks Dennis. It always feels great to hear when I've done somebody some good ;~) I'm so happy the book is working for you. Keep me updated on your progress, ok? (Hi guys, this is where i need your feedback, send it on in so I can post it here. Include your link in your sig for that extra bit of free advertising, ok?) Got something to say? Drop me a line. Know of a cool site? Drop me another line. Got any ideas for making the ezine even better for you? You know the drill: Drop me yet another line... I really enjoy hearing from you all. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  back to top Featured Article: How To Find A Trustworthy Online Payment System Copyright 2005 by Anna-Marie Stewart Let's face it. You’re online to make money, which ultimately means selling from your website. There are a lot of options for accepting online payments, but how do you know which is trustworthy and which isn't? The first stop should be using the whois directory to see which country they’re based in. If it says Panama, Cayman Islands or anywhere in Africa, it’s probably not a good sign. Network Solutions WHOIS Lookup allows WHOIS queries to find out who owns and administers an Internet domain. http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois All The Whois is a directory of whois search engines, software, lookups, and registries for different countries and domain name companies. http://www.allthewhois.com/ Next, check that the contact information is legitimate. Use the online phone books to see if their name is there. Yellow and White Pages of the world: http://www.hansaprint.fi/eypeng.html If it looks like a legitimate business name then check the states business registry to see if it’s really registered, and to make sure that the contact details match up. If names, contact info and addresses aren’t available, then you’ve got to ask yourself the question “If this is a legitimate company, why isn’t there more information available?” Some widely used payment processors: http://www.paypal.com http://www.2checkout.com http://www.ibill.com http://www.clickbank.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-Resource Box-=-=-=--=-=-=-=- Starting Your Own Business Can be Scary! Don't go it alone. For more great tips like this secure your own 74 page copy of "Forget the Hype" today!. http://annamarketing.com/FTH ============================================= This article is available for reprint in your opt-in ezine, web site or ebook. You MUST agree not to make any changes to the article and the RESOURCE BOX MUST be included. (c) 2005 AnnaMarketing.com. All Rights Reserved Increase Your Sales Now - Here's How Does the thought of losing thousands of potential customers scare you? 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