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Compliments Open Sales Doors
"An expression of esteem, respect, affection, or admiration;..." Compliment, as defined by Merriam-Webster's online dictionary.Compliment for Sales is not to suggest insincerity is okay. In fact, an insincere compliment can do more harm than good. What I'm writing about is "Sincere Compliments" which will drop guards, open doors and build relationships.But what if you can't find anything you like about the person? Find something.Find something that you sincerely respect or admire. For example; you could compliment them on surviving in business in their second year. "Congratulations Mr. Customer on surviving your first year of business (or second or third, etc) when 39% of start ups are out of business after their first year."This is a big deal! Every year

ubscribers.

Then, when you mention that you use "X product" to achieve "Y results", your subscribers will listen to you and if you provide a link, they may even reward you by buying your product!

Some of the Less Obvious Reasons to Publish an Ezine:

Another great reason to write an ezine is to boost your search engine ranking by archiving your past issues online. Later in this series we will be discussing exactly how to do that step-by-step, but for now, let's just assume you know how to add your issues to your web site.

Search engines just love content. Instead of filling your web with other people's articles use your past issue to boost your sites value. I'm not saying their articles are bad or even that having them is bad, but don't you think your visitors will be more impressed with mor

Secure Domain Registration
Registering your domain name is the first step you can take to ensure your presence on the Internet. Each registered domain name is unique, although there are some unscrupulous individuals and organizations that ?steal? the identity of a known website to ride on its popularity. You may encounter cyber-squatting, wherein another company takes a domain name that closely resembles yours, and therefore, steals a percentage of your site traffic.If you sign up with an Internet service provider (ISP) to register your site, consider the security services that it offers. If it can safeguard your domain name from theft, then all the better. Threats of cyber-squatting are everywhere, and if you can prevent another company from taking away your chances of making profit, then investing i

It seems as though everyone is telling you that you should have an ezine for your web site, heck even if you don’t even have a web site! But why?

There are several good reasons to publish your own ezine, the not the least of which is to keep in touch with visitors to your web site. Here are several more reasons:

(1) Staying in contact with customers on a regular basis so they remember your site amongst the billions of web sites on the Internet today.

(2) Site announcements

(3) Staying in contact with potential customers (Maybe one of the most important reasons)

(4) Updating your affiliates

(5) Sending information in the form of articles and editorials

(6) A mechanism to deliver results of a survey or contest

(7) Establish yourself as knowledgeable in a field

(8) Increase your Search Engine ranking

(9) Add content to your web site

(10) As an advertising vehicle

(11) Earn revenue through selling ads

(12) Gain writing experience

Those are a few of the main reasons that I can think of off the top of my head. So let's discuss a couple of them, shall we?

It is very important to stay in contact with both visitors (Potential customers) and current customers. The trick is finding that perfect balance between being helpful and delivering value and information with your ezine and being a pest by sending too many issues, notices, ad sheets, and classifieds.

On a side note:

Don't be a baby bird!

One of my pet peeves (And probably a lot of other people's as well!) is the "You gotta try this!" email every single week from some publishers.

Every week, sometimes several times a week, I get this breathless email from some publisher that is extolling the virtues of yet another "Joint Venture Letter Writer", "Make Super Money as a Super Affiliate" ebook, or pop-up generating software.

Enough already!

Just because the different affiliate programs you are a member of all send you a new "Solo Ad", "Classified Ad", etc. doesn't mean that it is the greatest thing since sliced white bread! There is nothing that will make me unsubscribe faster than a publisher that claims I "Absolutely can't live (Or do business) without X, Y, or Z product every other day.

Especially when all of the products are just variations on a theme and I see the same ad from 4 different people (Each "customized" to make it look like it came from them!). Don't you think your subscribers read more than one ezine?

Don't get caught up in this advertising frenzy or you will lose that list of subscribers you worked so hard to gain the trust of. Just because you reach that magic subscriber base # of 5,000 or 10,000 people doesn't mean that the focus of your ezine should suddenly switch from providing information to being your private cash box.

So, don't sit in your "nest" with your mouth continuously open waiting to be fed like a baby bird chirp, chirp, chirping away all day!

End of Rant :)

The main reason you are sending out your ezine is to showcase your knowledge (Or humor, or artistic ability, whatever your "thing" is) and as you provide valuable information, tutorials, articles, resources, etc., every week you gain the trust of your subscribers.

Then, when you mention that you use "X product" to achieve "Y results", your subscribers will listen to you and if you provide a link, they may even reward you by buying your product!

Some of the Less Obvious Reasons to Publish an Ezine:

Blogging Dollars in 7 Hours or Less
Need to make money fast, but you don't want to spend a single cent to establish an online business? Fret not, dear friend. You could actually start earning from the web with zero capital, zero obligations and zero risks! All these can be accomplished within 24 hours! Read on and I'll show you how.Hour 1Try to find a profitable niche. Niches are highly specialized segments of a market where the demand is high and the supplies are low. There are few competitions in a niche, allowing you more opportunity to establish your online presence.Think of a market that you could cater to. Then narrow it down by enumerating its subcategories. The more you are able to reduce the subject, the higher the profitability will be. For example, the general market you though

(8) Increase your Search Engine ranking

(9) Add content to your web site

(10) As an advertising vehicle

(11) Earn revenue through selling ads

(12) Gain writing experience

Those are a few of the main reasons that I can think of off the top of my head. So let's discuss a couple of them, shall we?

On a side note:

Don't be a baby bird!

One of my pet peeves (And probably a lot of other people's as well!) is the "You gotta try this!" email every single week from some publishers.

Enough already!

So, don't sit in your "nest" with your mouth continuously open waiting to be fed like a baby bird chirp, chirp, chirping away all day!

End of Rant :)

Then, when you mention that you use "X product" to achieve "Y results", your subscribers will listen to you and if you provide a link, they may even reward you by buying your product!

Some of the Less Obvious Reasons to Publish an Ezine:

The Power of Advertising
ADVERTISING fulfills a need that can be traced back for as long as men have bought and sold. It is an art that has developed over the years. Most people think that advertising does not really affect their decisions. They think they ignore it and make up their own minds. Money-wise business executives know better. Throughout the world, these men hang their fortunes on tremendous advertising budgets. They build wants and sway our thinking in ways that we may not even realize.Advertising is not only big business but also a high-powered industry—some even call it a science. Wherever we look, whatever we do, advertising is ahead of us, there to greet us. It cajoles, it implores, it reasons, it shouts. Whether consciously or subconsciously, all of us are affected, for better or fo

some publishers.

Enough already!

So, don't sit in your "nest" with your mouth continuously open waiting to be fed like a baby bird chirp, chirp, chirping away all day!

End of Rant :)

Then, when you mention that you use "X product" to achieve "Y results", your subscribers will listen to you and if you provide a link, they may even reward you by buying your product!

Some of the Less Obvious Reasons to Publish an Ezine:

Internet Distribution: The Future of Entertainment
A friend and I were having a discussion recently. I asked him what he thought the next method of distribution for films and music would be. My thoughts were that we would have to come up with some new method that was convenient, sturdy and didn't involve compression (as CDs and DVDs do, thereby limiting the picture and sound quality, although not very much). He simply said that it wasn't going to happen; in the future it's all going to be distributed on the Internet.I've heard this argument before. My grade ten IT teacher assured us that within five years (and this was four years ago) we would no longer be purchasing CDs. With the advent of broadband we were going to see purchases of music and movies online, streamed to the computer or another device. I've always thought this

hem!). Don't you think your subscribers read more than one ezine?

So, don't sit in your "nest" with your mouth continuously open waiting to be fed like a baby bird chirp, chirp, chirping away all day!

End of Rant :)

Then, when you mention that you use "X product" to achieve "Y results", your subscribers will listen to you and if you provide a link, they may even reward you by buying your product!

Some of the Less Obvious Reasons to Publish an Ezine:

A Quick Guide To Online Directories
Business directories are an excellent platform to both advertise and find useful contacts, resources and supplies. Since the millennium the internet has become filled with directories to the point that at times they have swamped the search engines, Google and Yahoo for example. Such directories come in a many forms. The aim here is to discuss the differing directory types, their use on the internet and to offer tips on embarking one of the many paid for services.First off, we have the business to consumer directories, some of these are excellent and some not so good, yell.com probably standing out as the largest amongst them. Then we have the Business to Business directories, Applegate, Businessmagnet and Kellysearch being among the most well known. All of the directories men

ubscribers.

Then, when you mention that you use "X product" to achieve "Y results", your subscribers will listen to you and if you provide a link, they may even reward you by buying your product!

Some of the Less Obvious Reasons to Publish an Ezine:

Your past ezines are definitely on the same topic as your web site which will make a search engine like Google very happy when its spider finds that large group of web pages all on the same general topic. Be sure they are all interlinked, to each other and to the home page. Here's a couple of ways to link them:

1. List the "Articles by Title" down the left side of the page. Link them using the title as the link. This is a much bigger boost in page rating than the "next article" link. Keywords used as the text of the link itself - it doesn't get better than that - baby!

2. Have a navigation bar across the bottom of the page

3. Have "Next" and "Back" links, plus a little arrow icon pointing left and right respectively. Use the "Alt" description for the picture to stick a keyword in the page. Not a bunch, one per is ok...

If you use FrontPage or other WYSIWYG editor, right click on the picture, click on properties, then type in your keyword where the space for the "alternate text" goes.

Include the word "arrow" too, in case your picture pulls a no show or someone has their graphics turned off the text makes sense. Like for our fishing magazine example (Article #2 in the Series) you could use "click arrow for next fishing article" as your alternate text.

We will cover this topic more deeply in the "How to Archive Your Past Issues" Article further along in this series. But for now,just keep it in mind.

And the final reason we will discuss in this section is writing experience. What better way to gain experience and find your writing "Voice" than to write an ezine every week? If you have ever contemplated writing your own ebook, special report, short story or novel, an ezine is great writing practice.

You have to do research, proofread, type, (Unless you have "you talk it records" software that is!) and keep a schedule. All great warm-ups for you true project, whatever that is.

So there you have it, a nice even dozen reasons you should get up off your rear - or sit down on it as it were - and start writing your own ezine.

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