8. Write your own articles that you publish in your ezine.

Writing articles will increase your credibility with your subscribers and lead to more sales of your products.

Try writing "how to articles" that show your readers step by step how to do something or provide your readers with a list of valuable tips.

After your articles place an advertisement that promotes your business, service or special offer.

9. Go through articles you've run in your ezine and pick those that you feel best showcase your expertise.

Add a benefit rich resource box to your articles that entices your readers to subscribe to your publication and then submit your articles to article directories, article announcement lists, and to other ezine publishers.

Some announcement lists and directories you can submit your articles to are:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aabusiness http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArticlePublisher/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Reprint-Articles/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free_eContent/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freezinecontent/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/netwrite-publish-announce/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/publisher_network/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QC_Reprint_Articles/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reprintedarticles/ http://www.webmomz.com/users/login.shtml http://www.netterweb.com/articles/articlesubmit.htm http://www.marketing-seek.com/articles/index.shtml http://www.goarticles.com/ http://connectionteam.com/ http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/articles/recent.shtml http://webmarketingspecialists.com/articlesubmit.html http://www.ezinearticles.com/ http://www.certificate.net/wwio/ideas.shtml http://www.allnetarticles.com/

10. Use testimonials for your products in your ezine to increase your subscriber's trust in your product and to increase your sales.

Also increase number of visitors that subscribe to your ezine by including testimonials for your ezine on your site from your happy subscribers.

11. Use your signature file to promote your ezine.

Keep your sig file to 5-8 lines that stress benefits of subscribing to your ezine and use your sig file in all your outgoing email. This will give you an easy no cost way to promote your ezine and rake in new subscribers.

12. Recommend products of affiliate programs you've joined to your subscribers.

This will help you to increase your profit while helping you to meet your subscribers needs. Only endorse products you have used and would whole heartedly recommend to your subscriber base.

You may have guessed that this is a labor intensive project ... so next step is to establish a daily or weekly schedule ... and then stick to it. If you did just two announcements a day you'll definitely kickstart, or give your subscriber base a BIG boost by end of month.

Go to http://www.proofpositive.com/ezines/list.htm for a list of directories and announcement services.

Once you have finished with list of directory and announcement services I have provided, keep on going. Keep looking for new services and new directories. If you persistently take a few minutes each day to promote your list, it will grow exponentially over time!!

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Ezine Announce give you instant access to over 1600 resources where you can promote and market your ezine - you could easily spend 12 months wandering around Internet trying to find this information yourself.

This software includes ALL list announcement services and directories and hundreds of ezines that are interested in getting information about your articles.

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List Inferno is a new tool that could well be easiest, cheapest and fastest way to build your list yet developed. You get good quality targeted 100% opt-in leads in exchange for your participation in co-op. All you have to do is put a simple line of code on your webpages ... and you will start building your list almost immediately. I had new subscribers added to my list literally hours after joining program. Anything that can give you free subscribers for virtually zero effort is worth a try - and this system can give you lots of those.

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Building your list is an ongoing process. It will not happen overnight. It will grow over time IF you take steps outlined above every day and every week!

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The author, Melanie Rockett, coaches writers and freelance professionals who are struggling to attract more clients and increase revenues in their businesses. To sign up for her bi-weekly FREELANCE NEWS newsletter visit: http://www.proofpositive.com