A Baker's Dozen

Written by Darlene Styers


Continued from page 1

SEVEN: Suggest to your readers that they pass along your Newsletter to others. Include your subscribe address in every Edition of your Newsletter.

EIGHT: You may want to consider advertising your Newsletter in other ezines. From $10 to $20 per solo ad in reputable Newsletters can usually gain you several subscribers.

NINE: Ad Coops are an excellent way to gain new subscribers if you are willing to publish their ads. A few coops will enterrepparttar subscribers automatically into your list if you are using an autoresponder that permits. The retention rate can be rather satisfying if your Newsletter is interesting.

TEN: Writing Articles and passing them along to other publishers can create a viral effect for you. There are many directories just for this purpose. You might choose to use a software program that automatically submits to directories.

ELEVEN: Submit your Newsletter to Directories. Many searchrepparttar 108893 directories for justrepparttar 108894 Newsletter that pleases them. This is an excellent source of new subscribers.

TWELVE: Are you using a Signature Link? Every email you send out can have a Signature Link to your Subscriber Address.

THIRTEEN: Watch for websites that include Testimonials. And submit your testimonial. Let's say you have your testimonial on 10 websites and you receive 1 subscriber per week from each testimonial. That's 520 new subscribers per year from this source only.

One ofrepparttar 108895 enjoyable parts of publishing is finding new ways to maintain subscribers. HAVE FUN! =============================================== Darlene Styers is Publisher of iNetProfitz Marketing Newsletter. You may subscribe or contact Darlene http://www.inetprofitz.net If you have questions regarding this article, Darlene will be happy to hear from you. Darlene will also be happy to assist you if you are ready to publish a Newsletter. =============================================

Darlene Styers is the Publisher of iNetProfitz Marketing Newsletter. She helps thousands of SERIOUS Marketers fulfil their dreams. http://www.inetprofitz.net mailto:inetprofitz@yahoo.com


Financial Middleman for Small Business

Written by Pavel Lenshin


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Regsoft: 1) no 2) no 3)$0-$30 - $3.00, $30+ - 10%;

Verotel: 1) no 2) no 3) $3.75-$75.00 - 13.5%;

V-Share: 1) no 2) no 3) $0-$15 - 20%, $15-$100 - $3+4%, $100-$200 - $2+5% etc.

------------------------------------------------------------ Company Name in alphabetical order: 1) Credit Cards acceptance 2) Online Check acceptance 3) Phone(Fax) orders acceptance 4) Recurring Billing feature

2CheckOut: 1) yes 2) yes 3) no 4) yes CCNow: 1) yes 2) no 3) no 4) no ClickBank: 1) yes 2) yes 3) no 4) no IBill: 1) yes 2) yes 3) yes 4) yes MultiCards: 1) yes 2) yes 3) no 4) yes PayPal: 1) yes 2) yes 3) no 4) yes PaySystems: 1) yes 2) yes 3) no 4) yes ProBilling: 1) yes 2) yes 3) no 4) yes ProPay: 1) yes 2) yes 3) no 4) no Regsoft: 1) yes 2) yes 3) yes 4) no Verotel: 1) yes 2) yes 3) yes 4) yes V-Share: 1) yes 2) yes 3) yes 4) yes

------------------------------------------------------------ * Commissions are charged in two most popular ways: * depending onrepparttar sales volume, for instance, 10% for $0-$1000 in gross sales and 5% for $1000+ or; * flat fees plus percent ofrepparttar 108892 transaction amount: $2 + 5%, so if you sell your item for $50repparttar 108893 commission is $2+$2.5 (5% out of $50)=$4.5 Note, that commissions shown for credit card billing may berepparttar 108894 same or may differ from company to company for online checks and, especially, for phone order processing.

As you see,repparttar 108895 table comparesrepparttar 108896 most common features of services, while some secondary options like affiliate program, online auctions support or inability of such companies like PayPal to process all worldwide customers including yours truly, were left behind.

IBill and Verotel, for instance, have retail price maximum limits. The dominating majority of payment processors charge additional fees for chargebacks and refunds, while Regsoft, Verotel or V-share offers a completely risk-free start up, charging commission from actual sales only.

The middleman you will commit to should offer easy ways to administrate your account, view statistics, add/delete products on sale, setup price, tune and customize with your web-site imagerepparttar 108897 order page etc.

Depending onrepparttar 108898 nature of your main product: tangible or intangible, some companies may or may not meet your needs. Check Verza.com payment processing company for tangible and shippable goods. They arerepparttar 108899 Mother company of Verotel - division specially designed for intangible products or "bits" sellers.

Carefully read terms & conditions agreement, other regulations as well as charge back policy before signing up for any service.

Find outrepparttar 108900 offered ordering security options. While some companies provide sophisticated fraudulent control system and supply you with both server secured order form and non-secured order form for your customer convenience, other payment processors had problems even withrepparttar 108901 coding of their order web-pages, what allowed anyone to literally steal your intangible products by downloading them without payment. That happened becauserepparttar 108902 URL ofrepparttar 108903 so-called "Thank you" page (where sellers arrange their info materials to download) was clearly visible inrepparttar 108904 source code ofrepparttar 108905 order form. This is unacceptable.

You may also want to test their support system and uptimerepparttar 108906 same way you do before selecting a web-hosting provider. Because your order page(s) is(are) hosted atrepparttar 108907 3rd party payment provider server(s), if they are down for any reason, it may be very sad for your customer to choose a product, click onrepparttar 108908 order link and get error or "The page cannot be displayed" massage.

As you see there are a lot of points to check and analyze. Onrepparttar 108909 other hand, remember a rule of not complicating things. The key for easy decision-making process is not to avoid research as some people do going forrepparttar 108910 first offer they see, rather than knowing your needs and capabilities including financial beforehand.

Determine them atrepparttar 108911 very beginning and search companies accordingly, makingrepparttar 108912 whole research smooth and easy. Besides, onrepparttar 108913 contrary to, say, domain name choosing, payment processor service is temporal to help you build your online business in a quick, cheap or zero cost way. At some stage due to economy of scale it will be cheaper and more effective for your business to establish personal merchant account with respective e-commerce gateway system.

Pavel Lenshin is a publisher of NET Business Magazine, professional web-developer and CEO of: - http://ASBONE.com/ - informational portal and provider of discounted internet services for entrepreneurs, including internet access, web-design and hosting; - http://InfoAlchemist.com/ - a must-have business library.


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