~~yahoogroups.com Yahoo Groups - When you use this service, you will have, for your readers, largest number of community building tools for members. These include a chat room, place to upload important files, automatic distribution of files you request, a calendar to send out reminders, and more. Allows you to automatically "subscribe" members who have requested you to subscribe them to your list. Each message usually contains at least one large ad.

~~www.bravenet.com Bravenet - Limit 500 subscribers per elist although you can set up additional elists on this service. Double opt-in for subscribers only. Easy system allows you to email yourself a copy of your subscriber list.

~~www.smartgroups.com Smart Groups - This is a newer service, very basic, no annoying ads on top. Your elist will contains a calendar that you can use for reminders of classes etc. The only way to delete your elist from this service is to contact smartgroups customer service.

~~www.coollist.com Cool List - Newer elist program. Ad is on bottom. Very basic service.

__Paid Services - - Prices start at approx. $20 per month for smaller ezines and end up in thousands of dollars for larger lists. Some have subscriber limits at that price, some offer free trials. Each company offers different services. ~~Topica http://www.topica.com ep/ ~~Yahoo http://e.gotmarketing.com/collateral/yahoo/smallbusiness/campaigner.html ~~Constant Contact www.constantcontact.com ~~List Channel www.listchannel.com ~~Web Valence www.WebValence.com ~~List Universe www.List-Universe.com ~~Spark-List www.Spark-List.com ~~List Serve www.listserve.com/ ~~Microsoft's B Central www.bcentral.com/services/lb/pricing.asp ~~Cartville is one of companies that also offers ezine mailing lists along with many of it's shopping cart packages. www.cartville.com ~~Comparison chart of ezine hosting companies by Gammadyne http://www.gammadyne.com/gm-comparison.htm ~~elist Directory of companies http://www.list-business.com/

NOTE: As a precaution against dot.com companies that end up out of business, make sure company you choose allows YOU to download email addresses of subscribers. Then download your list at least monthly.

6. ... EZINE ADVERTISING EXPLODING

Where all other forms of online advertising are losing impact, results from ezine marketing are exploding. If done correctly, an ezine marketing campaign can become most effective - and least expensive - tool for any business. I'm so convinced of this fact that I've even launched a new course called EZINE MARKETING TIPS that delivers a daily tip on intelligent ezine marketing to subscribers by email. More info at

7. ... NEWER FORMS OF EZINE ADVERTISING EVOLVING

From being vehicles for classified ads and sponsorship messages, ezines will morph into more sophisticated marketing media. Advertorials, product placement ads (like those in Apple's ezine that get me drooling, and then ordering cool new accessories for my Mac that I hadn't ever thought about buying), and with move to Rich Text format, web-style multimedia ads will all take ezine advertising to a new plane. Whether or not it will be more productive, we'll have to wait and see.

8. ... MANY EZINES USING THIRD-PARTY CONTENT

Some already do. More will in 2002. Creating an ezine from scratch is hard work. Content creation and aggregation services will find a niche to set up and grow. The move to a paid-subscription model will help finance this process.

9. ... HIGHER QUALITY ACROSS ALL EZINES

Overall ezines will be more professionally created, contain useful content and be more valuable to readers. Only serious epublishers will devote time and money required to send out ezines - and they're willing to learn to do it right. Courses like my ebook, EZINE LAUNCH, and wonderful discussion lists on ezine publishing have done their bit to help.

And that's where my crystal ball mists up and gets too cloudy to peer further. But there are two more things that I would like to see happen in 2002. One is as an ezine publisher, other as a subscriber.

-- EZINE AD NETWORKS GROW AND EXPAND

Selling ad space on ezines is a bugbear for many ezine publishers. Ad networks exist for websites; they represent web advertising space across multiple sites and sell them to large advertisers. It is time someone helps do this for ezines, especially smaller ones that are not attractive to advertisers on their own. Ezine Ad Networks are needed badly - NOW !

-- CREATE YOUR OWN EZINE SERVICES

As a subscriber, I've often wished there was an ezine that would cover all my interest areas and include recent, relevant and essential content about each. Why don't large content portals allow readers to create their own ezine - choose type of content, frequency, interest areas and more? The portal would then deliver custom-made ezine on user's preferred schedule. I'd be willing to pay a fee for this service.

Ok, ok, I'm dreaming.