After looking at different options for a few days, you decide, I will not turn all of my subscribers over to any one else.

You are afraid of horror stories of sites selling these list for money involved. So you decide, I will do this myself, where I have control of my subscribers, and no one else.

Let me tell you what I did, and hopefully you will know better than to do this. I purchased a cgi script, since I know how to install cgi programs.

I didn't think this thru good enough, or I would have known, that this was not what I should be doing.

I paid, "hang onto your hat" $99.95 for this script. If you read my newsletter, you know what happened. My web host went down for about ten hours, and end result was, I lost my entire subscriber list.

Thank God, I had most of it in my printed file as people subscribed. Think of fun I had going thru over three hundred pieces of paper, setting up a new list.

On that very day, I said to myself, "Vern" that's what I call myself, most of time. The other times, I can't put in print. I said this is going to change, before this happens again.

I tried many programs, ranging in price from $199.95 to $499.95. Some were so hard to setup, that you needed to be a computer expert to set it up.

I finally decided on Postmaster, $299.95, going to $349.95 very soon. I picked it, because a dummy like me can set it up.

I feel confident now that I can collect my subscribers info without having to worry about it.

Putting out this newsletter, takes time away from my advertising, but I think advertising I get by putting it out, out weighs time I missed promoting.

PS. If you are thinking of starting your own newsletter, (do it.) Send me way to subscribe, and I will.

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Ad Swaps

Once you get your ezine started, you will want to get your ad in other quality publications. A good and economical way of doing this is by ad swapping. You agree to place another publisher's ad in your ezine and he/she places your ad in their ezine. This is a very effective way of gaining subscribers. Subscribe to these lists for finding publishers who want to swap ads.

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Sigtags

Every time you send out your email you can be sending out an announcement about your ezine. Put a small but informative signature at bottom of your email.

Example:

Terri Seymour Web Success Ezine Subscribe Now for Free Gift mailto:web-success-subscribe@egroups.com

You can also put borders around your sigtag to bring more attention to it.