Creating And Promoting Your News Letter

Written by Niki Mcelroy


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Creating And Promoting Your News Letter © 2002 - 2003 Niki Mcelroy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

THE CREATION

If you haven't got around to starting a news letter, I will Let you know it's easier than you think! I will start onrepparttar pretence that you have already established your website. That means you already have a topic of conversation. It doesn't matter if you are doing a site on multilevel marketing, or religion, or stories that inspire, you will want to keep your news letter based on that topic.

There are a few different methods to starting your news letter. I will cover two of them.

One option you have is to use outlook express to manage your news letter. You can even use it to create HTML style news letters Likerepparttar 109581 big sites do.

Here'srepparttar 109582 steps to do that: 1. Click on create mail 2. Click on view 3. Click on source edit 4. Notice that three tabs show atrepparttar 109583 bottom. Click on source 4. You can now modifyrepparttar 109584 code however you want (if you don't know html click: http://www.freeandfrugal.com/ebooks.html)

Just a tip -- Link to graphics through your website, if you link them to your computer they may not show in all email boxes.

The second option is a more professional aproach, you can get a script for your website that works great. You will need to be able to run your own cgi scripts on your server to take advantage of this offer. This is a great script that I have used my self and dont have one complaint yet. Clickrepparttar 109585 following link to get this script for your site: http://www.dtp-aus.com/cgiscript/allcgi.shtml

Once your news letter gets large enough you will want, and most likely need, to use this option. The best thing about using this script is that your subscribers are automatically added withrepparttar 109586 sister script and unsubscribed by eitherrepparttar 109587 sister script orrepparttar 109588 script I am suggesting. Both save you time and money, as they are free.

DANGER! Beware!

Written by Cathy Wagner


You wouldn't think that using free advertising online could be dangerous, but it can. Email advertising is DANGEROUS! Don't be fooled into thinking you have to send hundreds of thousands of messages per day to be at risk.

THE FACTS I know of three different cases recently where people have just lost their web sites due to SPAM related issues with no warning or notification. They have been given no way to arguerepparttar matter; as far as their ISPs are concerned they are done, out of business, with no appeal or refund for their prepaid service.

Case 1: The web site owner was mailing about 25,000 messages once per week with a 5% undeliverable rate. Sounds like a lot, but he was entitled to send those messages. Asrepparttar 109580 owner of an FFA page, people who post ads to his site agree to receive email from him in return for placing their free ad.

Case 2: The web site owner was sending only about 1,000 messages once per week! He was entitled to mail to those people as part of a paid service he had joined and was averaging a 6% undeliverable rate.

Case 3: This web site owner was not sending out large mailings at all! She was, however, receiving a very large of amount of safelist mail.

WHOA! What is happening here?! Clearly, SPAM is reaching epidemic proportions andrepparttar 109581 result could well berepparttar 109582 death of email advertising, which is widely regarded as THE most effective form of online advertising.

Host providers are under increasing pressure to control SPAM; too many complaints can get a host shut down. Also,repparttar 109583 amount of resources it takes for servers to send large amounts of mail, handle undeliverable messages and even maintain accounts with a lot of mail can put an incredible drain on host providers. They have to be vigilant in controllingrepparttar 109584 amount of mail their clients send and receive.

DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU! The days when you could buy a list of email addresses and send your ad to them with impunity are gone. It is far too risky today to send mass mailings from your own ISP. Even using another email account can be risky; SPAM complaints can (and do) shut down advertised programs allrepparttar 109585 time. If ONE person complains to everyone they can think of about receiving your message, your offer can be taken offline with very little, if any, warning.

DO'S AND DON'TS If you use any form of free advertising online, you will get mail in return. After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch;repparttar 109586 mail you receive isrepparttar 109587 price you pay to advertise for free. Readrepparttar 109588 terms of service! Do not post to free ads to sites that allow all of their members to send you an email confirmation. This will cut down onrepparttar 109589 amount of mail you receive and it will eliminaterepparttar 109590 temptation to reply to all those messages, which would be SPAM. While you agree to receive mail by placing your ad,repparttar 109591 people who send confirmations DO NOT agree to receive your mail. You may not like it, but that is how it is set up. If you do not wish to receive confirmation emails, do not use free advertising sites.

Do not use email address collecting software. I receive mail to accounts that are not published anywhere except on my web site for things like password retrieval. These messages usually say something like, "Thank you for posting your link to my site," but I know that this address was never used to post any ads. I also know that this person who sentrepparttar 109592 message will not be in business for long. While I am not crazy about SPAM, I generally do not complain; I userepparttar 109593 delete button and for me, that'srepparttar 109594 end of it. But, there are so many people, especially newbies, who absolutely flip over SPAM and I know that one of these people will complain to everyone they can get a hold of and this SPAMMER's operation and perhaps even their opportunity will be shut down soon.

Even safelists are not totally safe anymore. In every one ofrepparttar 109595 cases listed above,repparttar 109596 site owner was receiving a huge amount of safelist mail from over 100 lists. While not nearly as effective as having your own opt-in list, safelists may seem likerepparttar 109597 ideal solution, but ISP's do not always agree. They know that no one could possibly read hundreds and hundreds of messages everyday and they are increasingly aware ofrepparttar 109598 amount of resources being used to maintain full and nearly full mailboxes; they do not want to bear that burden. They ask why should they have to pay for your free advertising. If you use safelists, limitrepparttar 109599 number you use and do not send them to your primary mail account, send them to a free email account and empty that account regularly!

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