Many of us join online Article Announcement Lists, where hundreds of great articles are posted weekly. However, those articles quickly become "Shareware" among fellow publishers.

Here are some tips to help make your next issues easier, faster and maybe even fun!

First, setup content folders (Business/Travel/Books/ Food/Etc.

As articles are announced cut and paste then all in appropriate folder for future use.

--Publish The Old With The New--

When publishing under a theme, old shareware and new content can compliment each other.

Whenever I read about best ways to promote an online newsletter, listing in e-zine directories is always mentioned as one of those 'no-brainer' things that every publisher should automatically do.

So I figured, why not? Everyone else seems to be doing it, I'd better do same.

Not so easy. In first place, try looking up 'ezine directories' on google. I got 1690 results. A lot of those results turned out not to be a directory, but a list of other directories. The list seemed endless.

In second place, most of lists of directories I found turned out to be hopelessly out of date.

So I decided to build my own list of e-zine directories

As I started following links I hit up against one of worst aspects of Internet. Here is a list of 14 principle reasons why so many of links turned out to be useless:

1. Site no longer exists 2. Site appears to exist, but content is all pre 1998 3. Site appears to be running, but many links are dead 4. Message says 'Site no longer maintained.' 5. Site so badly designed, navigation impossible 6. Site caused my eyes to bleed (figuratively!) 7. Site bombarded me with multiple pop-ups 8. Site not relevant (no e-zine list) 9. Site appeared to be a scam 10. Site redirected to a different URL 11. Payment required to list e-zine 12. Site offered no explanation, name or logo 13. Site no longer accepting submissions 14. Site 'under construction.'

According to my 'History' file, I have visited over 800 sites in past 3 days. My back hurts, my eyes hurt and my brain has turned to jelly. But I think that I have done it!