You can design your own postcards or hire a designer. Print cards on 67# card stock to meet USPS requirements. Two or four cards will fit on an 8 ½” x 11” sheet so you’ll have to use a paper cutter. Postage is just $.23 a card.

Here are some ways to use postcards:

1) REFERRALS - Send postcards regularly to your best contacts asking for referrals.

2) ANNOUNCE EVENTS – Send postcards to let folks know about events like classes, seminars, sales, open houses, etc.

3) PROSPECTING – Send a series of postcard mailings to identified prospects to “soften them up” before you phone them.

4) BUILD WEBSITE TRAFFIC – Use postcard mailings to tell people your site is there and when you make significant additions.

originally published in e_Marketing -- Blog

After much preperation and experimentation, I finally got Linknet Radio up and running a couple of weeks ago. This is my much anticipated Flash Alternative for Online Media. It uses a very simple implementation of Wimpy Player -- one you can see at Power Linking with Linknet and Business Blogs) using Wimpy "playlist" capabilities. I know there are alternative players out there — and eventually I hope to try them out — but the Wimpy Player is easy to get up and running, doesn't require any Flash experience, and it WORKS!

Here's what I wanted to do...

I wanted to take articles I had written for various websites, record talking article versions of them, and then string them together into "programs", as you can see if you follow links above.. I also wanted to be able to mix in recorded ads for various products, short music clips, and so on.

And most importantly, I wanted flexibility to combine various articles into different playlists for different websites, programs, instructional courses, talking ebooks -- a whole range of applications.

For instance, I have websites about Internet Marketing, Online Video, Golf Travel, Trade Show Displays, Vinyl Banners, Real Estate, Online Training and more. Articles that are relevant to my Real Estate sites are probably NOT relevant to my Golf sites, and vice versa.