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Building Your Wealth One Report At A Time
If you're looking at getting into a business which has the potential to make you a good amount of money, look no further. Self-publishing anything from newsletters to reports to ebooks is one dynamite way to go. There are only a few things you...
Co-Registration - Fuel For Growing Your Lists!
Copyright © Marion Stearns - All Rights Reserved http://www.admistress.com/column ==================== E-mail addresses are absolutely the 'FUEL' for ALL of your list building and sales potential, especially for E-Zines. Without a growing...
Fishing For Ezine Subscribers
The Bible tells the tale of the fishermen who were just not catching a thing. Jesus came along and told them to cast their nets on the other side of the boat, which they did. Surprise! They caught so many fish their nets began to tear.
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How To Earn Money Without A Website
I will tell you right here and now you do not need to have a website to be successful in internet marketing. There are some essential tools you will need, but a website needn’t be one of them. Ok, a website is useful, even more so if you sell your...
Practical Strategies To Boost Your Ezine Readership
Copyright 2005 Jeremy Hershberger
Do you have a fresh ezine ready to start taking subscribers but don't know how to attract them?
Maybe you have a list already operating that you want to enhance.
There are many practical methods available...
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How to Build a Forum That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Months Later, Part 1
If you can get a big enough following from customer lists and newsletters you might want to start your own forum. But I always see people trying to start a forum and it falls flat on their face, mainly because they make it too big and they never promote it.
The main reason is because nobody eats in an empty restaurant. Don't setup a "multiple topic" forum like phpBB where it allows you to partition the thing off into different subjects. You have to start small, get enough traffic to that forum for THAT type of forum to become self-sustaining before you build bigger.
By that I mean start off with a blog.
This blog (and eventually your message board) HAVE to have a niche. You can't just have a general purpose hang-out message board, or have it based on something really vague like "Marketing," or "Finance," or "Computers." Instead go for something specific like a Copywriting message board. Or a message board about home loans. Or a message board about digital video.
You supply all the posts, and any user "posts" will just be comments to this journal. Don't require any sort of signup in order to post.
Give people an option to sign up for e-mail updates but DO NOT use the autoresponder built into the blogging software. Instead use a separate autoresponder script. Why? Two reasons:
1.) You can write a quick teaser message that will entice more subscribers to read your posts than any boring automated notice could.
2.) This way it will be easier to move subscribers over once you graduate from a blog (keep reading).
(WordPress works great for this and is free.)
Start off allowing anyone to post, but once
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you start getting traffic to that page and the blog spam starts rolling in you will either have to require approval by you for a comment to go through or require the poster to type in a code to prove they are human (you've seen the kind).
It will be easy to get SOME traffic to the blog, if you keep most of your entries to it in article format, because then you can submit these articles to ezines and the article directories with a link back to the blog.
Keep the blog format going, be SURE to post regularly and if possible write content in advance (Post To Future) so that if you miss a week your content will still be updated as if you never left. If you feel ambitious setup RSS feeds for the blog and submit to the feed directories.
Continue posting until you reach the point where after you make a post, you receive comments from 10-20 different people within a day or two of the post. This 10-20 has to happen without any e-mails being sent out, or any kind of active promotion.
Until you reach this point stay with the blog, it means you haven't reached critical mass yet and any attempt to change over to a more complex kind of site will never work.
Once you've got those 10-20 spontaneous posts you can go ahead and make the move from a blog to a forum. But be very very careful. There are a lot of things that can go wrong, especially if your forum doesn't "unfold" properly, which is a technique I'll discuss with you in Part 2 of this article...
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