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Don't Stop Promoting Your Ezine : 8 Tips For Getting Subscribers
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Detlev Reimer
detlevinternetmarketing-success.com
Internet Marketing Success
http://www.internetmarketing-success.com/
You've made the decision to publish your own ezine. Congra-
tulations ! But from now on, you must take your time to promote
it 7 days a week . Your goal must be to grow your ezine day by
day in order to become successful .
How can you accomplish this task ? Below, you'll find some
suggestions :
a.) Forums
Here, you have the chance to show that you are an expert in your
field by answering questions in your area of expertise . If you post
answers regularly and perhaps if you ignite some discussions, you
can become very well known.
Make sure you have an interesting headline and that you are not
just setting Re: (Question) for your answer . You want people to
click on your thread, so be creative with your headlines ....
Most forums allow you to leave your signature file in your message.
But don't leave your sig-file if you ask questions yourself and don't
start blatantly promoting your products and services. This is consi-
dered spamming and could cause flaming you.
Some popular Internet marketing forums are :
http://www.ablake.net/forum/
http://klausdahl.com/forum/
http://www.rwm.net/internetmarketing/
b.) Ad Swaps
Write to ezine publishers in your field and ask them to do an ad
swap with you. Test the results of these ad swaps for 1 or 2
issues. Then you can rate the success of your ads and consider
swapping for multiple issues if you got results from them or you
can drop them if they are not so successful .
Stay in your field of expertise and don't do ad swaps with ezines
which are not related to your subject. You want to have targeted
readers of your ads, don't you ? If you send your ad swap to a
newsletter with, let me say "Pet Lovers" , and your ezine is related
to Internet marketing then it just can't bring you the desired results.
c.) Free Ezine Ads
For several reasons you should consider subscribing to ezines
which give you free ezine ads. It's a very targeted audience and
with intriguing headlines, you might be able to get some good
responses from it. But you have to make sure that your ezine ads
are really read by the other subscribers of their ezine.
Therefore, you should send your ads only to those ezines which
on the one hand have enough subscribers (1000+) and which on
the other hand publish their free ezine ads in their main issue in
which they publish their articles as well.
If they just send out a separate issue with all their free subscriber
ads in it, chances are great your ad won't be read. It will either
get lost in a flood of ads or the issue will be deleted immediately
if it arrives at the inbox of their subscribers. It's not a good deal
even if it's free ...
Test and track your results and decide which ezines bring you the
best results (subscribers) and concentrate your efforts on these .
c.) Recommendations
Make your fellow ezine publishers an offer they can't resist for
recommending your ezine to their subscribers. This can be a free
solo ad, a reciprocal link or something of similar value. Especially,
for those publishers with a list that is many times bigger than your
own, you have to use your best arguments to convince them of
your offer's value for them.
d.) Your Website
If you get a decent amount of traffic, your website should also be
a good source of new subscribers. But your website must clearly
state the benefits of a subscription to your ezine or you will fail. If
a potential subscriber doesn't know what he will get in return for
giving his email address, you bet that he won't bother to sign up
for your ezine.
State the benefits, make clear that you keep their contact data
strictly confidential and give your visitors the possibility to view
back issues so they can visualize how your ezine will help them .
Your ezine should offer something special which cannot be found
anywhere else. These could be exclusive content, resources, ad-
vertising options etc. etc.
e.) Ezine Directories
Submit your ezine to as many of the ezine directories as you can.
Use a description that makes the readers curious and excited
about becoming a subscriber of your newsletter. Offer free incen-
tives and exclusive content.
A list with about 60 ezine directories can be found at :
http://www.internetmarketing-success.com/ezine_directories.htm
f.) Ezine Announcement Lists
There are a lot of free ezine announcement lists, too. These can
bring you subscribers as well . Most of them are at Yahoogroups,
Topica and Smartgroups. You have to subscribe to them first and
they have certain guidelines for posting. Be sure to read them first
to make sure you don't violate their rules .
In some groups, only the moderator may post. These are only
useful if you are searching for other ezines to subscribe to, not for
announcing your own newsletter.
A list with lots of announcement groups can be found here :
http://www.internetmarketing-success.com/announcement_groups.htm
g.) Writing Articles
This is one of my favourite methods for getting traffic and sub-
scribers and it's the favourite method for many of the top internet
marketers, too . By showing that you know about your topics,
you set yourself up as an expert. This improves the relationships
with your customers, potential subscribers and other newsletter
publishers.
Besides this, it has the effect that the URL from your resource
box helps you to improve your link popularity. This, in exchange
can boost your rankings at the search engines.
If you focus on one of each methods every single day, you can
almost guarantee that it will bring you a steady flow of new
subscribers.
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Article by Detlev Reimer. Feel free to use the article with these
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