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Top Seven Ways to Promote your Ezine
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Judy Cullins
judybookcoaching.com
Book Writing and Marketing Solutions
http://www.bookcoaching.com
Top Seven Ways to Promote your Ezine
Judy Cullins
©2001
Your ezine builds customer confidence and trust when you give
free tips, articles, and resources. Clients and customers buy only
when they trust you. Expand your email subscriber list seven
ways for eventual big sales.
One. Network offline.
Visit professional like-minded groups.These groups usually meet
once a month, have speakers, and networking time for you to
mix with other professionals. You will get valuable information at
these meetings for low cost-yearly memberships run that around
$25-$50 which includes free meeting attendance. Each meeting
is around two hours including networking time and talk.. Usually
at each meeting you get a 30-second time to introduce yourself.
Two. Speak to groups about your expertise.
You can guest speak for a large association or group,
or you can give your own seminars and workshops, where
people come to hear your expertise. During each meeting,
pass the clipboard that asks your audience for their email
addresses. In return, you will send them pertinent information.
This may be your ezine. Be sure to include your Web URL in
plain sight. You want these people to visit your Web site, first to
see your expertise, then perhaps to buy products.
You can give a teleclass too in the comfort of your office or
home. When you introduce yourself offer a benefit of your
free ezine along with a free bonus special report.
Three. Promote your ezine on your web site.
Visit many sites and take from them what will make
your pages zing.
Don't use the pabulum approach such as "Subscribe to my
free ezine." Is this enough to make you buy? Give a reason for
your visitor to buy.
Use the passion approach. For my new web site, I
submitted this blurb to my Webmaster: Finish, publish, and sell
your book-fast! Receive free articles, tips and resources in the
FREE monthly eMag "The Book Coach Says...."
Nearby in a box, I put up a strong testimonial from someone
highly respected in the business. Dan Poynter, self-publishing
guru said, "Chock full of tips, how-to's, and resources, definitely
worth your time.
Near the end of the page, I also included a note: Subscribe to
"The Book Coach Says..." and receive 2 free bonus reports.
People want free information. When you give it to them, they will
come back for more, and eventually buy.
Placement is also important. For the best response and more
subscribers, place your subscribe box on the top half of your
homepage. Remember the old adage; "Make it easy for your
customer to buy."
Four. Promote your ezine through your signature box at the
end of every email.
Create a promotional signature in four to six lines, and add it to
the end of each email you send out. Here, you would list your
book title, benefits of your service, your FREE ezine title with
a way to subscribe and receive 2 special reports by
auto responder.
Include your email,Web site address, and local phone number
for people out of the U.S.,
Five. Promote your ezine through free articles in opt-in ezines.
Once you subscribe to these ezines, you can submit one or two
articles from 500-1200 words every week. In each ezine,
thousands of other subscribers will read and think about your
article.
When I submit 2 articles a week, I get 20-25 new subscriptions
each day. Because my signature box is strong, I get many new
visitors to my site. These turn into sales eventually, once trust is
established. I am the Online expert in book writing, publishing,
and promoting books and Web sites. Subscribers now number
over 2500.
Six. Offer your subscribers a free gift subscription to send to
their friends.
You can use another autoresponder to send the gift, plus
whom it's from, and a little blurb about what they will be
receiving. Always include a way for subscribers to
unsubscribe.
Seven. Send out press releases via email about your ezine.
Press releases by email are different from print ones. They must
be short! They must be newsworthy! Don't pitch your book,
offer some skills and how-to's. Skills Unlimited Publishing sends
out over 150 different print releases a year, along with other
effective Online promotion.
Media editors will respond to your compelling headline such as
"7 Ways to Sell More Books Than you Ever Dreamed of" that
brought first a feature in a major newspaper in San Diego. The
results? Over 90 people came to a local seminar by the same
name. Four new book coaching clients signed up. Twenty came
to ongoing weekly seminars, and twenty more to a teleclass.
Book sales amounted to over $400.
Ssend a list of tips and how-to's to editors. These may
prompt a call to do a feature story on you.
Build your business and sell more products through an ezine.
When subscribers experience many ezines, they will be more
likely to buy from you.
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Judy Cullins, M.A. publisher, book coach, and author
Helps Professionals Reach their Book and Web Dreams
e: Write Your eBook or Other Short Book- Fast!
e: Ten Non-techie Ways to Market Your Book Online
http://www.bookcoaching.com/products.shtml .
To subscribe to the FREE ezine "The Book Coach Says,
Send an email to Subscribebookcoaching.com. Includes 2
free Special Reports.
Ph 619/466-0622
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