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Yes, You Should Publish an Ezine, and Here's Why
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Joe Bingham
thunderberrymsn.com
NetPlay Newsletters
http://www.netplaynewsletters.com
Why publish an ezine anyway?
There are a million of them already, it's a lot of work, and it
requires extra time spent online. Is there really even a point to
it?
If you're serious about your online business there is.
Ask yourself this: How many of the BIG guys offer a free
subscription to an ezine from their web site?
If you answered pretty much all of them, then you are right.
Getting hits to your web site is great, but smart marketers know
it's best to devise ways to encourage visitors to come back.
The best way to encourage repeat visits to your site is by
establishing contact with your site's visitors. For this, you need
their name and email. Now, no one is going to drop you their
name and email for no reason. Instead, you have to offer them
good, educational, interesting content via an ezine. This is what
coaxes visitors into leaving you their contact information. They
will only do it because THEY look to BENEFIT from it, not
because you will.
After you gain contact with people, the next step is to build a
relationship with them. Personal contact is wonderful, but
limited and time consuming. Through an ezine, you can establish
repeat contact with individuals and continue to build a
relationship with them.
Repetition is in the heart of marketing. People need to hear
about your product or service over and over, often times,
before they will really look into it. An ezine provides that repeat
contact. When done right, you can continually present your
opportunity to your ezine readers without being overbearing.
Simple repeat mention of your name and business will keep it
foremost in people's minds for when they have desire or need
for what you have to offer.
You've either worked or paid to get traffic to your web site,
why let them leave with only the one contact? You have to at
least try to establish further contact, or you are undermining your
marketing's effectiveness.
In building relationships with potential customers, you will often
meet people personally as well that can turn into business
partners or associates. These contacts can often prove to be
very valuable both in a marketing sense, and an educational
sense.
As you build a list of subscribers to your ezine, you will also
attract offers from others. Since you have established contact
with a list of people, it is a valuable item. Used right, but not
abused, the power of your list can be great.
It will give you the opportunity to sell advertising, barter with
your advertising, or make commissions from offers you choose
to personally recommend to your list.
The power of your list must be protected and maintained,
however. You cannot blast offers continually and expect to
build a solid reputation. However, with judicious use of your
recommendations, you can earn people's respect and be
heard.
As well, providing valuable and interesting content in your ezine
is a must for keeping people around.
Overall, the benefits of ezine publishing can be great, but as with
anything, it depends on your effort. You don't necessarily have
to put too much time into it, but what you do put into it should
be your best.
Serious marketers DO HAVE a list of established contacts.
Ezines offer an excellent method of building that kind of list.
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Written by Joe Bingham, Editor of the NetPlay Newsletters.
If You're SERIOUS about your Online Business, You NEED to
Publish an Ezine. The NetPlay Publisher Program Makes it Easy
by Providing all Original, Pre-Written Ezines for YOU to Publish
as your Own. Plus Offers Extensive Resources for your use.
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http://www.netplaynewsletters.com/publisher.html
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