Date: 5-15-2003 Issue: May-->15-30
S. Kumar, Editor, www.learnhomebusiness.com  
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Welcome to 's issue of "HomeBiz-Tips" 

Hi ,

Last fortnight was a nightmare!

I sat with my fingers crossed for a full hour in front of my PC...wondering what will happen to my carefully built subscriber list. It took over an year to build trust and reputation with my subscribers. 

Now I faced a real possibility of loosing ALL of my subscribers! And mind you, 90% of my sales comes from my lists! Not from my site.

This is what happened.

All our subscriber lists were hosted at freeautobot.com. Suddenly they went of the air without warning! The 20 odd web forms incorporated with freeautobot at my site suddenly stopped working! I could not login to my account! Thus totally cut off from my valuable subscribers. 

And the Himalayan blunder I did (ashamed to admit ) was - DID not take a back up of my list!.

Well! Now they are back and everything is normal. But the lesson learned was permanent.

Earlier I heard that I must have a back up!

Now I know that I must have a back up! A lesson that I will never forget...

Follow-up marketing is widely recognized as one of the most powerful ways of converting more prospects to customers.

To an Internet business, that means:

• Collecting the e-mail address of your site visitors.
• Following up efficiently and effectively with personalized messages.
• Driving sales through trust, credibility, compelling copy and style.
• Building relationships for long term repeat sales.

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• Accepts e-mail addresses through forms and by e-mail.
• Lets you create unlimited follow-up series, each of unlimited duration.
• Has over 70 ways of individualizing your messages.
• Promotes creativity with plain text, HTML and multi-part functionality.
• Manages sales letters, e-zines, newsletters, offers - the choice is yours.
• Each message must be individualized to your subscriber.
• Every subscriber has choices - HTML, plain text, unsubscription.
• You must minimize the time spent managing your subscribers.
• That a targeted broadcast to your list leads to more sales.
• Doesn't limit your creative thinking - handles long sales letters with ease.
• Offers follow-ups and broadcasts in HTML, plain text and multi-part format.
• Has full onscreen preview of HTML and plain text messages.
• Includes features for immediate testing of follow-ups and broadcasts.
• Supports headers and footers to site or brand integration.
• Has "one-click" inclusion of unsubscribe link and easy file attachment
• The software is on your web server, giving you full control 24 x 7.
• Your entire data set is backed up to one single MySQL file.
• Schedule backups - hourly, daily, weekly, monthly - it's up to you.
• It's easy to download your data set backup file - just use your FTP software.
• A quick restore command re-creates your entire data set in seconds.

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25 Easy Ways to Double Subscribers to Your Email Newsletter by Jessica Albon

What's the key to getting more subscribers to your email list? We talked with clients to discover what they do to grow their lists, and we compiled their 25 most applicable ideas. 

Be consistent. You spend so much energy creating a newsletter your subscribers will look forward to, don't risk diminishing their enthusiasm with an unreliable schedule. 

Be yourself. Authentic newsletters are easier on the reader. They're typically more interesting (because they're unique to you), plus, you don't risk a tone that swings from formal to informal. 

Be honest. What are you sending out (product info, special deals, a genuine newsletter)? How often do you send it? How easy is it to unsubscribe? Do you sell reader's names and email addresses? All of this should be addressed on the subscription page. 

Be original. Write your own content. Collect your own resources. (Or hire someone to do it.) 

Be relevant. Make sure you're writing about topics that apply to your reader's unique situations and experiences. 

Be engaging. Invite your readers to participate by offering surveys and quizzes. 

Be well dressed. Whether your newsletter is text or HTML, readers should just know you care about presentation. When's the last time you stayed subscribed to a newsletter that was riddled with errors and formatting problems? 

Be diverse. Offer both short and long articles to give both scanners and in-depth readers what they're looking for. 

Set goals. This is even better if you give away prizes as you reach these goals. Perhaps you could give away a great e-book every 100 subscribers. Even if you're not offering a prize, though, make your readers aware of your goals and ask for their help. 

Entice them. More and more companies are finding that offering a newsletter isn't enough to get people to part with their email addresses. By offering a free report or something else of value, potential readers may be more likely to sign up. 

Offer a sneak peak. Take a look at those magazine offers you get in the mail and write something similar for your newsletter. 

Post sample issues online. This way readers can see for themselves if they're interested in your newsletter. 

Make your website useful. Visitors will assume that if your website is helpful, your newsletter will be, too. 

Make a one-time popup that invites subscriptions. You can get a one-time popup code at: www.web-source.net/popups.htm. 

Make subscribing easy. Your subscribe link should be visible on every page of your site. Also, make the process as easy as possible (don't make them fill out long forms, etc.). And, above all else, try the process yourself to make sure it works! 

Archive issues on your website. This lets readers catch up and see what they've been missing. It also may improve your search engine rankings. 

Set up a promotion station. Make a page at your website with ways other people can promote your newsletter-graphics, articles, testimonials, etc. (And let people know they can freely copy what they want to use.) 

Promote it at ezine and company newsletter compilation websites. 

Advertise it in your signature file on all email with a description and subscribe instructions. 

Find other related ezines that you enjoy and ask about exchanging reviews of one another's ezines. 

Ask other ezine publishers to recommend your newsletter on their "Thanks for subscribing" page (with a note like, "Here's another ezine you may be interested in" and do the same for them. 

Ask readers to forward the newsletter to a specific person. For example, write, "Please forward this newsletter to someone you know who needs a new printer." 

Gather testimonials. It's not enough for you to say your newsletter is great. Get other people to say it for you. (Make sure you have permission to print the testimonial!) 

Always offer subscribing instructions. (Of course, you always include unsubscribing instructions, right?) 

Send a copy to us. Each month, we review a company newsletter in our newsletter to offer our readers a glimpse into what other company newsletter publishers are doing. 

A bonus tip: promote regularly. Any promotion, whether it's of your company or your ezine list, is more successful when it's done on a regular basis. 

So, take some time to grow your list and before you know it, your list will be twice (or more) it's current size. 
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Cordially -- S. Kumar

Publisher: http://www.learnhomebusiness.com 
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Copyright 2003: S. Kumar, http://www.learnhomebusiness.com  

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