Contents:

   1.  Editor's comments
   2.  Valuenic update
   3.  Guest article: Write a newsletter to get site visitors to return!
   4.  Affiliate Industry News
   5.  Thank you for helping me spread the word!
   6.  Subscribe/Unsubscribe information





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1.  Editor's comments
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I've added a guest article this week. I really liked the
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2.  Valuenic update
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Just a quick update on Wayne Yeager's great site, Valuenic.

He has raised his prices a bit to $49, and drops $1 per day
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The nice thing that I'm really using to the max is that he
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3.  Write a newsletter to get site visitors to return!
    by Steve Nash
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  How many visitors to your site *ever* return?

  Not as many as you would like, I bet! It is a lot easier and
  less time-consuming to promote your site to people who have
  *already* visited. So how do you do that? Well, you could:

  - Ask people to bookmark your site;

  - Get people to make your site their homepage (your site had
    better be good!);

  - Make your site the next Yahoo! or Napster or Hotmail (ideal,
    but not too easy); or...

  - Publish an ezine or newsletter!

  Yes, publish a newsletter (and get people to subscribe)!
 
  Writing a newsletter is the BEST WAY to stay in touch with site
  visitors and existing customers. At the *very least* you can
  remind them about your website on a regular basis. But, even
  better, you get a chance to develop trust between your visitors
  and yourself. And on the faceless Internet, trust is everything!


  => VISIT THIS WEBSITE

  Visit Brian Alt's Email Publishing Digest (EPDigest). This easy-
  to-use site has it all when it comes to email publishing. It
  covers the important topics like list design, list management,
  list promotion. It discusses the pros and cons of text versus
  HTML newsletters (and shows you how to do both). And it covers
  community building, newsletter advertising, and even where to
  get (and offer) free content,

  Brian, the author of several ebooks including The Insider Guide
  to Power Ezine Promotion, is a regular contributor to another
  great website http://www.ezine-tips.com , so he knows his stuff.

  http://www.epdigest.com


  => OR VISIT THESE LINKS

  http://www.topica.com

  http://groups.yahoo.com

  http://www.domeus.co.uk

  http://www.roving.com

  http://www.listbuilder.com

  http://www.sparklist.com


  => THEN PROMOTE! PROMOTE! PROMOTE!

  As with your website, you need to promote your newsletter, and
  get people to sign-up. By all means start with your friends and
  family, and then try these legitimate methods (please don't send
  unsolicited mail - SPAM wastes everyone's time!):

  * You MUST promote your newsletter on your own site

    - Put the newsletter sign-up form at the top left or top right
      of as many of your pages as possible. Offer an incentive to
      sign-up, sell the benefits of your newsletter (first notice
      of the next sale, for instance, or chance to win something)

    - Use pop-up windows to encourage sign-ups. A little bit
      controversial, but pop-ups *do* increase subscriber sign-
      ups! Find a script here:  http://javascript.internet.com/


  * You CAN announce your newsletter to the world

    - Join various newsletter announcement mailing lists, follow
      their announcement rules, and announce, announce, announce
      (There are loads of these lists at http://www.topica.com .)

    - Visit the following websites

      http://www.ezinelocater.com
      http://www.marketers-edge.com/article-writers-strategy.htm
      http://www.ezinesearch.com/search-it/ezine/
      http://ezinesplus.com
      http://bestezines.com/submit/

   Okay, okay! Your newsletter may be too humble for all this
   promotion, but at the very least make it easy to sign-up on
   your website. Oh! One other way of promoting your newsletter:

* Make your newsletter a great read!

   Add your personality; publish on the same date; stick to a
   similar format; re-read and re-read to remove mistakes;
   encourage feedback; have clear objectives and *meet them*; and
   enjoy yourself. But if nothing else, just keep it short!


=> EVEN DO IT YOURSELF!

  Writing a newsletter is a bit difficult not to do yourself, I
  admit. What I mean is that there are many Perl/CGI scripts that
  allow you to run a newsletter, including subscribe and
  unsubscribe functions, from your own site. Probably the best
  free resource to do this would be Subscribe Me Lite by CGI
  Script Center. And you can always do a search at CGI Resources.

  http://www.cgiscriptcenter.com - Subscribe Me Lite
  http://www.cgi-resources.com


  => READ MORE...

  You can find out more about email publishing from the following
  excellent resources.

  http://www.ezine-universe.com
  http://www.ezineuniversity.com

  --

  Writing a newsletter on a regular basis is a great way to keep
  people returning to your website. There are many tools and
  resources that show you how. And there are many sites that will
  publish your newsletter for free (you can even find free
  content, for goodness sake). Publish a newsletter and get to
  know your site visitors - and then let them get to know you!


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4.  Affiliate Industry News
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Shootout Brewing Between Paid Search Engines
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,,12_791181,00.html

Amazon To Use Streaming Media To Hook Customers
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/11539.html

All eBay Has To Fear Is eBay Itself
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/11520.html

KBKids.com is changing its payout to $5 for each new customer.

Adgrafix, which was Virtualis, has changed once again to
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