Create and publish your own E-zines to boost traffic or make profits
An E-zine (or email magazine, online publication) is a collection of related information that is presented online as a form of magazine. This collection is then sent to people in your list (opt-in-list). It is also known as Electronic Newsletter.
You can create a website and be dealing with e-zines alone so that you can make money by selling advertisement or you can create an e-zine on your website to boost traffic. Either way, e-zines provide money for the marketer.
Another effective way and means you can drive traffic to your website and then getting more money is to have free stuff on your website. This could include free software e.g. sms messaging software and free E-books.
Well I can really tell you that creating your own e-zine is that difficult. If you just spend a little time browsing the internet the internet and looking for website with information, products and services, for example, that are of interest to the very people that you would be sending your newsletter to, you will be amazed at the amount of content you will get. Well, I see to this end that you can use press releases. Most of the good and populous websites have press release rooms where you can go and pick up a new releases and relevant information that they’ve released based on what you are doing. Some of them will have a place where you can subscribe to their press release by leaving your email address that they can automatically notify you and send new press releases to you email box. So by collecting this information, you will be able to keep track of the latest development in your topic area. Just a little time on this and you will find your email box filled up with information that could cut, paste, edit and put together any way you wish to fill up more than a newsletter every week, every two weeks or monthly. For something like this I do really recommend you to visit www.idealmarketers.com
There are some great resources that can help you build your writing skills if it has been long you went to school. You can try the following;
For those of you who don’t have the writing skill and don’t want to go through hassle of writing, there are plenty of contents out there that is available for you and the only thing you do is to go out there and get in the internet. You don’t want to steal information off websites because some of them are copyrighted. The companies that release a press release want it to be distributed and spread as wide as possible.
Some websites where you can get press releases are;
You can also send the press release you have written to 10,000 media at www.automatedpr.com
If you are looking for free contents (i.e. information) to put on your e-zine you can use these resources;
· Article announce – www.web-source.net/article-announce
· E-zineZ.com – www.e-zinez.com
· Advertising and marketing supersite – www.drnunley.com
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS AND TIPS BEFORE CREATING OR PREPARING AN E-ZINE
· Focus: stop and think about what your e-zine will be focued on. If you have a website for your e-zine, you have to make sure you are focused on one particular area e.g. business, education, religion, dating tips, marriage, flower, computer, blogging, health etc. but if the e-zine is part of your website , it is better for it to be focused on the theme of your website.
· Title: the title of your e-zine is one of the major decisions you can ever make. Many e-zine listing websites list e-zine based on alphabetical order. That means by selecting a title like “Advertising secrets” instead of ‘working online’. You e-zine will be listed at the top.
· Publishing schedule: well this decision depends on you. You can decide to publish weekly, fortnightly, monthly, and daily and if you are just starting it is advisable to start monthly so that you can have time to gather up the information needed or required for publishing the E-zine.
· Size: your e-zine should have a reasonable size as there are no agreed limits in size. You can decide to send the e-zine in two parts (as in part 1 and part 2), if the content is much.
· Advertising: before you can start selling adverts spaces, you must wait until your subscribers’ base has gotten to 1000. Adverts are sold at about $25 or more per 1000 subscribers. Well as the competition is stiff, you can decide to start by sell with a twist like ‘buy two weeks of advertising and get a third one free.’ You can also pay to advertise in other people’s e-zines in order to boost your own.
You can visit this site because I do recommend it for you if you want to get a complete listing of hundreds of publishers and contact information for advertising.
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