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Have you ever had one of those days when you fill that you are unfocused. Well, I am having one of those days. Its not that I don’t have anything on my plate to dive into but I am trying to focus my mind as to how to start my next project. You see if I have realized that I need to start a newsletter. It not that I just realized it but I finally am making the time to learn about newsletters. After realizing this I found myself asking a lot of questions on how to accomplish this task. Questions like what software will I be able to use to collect email addresses, what topics will I be able to write about that will be useful, how will I get the traffic to my site to entice people to sighup for my newsletter. Should I charge for the newsletter ro will it be free, what will I use to entice people to sign up. Wow, I have a lot of question to answer. I guess I should, with anything new there should be questions. But were will I find the answers.

Forturnatly, I did invest in a great course that gave me a lot of the answers I was looking for. The course book series is called “The insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet“. I have found this to be a great resourse. Not only does it give me a great depth of information on newsletters, but it also covers every facet of runing and researching a internet business with great case studies that get you in the head of people that have already taken this road and succeeded. In the coming days/weeks I will show you the process of starting a newsletter and give you some great resources to look at in the process.

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The journey has begun. Today I purchased the tools needed to get this venture off the ground floolor and now I am looking at the effects of an increased or decreased traffic to sears outlet with the addition of email marketing. I decided that I need two tools to make this venture happen. One, I needed a way to collect email accounts and two I wanted a special tool to present offers to the audience/visitor. Lets start with number two first. I wanted a hover window/pop up window to get the attention of visitors to my sites. Something that would stand out but would not get blocked by the blocking functionality of most browsers of this day. Well I found a product that claims to get around this issue. It’s call hover ad. What makes this product so special is the windows produce work just like mini internet web editors thus they are not filtered by most pop up blockers. This Hover Ad looks like a Classic Microsoft Window. It can be maximized, minimized, dragged around, resized and of course closed.

Now second I needed a auto responder. I looked at a few systems. Mainly Mail loop by IMC, Get response, and Aweber Systems.

Mail loop is a fantastic product that has a lot of figure set. But my budget did not allow for this product. Even though I wanted it the most because it is a one time fee that I would not have to purchase every month or year. But until I am able to perfect this technique I felt it was important to start small and build my way up. I will revisit this software in the future though.

Next I looked at getresponse.com. I used this service two years ago and I was satisfied with the service but I thought it was a little confusing for a beginner. I would have gone with the program if I did not have this experience the first time. Also, the price is right. For 17.95 a month you can send and receive unlimited autoresponders. That attracted me to this service in the beginning. But I needed to see if their was anything better on the market. So I moved on to the next autoresponder.

Aweber Systems I found this auto responder mainly by accident. I joined another email group and this was the system they were using. It worked pretty good so I decided to try the service out. Its a little more expensive than getresponse but I believe it will be worth the extra expense. When I finally paid for the serve and logged in their was/is lot of documentation to get you started and their is tech support that will walk you through the process of setting up your account. I will test this system and get back with you in the future.

Well Rome did not get built in a day. So I will return with the next part of this case study later.

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Google’s AdSense program is a proven money-maker that has enriched the pockets of many website owners. Unlike many pay-per-click systems, the AdSense program has a large pool of advertisements to draw from — the ads come from Google’s AdWords program, which you can think of as the flipside of AdSense — which almost guarantees that AdSense can find relevant advertisements to display alongside a site’s content.
There are times, however, when using AdSense makes no sense at all. Here are some common scenarios: Click Here to read article.

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The “Business Side” of Webmastering…  

Thinking about hanging out your shingle as an independent Webmaster? The timing is right. More
and more small business owners are looking for help as they make the move to online promotion. Most do not have the time or skills to build their own site. As a result, they are actively seeking affordable Webmasters.So capitalize on this growing demand by setting up your own home-based business. Do the kind of work you love and reap all the financial benefits — i.e., the profit!Starting any type of business, online or off, requires solid preparation. Without it, the foundation is weak. And it leaves you, as the owner/operator, susceptible to costly mistakes and worse yet, irreversible decisions that could stunt growth.

The Webmaster BUSINESS Masters Course will start and keep you on the right business track. Mark Frank, the author of the Masters Course, and owner of a home-based Web site design business, gives you an insider’s perspective on what to do… and more importantly, what not to do on the “business side” of your new company. (After all, you already have the “creative” side under control, or else you wouldn’t be promoting your services!)