You've probably heard the expression, 'the money isin the list'. It's become a bit of a clichй - but it'sthe key to successful web marketing. About 95% of visitors will not buy on their firstvisit to your website - in fact, most of yourcustomers will have to see your message 7 times beforethey buy. Many people starting out on the Internet believe thattheir main marketing tool is their website. In fact, your main marketing tool is your mailinglist. A website is just a way of building your mailinglist - by collecting the email addresses of yourvisitors....

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Name: Nicholas John Martin aka Nick Martin Age: 24 Residence: Copenhagen, Denmark (Europe) Business name: LifeStyleNetworker Business description: Free lead generation and list building system with inbuilt email capabilities. Q) First of all, can you tell us how you got started in internet marketing and what sparked off Life Style Networker? A) I first got started with Internet Marketing in May 2000 when I was using the internet to search for a job in the US. I've always wanted to visit America and try it out for size....

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I am frequently asked how to create and send HTML email, usually with regard to how to broadcast it to a mailing list. This article presents the various options available to you. How to create HTML email: Creating the content of an HTML email is very similar to how you would create a basic web page. Just use your normal web page editor, such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver (or even Notepad can be used, in conjunction with a browser to preview the code), and construct a web page in the normal way, saving it as an....

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What is an Autoresponder? An Autoresponder is a program or service that allows you to automatically send pre-written emails to anyone at anytime. It is basically a sequential automated email system. You write messages, load it on your Autoresponder, set the time difference between emails being sent out, then leave your Autoresponder to finish the job. You can then get people to start the email sequence by sending a blank email to your Autoresponders email address or complete a form at your website....

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Need a fresh idea for your e-zine content? Do an interview! One of the many benefits of being an e-zine publisher is that you'll have no trouble finding experts who will take a few minutes to talk with you. People love free publicity and are generally delighted to get in front of your readers. But don't assume doing an interview requires an in-person meeting or even a phone date. While those are great, you can also just do an e-mail interview. Once you learn how to do these and realize how easy they are, you'll do them all the time....

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When we speak about viral marketing, we are not talking about the newest disease. We are not talking about a Mad Cow Disease variant or something that you need to be vaccinated for. In fact, we are not referring to a disease at all. What we are talking about is literally the most powerful traffic generation technique available on the internet. Viral marketing is so powerful that it makes the search engines look small and insignificant in comparison. Even link exchanges, as powerful as they can be, wilt into oblivion in comparison....

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I have a special new email address. It's in addition to my primary email address and it's where I tell online marketers who want my business, to send their mailings. I didn't want to do it. I didn't want anyone to be excluded from the group. I'm sure the online marketers are very nice people with great big hearts. And I'm sure that when I receive those frenzied emails with subjectlines like, "Dina, Last Chance to Attend the Hottest Seminar This Week!" these folks don't realize that they've been relegated to my Not Urgent or Important email account....

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If you are not using a follow up autoresponder until now, just buy it. Follow up autoresponders are very valuable tool for online business. You can offer free email courses Send ezines, ezine articles Follow up your customer Conduct polls and quizzes *****Your personal Follow up autoresponder software: These software should be installed on your web site. You are completely in control of your software. These are affordable with good features. *****Five Advanced and Essentials features of a follow up autoresponder: 1....

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In a fast moving global economy, e-mail offers you the convenience of being able to quickly get your message across to your colleagues or clients at any hour of the day or night. The Internet revolution has had the unintended effect of decreasing the use of oral communication and increasing the importance of text - particularly e-mails - as the primary means of business communication. Employees are no longer writing memos to each other; they are sending e-mails. But are we taking e-mails as seriously as our other business correspondence?...

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Everyone knows that in order to be successful online you need build a large (quality) list through some type of Opt-In offer. You see them now on virtually every site you visit on the internet, some type of form, whether from a pop-up window or directly on the site itself, that is asking for your name and email address in exchange for some type of offer (newsletter, e-course, free chapter etc.) Unfortunately, many web site owners (yes, even the gurus) are not doing everything they can to maximize the number of people who opt-in from their website....

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In Fall 2003, America Online (AOL) released its brand new AOL Version 9. (Have you noticed all the TV ads?) AOL estimates that up to 50% of their users were using the new version by the end of December 2003. The biggest new feature with AOL 9 is its aggressive method of reducing unsolicited e-mail (sp^m) for its users. Basically, AOL wants users to customize their own inboxes and view or receive only the messages that they choose. While the crackdown is a noble endeavor, it puts legitimate e-mail publishers in the crossfire -- people like us who have worked hard to ensure that everyone on our list has opted-in and given us permission to contact them repeatedly....

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It appears that Mr. Gates' prophetic prediction that charging marketers to send email across the Microsoft email networks (MSN and Hotmail) to cut down on Sp*m is about to come true. According to CIO Today, Microsoft is now employing "IronPort Anti-Spam Technology." "IronPort" is a paid "white-list" for people who send "mass email" (including newsletter publishers, ezine publishers, affiliate managers, mini-course operators, and basically anyone who has a list of opt-in emails). If you send any type of email where you do a broadcast to everyone on your list, this applies to you....

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Ever wondered what it would be like to have a goose that laysgolden eggs? Well, if you thought such stuff happens only infairy tales, think again! Now before you get carried away in your own curious thoughts, let me tell you that the magical goose I'm talking about is yourlist of subscribers or your contact list... That's right, a list of targeted subscribers can be thatprecious and be equal to a goose that lays golden eggs. Your owncontact list has the potential to earn you money on demand andbuilding one makes sure that you never run out of money....

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