================================================= My Own Ezine ================================================= January 7, 2003 Issue 34 Terri Seymour, Publisher http://www.myownezine.com mailto:ter02@newnorth.net © 2003 All Rights reserved ================================================= Top Sponsor Ads ================================================= How To Make $60,000 A Year On The Internet Make $60,000 A Year with only 50 people in an opt-in email list. The work requires only 30 minutes a week. Plus see how to create your own High-response opt-in email list in only 48 hrs. For more info send a blank email to: mailto:joanb@getresponse.com --------- "The Marketing Warrioress / Domestic Goddess Quick & Easy Recipes eBook Cook Book" -only $9.97- in PDF and WITH resell rights, to boot! http://www.jantd.com/cookbook.htm see the index-mailto:mwdgindex@rimdigest.com ================ATTENTION=================== You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to it. 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No set-up fees, 333mb of space, $5 per month, plus numerous features! http://hop.clickbank.net/?webcentral/icdsoft ================================================= In This Issue ================================================= ==> ScuttleButt ==> Site Seeing ==> Get Me to Publish Your Article by Jan Tallent-Dandridge ==> Fr~ebies For You ==> Business Resources & Helpers ==> Fr~e Ezines ==> Business Building Ideas - Updated © 2003 by Terri Seymour ==> Feedback ==> Quick Tips ==> Internet Resource of the Day ==> Potpourri - Little bit of everything! ==> Subscription Management & Contact Info ================================================= This Week's ScuttleButt ================================================= Welcome to My Own Ezine and thank you for subscribing. The purpose of this ezine is to help you get started with your own ezine as well as learn other aspects of Internet marketing. I value all my subscribers and welcome all opinions, comments and questions. Please feel free to contact me at mailto:ter02@newnorth.net I hope everyone is having a wonderful 2003 so far!! Mine started out with some puter problems but nothing I couldn't handle. ;-) I just finished the MOE FR~E Mini-Course on Ezine Publishing. It contains info and resources on how to create and promote your own ezine. You can get your 8 day, 5 lesson, fr~e course by emailing: mailto:MOE-Mini-Course@getresponse.com Thank you. Terri Seymour mailto:ter02@newnorth.net My Own Ezine now goes out to over 1450 subscribers. If you are interested in advertising with MOE, please visit http://www.myownezine.com/advertising.shtml for info or feel fr~e to email me: mailto:ter02@newnorth.net Have I got a New Years Deal for YOU!!! If you are like me, you spent a bit too much over the holidays, so I am offering this extraordinary deal! The first 5 people to order any advertising package will get the $10 MOE MoneyMaker Package for FR~E!! The Solo Mailings usually get the best results. 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" ;} Joan If you know anyone who could benefit from this ezine, please feel free to forward them a copy in its entirety. Thank you. Get the Ultimate Info Package for a mere $10! Over $600 worth of products and resources! Complete with reseller rights/100% profits. Check it out here: http://www.myownezine.com/$10/index.shtml ================================================= Site Seeing ================================================= By placing sites in this section, I am not giving my opinions either way on any of the above sites. I publish these sites as a Thank you for subscribing. Please use caution and check out all opportunities, services and products. Over 100 Experts Ready to Coach You to Success! http://www.ezinfocenter.com/7556937.21/FCS Instant Internet Newsletter, Informative marketing articles, tools & techniques. http://www.RBar67.com/newsletter Come for the fun, you'll stay for the mon! http://www.recipe-swap.com/members/jdsou91/ Art of Trading Foreign Exchange-How to make 33% every month http://www.bizybiz.com/artoftrading.html Please send your url along with a one or two line description to be included in Site Seeing, to: mailto:ter02@newnorth.net?subject=sites ================================================= Guest Article ================================================= Get Me to Publish Your Article by Jan Tallent-Dandridge, publisher of Rim Digest Ezine I get from ten to thirty article submissions per day. I can use two or three per issue and on a good day may book ahead as much as a month's worth of these. There are some terrific, some good and some awful ways to submit your articles; some will almost guarantee they will run as soon as possible and some are sure ways to get your submission deleted. My favorite article submittals send me a nice, friendly little note, call me by name and know what my ezine is called. The content of the email can be short and sweet and to the point, such as, "Dear Jan, I am an avid reader of Rim Digest and offer you my newest article for your kind consideration in a future issue. If you like it and feel your readers would benefit from my work, please feel free to use it at your convenience. Please use the resource box at the end of the article and thank you for your time and consideration." Or as effusive as, "Dear Jan, I am one of your adoring fans and would like to humbly offer my latest article for publication in your awesome Rim digest ezine! If you feel it is worthy of your time and the space in one of my very favorite newsletters, please feel free to share it with your very selective readers. I am always quite proud to see my work in such a wonderful publication and am grateful for the exposure you so generously provide for your article writers. Please use the resource box below and if needed, feel free to edit or change it for your formatting needs. Sincerely and respectfully yours." (These are not exaggerations, they are actually real submission notes I held onto when I decided this article would someday be written.) Now, on to the BEST ways to get ME to delete your article, which may be brilliant, before I do more than scan it, if I even go that far. Send me your article with an opening like this: "Hi, dear editor. Great ezine! I am sending you my EXCELLENT article that is getting rave reviews all over the net and will ALLOW you to use it in an upcoming issue. I am SURE your readers will find great satisfaction and pleasure from my BRILLIANT offering! You may use this article exactly as it is being delivered to you and if 1200 words wrapped at 70 characters, triple spaced and in html does not fit in with YOUR format, I suggest you change around your entire ezine to use this gem I am so graciously bestowing upon you because every other editor of every other ezine is begging for my work." "Since I am far too busy to subscribe TO your ezine, send me a complimentary copy when my article runs and make sure you use my 20 line resource box so that I can make commissions on all 12 of my affiliate programs. Check all of my links before you run it, too, I get so irritated when a publisher will not take the time to check all of my urls and make sure they are up and running! If you are not smart enough to realize how privileged you are to get these wonderful outpourings of my SUPERB brain, you MAY click on the link below and I will not honor you with more of my work. Click at your own risk, ALL of the other publishers jump to use MY articles in place of previously scheduled content because I am so much in demand." Okay, that was a TAD over-done, but believe me, most was taken out of 2 or 3 and combined to show you what NOT to write to ME if you would like your article published in MY ezine! I have been the publisher of Rim digest for going on three years (February 2000!) and have SEVERAL good buddies who are also publishers. It would never, ever occur to me to send THEM anything but a friendly/professional note with one of MY articles! Yes, I am *rather* famous on the net but I would never presume that my meanderings will please anyone but MAYBE myself! How can someone write to me, admitting they do not even have the respect to take a MINUTE to get my NAME and the name of my ezine- and presume to tell ME how excellent their article is and better yet, what MY subscribers like? Heck, I do not even know most of the time what my own subs want, how can someone else be so sure? And yes, sending me articles gives me the content that I publish but is this not a MUTUAL favor we are exchanging? You send me great content, I give you terrific exposure in a very popular ezine? Geez! In a nutshell, my advice for submitting your pearls of wisdom are these: 1- Subscribe to the ezines you submit to 2- Learn the editor's name 3- Use both the editor's name and ezine name 4- Do not beg or grovel but be humble or sincere 5- Do not BRAG on your work, let the editor do that 6- Do not tell the editor what his or her subscribers will or will not like 7- Be respectful and you will usually receive the same treatment back 8- Send me your new articles so we can help each other out! Thanks for listening and in case you are wondering, NO, the writers you DO see in Rim digest are not from the "how NOT to submit your article" club. (That is why you SEE their articles in Rim digest ezine!) 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Remember, you were once a Newbie also. More often than not, these people will subscribe to your ezine and/or add your link to their site or whatever they can do to help you. I have emailed others with questions and always end up subscribing to the ones who answer in a helpful and timely manner. This shows a lot about a person's character and business practices. 2. Discussion Lists - Get involved in a few good groups. You do not have to just post an ad and forget about it. That is one way to get people to ignore you. What you want to do is get involved in the conversations. It doesn't even have to be about business. The point is to become part of the discussion and answer questions whenever you can. Establish yourself as reliable and trustworthy, not a person who spams and runs. This will provide you with many prospects. I have had many people email me regarding posts of mine on various groups. Some great groups are: mailto:ideasbypost-subscribe@yahoogroups.com mailto:hbj_chat-subscribe@yahoogroups.com mailto:digital-women-subscribe@yahoogroups.com mailto:newbies911-subscribe@topica.com 3. Ezine Ad Swapping- If you publish an ezine this is one of the best business builders available. Find other ezines of similar content and email the publisher asking if they would be interested in doing an ad swap. Tell them a little about your ezine and why you think an ad swap would benefit both of you. Here are some places to find publishers interested in ad swaps: http://solair.eunet.yu/~rottis/swap/ http://ezine-swap.com/ http://www.internetmarketing-success.com/ad-swaps.htm http://www.freezineweb.com/ad-swaps1.html http://www.ezinelocater.com/specialty/adswaps.shtml 4. Ezine Publishing- Publishing your own ezine is definitely one of the best business builder ideas on the net. Ezine publishing is not as hard as it seems. You update people on your site and business and you also provide resources and information. Get started here: http://www.myownezine.com/tutorial/index.shtml 5. Building A Good Reputation- It is essential to your business that you present yourself as honest and trustworthy. You must then carry out this presentation and be a person of your word and you must put your customers first. Treat people with respect, the way you would want somebody to treat you. Your attitude and personality will show through and people will respond to you as they see you. 6. Writing and Submitting Articles- Writing articles is a very effective way of getting your business noticed. By writing articles you are sharing your knowledge and experience and this puts stock in your reputation and business. Here are some articles on how to write and submit your articles: http://www.soaringprofits.com/writing.htm mailto:yesarticles@getresponse.com mailto:getideas@getresponse.com 7. Reading Other Quality Ezines- I have obtained unlimited knowledge and information just be subscribing to and reading other quality ezines. Good ezines contain a wealth of information and resources. Some of my favorites are: SimpleBiz Ezine - http://www.simplebizpublications.com RIM Digest- http://www.rimdigest.com Ideas By Post - http://www.ideasbypost.com I hope some of these ideas will help you in your business as much as they helped me in mine. If you have any questions on any of these ideas or anything else, I will be glad to help. Thank you for taking the time to read this article. ****************** Terri Seymour owns and operates MyOwnEzine.com Learn to publish and promote your own ezine. mailto:subscribe@myownezine.com For a complete list of her articles available for reprint please email: mailto:myownezine-index@getresponse.com You can contact her at mailto:ter02@newnorth.net ATTN: Ezine Publishers, grow your ezine the Smart Way! 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