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I am trying out something that I have heard a number of webmasters talk about and that is Monthly Newsletters for one of my forums.  One of the reasons that I am thinking about this now is that I have a good number of users, however very few of them are active.  I have also done some recent additions, including an arcade that I think that people may find enticing.

 So yesterday I wrote up a short letter and sent it via the Control Panel.  There are a number of “hacks” out there that will make this easier but I think that I will simply test it out this way for the time being.  I have already seen a modest result of this letter, there was a small increase of members signing in yesterday, however the number of posts didn’t increase much.  Most of the people were just playing in the Arcade.  Oh well that is what it is there for.

 I am going to send out another Newsletter in a few weeks time, by then I will have much more conent and a few more incentives of being a member.  Also there is a very interesting hack that I am going to check out for vBulletin.  It automatically sends out weekly, monthly, or any period you want, of updates new threads and a lot more.  There is also an option for users to NOT get this, which is great since there are a lot of people very sensitive about SPAM!!!

 I will keep everyone up-to-date on the progress of this, but needless to say, if you have a forum with a large number of members, but not very many posters, try sending out a short email to everyone.  It won’t hurt

I have been working hard looking for ways to get more people to my site.  I figure that if I have a reason for them to come and a reason for them to come back that they will eventually start reading and posting in my forums.  After a lot of thought I had decided on an arcade.  So I went to vbulletin.org to find the best which is v3arcade.  This is the most trusted arcade for vBulletin.  It is extremely easy to install and I had it up and running in very little time.

If you are interested you should check it out Here

 I have not had time to install many games, but the ones that are there are extremely fun   And if you have time while you are there you should post in the forums, vote in the polls, etc

by: Ron Isaiah

Most people don’t realize that the more money you spend for Google Adwords traffic in comparison to the Google AdWords ads in the positions below and above your ad, the less amount of traffic that will come to you.

If you’re looking at it by percentages, ask yourself: If your sales could go up 20%, would that be good if (all things being equal) your cost per click expense goes up by 30%? If this has in fact happened to you, congratulations! You have fallen into the Google Adwords CPC spiral. You have allowed the Google AdWords algorithms which determines the cost per click to add to the Google bottom line at your expense. If none of this makes sense, it should at least be clear that Google is making a fortune and they are only going to make more and more in the future.

This is the hardest thing for some Internet Marketers to understand. Google does not want a scenario where your sales drop 20 percent and the cost per click drops 20 percent as well, even though, if this happens to you, you will have effectively brought down your expenses and surprisingly, your profits will double or maybe even triple.

Never forget and always remember that you decide what you pay Google as well as the quality of traffic that comes from your Google AdWords campaign. Follow the following seven solid pieces of advice and watch what happens to your campaign.

1. Stay out of the top three positions where the lowest quality impulse clicks are most abundantly found

2. Get better traffic by improving your CTR by improving your ad.

3. Being in position 4-8 can be more lucrative by bringing in the more educated and serious buyers and keeping that cost per click down.
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The other day I made some money so I decided to get a banner designed for my directory BluenoserLinks so what I did was open a contest at NamePros and got a really cool banner for only $15.

Then today I decided that I wanted to show this banner off on a test site. So I browsed the directory at AdBrite.com and found a site that I thought fit. Then I started through the check-out procedure, but wouldn’t you know it, the animated gif banner that I had made was too large, and me being at a computer that isn’t the one that I usually use, didn’t have any editors. That is when I came acorss a cool site www.gifworks.com

GifWorks.com allows you to do image editing online for FREE, and as far as I can tell no catches either, there wasn’t even a pop-up, or notice of one getting blocked. That is what I call a clean site, and as far as ease of use goes, it was great. Mind you I don’t think that I would like to use it to create design banner ads, but it worked great in a pinch when I had to reduce the size of my banner a couple kB.

by: Christopher Kyalo

Is it really an impossible dream to generate an obscene amount of money online? Is it all hype? Or is it indeed possible to make millions from an email publication or two?

Great American legends like Henry Ford became famous by first dreaming up and then doing something that had never been done before. If you take this article seriously and go on to own an email publishing empire, you will not have done something that has not been before. You will simply be a statistic, yet another successful Internet publisher.

In other words, all you need to do is carefully study what those who came before you did and then simply duplicate the process and your life could change – no hype. Here is one of the most successful publishing models ever. This technique that you are about to take a close look at, has served most Internet publishers well. Many of them have made huge sums of cash online, using it. It involves the launching of two separate email publications. Each will have its’ own different revenue source.

The First Email Publication Will Be The Foundation

The first email publication will be a free ezine. This publication is the key or foundation of the whole strategy or publishing model that we are discussing in this article. While it can be hugely profitable from advertising, the main aim here initially will be to pick up a huge number of email addresses to create a huge opt-in email list as quickly as possible.

The beauty of internet publishing is that even as you begin to gather your email addresses, there are several ways that you can use the material in this free ezine to start generating cash and at the same time marketing your free ezine. For instance, you can create a blog, publish your free ezine there and post Adsense ads (or the new Chikita ads which have proved to be more profitable for some bloggers) and start generating cash from clicks. The same article in your blog can be distributed to high traffic article directories, which will help to generate targeted traffic to your blog. You will therefore be in that super-profitable situation where you start earning money from your email publication even as you are setting it up for the real super profits.

Techniques To Speed Up Your Subscriber List Growth

There are too many free ezines being dangled in front of surfers these days that many have learnt how to ignore the lot. And yet the quicker you grow your list, the better. The way to do this is to dream up promotions and special offers. For instance you can offer some valuable report free to people who sign up. Or you can offer it to your current subscribers who refer their friends to your ezine.
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