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

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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By Thomson Chemmanoor

An email newsletter is a newsletter we find on the internet where the readers can get to read news on the internet, just as one may read ordinary newspapers. Various online newsletters available cover many topics. We can get stories on health, technology, sports, general stories, articles, and even any alerts sounded by the people/government to read on the online newsletter.

The thing to remember when creating an email newsletter is to make the email newsletter design as attractive and interesting for a reader to get interested in reading it. To make the newsletter design attractive, one can either get the newsletter design done professionally by some newsletter design agency or by downloading a newsletter design software available in the website, and following it’s tutorials to get the newsletter done. Of course, for better results, the professionalism is better.

Here, at a fixed price, they have their newsletter designers create various newsletter design samples for you to choose from. If you find a design that you like, they will make any changes to it for you, to finally get the newsletter design you require.

In case you plan to design the newsletter design by yourself, there are various software available, wherein there are email newsletter templates for you to choose from.

There are various template packs available for purchase in addition to the templates that are already in the newsletter design website. These template packs are additional email template designs packed in packs for the user.
When you design a company newsletter template, remember that the newsletter format is important. You can choose the format from text, HTML or a combination of both, as there have both advantages and disadvantages in them.

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