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Three Quick Ways to Build Your List

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Are you working to build an opt-in list of people interested in what you’re offering?  Here are three simple ways to grow that list. 1. Your Website Put an opt-in form on every page of your website.  With the exception of sales pages where you want your reader to focus on one thing (buying your [...]

How to Create Your Own Ezine Template

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Are you sending out a regular ezine or newsletter to your list of subscribers? Got your own custom template yet?  If not, it’s easy to create your own! Since my last code related tutorial, How to Add Social Networking Icons to Your Blog, went over well I decided to share another one. First, why use [...]

3 Alternatives to Pop Up Ads

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Hate pop ups, pop overs, lightboxes, and anything related?  Okay, I hear you.  You weren’t a fan of my post last week about using a pop up ad. That’s okay.  There are other options to boost your newsletter subscriptions. 1. Improve what you’ve already got. You’ve got an opt-in box on your blog or website, [...]

But I Didn’t Want it to Work! (Are You Missing This, Too?)

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I’m pouting.  Because the darn pop up works. My two cents on pop ups (don’t worry, you don’t have to agree with me): I used to detest them! Remember when you’d visit a website and get assaulted by 2 or 3 pop ups that then continued to load every time you loaded a new page [...]

How One List Made Me Reconsider Unsubscribing

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So I’ve had a crazy week with two computers going AWOL on me and as you can imagine the email piled up.  Then found my IP got blacklisted.  Not fun.  I’m finally taking the jump I should have 6 months ago to feed all my mail into a help desk.  But as I prep I’m [...]

Do You Understand the CAN-SPAM Law?

After the list building teleseminar I offered a few weeks ago I got some questions about email law.  I’m not a lawyer so the best I could do was send some helpful links.  But this article with reprint permission landed in my email box today and it explains everything very well.  Check it out and [...]

The Care and Feeding of Your Opt-ins

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One of the cool entrepreneurs I connected with during the #blog30 challenge was Melanie Kissell.  I invited her to share a guest blog post and gave her free reign on topic.  She’s fantastic at brainstorming, has a great sense of humor (go read her blog, it’ll brighten your day), and here she shared some great [...]