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Your business depends on getting visitors to your website or blog, but that is only part of the equation, you want your visitors to come back. Opt-in email marketing is a great way of bringing them back to your site and keeping them interested.

I was reading just last week that next to customer reviews, e-mail was the next best way for influencing online purchases.

To me that says developing your list and communicating with your subscribers on a regular basis is something worth doing and doing well …and of course the expert still agree.  

Today, we'll focus on developing your opt-in email list and how you can use it to encourage subscriptions and hopefully increase sales.

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Recently I've been following the buzz that Ken Evoy has generated with the article he sent out called:

"Why Blogging Is A Massive Mistake".

Just the title is enough to raise an eyebrow.

I don't think blogging is a mistake and I'm sure the millions of bloggers out there would agree.

If you read Ken's article, he makes some interesting points, but they are all debatable.

For example let's look at the 3 major flaws Ken points out with Blogging… More… »

I think so; it’s the spammers and the blog bullies that are bad.

As I was reading Dan Thies' comments on 'Comment Kahuna', it got me to thinking about this tool, which I do use on occasion …and it's free  

By the way, I just want to also say that I really like Dan Thies and I hang on his every word, in my opinion he's one of the best SEO guys around, and I love his "SEO Fast Start Guide", amazingly enough it's still free and if you don't have a copy – you're missing out!

Anyway, getting back to Comment Kahuna, I use it mostly because it helps me find relevant blogs that I can not only comment on but it also helps me find out what people are saying and what people are really looking for.  I don't always make comments, occasionally I do but unlike a lot of  'link focused' bloggers, I think that if it's worth my time to make a comment then I should actually try to contribute something, call me crazy!

So I like Comment Kahuna, it helps me find relevant blogs that I can intelligently contribute to. If there are people using it to spam blogs for their own personal gain then it's unfortunate.  Like I think Dan is saying — it's not Comment Kahuna that's bad, it's the people using it inappropriately that are bad.

Yes, Comment Kahuna does look specifically for blogs that use the 'nofollow tag', that may or may not be a bad thing and if your blog isn't using the 'nofollow tag' you are theoretically subject to more spamming, but that's what I have Askismet for and it does a pretty good job of nailing spammy comments.

I'm thinking that if someone takes the time to make a thought provoking useful comment to my blog why not pass them a follow link for their efforts and let Akismet take care of the spammers.

PLR means "Private Label Rights" content.  This is content that someone else has written that you can use on your website, blog, e-book, newsletter, whatever you choose.

If you're doing business online you probably have lots of PLR articles sitting on your hard drive.  If you do have lots of articles sitting around, or even if you don't, you can easily get some, and then you can turn that PLR content into a cash making business for you.

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Are you writing an e-book?   Or perhaps you're considering writing an e-book and haven't yet started. 

Either way, you'll love this FREE guide from Jimmy D. Brown that covers some excellent tips on how to write an e-book, it's called

"30 Writing Tips for E-book Authors"

This free guide has some exciting time tested writing strategies that will show anyone how they can become a better writer.  More… »

I often hear the word "professionalism" tossed around, but sometimes people think that it simply means looking good, having a great website, products, etc. 

While that's all part of being professional there's also the piece about dealing with others that a lot of people miss. 

Take for example this morning, I was trying to access an affiliate program that I hadn't been on in awhile and for some reason I didn't have it in my affiliate programs excel spreadsheet that I keep, my bad  :- |   So I wrote to the affiliate manager and asked for my password, most programs are automated for retrieving passwords, but this one wasn't. 

Anyway, a few hours later I received a scathing message saying: 

"Do you think I just have all day to look for your password?  Here's your password and stop wasting my time."

"Yikes!" Ok, what do you think I'm going to do with that affiliate program? 

First of all, I'm finished promoting them, actually it wasn't a very good affiliate program anyway.

Secondly, that was not a "professional" response, at all!

Professionalism means responding to customers, clients, colleagues or whoever in a courteous, calm manner.  This means no matter how angry or disturbed with them you are, there's no need to be rude or unkind.

Whenever I find myself feeling angry with someone on the other side of my emails I always start with addressing them by name, I answer their question or comment in a direct, courteous manner and never become emotional and say things that aren't in a friendly tone.

It may be hard to kill them with kindness but it's definitely an example of how to be "professional".

Oh well, thanks for listening to my rants …it's been a tough day

Ms. Liz

If you're marketing online, you might find that not everything you do or everything you promote brings in a steady income. 

Some months may be good, some months may be not so good, some products do well, and some don't. Every month can vary, there is one old standby that consistently bring in steady income for me – it's my AdSense earnings.  Every month I get a steady consistent income. 

That's because I have cool strategies I've learned, and no, they aren't my own strategies, for heaven sake my strategies were pulling my down, nope I listened to Joel Comm and purchased 'Adsense Secrets'.   It's amazing how just one subtle yet simple adjustment can increase earnings by 50%, and in many cases even more.

What's really cool is that Joel has just released his 2008 ver 4 of Adsense Secrets. Previous versions sold for $97 but now he's practically giving away for $9.95. 

I was puzzled at first at the low cost and thought perhaps he lowered the quality of the book but that wasn't the case at all, I did figure it out though   More… »

Ever wonder what the internet marketing trends have in store for us internet marketers? 

Well in case you’re clueless like me, Larry Chase has some pretty interesting ideas and it's the subject of my guest article today.

I trust what Larry has to say because he's been online since its inception and he's seen the changes, witnessed the ups and downs and has pretty good inside connections.

So without further ado, have a peek Larry's upcoming internet marketing trends.  I particularly liked # 3, I think we’ll be seeing a lot of this …what do you think? 

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