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eZine Marketing
Why Publish an eZine?
On the Internet, it is very possible to make money without selling any product.
One way of doing so is through starting your own eZine, also known as an
electronic newsletter.
In a nutshell, you send out your eZine issues on a periodical basis to your
subscribers. The good part is that you have a flexible choice in automating the
process of sending out your eZine issues for you or manually sending them on a
periodical basis.
As an eZine publisher, not only can you easily achieve the benefits a
conventional newsletter publisher enjoys without having to chop down several
trees in the process, you can easily and conveniently spread your marketing
influence and expertise to your base of subscribers from the shoes of an
ordinary individual.
In other words, you do not have to invest in expensive printing equipment, brick
and mortar business, and hiring staff just to run your own newsletter
publication, resulting in a lot of time, money and effort saved.
Basically, all you need to start your own eZine are an auto responder and
broadcast feature to go with it, enabling you to reach out to your massive
subscribers whom you can regard as your prospects, too.
All in all, if you do not have the commitments of creating your own product for
sale, then publishing your own online newsletter can be one of the wisest
decisions you will ever make, given the benefits of impressive marketing power
and influence it can offer to you.
Deciding the Nature of Your eZine
When choosing a topic to publish your eZine on, you must consider some important
success factors that can determine the flow and goal of your eZine.
You are encouraged to write non-time sensitive contents such as short tips, mini
stories and interviews. Doing so enables you to create content in advance so
that you can conveniently dispense to your subscribers at a later schedule.
Topic-wise, you will do well to cater to a starving market that will always be
on demand for the kind of content you offer. And by this, I mean that you should
zero in onto a demand that has been, is and will always be there.
Relationships and dating are niches that have been on Earth long before the
World Wide Web came up, for example. The food niche will always be there as long
as there are chefs cooking for anyone with a stomach to fill.
Having said that, you also want to have a steady stream of products or services
of your own or an affiliate for you can endorse to your mailing list and make
even more money.
This is also the reason why the Internet Marketing niche will remain one of the
hottest niches there is, as products and services are created almost around the
clock. As long as there are Internet Businesses cropping out, there will always
be needs to be fulfilled.
Publishing Your eZine – the Pros
There are several advantages publishing your own eZine can offer to you.
The most obvious reason publishing an eZine can be the most ideal business to
you is that it is so easy to start that any individual can do. There is no need
to invest in starting a brick and mortar business or even staff and heavy
machines for that matter.
In fact, you can do this from the comfort of your home as the most important
thing you will need is an auto responder equipped with broadcast feature. Auto
responders such as GetResponse
and aWeber are highly recommended when
it comes to publishing your own eZine.
In spite of the low start up cost and monthly fees, you can make money from
several profit centers within the spaces of your eZine issues. You can make
money from selling advertising space, just to name one.
Most importantly, you get to build your own personal media and spread your
marketing influence, making you more valuable to product and service owners thus
do not be surprised if you receive Joint Venture proposals every so often.
Given some of the best reasons in the world of Internet Marketing, publishing
your own periodical eZine can one of the best money vehicles you will ever
acquire or even build.
Publishing Your eZine – the Cons
As with any other types of businesses, publishing your own online newsletter
a.k.a. eZine has its share of drawbacks, in spite of the several benefits it
offer.
The purpose of this article is not to scare you away with the disadvantages of
publishing your own eZine, as the benefits are often more attractive. However, I
will also show you how you can easily tackle the cons.
One obvious challenge most beginning eZine publishers face is the creation of
eZine content. Creating your own content can be tiresome, especially if you are
not a gifted writer and that you run out of ideas every so often that your
publishing schedule is threatening you.
A way of taking care of this problem is to create your content in advance. You
can compile 30 days worth of content in one day, for example. If you are not
blessed with writing skills, you can broker the writing task to capable
freelance writers which you can find at places such as http://www.elance.com/ or
http://www.rentacoder.com/. While you need to pay for such services, you are at
liberty to take the credit for written articles.
Alternatively, you can republish articles from article directories such as
http://ezinearticles.com/. This is a free method you can use in making content,
provided you include the resource box of the original author and that the
article has republishing rights conveyed.
In conclusion, you can easily tackle the content creation challenge using the
mentioned methods that do not require writing on your part, free or paid.
Churning out eZine Content
Creating your own content can be a challenge if you publish your own online
newsletter or eZine.
However, regardless of any topic you are publishing on, types of contents can be
generally divided into four categories, namely factual content, short tips, mini
stories and case studies.
Other than writing your own content, you can get your own unique content the
quick and easy way by organizing an interview with an expert or leader in the
topic.
Very often, this can be done for free and since the interviewee is writing out
most of the content, there is nothing else for you to do other than giving the
interviewee something valuable in exchange (maybe a meal!).
Now if you have money to spare, you can hire a ghostwriter to write your content
for you without taking any credit. Recommended professional marketplaces where
you can seek ghostwriters include http://www.elance.com/ and http://www.rentacoder.com/.
Another little known and underused method in getting your own content is via
public domains. If you are not familiar with the term "public domain", "public
domain" simply means anything that is NOT protected under US copyright law.
This includes ALL works published before 1923 and, under certain conditions,
works published up to 1978. And in this case, we are referring “works” to
written materials such as reports, articles and books.
Republishing and repackaging public domain information can help you save time
and effort from creating new ideas and content as they are readily available. On
top of that, you do not have to pay royalties or copyright fees on that work.
If you fancy the idea of publishing content without any writing on your part,
this method is for you.
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