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Nearly two-thirds of all emails now spam...
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Nearly two-thirds of all emails now spam
Firm warns of lasting damage to internet business as spam rates continue to rise
Iain Thomson in San Francisco,
vnunet.com
28 Jul 2004
Sixty-five per cent of all emails sent in June 2004 were spam
- up from just eight per cent three years ago, according to
email monitoring company Brightmail.
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Post-Impression Purchasing: It's Not Just Gravy Anymore
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Post-Impression Purchasing: It's Not Just Gravy Anymore
By Tom Hespos
Wednesday, July 27, 2004
We've known there is more value to an online impression than the click for several years now. But with all the excitement in the industry over immediate click-to-buy action centered on media venues like paid search and contextually-targeted text links, it doesn't hurt to be reminded.
A 1998 report issued by the merged-into-non-existence AdKnowledge taught us that we can expect at least as many online ad conversions as the result of an impression as we can the result of immediate ad clicks. "View-through" became part of the lexicon as soon as we figured out how to track it with cookies. Those conversions that came about as the result of the mere ad view, without a click, came to be known as "non-click conversions." Many online advertisers considered any non-click conversions from their campaigns to be gravy - CPC or CPA vendors didn't get paid for them, but the advertiser did benefit from them.
Yesterday, DoubleClick released two separate reports that show the impact of online advertising over time. Apparently, they're coining a new term for view-through-related back end activity - "in-direct response." The major difference between non-click conversions and in-direct response is that in-direct response is measured by comparing the activity of non-clickers exposed to an ad to the activity of a control group. The measurement of the resultant lift neatly isolates the effect of the online advertising, and it gives us a more accurate picture of what online advertising is worth.
Together with Continental Airlines, DoubleClick launched the study to address a question about non-click conversions that clients have been asking for years - how can we be sure that the conversions attributed to people who have seen an ad were the result of viewing the ad? After all, one can't simply take credit for any conversion attributed to someone who had seen an ad up to 30 days prior to the action. How would we know whether or not the person who was exposed to the ad would have purchased anyway, due to offline advertising or pre-existing brand awareness? This question is a big one for companies like Continental Airlines that have strong brands with or without online advertising. DoubleClick's solution was to employ the exposed/control methodology described earlier.
The DoubleClick study found that just over two-thirds (67.5%) of non-click conversion activity is attributable to online advertising. So while we can't take credit for the purchasing behavior of anyone exposed to an ad, we can take credit for a good-sized chunk of it. Of course, not everyone has the established brand awareness of a company like Continental Airlines, so your mileage may vary.
The study, which I urge you to read thoroughly, shows the effects of the online advertising within a 30-day window, which I'm not going to comment on here. To me, the real impact of DoubleClick's release is that we're gaining insight into the value of an ad impression, regardless of whether anyone actually clicks on the ad or not. DoubleClick's 2Q Ad Serving Trends report, also released yesterday, showed that view-through typically accounts for six times more conversions than post-click activity. If you're counting only conversions that are the result of post-click activity, you're getting only a small piece of the picture. For every one post-click purchase, you might be getting six view-through purchases, at least four of which can be attributed back to your online ads, depending on the strength of your brand.
I'd say that's good news.

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More big numbers were forecasted for online advertising...
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Hi Everyone,
This report was posted in "Just An Online Minute" by Media Post on
July 28, 2004. It's more proof that online marketing is a tremendous
growth area for online publishers and Quikonnex publishers are well poised
to benefit from this growing trend. Here's the clip:
More big numbers were forecasted for online advertising by JupiterResearch. The market researcher projected that online advertising will more than double over the next five years, growing from $6.6 billion in 2003 to $16.1 billion in 2009. Paid search is poised to grow 30 percent compounded annually over the next two years, while display advertising and classifieds will each grow more than 25 percent annually.
Jupiter attributes strong growth rates to improved ad targeting technologies and behavioral marketing techniques.
Meanwhile, Time Warner reported reduced profits for the second quarter. The media giant's America Online division posted a 13 percent increase in profits for the quarter, before depreciation and amortization, and saw a 23 percent jump in ad revenues. That's good news for AOL, though the unit continued to lose subscribers-another 668,000 of them during the second quarter versus the first quarter. Overall revenue for AOL during the quarter rose 10 percent to $10.9 billion.

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Online Ad Spending Poised to Surpass Magazines, Yellow Pages
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Online Ad Spending Poised to Surpass Magazines, Yellow Pages
By Ross Fadner
Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
New Jupiter Research numbers say that the total advertising spend online will match that of print magazines by 2007, and then surpass it in 2008.
According to the new Jupiter Research forecast, set to be unveiled this morning at the Jupiter Media Advertising Forum, marketers will spend $8.4 billion on online advertising this year, growing a massive 45 percent over the next three years to $13.8 billion by 2007, and then $15 billion by 2008. Magazine spending will rise at a more modest rate, from $12.2 billion in 2004 to $13.8 billion in 2007, and finally $14.5 billion in 2008.
Across other media, Jupiter forecasts Yellow Pages spending to hit $17.5 billion, and radio to hit $26.5 billion by 2009.
Jupiter Research analyst Niki Scevak said online advertising will continue its rapid growth pattern as it becomes more performance-driven, to the benefit of publishers, advertisers, and their clients.
"There is strong growth in the pricing of advertising," Scevak said. He cited paid search as the key driver of performance advertising, and noted that the trend is now spreading to other online ad platforms. "We've seen the CPM beaten down; price-effectiveness is now measured on a direct sales basis. That translates into calculatable ROI."
Scevak said that the proliferation Web analytics platforms play a key role in this. "Once [advertisers] know the measurement framework, they're willing to spend more."
Carat Interactive executive vice president, creative and technology, Karim Sanjabi adds that analytics will be crucial to the increased migration of ad dollars online. Citing Carat's recent win of Proctor & Gamble's coveted account, Sanjabi says that analytics played a "fundamental" role in driving the advertising giant toward the shop's communications planning division. He says that several of Carat's TV clients have also expressed interest in cross media initiatives involving the Web.
The online industry, he said-which got itself into trouble with empty promises in the past-is finally reaching the point of accountability through the development of Web analytics.
According to Sanjabi, the "serious marketers" have put dollars back into the Internet now that the economy has picked up. "The top 100 advertisers are all taking the Internet very seriously," he said. Based on Carat's own growth projections, Sanjabi said that "in the short term the [Jupiter Research] numbers feel good." He said that Carat's interactive unit sees growth across virtually all of its services, especially search, media and creative, affiliate marketing, and Web development services. . Both Scevak and Sanjabi noted that the Internet is starting to feature in the plans of large brand advertisers. "At the top end, we're seeing renewed confidence, [advertisers are] using the Internet as a branding medium, integrating it in the media mix," said Jupiter's Scevak. Sanjabi highlighted the success of a recent creative developed by Carat Interactive for Adidas. He said the feedback Carat received from consumers for the spot, which is still running on MSN and Yahoo!, was 99 percent positive.
According to Jupiter Research, in 2003 users spent 62 percent of their time online at Google, America Online, Yahoo!, or MSN. These properties also accounted for 51 percent of the overall Internet ad spending in 2003. Sanjabi said that advertisers will continue to allocate dollars to these massive Web properties, but the adoption of newer technologies, like contextual marketing and behavioral targeting will enable marketers to vary their spending on granular, specialized audience segments.

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Saturday, July 31, 2004
Dare to risk public criticism.
Author: Mary Kay Ash
Keys to success... Research your idea, Plan for success, Expect success, & just plain do it! It amazes me how many people skip the last step! Practice being a "doer" and success will follow you every step of the way!
Author: Josh S. Hinds
Friday, July 30, 2004
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Thursday, July 29,2004
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Author: Frank Loyd Wright
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Author: W.W. Ziege
Wednesday, July 28,2004
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Author: unknown
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much;
Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Author: Cowper
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Author: Virginia Satir
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Author: Mary MacCracken
Monday, July 26, 2004
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Author: unknown
When you feel "dog tired" at night, it may be because you growled all day.
Author: unknown
Sunday, July 25, 2004
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Author: Mark Twain
Saturday, July 24, 2004
The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.
Author: August A. Bush III
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Author: Leighton
Friday, July 23, 2004
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be
shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may
be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have
and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
Author: Unknown
Thursday, July 22, 2004
The best things in life aren't things.
Author: Art Buchwald
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Author: Anwar Sadat
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Author: Helen Keller
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Author: Unknown
Even in darkness, light dawns for the upright,
for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.
Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely,
who conducts his affairs with justice.
He will have no fear of bad news;
his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
His heart is secure; he will have no fear;
in the end he will see his desire on his adversaries.
He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor,
his righteousness endures forever;
his horn [dignity] will be lifted high in honor.
Author: God, Psalm 112: 4 - 5, 7 - 9
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Author: Anatole France
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Monday, July 19, 2004
Because we possess this ministry through God's mercy... we repudiate shameful underhanded practices. We do not resort to trickery or falsify the word of God. We proclaim the truth openly and commend ourselves to every man's conscience before God.
Author: St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 2, The Bible
Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Author: Mark Twain
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Author: Cicero
Sunday, July 18, 2004
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Saturday, July 17, 2004
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Author: unknown
Friday, July 16, 2004:
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Author: Martin Luther King
Trials give you strength, sorrows give understanding and wisdom.
Author: Chuck T. Falcon
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
Author: Sydney J. Harris
Thursday, July 15, 2004:
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Author: Mark Twain
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
Wednesday, July 14, 2004:
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Author: Leo Buscaglia
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Author: Emmanuel Swedenborg
Tuesday, July 13, 2004:
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
Author: Paul De Rapin
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Author: Eddie Robinson
Monday, July 12, 2004:
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Sunday, July 11, 2004:
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Author: Vince Lombardi
Saturday, July 10, 2004:
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Author: Jim Rohn
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Author: King Solomon, Proverbs
Friday, July 9, 2004:
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Author: Walt Disney
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
Author: Ed Cunningham
Thursday, July 8, 2004:
We get to make a living; we give to make a life.
Author: Winston Churchhill
It is not the critic who counts,
nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Wednesday, July 7, 2004:
Attitude determines altitude.
Author: - unknown
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
Author: Charles Swindoll
Tuesday, July 6, 2004:
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
Author: R.J. Baughan
Monday, July 5, 2004:
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Author: Emerson
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
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Sunday, July 4, 2004:
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Author: Winston Churchill
The best way to honor those who sacrificed so that we may enjoy freedom, is to truly enjoy our freedom. Take time today to appreciate the things we take for granted that are not available to citizens of other countries....freedom of speech, freedom from tyranny, freedom to pursue those things that bring us pleasure and happiness. While you watch the fireworks tonight, say a prayer for those who are away from their families making that moment possible. Happy Independence Day & God Bless America!
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RSS Gains Traction as More Publishers Offer Feeds
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RSS Gains Traction as More Publishers Offer Feeds
By Ross Fadner
Staff Writer
Friday, July 23, 2004
Content providers are deploying RSS feeds at a rapid pace these days. Industry insiders maintain that the adoption of the technology by major online publishers like The New York Times Digital, The Wall Street Journal Online, and CNET Networks indicates that RSS could have a major impact on media distribution. In fact, just this week, The Online Journal began offering RSS feeds for the first time, while NYTimes.com brought its RSS operations in-house and expanded the number of feeds to 27.
And yet, most Internet users still have no idea what RSS is. Those that do, claim it will transform the way people consume media.
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is an electronic feed that sends content to recipients who proactively choose to receive it. Users choose the feed they want from content providers, and then receive the information through RSS readers, or aggregators. RSS readers regularly scan sites to receive feeds in real-time, thereby providing continuously updated content from each site.
RSS is separate from the e-mail pipeline, and since it is 100 percent opt-in, there is no way for a user to receive an RSS feed he or she did not request.
"From a business perspective it's a way of enhancing and expanding communication with your customers," said Michael Gartenberg, VP-Research Director, Jupiter Research. He added that it's a great way to monitor a company, by essentially "subscribing" to its Web site.
Royal Farros, chairman and CEO of MessageCast, a marketing solutions company specializing in real-time networks, adds that RSS is really "a triggering mechanism," a frequently updated file that waits for people to reach out and read.
"Before the end of the year, every major content site will deploy an RSS feed," said Tom Barnes, CEO of Mediathink. "RSS equals more efficiency and less work." That means less work for programmers, less work for content providers, and less work for consumers. But as Barnes noted, it will probably mean more work for marketers.
RSS poses the biggest threat to e-mail marketers. Both Farros and Barnes note that RSS feeds eliminate the need for blacklists and spam filters because users have total control over which messages they receive. "Once you get into the RSS world, you don't have direct control over marketing to your customer-the thing marketers are most afraid of," said MessageCast's Farros.
Jupiter's Gartenberg said that RSS represents an opportunity for marketers, but he too, notes a downside, "right now it's only a one-way communication."
According to Farros, the industry is spending too much time looking for answers to a problem (spam), that is taking years to fix and one that, to date, has largely affected the efforts of legitimate e-mail marketers. He adds that people expect e-mail to work as seamlessly as a telephone conversation, but nearly 40 percent of all in-house lists are blocked. "Today, more and more people are saying, 'I'm just not getting your message,'" he said.
For Farros, RSS and other platforms that use real-time networks are a logical alternative to e-mail marketing. "Here we have a near ubiquitous network that can handle all traffic in a totally authenticated, opt-in, anonymous manner," he said.
However, Mediathink's Barnes believes that the marketing implications of RSS will move beyond e-mail marketing, once the technology reaches critical mass. The first step for marketers, he says, will be to make sure their ads show up when RSS readers download their publishing partners' content feeds.
Barnes adds marketers will need to heavily invest in generating more content themselves, without piggybacking on their content provider partners. In order to retain customers in an RSS world, advertisers may have to produce their own content and send it out via feeds. This will require marketers to refine their tracking technologies and get even more granular, with a better understanding of each individual consumer. Should there be an RSS revolution, he said that it will inevitably require more research on the part of advertisers.
Soon, Barnes says advertisers may need to figure out a way to advertise on RSS readers via interstitials that appear before content is loaded after users click-through to available headlines.
RSS remains in its infancy. In fact, according to the Radio Community Server, which measures the Top 100 Most-Subscribed to RSS Feeds, Wired News is the most subscribed-to feed with a mere 3,128 subscribers.
Several challenges loom for the RSS industry, including resolving how people will pay for RSS feeds. There are also questions about bandwidth. RSS readers continuously troll sites for updated information, and for smaller publishers that don't have several servers, this can cause information to slow down or crash.
According to Farros, the RSS revolution will evolve as consumers continue to take control of their media choices and environments. "Its kind of like Napster, only legal," he said. But even Napster took a little while to catch on.

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Online Marketing Through Newsletters
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Online Marketing Through
Newsletters By Kim Bloomer ©2004 Copyright - All Rights Reserved
So you want to start publishing an online newsletter? Why? Because
that’s what all the online marketing experts and gurus said to do. You’ve been
told you’ll pull in lots of new customers if you just start publishing an online
newsletter AND purchase their list magnet ebook. I am not going to tell you that
because I know it’s not that simple. In fact, I’ll tell you the truth as I’m
always compelled to do, and offer you an alternative while I’m at
it.
First, publishing is the fun part. Writing and getting articles and
finding resources to offer your subscribers really is the fun part of your
online marketing campaign. However, then comes the part where the rubber meets
the road: sending that newsletter out to your subscribers. First, you’ll need a
list to send your newsletter to. Second, you’ll need an auto responder for
subscribers to make sure you’re in compliance with the “double opt-in/opt-outâ€.
That means having some means of tracking initial subscription requests, sending
an email asking them to confirm their subscription request, then providing an
automated means of unsubscribing. All of this is just so you won’t get in
trouble with your ISP or the spam law.
Next, you’ll need to decide if
you’re going to publish and send out your newsletter daily, weekly, or monthly
and get it delivered when you say you will. This is just the basics. You’ll find
it gets more complicated as you go on, especially legally. You’ll have many of
your emails come back because they were “bounced†by these rigid new spam
filters installed by our diligent ISPs to stop (yeah right) spammers. You’ll
also have some of your new subscribers “forget†they subscribed and turn you in
as spammer. Oh, what fun!
You want to publish; it’s a great way to
establish your online marketing presence and also your credentials in your field
of expertise. So, what do you do?
Well, I accidentally found the
solution and I’m going to share it with you. Before I started online marketing
through email publishing, I was submitting articles I’d written to online
article banks. That is another way to promote yourself in your online marketing
campaign. While I was submitting an article to www.thephantomwriters.com, I
noticed a banner there that mentioned a new way of publishing –without email,
without spam, but WITH RSS technology.
I knew what RSS was because I had
been receiving different online newsletters for webmasters. I subscribed to
those so I’d know what was going on in the world of technology just for my own
knowledge. RSS is “really simple syndicationâ€; well that’s one of its
definitions anyway. The banner on The Phantom Writers site stated that Quikonnex
had the solution to our online marketing ezine dilemma. Good thing I went there,
saw the writing on the wall, and took the leap of faith! Whew! I almost made the
email marketing error.
Quikonnex is a great way to keep the fun you want
as a publisher, and more. You don’t need those lists, or auto responders, or
need to worry about spam, or any of that junk. Here’s what is even better – the
search engines get pinged each time you submit an article or “item†as we call
them on Quikonnex. You don’t need a delivery date. You can submit “items†as you
come across them. You can use graphics without overloading a subscribers inbox
like in email. You don’t need email, as your subscribers subscribe through a
“viewerâ€. They can keep in contact with you through your personal private
messenger provided so generously by the founders of the Quikonnex system at no
additional charge to you. You get live online support and twice weekly training
and meetings, all inclusive in the minimal monthly charge.
One of the
best things: all of your “items†go in to a database that is clickable under
category titles you create in templates. Very simple, fun, and best of all,
hassle-free. So instead of sending out email newsletters that may get read, then
deleted after all your hard work, you publish on a “channel†that is a
syndicated RSS feed, with an “editor†provided if you don’t know HTML, that goes
into a readily retrievable database, that pings the search engines and then
stays on the internet indefinitely meaning it is searchable! This means your
newsletters are cumulative, they don’t get deleted, and all your hard work stays
available for each new subscriber who comes along without you doing anything.
You just keep on publishing! How great is that???
So before you take the
email plunge, consider the benefits you’ll have publishing the new way – in
living RSS technology.

About the
Author: Kim Bloomer runs a home business in the wellness industry with an
emphasis on holistic pet care - Aspenbloom Nutrition. She publishes an online newsletter, AspenbloomWellPet. She is also co-founder of the online
marketing channel Kick The Email Habit and website KickTheEmailHabit.com.
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NYTimes.com, Other Web Publishers Increase RSS Adoption
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NYTimes.com, Other Web Publishers Increase RSS Adoption
By Kate Kaye
Contributing Writer
Thursday, July 22, 2004
As content consumption continues to fragment and 24/7 news cycles are par for the course, more mainstream Internet media outlets are syndicating headlines via RSS, an automated distribution and publishing technology. The New York Times Co.'s NYTimes.com this week broadened its RSS feed offering to 27 categories in the hopes of driving more site traffic, increasing customization and user retention, and building its database of registered users.
"RSS is fairly low cost to implement so we decided to expand the number of feeds," said Christine Mohan, NYTimes.com's associate director of product development. According to Mohan, the RSS feeds generate over one million page views to the site each month.
RSS, an acronym for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, allows lists of information or feeds to be published and distributed to subscribers automatically. There are several RSS aggregators or news reader tools available for use on multiple platforms including Windows, Apple, Linux, and Palm. In February, MarketingSherpa estimated that a quarter of a million users worldwide have downloaded news reader software.
Through RSS technology, users accessing news reader applications can link to regularly updated Times content, and site publishers can add Times headlines and summaries to their own site content. New Times feed categories include Editorials/Op-Ed, Most E-mailed Articles, Magazine and Multimedia, as well as Campaign 2004 and Times on the Trail political coverage. Visitors can now download any and all feeds listed through the RSS section of NYTimes.com or at the bottom of each site page. The feeds will also be promoted at the upper right hand corner of site pages.
Popular sites including The Christian Science Monitor's csmonitor.com, Salon.com, BBC News, MSN Slate Magazine, CBS MarketWatch, Time.com, Wired News, and CNETNews.com all offer RSS feeds of their headlines. NYTimes.com's sister site, Boston.com also began offering RSS news feeds for Logan International Airport's new WiFi service in June.
WashingtonPost.com launched RSS feeds last fall, and while traffic propelled through the feeds continues to grow, the offering remains in the testing phase. "We're really just watching it right now," explained Eric Easter, Senior Manager of Communications at WashingtonPost.com. The publisher plans to promote its feeds through a contest inviting readers to choose the best political blogs; the contest will involve outreach to bloggers credentialed to cover the National Democratic and Republican Conventions.
Still, the term RSS remains gibberish to many of those outside the tech community and so-called blogosphere, where RSS feeds gained popularity by enabling readers of blogs to keep up with the latest posts to their favorite blog sites. Installing newsreader programs is one obstacle for the less tech savvy. And perhaps a more formidable barrier to RSS adoption cited by insiders is a lack of comprehensive directories of RSS feeds. Some, however, do exist, including BlogStreet, a site that lists and categorizes close to 2,000 blog sites enabling RSS feeds, and Syndic8.com, a warehouse for RSS and Atom feeds (a similar technology) that counts 7,725 registered users and 128,647 total feeds. Among Syndic8.com's top most viewed feeds are news headline aggregation site Moreover, techie favorite Slashdot, and Wired News.
In addition to providing feeds of its news content, Yahoo! is currently testing a My Yahoo! feature that enables users to display RSS feed headlines on their personalized My Yahoo! pages. The latest version of the Opera Web browser also now supports RSS feeds in its built-in e-mail client.
"The adoption profile of RSS technology is substantial," Tom Barnes indicated, CEO at Mediathink, a marketing services firm that recently published a white paper entitled "RSS-The Next Big Thing Online." He believes no matter how frequently publishers update their content, they need to think about deploying RSS because they will "have to generate more content to maintain people's attention and maintain meaning."

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ISPs Selected By Spam Control Effectiveness
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ISPs Selected By Spam Control Effectiveness
New survey results presented At the Gartner IT Security Summit 2004 show that despite the effort and expense that Internet service providers (ISPs) are devoting to anti-spam measures, consumers still receive tremendous amounts of unsolicited online content. According to the survey, approximately one of every three online households reported that 75 percent or more of their e-mail was spam.
Betsy Burton, research vice president for Gartner, said "Consumer concern about spam is a significant factor in consumers' choice of an ISP. If another ISP could do a better job of stopping spam at the same price as their current ISP, 11 percent of online households said they would switch to the ISP that was better. Another 42 percent... said they would be more likely to switch than not."
According to the survey:
23 percent of online households believe that their ISP is not at all successful (in controlling spam effectively)
7 percent believe that their ISP is extremely successful.
Enterprises that use e-mail marketing or list management for mass mailings online are often viewed negatively, as spammers:
when their e-mails are not solicited by recipients
recipients are not members of a clearly defined target group that matches the e-mail content.
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Vectorizing Black and White Line Art
by Ron Leishman
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There is no "typical" method for creating vector images on the computer. Some cartoonists like to use a drawing tablet and others are comfortable using a mouse to create their lines, most often using the Bezier tool and layering their shapes in a drawing application.
I once heard someone compare drawing with a mouse to drawing with a bar of soap and I have to admit that they weren't too far off. I take my hat off to those artists who can effectively draw with a mouse.
I'm not nearly that clever and so prefer to work in more traditional methods i.e.: drawing with old-fashioned pen and ink on paper. This more indirect method seems to work best for me.
I start by scanning my black and white ink drawing at 600 dpi and save it as a tif file. Once scanned and saved, the image is now ready to be vectorized. For years I've used an auto trace program called Adobe Streamline to import and vectorize my images. They were the only kid on the block except perhaps for Corel Trace and perhaps other more obscure apps that I was unaware of.
Being a Mac user I've become disillusioned with Streamline since the last time they upgraded their program was back in 1997, an eternity in the computer world. Being a Mac user and working in OS X, I've given up on Streamlline.
Recently I've discovered a vector program called Silhouette (http://www.silhouetteonline.com) and this program is a real gem. It supports both Windows and Mac environments and comes as a stand-alone version or as a plug in for Adobe Illustrator. If you're an Illustrator user, that fact alone makes it worth the purchase. They even have a demo that you can download and try.
When an auto tracing program such as Silhouette, vectorizes an image, it first traces the black outline of the cartoon and then traces the white areas that sit in top of the outline. Each piece is a separate entity that you can manipulate and color. That is one of the things I like about vector images; I can manipulate them more freely than a bitmap. As well they are infinitely resizable unlike bitmaps that degrade the more you enlarge them. You can also change the layer position of elements in your layout
The only problem with vector images is that the trace is not always as true to the original as you might like and it lends itself more to a smoother style of drawing. If you draw in a very loose style, you're probably better off leaving your cartoons as bitmaps and coloring them up in a program like Photoshop. Many cartoonists do just that and their work is beautiful.
Once my cartoons are vectorized, I go in and begin to manipulate the nodes or control points, pulling them in new directions, and adding points. What I mostly do, is eliminate what I deem to be unnecessary points. I often spend more time on cleaning up my images than I did drawing them in the first place but I've come to expect that and incorporate it as a necessary of my process.
As you can see in the examples, the image on the left has not been cleaned up. The lines are fairly rough as opposed to the cleaned up version on the right. I've eliminated a number of points to smooth out the curves and used the ellipse tool to redraw the pupils in the eyes.
Some of the cartoon 'mills' that pump out dozens of cartoons a day, tend not to go in and clean up their drawings. They scan, vectorize and color. Needless to say, some of the images are pretty rough.
Below is the image, as it appears when I've cleaned it up and added color. I've posted this image on my freebies page http://www.toonaday.com/freebies.htm so you can download it if you like. The gif and tif versions are created from my vector eps files after they're tweaked and colored.

Ron Leishman is the creator of Toonaday.com, a site dedicated to producing unique cartoons daily.
You can email Ron at
ron@toonaday.com

On a more personal note, Ron has been the source of all the digital cartoons used for the
Carlton's Corner channel and for the KickTheEmailHabit.com. I subscribe to Ron's
ToonADay cartoon delivery service and I look forward to a new cartoon in my inbox every
day. Ron is a successful cartoon artist, with professional comic book experience, and recently
retired from his job as an art instructor in order to pursue his beloved cartoon business.
Take a few minutes to check out ToonADay
subscription services and CD collections. There are eight CD's containing a year each of
digital cartoons created for ToonADay subscribers.
The newest ToonADay offerings include - BizWomen, Critterz and Dawgs. You're certain to have at least a smile a day when you subscribe to ToonADay! Enjoy!
Cathy Carlton at KickTheEmailHabit.com
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Hello Everyone, Kim Bloomer here with an
article by Media Post about that weird "meat" that
comes from a can - Spam? Yeah, that's it! Just getting across
that that can all be avoided by publishing and using QMTP here
on Channel KTEH through Quikonnex!
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Some news on the spam front.
New York's anti-spam attorney general Eliot Spitzer announced a settlement
with Scott Richter and his company, OptInRealBig.com. Richter, known as the
"spam king," will pay $50,000 in fines and abstain from using fraudulent headers
and deceptive routing and domain practices. The settlement calls for Richter to
provide the attorney general's office with customer data and purchase records
and copies of his company's e-mail ads.
The case is a landmark and is sure to be used as an example for other state
attorney generals going after spammers.
The suit, filed in December 2003, charged Richter and his clients with
sending unsolicited e-mails including phony headers and subject lines. Richter
got off easily some contend, as he had been facing a $20 million fine.
In addition, a federal judge in California awarded Microsoft $4 million after
finding that David Khoshnood and Pointcom violated laws against used deceptive
e-mail and Web addresses. Khoshnood and Pointcom can no longer use domain names
such as "hottmail.com," "wwwwindows.com," and "microsoftc.com," among other
Microsoft terms. The Seattle-based computer giant has initiated some 60 lawsuits
against spammers in recent months and has achieved several legal victories.
Tobi Elkin Executive Editor MediaPost Communications
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Another Way to Avoid Losing Sales Due to Email Links
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Another Way to Avoid Losing Sales Due to Email Links
by Cathy Carlton
©2004 - Cathy Carlton,
KickTheEmailHabit.com
Okay, we all know that there are some serious problems
with email delivery. I have even sent messages to my
personal email address from my workplace email address
and vice versa and many times I never receive the email.
With so many different filters at the desktop, ISP and
other levels, you just never know what you might be missing!
So, tell me, does your website contain an email link?
You know, the one that says "CLICK HERE for more Info",
or "CLICK HERE" to receive our catalog or "CLICK HERE
to Contact us"?
That's what I thought! Most of you DO have an email link
somewhere on your website. Even the affiliate sites typically
have a built-in contact email address. That's a good thing
because the intention is to get that prospect in touch with
you directly, right?
As referenced in Steve Shaw's recent article titled,
"Are You Losing Sales Because Of Your Email Link?", there
is a way to fix the link to at least generate a meaningful
subject line. That will help, for sure. It at least gives
you a fighting chance to recognize those important emails
and even setup rules to automatically put them into a unique
folder so you don't have to search for them. That alone will
save you tons of time!
But the only way to guarantee that you don't lose email messages
is --- Don't USE email !!
What?!?!?! Am I crazy?
Well, that's always open for debate,but I am 100-percent
serious about the no email part.
Look at your own inbox.
How many mailboxes do you have?
How many messages do you receive daily?
How many of those messages are actually meaningful and welcome?
How many of you have been "bitten" by viruses even WITH
anti-virus programs "shielding" you?
I just had that very thing happen to me and I'm STILL recovering
from it. Thank goodness for a backup PC!...Safe mode boot ups
and CD writers!...but that's for another article!
What we really need is a two-way messaging system that allows us
to send and receive messages without interference, without
filters, without having to hold your mouth just so, cross your
eyes and play w0rdg@ames to get the message through! Sure,
chatrooms are certainly one place to communicate and they do
have their place, but even the topic names on some of those
rooms are rated XXX ! Not good for the kiddos and some of us
just don't like to be X-posed to that stuff!
What we really need is a system where families, church groups,
scout troops, MLM teams, and other organizations and individuals
can communicate without smut invasions. We need some place to
quickly send messages and know that they went through -
where you can instanteously receive messages sent by others.
Yeah, right, sure!....and next you'll tell us you saw a horse
with a horn on its head and a rosy pachyderm just crossed the
tollway!
No, I'm actually serious. There is a new messaging system
called QMTP (Quik Message to Publisher). It can be accessed
from the internet or using certain desktop channel reader programs
such as Awasu (free version works). QMTP was designed to
allow publishers to communicate with their subscribers without
using email. Since the developers didn't want subscribers
to HAVE to sign up as paid members, the use of QMTP is free!
Okay, go ahead...think I'm crazy!! But I bet you can't resist
checking it out!...
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Find out about QMTP here:
http://www.quikonnex.com/channel/index.php?itemid=1664/851.
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Cathy Carlton publishes and serves as webmaster for
Carlton's Corner ezine, a completely email-free publication,
and is co-founder, co-publisher and webmaster for a new
email-free online advertising co-op,
KickTheEmailHabit.com.
Feel free to visit her at:
Co-Op:
http://www.kicktheemailhabit.biz
ezine:
http://www.quikonnex.com/channel/page/carltonscorner
QMTP:
http://carltonscorner.quikonnex.com
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Are You Losing Sales Because Of Your Email Link?
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Are You Losing Sales Because Of Your Email Link?
©Copyright 2004 Steve Shaw
I don't know about you, but I get dozens of emails daily
with completely blank subject lines. The vast majority
contain viruses or spam messages, and due to an overloaded
inbox and the impracticality of going through each message
individually, I tend to delete these suspects automatically
en masse, in the same way that I delete other messages
containing subject lines that scream spam.
This practice has in the past cost me sales as occasionally
I missed important messages from prospects. If a prospect
was taking the time to email me, they were likely to be
very interested in purchasing the software - the last thing
I wanted to do was miss their message when it arrived. Not
only did I miss a possible initial sale, it also left them
with a bad impression and they would be likely to steer
clear of my products in the future.
Also, existing customers would sometimes send me emails
with a blank subject line requesting support - the
consequent lack of response at my end because of the blank
subject line could lead to requests for refunds that could
have been avoided had I seen their email and responded in
my usual way. This also led to the loss of potential future
sales of other products that they might have otherwise been
interested in.
All in all, important missed emails like this can be very
costly.
I have therefore since implemented a very simple strategy
on my web site to reduce this risk, and help to ensure that
these important messages reach me and actually get opened
and responded to in my usual quick way.
It involves a simple adjustment of HTML that takes just
seconds.
After looking around several other web sites marketing
products and services, it's likely that they could benefit
from the same easy-to-implement strategy.
Here is what I used to have in place.
On my web site, I include an email address where prospects
and customers can reach me. It's a clickable email address,
i.e. when the email address link is clicked, it opens an
empty email ready to send to me - to achieve this, the
anchor tag previously contained the following HTML:
href="mailto:support@popupmaster.com"
The only problem was that prospects, and perhaps customers,
would click this link, enter their message, and send the
email without ever filling in the subject line.
I have since implemented a very simple change, that makes
it a lot easier for them, and helps to ensure that I
respond to their message when it arrives in my inbox. All I
did was adjust the HTML code for the email link so that an
specific subject line is automatically inserted into the
email. I can now easily recognize the email when it
arrives, and ensure it is filtered correctly.
Here is an example of the replacement code that I now use
in my email anchor tags:
href="mailto:support@popupmaster.com?subject=PopUpMaster_que
stion"
This simple adjustment prefills the subject line and
ensures there will be little chance I will miss their email
when it arrives. Consequently my prospects and customers
are happier, and my business gains in strength.
By including a suitable subject in the mailto: links on
your web site, you can achieve the same positive effect for
your own business.
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Steve Shaw develops software and systems for effective
e-marketing. His PopUpMaster Pro software at
http://popupmaster.com
www.eCommerceHomeBiz.com
creates popups that beat the popup
blockers and which are compatible with Google Adwords.
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A NEW Breed Of Internet Marketer!
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A NEW Breed Of Internet Marketer!
©Copyright 2003 by Sue Seward. All Rights Reserved.
(***You may copy this article using the attached bio below)
Who said the Internet's dead?
The Internet can be very helpful in building
your Network Marketing business, but
we must all remember one thing!
The Internet is just another tool!
In fact, it's one of the best communication
tools we have now a days to reach more
people isn't it?
There's a lot of businesses on the
Internet but it seems that us legitimate
Internet marketers are being mixed up
with the millions of bulk email ads
promising overnight riches.
You know all the cheesey spam that's
filling up our email inbox's and causing
more and more people to use those filter
blocking things that's effecting even those
of us who are offering REAL legitimate
help to people who actually ARE looking
for people like us!
Here's some that I've gotten.....
Internet cash machine, Get in NOW!
Finally, a fast easy Free money solution
Pre-launch, nobody knows about this one yet
Get rich today! No work involved!
You have thousands in your downline already!
Sue - Fast, Easy money-making ideas from Azam
Make No Mistake.....This is going to be BIG!
Or you get those emails from someone
asking you to call them because they
are interested in your program right?
Then you call and find out the woman
(it's always a woman's name) that sent
the email doesn't even live there and
there's some guy on the other end of
the phone trying to recruit you
into their deal.
Geezzzz.....why can't people just be REAL?
In addition to these spam emails, if you
end up at any of the web sites that these
emails link to, you'll find very little content
and no real person to contact.
In many cases, absolutely no organization
or team whatsoever. Many times you don't
even know what sort of management team
the company has or where they are even
located?
Most of these are just more scams but it
constantly amazes me how many people
actually fall for this stuff over and over again.
And even if a person does find a legitimate
company they only look at the pay plan
or just the products and don't really understand
how to choose a business model in the first
place.
And what about all those emails we get
from people we do know online that send
us all this stuff about how great their company
is, their products, their great comp plan,
without even bothering to ask us how we
are, what we're doing now adays, or if
the timing is even right for us to even
look at a business possibility!
People like this tell me, hey the
Internet is getting harder and harder!
Well yeah! If all you're doing is
shoving stuff down people's throats
online!
What happens is people are trying to build
a business online without building relationships
of any kind.
They think because it's an Internet business
all they have to do is put up a website or send
out these long drawn out boring emails to people,
even the people they know online, and think they're
gonna just jump for joy to get into this great
program of theirs!
The new breed of Internet marketer doesn't
hide behind a screen all day sending out
millions of emails to millions of people that
most likely won't even open them and
think they'll never have to speak with a
human being.
If you plan to use bulk email to spam
your prospects to death then you might
as well just give it up now!
For one, with all the new spam filters
coming into play, your emails most likely
won't even make it through to a real person.
Not to mention how much spam email
gets deleted when it does get through.
If you use this method to build online
you will find out just how frosty the
Internet can be!
What are we doing that's so different?
How come we are called the 'New
Breed of Internet Marketers'?
First of all because we're building a
successful long term network marketing
business, we use the Internet as an effective
communication tool to build relationships
with people!
Yes we use autoresponders, yes we
buy leads, yes we direct people to our
websites, yes we use email marketing.
We're also building a strong foundation
by really getting to know people and
what makes them tick and we allow
them to get to know us!
The Internet can be impersonal and
cold, right?
It IS where people can accomplish just
about anything without ever coming in
contact with another human being but
why on earth would we want to waste it
when it can open up a whole world to us
by building strategic alliances with all
sorts of great people we connect with!
Sometimes we may not even bring
them into our company, but we still
form an alliance because you never
know when the timing will be right
in a person's life do you?
As Network Marketers we know how
to build relationships right?
I mean we are good at this when
we use the phone or meet people
in person right?
Well, why not do the same thing
with the Internet?
Remember network marketing is a
people business isn't it?
People like doing business with
people they know, like and trust
don't they?
So we're doing business with
people that we're meeting on
the Internet and we're developing
relationships with them!
So how do we do this effectively?
I mean how do we turn this
high tech automation we have
with the Internet into high touch
relationships for our Network Marketing
business?
How do we begin to develop a potential
business relationship with someone
halfway across the country or halfway
around the world?
How do we help people to see that
we are real?
By being different from the run of the
mill web site or the run of the mill company,
or by just pushing our products in people's
faces and telling them how great and how
much they NEED our wonderful triple dipple
super vitamins, or about the unbelievable
healing capacity of our incredible fruit
juice in a bottle or our other incredible
products and services that they can't
possibly live without!
By offering our prospects and customers
something much more than just another
web site loaded with facts and figures,
search engines, and links to everywhere
and everything in the whole wide world....
If you can take someone to a place
where they feel comfortable, and they
start believing that you are for real, and
not only YOU but an entire TEAM of
people then can you see this as the
real beginnings of building a solid
foundation for the future?
So how on earth do we do this?
We use either a personal or a team
web page! If you don't have the money
for your own personal page don't panic,
there's lot's of places for free ones where
you can download a photo of yourself and
put some information on a page or two.
Like yahoo and aol and check with your
isp provider, they usually offer a page
or two.
They even have those photo album
thingeys where you can put lot's of
photos, even some of your kids or
your team, the company convention
photos, or your dog, whatever! Just
be real!
Remember, when you're prospecting
on the Internet or to the cold market,
people don't know you from adam do
they?
So you have to be different from the rest.
One solution is to create a sense of
identity and to start branding yourself.
A personal web page is great to do
this and a team page is even better!
This way people see you are all real
people working together for a common
purpose!
People love to know they'll have support
especially from an entire team!
Having a team website re-enforces the
fact that they won't be in this alone!
Tell them a little about yourself, your
family, your team, your goals.
Your goal in a personal web page is to
create a web page that a person will
feel like they know you a bit better.
You'll begin the relationship building
process right from them seeing your
site, even on the Internet!
When you email people you know,
ask them about what they are doing
for goodness sakes. Same thing when
you call people. Find out about them,
what's happening in their lives. Show
them you care! Find out FIRST if the
timing is right for them!
When you build a relationship, people
start to trust you, and will want to meet
you and eventually may want to work
with you and your team!
This is where that strong foundation
starts to build.
You can use your personal website
or team site to show people what your
values are, what's important to you and
use it as an ice breaker to building a
relationship with your future business
associates.
Many people already have websites
provided by their companies.
These websites are usually very high
quality, professionally maintained
websites, filled with all the necessary
information anyone could ever want to
know about your business opportunity
products, services, etc.
But these websites are ONLY to send
out after you've started your rapport
and relationship building with people.
AFTER you find out if they are even
interested in what you're doing!
Company websites are used for
informational purposes to sell
stuff not to help people get to know
YOU!
Think of ALL the websites you see
all day long or how many people
send them to you? Do you get to know
these people from these websites? Is
their picture even on there?
How about all those emails you
get, even from people you've met
online? Do they even ask you what
you're up to?
Does one stand out more than
another? Nope they usually ramble
on about their new product, their
new comp plan enhancement don't
they?
Well what if you see someone's
personal site or team site and
all it is is everyone's photo and
a little about them as a person
and how they are all working
together as a team and how much
fun they are all having together?
What if you started getting
emails from people that are
really interested in YOU and
how you and your family are
doing?
So remember It's important FIRST to
find out where a person is in their life,
are they even interested in reveiwing
your information.
We always get their permission
FIRST! We get invited into their
lives!
And the best way to get invited
into THEIR lives is to show them
OURS!
Trust me, this is the best way to
market on the Internet for REAL
people!
Building a relationship must happen
FIRST! This is so important and the
reason why so many people fail
miserably on the Internet and then
say the Internet is dead! It's not
the Internet that is dead my friends!
Once this happens for a person who
markets online there's nothing stopping
him or her from meeting people all over
the world, making many friends, and
many business partners and building
those strong strategic alliances that
will benefit everyone they connect with
and last a lifetime!
There are so many people out there
searching the Internet for REAL
opportunities, real people, a real
team, a business with a strong
foundation!
The new breed of Internet marketers
can provide that to them!
So you think you'd like to be a part of
this new breed?
Sue Seward
Sue is an entrepreneur, wife and mom. She's been
earning an income for over seven years from home
building relationships networking on the Internet.
She is also a published writer, speaker, Internet
Marketing trainer, publishes two newsletters and
is passionately dedicated to the Lord.
To find out more visit
http://www.FitFourSuccess.ws
Sue Seward
FitFourSuccess Marketing
Xango Team
www.eCommerceHomeBiz.com
Training & Resources:
http://www.FitFourSuccess.ws
866-387-7545 Toll Free
"Faith is not believing that God can, it's knowing that He will."
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Kick The Email Habit - Networking Bios
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In any marketing endeavor, it's important to build a network of
business alliances and friends. Below are some of the contacts
we have made along the way in our networking, promotions and online
advertising activities. Enjoy!
Meet Penny Haynes

Bio: Penny Haynes is the proud owner of Encouraging Audiobooks, your ONLY
source for FREE and
inexpensive, family-friendly DOWNLOADABLE audio books. Subjects cover Learning,
Inspiration, Faith
and Entertainment, and range from business strategies to real life stories to
devotions and
Christian music to clean comedy and humorous stories. Her free "audiozine",
Your Voice, sends you
a weekly newsletter in downloadable audio format that you can listen to on the
go, and includes
free audio books, special offers, audio book excerpts, and interviews.
Subscribe to Your Voice at
http://www.encouragingaudiobooks.com/subscribe.asp
Penny Haynes
pennyhaynes@encouragingaudiobooks.com
http://www.encouragingaudiobooks.com
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Media Release ###
NM business woman and TX
based business woman combine talents to further the push away from traditional
email marketing into the new, exciting RSS technology.
BUSINESS
WOMEN FRUSTRATED WITH EMAIL MARKETING OFFER NEW VENUE
Albuquerque,
NM (PRWEB) July 10, 2004 --Home-based business woman, Kim Bloomer, owner of
Aspenbloom, has combined talents with Cathy Carlton, owner and operator of
Carlton's Corner online along with several other businesses, to form a
partnership venture in the competitive arena of online marketing. WWW.KickTheEmailHabit.com is the result of their joint efforts.
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Syndication Information & Links
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Cathy Carlton, Publisher of Carlton's Corner Welcomes You!
One of the most beneficial features of Quikonnex is the capability to Syndicate your Channel. Syndicating
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Shadrach the Neo Mastiff, Publisher of Bark 'n' Blog Welcomes You!
One of the most beneficial features of Quikonnex is the capability to Syndicate your Channel. Syndicating
is simply making your channel (or site) content available for easy use by others. Below, you
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Syndication Information & Links
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Another benefit of Quikonnex is the capability to Syndicate your Channel. Syndicating
is simply making your channel (or site) content available for easy use by others. Below, you
can see an example of the syndication content (Recent Articles & Postings heading below),
find out how to sign-up for Quikonnex and QuikView, find my syndication link information
and browse a directory of other QPublishers' channels.
Enjoy!!
Recent Postings to the Kick the Email Habit QChannel:
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Quick & Easy Quikonnex/QuikView Sign-up Page:
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fine QPublications, using the new QuikView channel viewer. Just
CLICK HERE to get started.
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Our Syndication Links:
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