Email Publishing is Dead! What's the alternative?

Spam filters, Habeas headers, IP blocks, Spam Cops, bounced emails, double-opt-in, single-opt-in, opt-out, m^sspelled words ... Frustrating? Newsletter publishers enmasse are publishing to their "website only" and sending out notices that "the new edition is online". How many of those emails are getting through? And when they do, readers are forced to click to read information they want now! Do they? How do you know?

With Q channels, you are free of all these nightmares. Your readers subscribe using the "quik" and easy steps on your special channel subscription page. Your information is available right on their desktops, as soon as you add it to the channel. You don't SEND them anything, you don't even need their email address anymore (they're almost worthless anyway). They simply turn on their computers and information that they have asked for is delivered to them when they want it, with no interference.

Unsubscribes? Easy. No more will you have to worry about subscribers who do not follow your unsubscribe instructions because they are listening to the spam cops who say "Don't click on those links!" They just turn off the channel.

You mean I really talk to my readers? And they can talk to me?

Email advertising is about as impersonal as the blow-in-cards in magazines and get tossed as quickly. Newsletters are getting lumped right in with them. Is there an alternative? Some folks have looked at weblogs and there has been a rapid increase of interest because of the personal touch "bloggers" inject into their sites. HOWEVER, why use crippled technology when you can have a media-rich Q channel, the email-alternative? Weblogs tie you into one site. Blogger.com, for example, has everything linking back to them. What about your website, your domain? Who gets the visibility? Links from channel items can go to your website (or anywhere else you want - you are in control) or bring your readers back to your channel page to read more.

With your Q channel you can include HTML, Flash, sound or other interactive media. You can engage your readers in more frequent interaction as they can send you private messages directly from your channel, using your own personal QMTP private message system, or with any flavor of Instant Messenger you choose - no email required!

Wish you could get feedback easier? With unlimited instant comment posting available on every item, you can create active, viral interaction with your subscribers, downline, or customers. It's like a forum on steroids. You can share your private QMTP URL with anyone, even put the link on your website. It's your channel, you are in complete control of your communication ... wherever, whenever you want! Talk about connected and it's all free of SPAM, for you and your subscribers!

No not a virus, viral - moving rapidly across the Net as if it were a Virus!

Getting subscribers has always been a challenge for Ezine publishers. Ad exchanges, solo ad editions, etc. have turned many great ezines into nothing more than long lists of advertisements. What about the copy you want them to read, the story you have to tell? Do you feel that the ads you run distract your subscribers from the stuff that you want them to buy? A Q channel provides you with many more opportunities to increase your readership rate. And because the information is delivered to their desktops without interference, there's an even a greater chance that they will read what you have worked so hard to write!

With our affiliate program, subscribers are encouraged to share the channels that they enjoy with others. Not only because it is good information, but because they stand to benefit financially. Affiliates will be hungry for writers that can deliver quality, consistent information. Additionally, publishers can share the channels of other publishers without fear of losing their own subscribers.

Getting listed on search engines got you down? With the Q channel technology there is a whole new world of search sites and directories that are eager to get the content you produce. Plus, you can choose to make your channel items available to our media-rich search engine, Qsearch. Results in Qsearch display the full item, not a few simples lines of text. If your item is interactive, Qsearch will deliver it exactly that way. Folks interested in your material can subscribe to your channel, right from Qsearch.

Still want to run ads? You can, but you can also write some great enticing copy that will get your readers to visit your website where you can target the ads that you want delivered, to a more receptive audience. Many recent studies have shown that targeted ads are much more effective, eliciting a significantly higher response rate.

You mean no more staying up till 3am to send my Ezine?

Need a break? With our post-to-the-future feature, you can prepost as many items as you want, to be available at any time on any day ... Want to take a vacation, but the best time to go includes the period of your usual publishing date? No problem! Create your channel items in advance, set the timestamp for the date(s) you want them to appear, then relax and enjoy your trip, knowing your articles will be published as scheduled.

What about all the stuff you have already written? What a valuable asset! You can post your old articles to your channel, with the original date of publication, using our post-to-the-past option. You will then have an instant archive that can be searched from Qsearch, the Quikonnex media- rich search engine.

From the time you complete your sign up as a member, you can be publishing your articles in less than 30 minutes! Spend your valuable time running your business, not worrying:

 Is it better to send text or html?

 What are the number of characters in a text line?

 How many articles should be combined to make one good newsletter?

 What day should it be sent?

 What time should it be sent?

 etc? etc? etc?

 ENOUGH!

Whenever you have an idea, you can easily write it up and publish it. You can even create rough drafts that will not be posted to your channel until you are ready by marking the item as a draft. When you have the time, you visit your Channel Manager and do a final edit on your draft(s) and post them now, for viewing in the future, or for a record of the past.

Quikonnex is the email-alternative for one-to-many publications.

I thought having an email address was everything?

The value of having an email address is rapidly getting lower. You may have 30,000 email addresses in your subscriber list, but if you do not know how many of your emails are getting delivered then what have you got? Do you have tracking links on all the URLs in your Ezine to track click-thrus? Do you have embedded graphics that will let you see open rates? Are you monitoring your web server logs and routinely analyzing those statistics?

Let's face it, the real value of a subscriber list is not that you have their email address, but that you have a connection with a REAL number of people who are reading what you write; that you know how many are clicking through and getting to your website; and that they WANT to get it. And, as privacy concerns on the Internet are rising, have you considered that you might have more subscribers, if they didn't have to give you an email address?

The Quikonnex system automatically provides you with statistics on the number of people that have subscribed to your channel, how many are monitoring it on a daily basis, and how many click through and either go to your channel page to read more or to your website (or even to one of your advertiser's sites). It's easy to use and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see how well your articles are being received. Of course, your market research company won't like it, since you won't need them anymore.

What? Actually make money from my subscriber list?

Since Quikonnex is structured as a two-level affiliate program, you may discover that you have readers who are also publishers or prospective publishers. Till now, they may have been overwhelmed by the obstacles associated with publishing their ideas. No more! They can get a channel and easily start creating their own treasure trove of information. They may just want to develop a channel about personal hobbies, communicate with a select group of people (clubs, downlines, extended families, etc.), document their daily thoughts ... the number of ideas for how a channel can be used is enormous! And when they get a channel or folks with whom they share your channel get one, you make money. It's like having a paying subscriber without having to ask them to pay for it.

The Affiliate program is open to anyone who has joined Quikonnex as a publisher or a free member. Quikonnex pays a 15% referral fee per month for direct customer referrals and another 15% per month for the referrals made by the next level of customers.

Ready to publish your own channel?

Do you publish an ezine or newsletter? Do you run a business which depends upon direct, stable communication with your customers and staff? Are you weary of waiting for someone to solve the spam problem so email is useful again? Almost ready to give up but need to stay in touch with various groups of folks? Do you have information which you would like to share quickly and reliably with subscribers, associates, downlines, affiliates, colleagues, family or friends?

Publishing your own Q channel is the way to go.

Your subscribers will have access to the information as soon as you add the item to your channel ... it's so fast and easy, you almost won't believe it! And, because Q channels have multiple options for two-way communication, your subscribers can easily stay in touch with you, no email is necessary.

The only way to really appreciate the freedom and power of channeling is to experience it. Once you try it you won't be able to imagine Internet communications without it. Come on, what are you waiting for?

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