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MY IBIZ WEEKLY
Vol.11, Issue 2
November 4, 2003
Editor : Donesia Muhammad
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Table Of Contents
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>> Editors' Notes.....
>> Voice Your Opinion Is Back.. What is Your Online Vent?
>> How Many Subscribers Actually READ Your Email? By Steve Shaw
>> Hot Off The Presses.....Ultimate Webmaster Tools
>> Spotlight Ads
>> My IBiz Ads ( Classified Free Ads )
>> Ezines On Parade
>> Article: The Fear Factor By Chris Miskovits
>> List Maintenance and Ad Rates for My IBiz Weekly
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Welcome From Your Publisher...
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Hi Donesia and welcome to another edition of MIBW. Just
playing catch up so it seems. After last week I think we all need
a break :)
I have added a few more vents for you in the Voice Your Opinion
Column. Don't forget to send in your vents. I also have some
great articles for you as well. I am very tempted to change my
design around for Ezine Ad Helper. I am still debating on that
one. Changing My IBiz Weekly.com is too much work :) 2 years of
archives takes it toll. I remember how long it took just to put
it together the first time. Oh trials and tribulations LOL
I am still working on my ebook, but too many outside duties takes
priorities so stay tuned for that. I have my priorities in order
so I have to handle the important things first.
For anyone who has sent me any email and have not received a
response, hang in there, I have not forgotten about you, just
swamped with everything else.
Below is this week's contest winners. I will contact the winners
so they can submit their ads, thanks.
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Winner: Lisa Redell
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All you have to do to enter is to look out for the solo ads that
arrive Monday through Friday.
Have a great day everyone and see you on Friday for our Nifty
Thrifty Edition and Sunday for our Classified Edition of MIBW.
Your Publisher
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Voice Your Opinion..What Are Your Online Vents?
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From Your Publisher, Here are some more Gripes and Vents For
You...
SO CALLED FREE TRIALS AS LONG AS YOUR CREDIT CARD IS ACTIVE
This is a common "Guru" trick where they expect that you will
conveniently forget to cancel the charge and not worry about the
monthly payment.
Why on earth do they tell you sure sign up for a dollar, and then
the monthly price is around $100 a month. Good grief, hit me
where it hurts, why don't you.
Now before you start and send me an email telling me about all
the great programs that are worth it. What I am talking about are
the programs that you have no idea what it is, what you are
paying for, and why you should even keep it past the trial
period. The Guessing Games Programs is what bugs me.
They don't want to tell you a thing until your card is charged
and by that time you already know the program is crap.
THIS PROGRAM IS CURRENTLY IN PRE-LAUNCH, GET IN NOW........
Come on now, give me a break. They never want you to advertise
until its time. By the time they say go ahead and advertise, just
about everyone has already heard of the program and when you
approach them to sign up their id number is lower than yours. So
you were one of the last to find out about it.
I am not talking about the legitimate pre-launches. I am talking
about the ones that seem to be in pre-launch for months and
months at a time with no indication when the program is actually
considered "live".
"Hi Mary, sign up for this great program,its only $1.00 to start,
$89.00 after the ten day trial. Then you have a Forced 85 by 20
matrix, and you get your commission when it reaches $500.00 .
Now when you actually find some suckers, uh excuse me downline
members, then we will mysteriously move them to other downlines
without your knowledge or consent and then give you some crazy
B.S. reason why.
Come one come all, sign up now to Fools Inc."
You know these are the programs that when a publishers sends this
to their list you begin to wonder do they ever read what they
paste in their emails ??
Send in your vents, good bad or ugly for the Voice Your Opinion
Column.
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How Many Subscribers Actually READ Your Email?
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By Steve Shaw
Would you like to find out exactly how many of your
subscribers are opening and reading the emails you send to
them? This article describes a very quick and simple method
that anyone can use to do this, that you'll be able to
implement immediately on all the HTML mail that you send
out.
Let's look at a simple example of how this vital statistic
can benefit you.
Say if you had a list of ten thousand - you send out an
email, describing a great opportunity, and let's say, to
keep this simple, that you get a 1% click-through ratio.
That means only 100 of those ten thousand subs are actually
going through to the site - and then perhaps only 1-5% of
those actually make a purchase.
That means from a mailing to ten thousand, you could end
up with a single sale. Fairly miserable result I know, but
we're being pretty conservative here.
But imagine if you could track exactly how many of those
ten thousand were opening and reading your email.
You might find out that only 30% of your subscribers
(three thousand subs) actually opened the email - which if
you measure your CTR against those who actually read it,
rather than the number of subscribers you send it to, gives
you an improved 3.3% CTR.
Once you're armed with this statistic, you can work in
future on improving the number of subscribers who actually
read your email. For example, a more intriguing subject
line that grabs your subs by the throat and screams 'open
me' could double the Open Ratio (OR) for your email, which
in turn will double your response rate; and improving the
body of your email so that it bypasses as many spam filters
as possible, will help it reach many more of your valuable
subs.
Do you see how powerful this statistic can be?
So let's look at how you can easily calculate this
statistic for yourself, with every HTML email you send out.
It's a simple two-step approach:
1. Firstly set up a tracking URL by doing one of the
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A. Either set up a special page on your web site - it
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received. It's a good idea to set up a special directory on
your server, such as 'ezine', and then give the page a
unique name related to your email - you could use the date
when you send the mailing, such as '10312003.html'.
(If you do a split mailing, for example to test
which subject line generates the best open rate, you could
set up two pages such as '10312003A.html' and
''10312003B.html'. Get the idea?)
B. Or, if you use an ad tracking script, set up an ad
tracking URL. Again, if you do a split mailing, just set up
more than one.
2. Then add an HTML image (img) tag somewhere in your html
email. Set the height and the width of the image to zero,
and set the source (src=...) to the URL of the page/ad
tracking URL you've set up on your site. (If you're not
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Google for 'HTML img tutorial', and you will find plenty of
material to help you.)
Here's how this simple system works.
- Your email is opened by the subscriber
- The image tag secretly loads the tracking URL that you
specified as the source of the image, generating a 'hit'.
To find out your 'open rate', i.e. how many of your
subscribers actually read your email, just check how many
unique visitors your tracking URL received.
The most important part however is to put that statistic
to good use - work on improving your open rate, and you
will see your response rates improving too.
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THE FEAR FACTOR
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By Chris Miskovits
When I first began toying with the idea of working
at home on the Internet,my first step was to find
out more about it by going to a search engines and
typing in the words “work at home” .
BAM!!!
I was literally bombarded with email offers
telling me how easy it would be and how much
money I would make . . . "while I slept",
"while I relaxed on the beach", " without
doing a thing".
Not that I was TOTALLY gullible; but hey,
I figured, how hard could it be?
So I bought a couple of programs that came
with ready made websites, put out some
not many,I admit) free classifieds, and waited
for that "EASY" money to come rolling in.
Every day I checked my email, checked my stats.
0 clicks, 0 sales. Day after day after day.
Welcome to “Rude Awakening 101”!
I found out pretty quickly that Internet
marketing is NOT that easy; and it DOES take effort ..
plus commitment,patience,persistence,
(and a little bit of money doesn’t hurt either.)
But most importantly, it takes knowledge.
Internet marketing is a business --
and an extremely competitive one at that.
You need to learn how the industry works.
You need to seek out expert advice from those
who have already succeeded, and follow that advice.
You need to find out what the experts did to get
started,how they made their businesses grow.
Then you need to try and duplicate what they did.
So for the next several months, that's what
I concentrated on. Instead of wasting my money
on "get rich quick schemes",I invested it in on
line courses by Internet experts who took
me by the hand and showed me how they achieved
success.
I concentrated on learning as much as I could
about how to do business online - not how to
make a million working an hour or two a day
in my pajamas!
I read up on writing sales copy, advertising,
autoresponders,search engines, marketing..
you name it, I read it.
Finally, I felt confident enough to build my
own website.
But even after it was done, I spent another
3 months changing, tweaking, redoing and revising ---
everything BUT getting it online. Deep down,
I knew I was stalling; but I kept trying to
convince myself that I was just trying to make my
website “perfect”.
Finally it dawned on me! The thing that was holding
me back was The Fear Factor.
The fear of being in that "95% of people who
attempt to start an online business fail" group.
The fear of having a website with no visitors.
Would anyone respond to my ads? Would my emails
get opened? Or would all my time have been wasted?
Would all my efforts been for nothing.?
I completely overlooked the fact that my previous
attempt had failed because I bought into the
“easy money, no work involved” hype.
I completely overlooked the fact that over
the past several months I had become much
more knowledgeable. And more realistic.
I had done my homework and accepted the fact
that success wouldn’t come overnight, or without
a lot of effort. I was not only prepared for it,
I committed to working at it.
My message to you who are still struggling
in the trenches is this:
Don’t be like the man who spends so much time
organizing his desk that he never gets any work done.
Don’t let the fear of failure keep you from even
getting started.JUST DO IT!
Jump in with both feet. Sure, you'll make mistakes.
But use those mistakes to learn, not to give up.
I’ve finally taken the plunge and got my site up
and running. Is it “perfect”? Of course not.
There’s no such thing.
But I’ve done the best I could with what I’ve
learned. And I’ll keep learning, and making mistakes;
and learning from those mistakes.
What I won’t do is let the FEAR FACTOR hold me back.
Don't let it hold you back either.
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