Article: Your First Newsletter - Free Reprintable Article

by James D. Brausch
At this point you may already be making a profit with your new Internet business. You may be tempted to just stop at this point. Maybe you want to optimize your current website (make it so that it makes more money) or maybe you have figured out that you can make $200/month with this one web-site, so all you have to do is create 50 more like it of different topics and you can make $10,000/month.

Of course, you can take either of these paths. I actually took both and they both lead to their expected conclusions. However, they never really get to the real goal... making money 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with little or no effort.

The reality is that it takes a lot of effort to optimize your current site to make more money. You can optimize it to receive more visitors. You can optimize it to make more money per visitor. Both work. But, both require you to work. Over time, your work will be undone as vendors disappear and your competitors get better than you at getting visitors.

It also takes a lot of work to add new sites. This also works, but each site you add will be further and further away from a true passion of yours. Each one will be less effective than the last. If you have more viable topics on your list of passions, go back and do the prior steps for each one. It's worth it. If you want to create sites outside of your list of passions, go ahead... that works too. I created about 150 sites before I could quit my job.

For the rest of you, let me share the rest of my path to freedom. The next important step is to create your own newsletter. Why? Currently you receive ____ daily visitors. As I mentioned, it is work to double or triple that... or is it?

If you have 1,000 daily visitors and you offer a newsletter, perhaps only 5% will sign up for your newsletter. That's 100 daily signups to your newsletter or 700 weekly signups to your newsletter. Let's say each time you send out a newsletter only 10% of those receiving your newsletter visit your site from the links in your newsletter.

OK; that's only 70 extra visitors when you send out your first newsletter; right? Yes; that's right. But the following week, it's 140 extra visitors the day you send out your weekly newsletter. Still not excited about that? How about 52 weeks (one year) from now. When you send out your next newsletter, it will bring in another 3,640 visitors. How's that?

A newsletter is a long-term strategy, but one that you should start very early so you can get these compounding effects as soon as possible. It sounds like a lot of work; doesn't it? It really isn't.

First of all, let's define the bare minimum that I consider a valid newsletter. It's a single article about the subject of your site (300-700 words) followed by information telling them how to unsubscribe, subscribe (if they received it from a friend), etc. If you want to see the format I recommend, go ahead and sign up for the newsletter here:

http://www.AtHomeBusinessPortal.com/homebusiness/

I promise you that you'll never receive spam by signing up for that newsletter. It's just an article about "home business" every week with information about how to unsubscribe, etc. You are welcome to follow the exact format of that newsletter.

Does it still sound like work? Are you thinking that you can't possibly write a 500 word article every week? You don't have to. There are dozens of articles on the Internet with permission to reprint included. All you have to do is give the author credit and include a link to their site... and sometimes a brief bio at the end of the article. To find these articles, just go to Google and type:

_______ articles reprint

Fill in the blank with the topic of your site. It's that easy.

How should you send your newsletter? For now, feel free to just put all the names of your subscribers on the BCC line and send them using your favorite email program (Outlook, Eudora, etc.) It is important to use the BCC line so that you aren't sharing your subscriber's email addresses with each other. They will get very irritated if you do that.

***************************************************************
The author, James D. Brausch, is the coach and webmaster
of QuitThatJob.com, a site dedicated to providing step-by-
step instructions to start your own profitable Internet
business and Quit That Job! For more info, please visit:
http://www.quitthatjob.com/

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Title: Your First Newsletter
Author: James D. Brausch

At this point you may already be making a profit with
your new Internet business.  You may be tempted to just 
stop at this point.  Maybe you want to optimize your 
current website (make it so that it makes more money) or 
maybe you have figured out that you can make $200/month 
with this one web-site, so all you have to do is create 
50 more like it of different topics and you can make 
$10,000/month.

Of course, you can take either of these paths.  I actually 
took both and they both lead to their expected 
conclusions.  However, they never really get to the real 
goal... making money 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with 
little or no effort.

The reality is that it takes a lot of effort to optimize 
your current site to make more money.  You can optimize it 
to receive more visitors.  You can optimize it to make 
more money per visitor.  Both work.  But, both require you 
to work.  Over time, your work will be undone as vendors 
disappear and your competitors get better than you at 
getting visitors.

It also takes a lot of work to add new sites.  This also 
works, but each site you add will be further and further 
away from a true passion of yours.  Each one will be less 
effective than the last.  If you have more viable topics 
on your list of passions, go back and do the prior steps 
for each one.  It's worth it.  If you want to create sites 
outside of your list of passions, go ahead... that works 
too.  I created about 150 sites before I could quit my job.

For the rest of you, let me share the rest of my path to 
freedom.  The next important step is to create your own 
newsletter.  Why?  Currently you receive ____ daily 
visitors.  As I mentioned, it is work to double or triple 
that... or is it?

If you have 1,000 daily visitors and you offer a 
newsletter, perhaps only 5% will sign up for your 
newsletter.  That's 100 daily signups to your newsletter 
or 700 weekly signups to your newsletter.  Let's say each 
time you send out a newsletter only 10% of those receiving 
your newsletter visit your site from the links in your 
newsletter.

OK; that's only 70 extra visitors when you send out your 
first newsletter; right?  Yes; that's right.  But the 
following week, it's 140 extra visitors the day you send 
out your weekly newsletter.  Still not excited about 
that?  How about 52 weeks (one year) from now.  When you 
send out your next newsletter, it will bring in another 
3,640 visitors.  How's that?

A newsletter is a long-term strategy, but one that you 
should start very early so you can get these compounding 
effects as soon as possible.  It sounds like a lot of 
work; doesn't it?  It really isn't.

First of all, let's define the bare minimum that I 
consider a valid newsletter.  It's a single article about 
the subject of your site (300-700 words) followed by 
information telling them how to unsubscribe, subscribe (if 
they received it from a friend), etc.  If you want to see 
the format I recommend, go ahead and sign up for the 
newsletter here:

<a href="http://www.AtHomeBusinessPortal.com/homebusiness/"> 
http://www.AtHomeBusinessPortal.com/homebusiness/</a>

I promise you that you'll never receive spam by signing up 
for that newsletter.  It's just an article about "home 
business" every week with information about how to 
unsubscribe, etc.  You are welcome to follow the exact 
format of that newsletter.

Does it still sound like work?  Are you thinking that you 
can't possibly write a 500 word article every week?  You 
don't have to.  There are dozens of articles on the 
Internet with permission to reprint included.  All you 
have to do is give the author credit and include a link to 
their site... and sometimes a brief bio at the end of the 
article.  To find these articles, just go to Google and 
type:

_______ articles reprint

Fill in the blank with the topic of your site.  It's that 
easy.

How should you send your newsletter?  For now, feel free 
to just put all the names of your subscribers on the BCC 
line and send them using your favorite email program 
(Outlook, Eudora, etc.)  It is important to use the BCC 
line so that you aren't sharing your subscriber's email 
addresses with each other.  They will get very irritated 
if you do that.

************************************************************
The author, James D. Brausch, is the coach and webmaster
of QuitThatJob.com, a site dedicated to providing step-by-
step instructions to start your own profitable Internet 
business and Quit That Job! For more info, please visit: 
<a href="http://www.quitthatjob.com/">
http://www.quitthatjob.com/</a>

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