Here are my top
picks for Ezines on the Net in this edition of the WebGuide Journal. For
the past two years I've been registering to several, dropping many, keeping
very few. When you're like me, and receive from 200 to 350 emails per day
during weekdays, you tend to want to streamline the information you receive
as much as possible. I'm not saying those I've dropped in the past are
no good, just that they didn't give me enough of what I personally need
and/or were much too long to continue receiving without constant complaints
from my on-line email suppliers. Now you get to see the ones I've kept,
and why I've kept them.
On
Web Design
Efactory
Newsroom - Excellent!! Super!!! You're
really going to love this one! I get it emailed to me in HTML format for
the convenience of clicking on the buttons to go to the different free
tools recommended in it. This guy has an amazing way of sniffing out quick
tools that are incredibly useful for webmasters!
I have found so
many handy tools and gadgets subscribing to this one I couldn't
even begin to list them all here. There was the email template package
I tried out for a friend's site... the sig file using ASCII characters
to make them cool and exciting.. so much more! Many of the free tools you've
been hearing about and reading about in the email version of the WebGuide
- CAME FROM HERE! Yes! This one is a winner!
And I'm keeping it! Great for the webmaster, whether you're a beginner
or advanced!
LockerGnome
- This one is a good one too - if you're into software. Not everything
listed is free to try or use, but most of it is. It's in email format and
you have to pay to access archives. The software
recommendations include everything from games to windows accessories
and more! Plus they provide regular tips to help
you maintain your system.
Note: The weekly emails are
very LONG so I should warn you to have an email account that allows for
large memory. (I recommend Time4me.com
Email because you get 6 Mb storage space there and good file management
systems. No, I don't own it - we run it as a free service for the many
visitors at Time4me. The service itself is actually owned by Everyone.net)
On Marketing
Internet
Marketing Center - There is no other site out
there that I trust more than Cory's. His Marketing
Program is phenominal and if you haven't bought your copy yet, you're
missing out on some of the most incredible marketing tools available -
but more than that, you're probably doing a ton of stuff the hard way too!
But above and beyond the Marketing
Program he also has a free Newsletter
offered from his site which you can subscribe to. I'd highly
recommend it.
| Killer
Marketing Tactics
Now, if I hadn't subscribed
to these guys I would never have found out what all of those favicon.ico
errors where doing piling up in my logs.
These guys and gals truly
are pros! They've been in the biz for a very long time. I'd recommend,
even if you don't go for their excellent
software program, you must sign up for their free newsletter.
They are short, quick, to
the point - incredibly efficient and excellent tips for marketing which
you may not find elsewhere!
Sign up using the form to
the right. |
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General
Best
EZines - Scott Owen is the originator and Associate Editor of this
resource site. Loaded with helpful information and reviews on many EZines
out there - you'll agree once you visit the domain name says it all.
Internet News
PostMasterDirect
- Like the banner says "Where do you get all your information from?" ...
and believe me, I do. For example, I heard about the America's
Homes Affiliate Program launch first through here. And yes, they were
well worth signing onto! This is one of my main sources for new programs
hitting the Net. I should warn you, be very specific on the categories
you choose. The more streamlined your choice the
better quality of news releases you will be receiving. It kind
of gives me a bit of an edge on what's new on the Net. They're short, brief,
and get straight to the point. I like that.
Iconocast
- I love this one! I became registered through a search engine submission
I had made. You know how you get flooded with a bunch of news blurbs and
other mail after you complete your submissions to sites and many you just
dump. Well, on one of them I clicked the link to find out more about their
newsletter - and am I ever glad I did. Excellent hard core statistics -
different ones for each edition, such as "why most users are on-line"
or ... well, heck, here's a sample - a few snippets.
June 24/99 - ICONOCAST
"The ranks of online buyers
is increasing too. Twenty-eight million now report having purchased something
online, equal to 30% of the total Internet population. The number of women
buying online jumped 80% in nine months, raising their share of online
buyers to 38%."
"LifeMinders.com
represents a new wave of "convenience marketing," which will play a strong
role in the future of advertising as the value of "random impressions"
declines further. The audience agreed with this scenario and 48% voted
LifeMinders.com the best e-mail demo followed by Digital Impact, which
garnered 26% of the vote."
And I really love their little
snippets - the bottom half of every edition. They call them Jaycobytes
- with a great sense of humor full of industry gossip - the buzz on the
street.
"A tip, a rumor,
a slice of strife published by The Jacobyte may earn you a fine bottle
of Hunter "Brut de Noirs Extended Tirage" (Sonoma) champers, courtesy of
Virtual Vineyards. To earn your goodie, send an e-mail to ."
examples:
<*> Speaking of whimpering
like a dog, did you catch The Rodster putting the boss down? After Mr.
Know-it-All mistakenly identified Rodman's wrestling league as the WWF,
Dennis mockingly reprimanded him by saying, "I thought YOU were supposed
to be the brain."
<*> Marketing snafu! (Jaco
just loves that word, maybe it's because it rhymes with the way midwesteners
pronounce Yahoo!) i2 Technologies sent out a press release about a sales
and marketing conference they're hosting. They gave out a porn chat number
(800.800.3228) as the information line! i2 cn mk u a str, jst li n mi cstng
cch!"
So, if it's news, reviews -
and humor too - I really like Iconocast.
Sure it's one of the large ones in your email, but it's one of the few
I tend to actually read the whole way through.
More Next Update
Of course there are more.
I haven't even begun to tell you about some of my secret sources for Associate
Program information, or MLM Program news, or... well, the list goes on!
Let's put it this way, though - I've been checking out different Newsletters
now for over 2 years and have dropped 10 to 15 times the amount I've kept.
I'm extremely selective when it comes to what I want to take time to read
because time is money. The more of it I can save the better for me. I hope
I've saved you plenty with this first edition.
See ya next update!
