There are ways to make money on the Internet without having a product. One way to achieve this is to publish an ezine, also known as an electronic newletter.

How Does It Work?

If you don’t know about ezines, they are newsletters, published and sent to subscribers via email on a periodical basis decided by you. Depending what you choose as your topic, you may send daily, several times a week, weekly and so on.

Benefits Of Publishing An Ezine

• When you publish an ezine, you’re doing it electronically, so you’re not destroying a small forest.
• You can easily spread your marketing influence to many hundreds or thousands of people.
• You can display your area of expertise but manage to be an ordinary individual.
• It’s inexpensive to publish and ezine. Compare it to the cost of printing a newsletter or even a magazine – the building lease, the printing equipment, staff and so on.

What To Publish

Ezines need good quality content and there are many ways to find this, other than writing it all yourself. You can find excellent sources of articles on many topic for free across the Internet, try EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com and ArticleBase.com.

What you publish is up to you, but if you are going to be regarded as an expert in your field, then choose something you are knowledgeable and passionate about, as you’ll need to prepare an ezine regularly on your subject, so you need to know a lot. If you’re publishing daily, that’s a lot of information.

What Size Should My Ezine Be?

You’ve probably subscribed to ezines and have noticed they come in all kinds of formats and styles on all kinds of subjects. A daily ezine doesn’t have to be very big at all, just a few hundred words at most, but if you are only publishing an ezine weekly or less, then it can be longer. I wouldn’t recommend it being over 1500 words because people are busy and don’t have the time to read a long email. It would be better to publish your ezine contents online in a blog or website and link a headline and teaser copy in your ezine.

How to Start Publishing An Ezine

You need an autoresponder with a broadcast feature. An autoresponder is a program that allows you to create a series of messages which can be sent at a specific time to specific recipients. The best autoresponders manage the sign up and confirmation process of subscribers for you. A broadcast feature allows you to send a message to every person on your mailing list at the same time. To choose a reliable autoresponder, I recommend GetResponse. You can get a free version for up to 100 subscribers.

Your subscribers are interested in the information your provide them and therefore, they are also prospects to purchase a product you recommend. You don’t need your own product, you can find an affiliate product to promote.

Building your mailing list is another topic and I suggest you subscribe to ’30 Profit Generating Secrets to Making More Sales‘.

Rebecca Habel
Rebecca’s Resource

http://www.rebeccasresource.com

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