Dear Subscriber,

Welcome to the June 23rd, 2008 edition of my newsletter.

I hope that all the fathers on the list had a wonderful Father's Day!  We had just a relaxing day with my husband, my dad and my father-in-law.  I ran around and did a lot of shopping and a lot of cooking, but it was fun.

We had a nice weekend too, my oldest nephew graduated from high school on Thursday.  So, we went to his graduation party on Saturday and then my husband and I took him out to buy him a nice watch.  Unfortunately, the watch he picked out was broken - but we didn't realize it until after we bought it.  Then my husband had to go back and exchange it - he was given quite a hard time.  We will NEVER do business with that jewelry store again. 

We are starting to get ready for our camping trip to Lake George, NY next month.  It will be a lot of fun we get two camper spaces next to each other with my sister and her family (including my nephew who just graduated from high school) and we just relax. 

I spent a lot of time these past few weeks working on a free e-book.  I compiled a great deal of information that I've accumulated over the years and that I wanted to share with people.  I'd love to give you all a copy of it.  You'll have to "opt-in" to receive it - but I'll be sending messages with updates on traffic resources and advertising resources (ones that are effective and ones to avoid) so it will be worth it.  Share it with anyone else you know too.  http://www.traffic-and-sales.com

I'm still really enjoying the United America Cash and Save Program.  To any members who are in the US who are looking for a simple, affordable program to save money on their groceries and get some extra gas for our rising gas prices -- this is the place to be!

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Enjoy the article!

Best wishes,
Liz Martinez
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List Building Secret #8 - Write Free Articles

While it's a given you will put your newsletter subscribe address in your resource box at the end of the article, this is not the best way to get people to subscribe to your newsletter.

The best way is to write a few free E-courses that people can subscribe to via an autoresponder and weave the links into your article.

Here is what I mean, and I can tell you now, HARDLY ANYONE is doing this.

Let's say you have a newsletter on Ice Fishing and you're in the middle of writing a few articles to send out for publication. Here is what I would do.

I would go to Aweber.com, buy a monthly subscription to their service and then start writing up 2 or 3 free e-courses on all things to do with Ice Fishing and plug them into my autoresponder.

Now why would I want to do this if I really want people to subscribe to my newsletter? Well, article writing has come under attack by people who believe cutting peoples article bylines out is acceptable. They just steal the content as their own. So instead of trying to fight these people everyday of the week, I've accepted this is going to happen and I made provisions for it, and infact, it probably works in my favor.

So in my article while I'm writing it, I would let the readers know there is this great E-course for free they can sign up for. I wouldn't mention it was mine. I would just weave it into my article and it looks like I'm providing them with a great free resource.

I would then provide them with the autoresponder link and how to sign up.

Also remember that when you write your resource box for your article, you don't have to get them to go to a webpage to sign up for your newsletter.

You can put your newsletter subscribe information in your resource box like this....

"To get more information on how to catch more bass on a weekly basis, sign up for our newsletter by sending a blank email to youremail@address-here.com"

Have a prosperous week - I know I plan to!!

Liz Martinez