Ezine publication in various languages

By Herman Dreyer
Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Recent statistics show some 1.4 billion web sites on the internet. This give one the idea how many millions of people are on the internet. Too big not to publish your own ezine and it is realy easy just follow the guide lines. You can make a nice income by selling sponsor advertising and classified ads.

A) Basics:

Two tools you need for starters.

1. You need a editor program to write your copy. Notepad will do but Textpad have a choice of languages and a spelling checker with dictionaries in 10 languages. Download the multi lingual text editor from:
(http://www.textpad.com)

2. Bulk mailing program. Don't get me wrong never do unsolicited bulk mailing. This program merely allows you to use it's bulk mailing function to post multiple emails. Great tool to start with controlling your mailing list manually. Download from (http://www.eudora.com)

(When you get subscribers by the thousands you will need a mailing list program. Keep (http://sparknet.com) so long in mind)

Brainstorm something you are good at in order to write about. Decide how frequently you want to publish your ezine, daily ,weekly, monthly. Ezines are very strong marketing tools. Most email ezines are being read.

Insider Internet Marketing by JDD Publishing. Great book on ezine publishing tells you the ins and outs of ezines in plain language with proper examples. This book is all you need to get your ezine on the web quickly.

Go to (http://www.bizweb2000.com/d3100.htm)

Email publications:
This free useful book tells you how to do multiple emailing without spamming anybody.
Internet Email!Beyond The Basics
Download a free copy from (http://www.herman-dreyer.com/email.zip)

B) Basic format of a Email Ezine.

Name of your ezine.

Welcome message.
Subscribe and unsubscribe instructions.
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* Article
* Recommended products and services
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Article by ...... if it is a guest article
.
.
.
.
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* Recommended products and services

(http://www.ezinfocenter.com/104655)

Cool Seniors Links (http://www.herman-dreyer.com)

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Your contact particulars.
Email address:
Your web site address (http://www.bizweb2000.com/d3100.htm)
(You can use this article format to get you going, replace the links with your links)

C) Finding Subscribers:

Announce your new ezine.

This is the most important list on the Internet. This list alone can bring you anywhere from 50 -- 500 new subscribers. You can also announce changes to your publication to gain even more subscribers.

(http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html)

You could also place low cost classified ads with other ezine owners to gain subscribers. Have a look:
(http://www.freezineweb.com)
DEMC E-Magazine
(http://www.demc.com/html/sponsor.html)

Adswapping is another way to announce your ezine. You could offer a 3 to 1 adswap in order to get interested parties.

A great source for mailing lists and newsletters! Meta-List.net lets you to search for over 230,000 mailing lists. You can search FOR several different languages.
Go to (http://www.meta-list.net)

D) Promote your ezine

Write a press release. This handy program let you fill in the fields and of it goes doing the work for you.
Go to (http://www.prweb.com/submit.htm)

You could also make your email ezine into a web site and list
it with the search engines.

Writing a article about your ezine is yet another way to get noticed. (http://www.ezinearticles.com) is a nice directory where you could post free articles.

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Ezine Guide Lines:

The Complete Guide to E-Zine Publishing Everything you need to know about e-zine publishing, including how to choose a list host, lay out your newsletter, obtain an ISSN number and build a large subscriber base. (http://www.webmaster-resources.com/articles/ezinepub.shtml)

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About the Author
Herman Dreyer
Email: dreyerh@mailusers.wise.co.za
Cool Seniors Links
(http://www.herman-dreyer.com)