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To download your FREE white papers, simply click on the titles below: E-mail addresses are the 'fuel' for your E-Newsletter engine. Without a growing, vibrant list of readers, your newsletter will never have a positive impact on your business.Dianna Huff's concise and insightful report details the steps you need to take to maximize the size of your subscriber list. Buy it, study it, follow her recommendations; you'll never run out of fuel!"Michael J. KatzAuthor Dear E-Newsletter Publisher:Whether you're considering starting an e-newsletter or have recently begun publishing, growing your e-newsletter list should be your #1 priority.Why? Because the more people you have on your list, the more people you can sell to. Savvy newsletter publishers -- whether they are consultants or corporate marketing directors -- know a healthy, vibrant growing e-newsletter list generates profits. "One of the biggest hurdles to making money on the Internet is building your e-newsletter subscriber list. Publishing an e-newsletter is easy, but getting people to sign up for it is difficult.Dianna's guide provides over two dozen ideas for getting more people to sign up for your newsletter, which in turn builds the 'house file' that is the core of your online marketing.

" Bob BlyAuthor and ConsultantThe Online Copywriter's Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Write Electronic Copy that Sells As Mr. Bly says, publishing a newsletter is relatively easy. Heck, you can purchase any number of publications telling you how to do it, but the sad fact is, no one tells you how to grow your newsletter once it's been "born."Which is what happened to me when I committed to growing my e-newsletter list in 2000. I didn't have a clue about how to grow my list - and the few people I asked didn't have much advice for me either.I tried a number of things: Overture ad words (expensive!), adding my newsletter to e-newsletter databases (waste of time), and word of mouth (time consuming).Nothing worked until I stumbled on the truth: There is no one magic way to grow your list, but there are literally dozens of tricks that: Don't cost a lot of money Don't take a lot of time Give you a high-quality list that results in sales (which is why you're doing an e-newsletter in the first place) Quite frankly, I was a little nervous about selling this guide. "I don't have anything new to say," I thought. "People can figure these things out for themselves." And of course, lots of hype exists about growing your list to thousands of names — FAST. (But no one tells you they don't remain on your list for very long.) It wasn't until people started giving me feedback on this guide that I realized I was offering a much needed service to people who have just started publishing and need strategies for growing a list that leads to sales.

What am I offering that you won't get anywhere else? First, rather than give you hype you can't use, I give you over three dozen solid tips for growing a high-quality list. When I say "solid tips," I mean tips that are not dashed off one-liners. I explain each tip in detail and give you instructions on how to do each one.By "high-quality," I mean building a list of readers who will remain with you for years, people who will eagerly look forward to your newsletter. How do I know? Because I have subscribers who have been with me since "the beginning," subscribers I've never met yet who frequently email me to tell me how much they love my newsletter. These people have forwarded my newsletter to their colleagues.But most important, I've converted these people into customers. By showing you the various ways to grow your list, I save you considerable time, money, and effort.Rather than spending the next six to twelve months trying to figure out the best methods for growing your list, you can buy my guide, which is what Chris Jaeger, of Sell More Weddings, Inc., did. Thanks to just one of my tips, he is now generating consistent sales — week after week. "I've been doing business on the Internet since 1996. I thought I knew it all when it comes to growing your e-list. But I was wrong.