Happy 4th birthday to Debbie Weil who began publishing her WordBiz report July 21, 2001. To celebrate, Debbie has produced another fine ezine, one that sets the gold standards on several points.
- She asks for frequent reader feedback.
- She links to several bonus articles, thus providing timeless valuable content on writing good ezines and blogs.
- She is friendly and appears genuine in her request for readers email her.
- She is giving away several copies of a book, in return for readers time in completing a survey about blogging.
- She describes her progress on the book she is writing about corporate blogging and how readers can actually contribute to it.
Debbie is actually my unsuspecting Blog Fairy, responsible for my taking the plunge close to a year ago. Without her persistence about the value of blogs for small businesses like mine, I never would have started Coach Ezines blog, or BigBook Nuggets blog, or the new Brain-FX blog.
And Denise Wakeman might not have started BizTipsBlog, and we both wouldn’t have co-mothered The Build a Better Blog System and Services.
I guess that makes Deb our Blog Godmother…or some such silly thing.
Anyway, I digress. My point is, if you want to write really good ezines, newsletters and blogs, look at what the professionals are doing. Imitate them. Learn from them…or her in this case.