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Ezine/Blog Combos: Here are two examples

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I’ve noticed a trend of combining a newsletter with blog posts. In these two examples, each done a little differently, the focus is on driving readers to read what interests them the most. Whether it’s a special report, an audio file, or weekly blog posts, the reader decides what topic and how they want to get their information.

Bud Bilanich’s Common Sense Ezine
Debbie Weil’s WordBiz Report

What do you think about these examples? And, how have blogs affected the way you do your ezine? Or has it not changed things for you at all? Do you feel it’s essential to have both a blog AND a newsletter? Hit the comment link and share.

Related Posts:
Blog or Newsletter? Which is best for building a list?
Ezine Success Stories: Newsletters still get results for business
Top Ten Reasons to Do an Ezine AND a Blog
Newsletters & Blogs: Marriage or Divorce?

Spring Break: The Blog Squad Slashes Prices 81% on Teleseminars

Sale_bagsTo celebrate the arrival of Spring, we’re staging a Spring Break Sale. The Blog Squad is offering 8 teleseminars and a chance to win some amazing bonuses…

Click on over to find out about our Spring Fling sale…

Blog or Newsletter? Which is best for building a list?

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Ezines still very relevant and a popular popular way to establish a list vs. a
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Amanda from Ft. Lauderdale asks. This is a 2-part question really, about which is best to do, and then about the best way to build a list. I’ll try to sort out the overlapping components.

An ezine, or emailed newsletter, has been a major marketing tool for online businesses since the 90s. In 2004 along came blogs; business blogging has quickly become an easy way to publish your message online and get found by the people who need your services.

The Blog vs Ezine debate isn’t new, nor is it finished. I posted previously what others were saying about the ezine/blog debate on this blog.

And our answer (in most cases) is to do both. But you should get them simplified so that neither task takes up too much of your time and energy.

Building Your List

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Wall Street Journal & Blog Squad: Denise gets quoted

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Find out what Denise, my Blog Squad partner, says in a Wall Street Journal article about getting publicity through blogs…Attention, Bloggers by Shelly Banjo.

More Brain Power: keep those feet moving!

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Every year, Harvard Business Review publishes a list of breakthrough ideas for the workplace of the future. Here’s one idea that gets my vote:

1. Treadmills are installed in offices; people are encouraged to take exercise breaks.

2. Workstations include stationary bicycles that fit under the desks; people keep their legs moving while answering email.

3. Instead of suits, people wear stretch, cool-fitting gym clothes.

Here’s why: Exercise improves the blood’s access to specific brain regions and stimulates learning cells to make a neurotropic factor which works like Miracle-Grow for the brain.

You learn 20% faster and better during and after exercise than sitting still. Okay, that’s good for reading or listening to teleseminars on my iPod…if only I could figure out how to compose on a keyboard while on the bike or cross trainer…hmmm!

Anybody got a source to those under-desk treadmills?

Blog Face Lift: It’s official…

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It’s taken a couple of years to evolve this blog, change the name a couple of times, and finally get a domain and banner that is targeted to an audience wanting to learn how to write content for online marketing.

With this press release, it’s official: we have lift off on our face lift! Well, this blog’s face lift, that is; I’m sticking with my own face for now….

For immediate release:

The Blog Squad’s Co-founder Gets a Blog “Face-Lift”

San Diego, CA – March 10, 2008 – Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D., has a newly revamped blog at WritngontheWeb.com. Dr. Krakoff’s blog about writing online has greatly expanded since its early days.

To continue reading this press release, click over to ExpertClick.com.

Facebook for Business: How to justify your addiction

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I’ve ignored just about every other social networking site except for LinkedInBloggers and Facebook. To tell the truth I need fewer distractions in my life, not more. If I want a social life, I’ll go to the tennis courts. But somehow, Facebook’s got me hooked.

So I’ve decided to learn how to use it for business. Denise and I’ve invited Mari Smith to spill the beans on Facebook next Monday, March 10, at 5 p.m. ET. The teleseminar costs $20 to attend but like all of our Blogging and Beyond Mentor Teleseminar series, you can attend for free if you’re a member (a trial membership only costs $9.95.)

Go visit Denise’s blog over on BizTipsBlog and see the video tutorial Mari did about Facebook privacy settings. Then go register for the class here, or join the mentor program here. Then, go invite me to be your friend on Facebook, I could use a new friend!

What Does a Dentist Know About Success in Business, Life, and Family?

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Our colleague Kathleen Gage has been instrumental in the production and marketing of a very special book, What Can a Dentist Teach You about Business, Life and Success? Discover Secrets to Achieving Total Success! by Dr. Joe Capista.

Denise has written about it over on BizTipsBlog, and has included a video book trailer. I’ve read 2-3 chapters so far, and it’s worth getting – very inspirational, and who can’t use a dose of inspiration these days! Plus, if you get it today, you will get bonuses from some people I respect.

Be sure to read all about it at BizTipsBlog and get the book on Amazon today.

Ezine Success Stories: Newsletters still get results for business

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Blogs haven’t replaced ezines. Even though you may be tempted to put all your time and energy into maintaining your business blog, you would be wrong to ignore your newsletter.

Don’t take my word for it. Ask other professionals if they’re getting results from sending out an emailed newsletter, and then judge for yourself if it’s worth the time and effort (and money).

LIsten to these success stories, and you’ll find out why ezines are not dead…

Patsi,

Just this morning I had another woman say to me, "It’s great to hear from you each week through your ezine. It helps me stay connected to you, your work and it (the ezine) provides me with thought provoking ideas, and useful tools to be successful in my life."

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Ezine Success: No, the ezine is not dead

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Ever since blogs became such a powerful marketing tool for communicating, people have been asking about newsletters:

  • Should I keep doing my ezine?
  • How should the content that I email be different from my blog content?
  • If I’m new to online marketing, which is more important, a blog or an ezine?

I’ve been asked to contribute to a book about networking tactics for business success, in particular for a chapter on newsletters. The author, Liz Lynch asked me for some examples of ezine success. So I asked people on my list.

Wow, did I get a barrage of emails from colleagues and clients who claim huge successes due to sending out a newsletter. I think we can clearly state:

Ezines are alive and thriving!

Here’s how a few people answered my question, "Have you had success with your newsletter?"

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