Now that you have placed your opt-in forms in all the strategic locations we need to discuss the flow that each and every person who chose to subscribe to your eZine will follow.

It is very important that you provide a simple and consistent experience to the people in order to avoid confusion on what need to be done and as such increase your confirmation percentage. And since I don’t even discuss single opt-in, throughout the entire process we will be discussing on using only Double-Opt-in subscription, in which each person will be required to confirm their intention to receive information from you!

Here is a simple representation of what your subscription process should be:

As I was looking through the Survey Questions submitted by some of my readers I noticed one trend – several people asked, using different words, same basic question:

How Does A Blogger Get Started With Email Marketing?

Quick search on the web didn’t bring the results for what I was looking for:  step-by-step instructions to setting up the entire process and putting your autoresponder into action. In this post I assume following:

1. You have something you willing to give away in exchange for subscription: an eBook, report, video, eCourse – something of Value
2. You already have or willing to get aweber autoresponder. To my best knowledge it is the only one that will provide your with all the proper blog broadcast options and one I personally use.
3. You have a WordPress self-hosted blog and know how to do some basic things.

And now lets look in details how you can get started with email marketing on your blog.

Alex posted a great article the other day on the impact of blog neglect on traffic. I can certainly verify his statement because whenever I post less, my traffic goes down. Surprisingly though, My feed subscriber number keeps growing. I can only attribute this to the fact that most people don’t have time to read their feeds every day and it would take a bit to unsubscribe anyway.

Money is in the list – statement you hear pretty much as soon as you take a dive into Internet Marketing. It is considered to be the most valued asset of any marketer and success is more often then not evaluated by the size and quality of the list. And here by quality I mean response rate to emails. How well emails opened and advice acted on by clicking.

I’m not going to talk in this post about quality of information, moral issues involved with email marketing or the quality of emails that go to subscribers. There is plenty of info on the topic that I don’t feel I need to cover it. What I want to talk about is how people encouraged to subscribe. What has become known as Squeeze Page will be the theme of this article and how we miss the obvious …

Great minds think alike – this phrase is often underrated but more and more I find it to be true and spotting the specific moments when great minds come to similar conclusion and fully taking advantage of it has proven to be crucial to my personal success.

And let me explain exactly what I mean but in order to accomplish that we will have to rewind the time back to beginning of this year …

Do you blog and profit? And no … I don’t mean “blog for profit” as that category is clearly a part of [tag-tec]Internet Marketing[/tag-tec]. In this article I want to address bloggers that do it for fun AND generate income from it …

Bloggin is fun that can quickly become a very profitable undertaking once you hit the right niche and provide unique information that generates interest and following. When enough people begin to read your musings, opportunities to monetize them grow unproportionally to your efforts!