Does anyone here tried Ezine / newsletter promotion before? Any result or to you point of view, do you think is worth to try this method? Please comments. Thanks
Ezines are dead. Have been for a long time. Newsletters are generally pretty good if you can acquire a HUGE database of double opt-in subscribers. Takes a long time to do that, better to buy a database already prepared for your particular niche. Honestly? It takes TONS of work to produce a decent newsletter. You need great writers and regular members responding with comments to keep the action going. Or a crazy niche that people just can't refuse.
I get over 5000 views to my websites monthly from ezinearticles... I have to disagree with the above poster.
Ezines are old news man. 5000 visitors a month? Not that many. A day? That would be significant. Visitors DO NOT equal revenue necessarily. So take that for what it is worth. Sounds like a whole lot of work for a whole lot of... not so much. That's my opinion friend, not my problem however. Have fun with your Ezine. Still sounds like a lot of work for very little return, but that's cool. I like wasting time too, as you can tell. Most people don't know what an Ezine is, much less want to subscribe to one. Newsletters are a better bet IMO. This person wanted an honest answer. Now he has two relatively useless opinions and he can choose between the two. "Do I use this useless information, or this useless information?" Slim pickin's I'd say.
@ BadBoyzStudioz If both options are relatively useless in your opinion. What would be a better option for him?
I don't know. I think my opinion is an opinion, so it is about as good as the other one. Maybe they are both good? That is possible. And we are not on Twitter so the @badboyz... thing is not working here, but I get your drift. I think that the Ezine has always been a cool concept. It just never took off like the "Weblog" aka Blog, or the fact that most people know what a newsletter is but have no clue about Ezines. I always liked the Ezine concept, it just never got viral enough to be a big deal. The "blog" is now a universally understood term. Like searching on search engines, you "Google" it even if you use Bing or something, people still call it Googling. That there is the reason I said what I said. Both opinions have validity. It is up to the creator of the thread to make their own mind up as to whether the information is pertinent to their situation. The question would be... "Do I want to devote 6-10 hours a week on a newsletter to get 5000 visitors (or less) per month?" or something like that. Second question would be "Do I have the resources and time to create a database of double opt-in members that want to hear my stuff? Or can I afford to buy a ready-made database that is ready for my style or niche?" Stuff like that. Many Internet "guru's" are touting the validity of the member list function to literally give away junk ebooks and useless software to create a pretty shaky (or shady) list of subscribers. I am on a lot of these things and none of them have a damn thing that I want. You read the material and it is useless and never complete. It leads to other stuff that you have to pay for eventually anyway. I would rather just know up front that you have a service or cool software app, and I can buy or pass. Most of it is a pass though, trust me... Pure junkola. So the choice is clear. Do what makes you feel good and if it makes you happy and wealthy... More power to ya! They wanted information. There is information. That simple.
In that I make over 10K monthly from my sites, I'm fine with what I get from ezine. Sounds like you are a failure in that venue and can't write decent copy...
Yeah right. I hardly believe that. People who brag usually are full of hot air. 10K? Yeah right. And writing decent copy? Not needed in my business fool. You have no idea what business I am even in, Ezines are not my meal ticket. But, you go on with your self serving belief that you got it going on. People like you are such instigators, it is amazing. And for no real reason either, that is what baffles me. If you make that much PROVE IT! That's just what I would LOVE to see. Let everyone see your billings so we can all be amazed. You remind me of the posers in the music business who claim they make "thousands" on iTunes. When I ask them the numbers or to show me how many units they sold, I get the same response every time. "I don't have to show you anything!" Same answer EVERY time. And you know what? In the end I find out that I was right all along. They lied. I can find out about it if I want to, but it is not worth a dime to me. The comical relief is payment enough. God... I hate braggers and egomaniacal "webmasters". And I can outright smoke your butt writing copy, so don't even go there. I gave you props and backed your play, now I just think you are full of jive talk. I said Ezines are old news, that's a fact. Glad you make 10k or whatever, and I really hope that it is true. Those who brag... Don't. Simple as that. You totally felt it was necessary to defend your BS and your ego got in the way. Easy trap for foolish prey. The guy/gal asked for opinions Murphy, not arguments about who the biggest jerk on the block is. You win! I lose. I accept defeat. Thank you for pointing out my character flaws. I need a good tune-up from someone every now and again. And if that "Diabetes Recipes" site is your claim to fame, well... Not much going on there. If that is your best offering then why do you feel so superior to everyone? Or feel the need to jump bad with your big 10K income? I still don't believe it though. But, hey... I may be totally wrong. Anyway... The answer is just do what you want, have time for, and/or where you can best afford to apply yourself. If you have the chops to write interesting ezine/newsletter/blog comment spam, or whatever, then do it. Then you can make 10k with your prophetic words and buy yourself a big fat twinkie, or go on a diet, or whatever. Just have fun whatever you do.
Like other areas of marketing, to some degree it's a numbers game. The more subscribers you have, the more sales you can expect to make. Listing your publication in ezine directories is a simple, free method of promotion that's a surefire route to more subscribers. Not because any one directory is going to send you masses of new subscribers every day. I'd be lying if I said that was the case. No, it's because your ezine listing is permanent. Having your ezine listed in all the directories will bring you hundreds, even thousands of new subscribers over time!
ahhh man i use Ezine quite a bit- can someone tell me if i am wasting my time, if so what is the alternative? thanks
You are not wasting your time. I have over 1200 articles up there and post 5 a day on a regular basis and it DRIVES TARGETED TRAFFIC. Anyone who says differently is not putting in the effort.
Are you talking about Ezine Solo Ads or Newletter Advertising? I think the other people above maybe thinking you are talking about something else. You mention "NEWSLETTER PROMOTION" so i going to think you are talking about using ezine list to promote your website or an offer. So with Ezine Solo ads they do work.. I use solo ads very often and it is one of my favorite traffic methods. But every newsletter you advertise in isn't created equal. There will be different newsetters that will give you different results so you will need to test and track your efforts.
I have had a little success with e-zine advertising with very little effort. It really depends on your business plan. With one sale from an e-zine solo ad I can make allot of money but it comes down the line. The main thing is to write copy that is unique and offers people a solution to there problem and most people reading an e-zine are looking for an easy method to make money online so simply just offer that to them otherwise it is a waste of time
Look... You can do anything and have a little success. If you do more of it you get a "little" more. That is the point I made earlier. What you have () TIME for is the key. Otherwise... delegate. That's how it is done. 24 hours in a day. Ezine or articles... Whatever Mr. 10K says there, are still relatively useless if they are not being read. Placement is imperative. Just slamming them in a directory don't cut it. Ezines that are not being distributed properly won't do it either. Member database is the core. If you have subscribers then you have a shot. And just to be a sport and PROVE that I don't lie about my work... Here is a 90,000 member list that I am on. There you go... Look under Radio Stations. http://www.bigmeteor.com/newsletter/sep2009.shtml It doesn't make me 10K, but to show that I am real and not full of hot hair. http://yourockradio.com Right there.. See it?
What can i say is ezine can generate good traffic to you site but sorry to say that the conversion rate is not so good, or saying it is quite disappointed
Hello Alvin, Ezine articles ... mostly written by ghost writers and tweaked by me are responsible for a lot of targeted traffic to my websites that turn into buyer and dollars. One article can produce profits for years.. PPC is expensive and usually a looser. Linking is a race for all that participate and can produce sometimes. Articles and videos are the steady and reliable . No gentleman needs to call others names on this form ... unless they wish to tear down their own reputation. Best Regards
Grow up... Nobody is calling anyone names. Mr. 10K is my buddy. I always wanted to be a rock star myself. So to me... Mr. 10K is who he is now. Slow and steady. First smart thing out of your mouth. The rest of it was rather elusive really, but you say whatever you need to. Steady SEO requires a period of days and weeks and months. There is no "instant" curative formula that works 100% of the time. All of it does a "little" and a lot of "littles" equal something eventually. That is pretty realistic when you get right down to it. The person asks about Ezines and all this other stuff gets into the mix and makes it messy. Ezines are cool, but they are not as popular as blogs. That is what I originally said and what is there to argue on that point? Not a thing.
Ezines combined with blogs, combined with backlinks, combined with other SEO is important. Blogs, for me, do not generate the traffic that ezine does and I create no less than 6 blogs on a daily basis using Web 2.0 properties. If you want ezine to work for you, you have to do volume, plain and simple. You'll get some traffic from one article but you'll get lots of traffic from lots of articles. One other point for the serious article marketer... Premium Membership is your friend. The 35 or 40 articles I write for ezine weekly are all distributed when I choose as opposed to when they get around to it. In that my articles are mainly business and industry related (not medical like the diabetes link in my sig), I have them published at times when my kind of readers generally read ezine articles. That took some time to figure out using the old tried and true trial and error method. Here's a screenshot from Statcounter showing traffic for my sites: http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo127/TheSignBandits/StatCounter-MyProjects0930-3.jpg Ezine is responsible for just a tad over 5K for this month and most of my other traffic is google, bing et al. The backlinks from ezine and the blogs do contribute to the overall skeleton of my search engine strength.