12 Nov 09 How Idiot Joe Built a Huge List of Opt-in E-mails – I

Joe is an idiot. He knows pretty much nothing about e-mail subscriber list building strategies; nevertheless, he succeeded in pulling visitors after visitors to sigh-up to his e-mail newsletter. As said, Joe knew nothing except for the fact that a big list of opt-in e-mails is required, if he wants to succeed in online world. He understood this and employed the following strategies to encourage viewer to sign-up.

E-mail subscriber list building strategies

Idiot Joe put a “subscribe here” link and e-mail box above-the-fold on each page of his website. He made it known to his visitors that he requires their e-mail IDs to send them lucrative offers.
Idiot Joe promised his visitors that if they sign-up, he will give them a wonderful free gift. He offered a free report, but you can offer anything from e-books to discount coupons to free reports to free e-mail courses, or anything that your visitors think is useful for them.
Idiot Joe told his visitors that he has no intention to sell their e-mail IDs or SPAM them with useless mails and promotion offers. He categorically wrote this on the prominent places in his website. He also wrote this below the e-mail box using flashing colors to inform his visitors of his genuine intention.
Idiot Joe also included a “Tell a Friend” link in all his e-mails that he sent out. He has included this link at critical positions. He just asked for it, and many of his subscribers forwarded him mails to their friends, which resulted in more e-mail subscription.
Idiot Joe also put a “Call to action” line asking people to sign-up for exciting newsletter at the bottom of all the mails that he sent out.

He made this a habit and thing changed for Idiot Joe. Visitors started pouring in. You can also employ these strategies to build your own mammoth list of opt-in e-mails. In the next installment of this series, I will discuss more about what Idiot Joe did to build his huge list of e-mail subscribers.

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26 Sep 09 Here’s a Quick Way to Find a Perfect Web Host

You got a cool website name, a trendy design, and the best in the class content, and even lots of traffic, but still you will not be successful if you do not have a good web host to host your website. How good is your design if your server is down most of the time? And how good is your content if your website takes years to load? Nothing matters, if your hosting is not right. It is like, having everything fancy in place, but what is missing is the infrastructure.

Your webhost provides you the infrastructure to erect your online empire; therefore, it is very necessary to find the right web hosting company to host your domain. Here I am going to share some tips that will help you in finding a good webhosting company.

Web hosting quality checklist

These are steps I followed when I chose a web hosting company for my blogs. Follow these ten steps and see if the host you are considering meets all of these criteria or not.

Bandwidth: The more bandwidth you will get the more users you can entertain.
Storage space: If you want to host a lot of website, or host heavy files then you will need a lot of space.
Speedy technical support: You will not like to wait for days before you get your answer like the grand daddies of web hosting make you do.
Easy to use control panel: managing domain should be easy.
Seamless upgrading and downgrading: your web host should help you seamlessly upgrade or downgrade your account without any downtime.
Free e-mail hosting: you will like to have yourname@yourdomain.com; hence make sure your hosting plan allow you to have many e-mail accounts.
Unlimited domain hosting: see if your web hosting company gives you the opportunity to host more than one website or not.
Good infrastructure: See if your web hosting company has up-to-date servers or not. And what about their backup servers?
Uptime: the web hosting that you choose should guarantee at least 99.99% uptime.
One-click software installation: your web host should have one-click installation for WordPRess, Drupal, Joomla, osCommerce, ZenCart, and other common softwares.

Recommendation

At this point, I will say this: if you are looking for a reliable web hosting company that offers Unlimited disk space, bandwidth and e-mail account at an affordable price then you should check Gossimer Unlimited webhosting plan. It is worth a look.

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