Give Your Subscribers What They Want….

How many times have you checked out a blog and it looks like a site with good information, you browse around a little and then you subscribe to their newsletter. Then in a few days you start getting email from the blog that is nothing more than telling you how great what they have to recommend is. You click on the link in the email and it sends you to a squeeze page that just wants you to buy something.  You don’t get any USEFUL information in their emails.  You just keep getting email after email offer. You can tell they are just in it for the money.   They really don’t care to offer any help to anyone.  I have emailed a few sites to ask for advice or help just to see if they would respond…..you guessed it nothing happened. I subscribe to about 20 sites a week, and don’t see much value in the newsletters, just lots of offers.

If you want to make an impact online and build a huge list for your blog, write great, valuable  information and give it away in your newsletter and people will stay subscribed to your list and your following will grow HUGE. You will become the authority for them.  Then you can recommend product and services and make an income the will surpass most of the other bloggers and websites. Remember the “money is in the list”. But before you get to that your subscribers needs come first. Give them the useful and valuable information that they seek. Then your list will trust you and your recommendations.   And the money will come.


8 Tools I Use To Run My Online Business

You can go broke buying software to do everything you need to on your computer.  I choose Linux as my operating platform and all of my software is open source and free.  It is reliable, fast and stable,  somthing I did not get with windows.  I looked at Macbook but passed because of price.

Laptop: Toshiba Satellite L455-S5009 Laptop

Operating System: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS – the Lucid Lynx

The Toshiba Laptop is a good preformer with 4 gig of memory and 320 gig hardrive. It is able to handle all of my internet and processing needs.  If you intend to do alot of video editing do not buy this laptop.  It does not have the power to handle those needs.  Other than that it is a great laptop for the price.

The Linux operation system is a joy to work with, simply it just works.  You don’t have to reboot or deal with freezing programs.  It doesn’t need anti-virus or firewall either.   I have been very pleased with the performance, stablility and reliablity.  The boot up time is less than a minute and shut down is less than 6 seconds.

Programs I use:

Open Office

Firefox Browser

Lastpass

Xmarks

Cam Studio

Headway Themes

I try and use as many Cloud Based Services (browser based) as I can, that way I can update my blog and affiliate sites from any computer anywhere.

This is just a short list of my most important software tools.  If you have an addition, let me know in the comments below.