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Announce It - Or Not! 
Copyright 2001 Terri Seymour 

Having an online business means that you need to 
find as many free or very affordable ways of advertising 
and promoting that business as possible. Fortunately, 
there are many such ways of advertising online. Some 
of the experts and Newbies have debated which ways 
were effective and which ways were not. One of the 
ways said by some to be a waste of time is 
Announcement Lists. 

Now I agree that announcement lists are not one of the 
Power-Packed methods of promoting your ezine or 
business but for a few minutes work a day for a couple 
weeks a month, you can pick up a few contacts, 
customers, or subscribers. That doesn't sound too bad. 

I have found that announcing to these lists will be a 
confusing and lost task if you do not set up a system 
for managing your lists and submissions. The first 
step is to subscribe to several of the better lists. 
Some of the lists will be loaded with junk ads and/or 
spam. You want to find the lists that are for posting 
ezine and website ads. There are several lists that 
are for posting home biz opps and work at home jobs, 
but I found those to be too filled with junk ads. 

Here are a few that I have subscribed to: 
mailto:listyourgroups-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (new one) 
mailto:Team2000_Opt-In_List-subscribe@yahoogroups.com 
mailto:Announce-Lists-subscribe@onelist.com 
mailto:List_Of_Lists-subscribe@onelist.com 
mailto:ListBuilder-subscribe@onelist.com 
mailto:ListPromote-subscribe@onelist.com 
mailto:listpromote-subscribe@egroups.com 
mailto:List-Your-List-subscribe@onelist.com 
mailto:list-your-list-subscribe@egroups.com 
mailto:list-your-lists-subscribe@topica.com 
mailto:Mailman-subscribe@topica.com 
mailto:websurfing-subscribe@onelist.com 
mailto:WritersZines-subscribe@onelist.com 

Here are some for your website 
mailto:AllSites-subscribe@egroups.com 
mailto:webbyweb-subscribe@onelist.com 
mailto:websitedaily-subscribe@egroups.com 
mailto:ourwebsites-subscribe@onelist.com 
mailto:A1_WeB_SiTeS-subscribe@onelist.com 
mailto:MyPageAnnounce-subscribe@egroups.com 
mailto:URL-Announce-subscribe@egroups.com 

Some of these addys may no longer be active. If you 
find several dead ones, feel free to email me for some 
alternate addresses. 

Now for getting set up. What you want to do is get 
a financial notebook that has the five columns. 
In the title area, you will write the name of the list 
and the main guidelines, such as no urls and post 
once a week. This is for a reminder. In the first 
column header write the month and year, May-01. 
In the next five column headings write Week 1, 
Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5. 

The next step is to read the guidelines for each list 
and write an appropriate ad or announcement. When 
you have finished each ad, address it and save it to 
your announcement lists folder. When you complete 
an ad for each list, save it to disk also. As soon as 
all the ads are finished, you can then send them out. 
What I do is separate them throughout the week, so 
I have about 10 - 20 that get mailed each day. 

Once your folder and your date book are set up, all 
you have to do is open your book, go through each 
list to see which ones you mail out on that particular 
day and then open that message up then click and 
send. You would then write in your date book under 
the appropriate week, the day and date, Wed. 22. 

You follow this procedure each day and it will only 
take minutes to send out all your announcements. 
I would do this every other week. You also might 
want to update your ads every so often. I have found 
that this method is very effective and it could be for 
you as well. 

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Terri Seymour helps people start or build their online 
business by providing resources, tools, guidance and 
more. You can contact her at mailto:ter02@newnorth.net 
or visit http://www.websuccesscentral.com Subscribe to 
Web Success mailto:web-success-subscribe@egroups.com 
Download her new ebook loaded with updated resources, 
tips, links, and information. 
http://www.websuccesscentral.com/data/tipsws.exe 
 
 
Treasure Tip 
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Most business owners think that if you work hard all the time, 
you'll eventually be successful. This is not true! You have to 
work smart. This implies a lot of thinking and planning. Thinking 
and planning require time and a peaceful, relaxed mind. Without 
either of these two, your business cannot prosper. Therefore, 
don't forget to take some time out.


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