SmartPromotion Newsletter. Vol. 1, Issue 6.

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SmartPromotion
Vol. 1, Issue 6.

Smart Tips, Tricks and Tools for Web Masters
and E-zine Publishers.

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IN THIS ISSUE

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1. Editors Note
2. Smart Promotion Tip
3. Guest Article
4. Webmaster Corner
5. Useful Sites and Tools
6. Recommended Affiliate Program
7. Questions and Answers
8. Smart Software
9. Advertisements
10. Contact Information

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1. Editors Note.
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Dear subscribers,

Welcome again to another issue of SmartPromotion. It's
good to have you here again! And welcome to all the new
people too of course.

Today I want to take the chance to talk to you about Internet
Marketing. It's strange that these 2 words scare so many
people.

Now, why is that?

Well, it's simple. Most people who use the web are not
computer experts. They are regular people like you and
me, and they have not much experience in selling or
marketing on line.

I understand them. With so many opportunities out there,
it's hard to decide what works and what not. People don't
want to waiste their money, so they stay away from the
marketing game...

... but they don't have to be afraid any longer!

With the "You Will Make Money" program they have no more
excuse to not join the marketing platform.

"YWMM" is designed with the novice in mind. If you sign up
for this program, the "YWMM" technicians handle every
aspect of your new business. They provide the product,
the web site, and all the professional advertising you
need.

The software will turn any Internet newbie into a pro in a
few hours. You will receive the software, the sales page,
instructions on how to set it up, ads to place, and where
to place them.

It's only 20$ to sign up, and you will begin making money
instantly! That's their promise! Internet Marketing really
can't be made easier. Have a look for yourself at:
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Dirk Dupon
Mail comments or questions to:
mailto:webmaster@smart-web-promotion.com

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2. Smart Promotion Tip
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Did you write or compose an E-book? Then you can draw
traffic with it from the search engines.

First go to: http://freewebspace.net

This is a searchable guide to free Webspace providers.
Search for free Web hosts that you can use to put up your
E-Book download page.

There are over 400 sites to sign up with, so if you set up
your E-Book on all 400 and submit them to the search
engines, you will have 400 sites that point to your own
domain.

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3. Guest Article
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Free E-Book Marketing: Destroying The Myths

by Chayden A. Bates

Before you read this, understand right now: Free E-Book
Marketing WORKS! It has been proven to be one of the
*most powerful* forms of online marketing ever offered.

But with the knowledge of its existence, and nothing but
a notion of the idea, many who have attempted to utilize
its power have failed.

Why? The lack of understanding!

Free E-Book Marketing has been in use for over SIX YEARS.
Successfully utilized by many "high-class" marketers. These
few have been actively creating and promoting Free E-Books
since the ability was provided.

Then, about the three-fourths of the way through 1999, the
news broke of this powerful "new" marketing form and everyone
and their brother were trying to "cash-in" on the opportunities
they were hearing about.

Buying up the e-publishing software stock, many misunderstanding
marketers began creating and compiling everything they could
get their hands on.

Throwing these so called worth while Free E-Books into the
world of the Web, they were actually doing more harm than
good.

Little did ( or do ) they realize the necessary steps that need
to be taken in order to ensure their success ... that of quality,
unique and beneficial content.

Let me ask you, "How many Free E-Books have you downloaded
due to its sizzling title, only to find nothing but an over used
report with a million and one banner ads flashing in your face?"

Too many to count?

There in lies the problem. How many "bad" Free E-Books does
it take before you stop downloading Free E-Books all together?

Do you know what that does, not only for the author of the
Free E-Book, but other, successful Free E-Book Marketers?

Too say the least, its not good.

So what DOES make a good Free E-Book? What makes a
Free E-Book successful in the sense that it does what it is
meant to do? It's rather simple, and if you're at all interested
in this "old" form of marketing, than here are the TWO MOST
IMPORTANT aspects you need to realize:

ONE:

Your E-Book must be focused. It should only present a
single offer to its readers. It should not stray or attempt to
teach everything about anything. It should be centered around
one solid idea: To present your ( business ) knowledge as
to establish yourself as an expert in your field. To show and
help the reader realize that you are a credible source of
information.

After reading your Free E-Book, your reader should have a
firm grasp of the concepts you present. They should be
able to follow through and succeed with the resources you
provide. This will help the passing of your Free E-Book as
well as strengthen your chances for future dealings with its
readers. ( This is what makes you money, not the banner ads. )

TWO:

Your E-Book must be educational. If you decide to utilize Free
E-Book Marketing, than understand this: Your Free E-Book is
to be created to generate leads. How do you generate leads?

You educate your prospects about what you have to offer.
You show them the hows, whats and whys of how your offer
works and will work to benefit them to act upon.

You must teach the reader all that you successfully can about
what the contents of your Free E-Book will do for them. Before
they will hand you their money to enhance their lives, they need
to know WHY what you're offering will work for them.

By demonstrating, thus educating through the use of your Free
E-Book, your reader will naturally gravitate towards you for "further"
information, where in you may charge for admission, thus
making you your profits.

Free E-Book Marketing is simply a matter of understanding
how the marketing and psychological strategies of it work.

Understanding the above is *by far* the most important aspects
of Free E-Book Marketing you need to realize.

If what I have just shown you is not followed, you will only work
to hurt yourself. People want quality, informative content ... and
you want their money. By giving them what they want, then
suggesting they come to you for more, you will work to help
each other.

Free E-Book Marketing WORKS! But ONLY if you use it right.

© 1999 -2000 Chayden A. Bates

Chayden is the author of the highly acclaimed NEW E-Book,
"E-Book Marketing Explained!" and is currently teaching other
online marketers how to maximize their online promotional
efforts with the use of Free E-Book Marketing - the most "viral"
online advantage you've got!. Visit his site for full details:
http://www.smart-web-promotion.com/ebookmarketing.htm

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web design, and marketing articles, or submit your own article
at the web site:
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4. Webmaster Corner
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Worldlingo

You can now download a FREE Translation Object from
http://www.worldlingo.com and place it on your web site.

Worldlingo views your web pages in 8 different languages.
The translations are not 100% accurate, but they are a big
step forward for visitors who do not speak English.

But what is more important, every month, you will receive
a report showing you exactly how many times each page
was viewed in a specific language. Use this to plan your
multilingual Internet strategy.

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AgentWebRanking

Improve your site ranking and study your competitors with
this freeware program. It queries 13 of the top search engines
for your web site, plus keywords, showing where you and
your competitors are positioned.
http://www.aadsoft.com/agentwebranking/ranks.htm

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Aurora Search 1.03 (404KB)

Aurora searches 9 popular search engines for optimum
Internet performance and lists the most relevant Web
pages.
http://www.auroratools.com/asinfo.html

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All about search engines. How they work, how they
index web sites, and everything els...
http://searchengineshowdown.com

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HTML Works!

Free online tools you can use to check your web pages
load time, broken links, rankingin the search engines:
Check it out!
http://www.htmlworks.com/index.html

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5. Useful Sites and Tools
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Search Engine Commando - Let them do the work for you!

I have just discovered one of the smartest tools available
to make your search engine submission job much easier.

If you are like me, then you're probably also fed up of
manually submitting your web pages to all the search
engines.

Well, you'll be glad to hear that there's a new program that
will automate this tedious process for you. It's called the
"Search Engine Commando", and it can:

- Look on your hard drive and automatically load multiple
web sites and pages.
- Remove any pages that you do not want to have submitted.
- Select which search engines you want to submit your pages
to, etc...

In other words: you no longer have to track which page from
what site got submitted, where and when. You can put your
submissions on auto pilot, even while you're away from your
computer, on vacation, or even sleeping!

Search Engine Commando gives you the best of both worlds.
It lets you automate your search engine submissions with the
same care and attention as if you were doing it manually.

Custom programmed as it is by Michael Campbell, this tool
assures responsible, accurate control of all your sites and
all your pages, as you automatically submit to the search
engines.

Highly recommended!

Click here to find out more about this "smart" submitter:
http://activemarketplace.com/w.cgi?sec-8517

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Attention E-zine Publisher! Have you listed your E-zine in
these important directories? If not, this is the moment!

http://www.marketing-seek.com/
http://www.ezinecenter.com/
http://www.lifestylespub.com/
http://www.freezineweb.com
http://ezine-universe.com/
http://www.ezineadvertising.com/
http://www.ezineadsource.com/
http://www.ezinestoday.com/ezinedirectory.htm
http://www.ezineseek.com/
http://www.infojump.com/

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AnalogX Keyword Live 1.00 (194KB)

This tool shows you the top 100 keywords that are used
on the most popular search engines. See what people
are looking for on the web.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/keyword.htm

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Web2Mail

This handy web site sends you web pages via e-mail.
http://www.web2mail.com

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Online JPEG Wizard

You should use a JPG on your web site when the image has
millions of colors (like a photo). This online wizard will find
the right size and compression.
http://www.jpegwizard.com

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6. Recommended Affiliate Program
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In this section I give attention to a special affiliate program
that will earn you bucks, and this months program is a new
software program called:

"Search Engine Commando Affiliate Program."

Sell Michael Campbell's excellent "Search Engine Commando"
from your web site and not only will you get a 25% commission
on each copy you sell, you will also receive an ongoing 10%
commission from the sales of each affiliate you sign up.

Once you join, you'll be provided with a page full of sales tools
for you to use. There's tips on personal recommendations,
prewritten product endorsements, sales ads, a catalog layout,
tons of text links and yes, even banners.

Michael has done all the work for you!

By getting the word out about this software, not only are you
going to make money, (and I hope a lot of it), but you are
also going to make everyone's job easier. This software will
save your friends and clients, hundreds or even thousands
of dollars in labor hours. Imagine how thankful people will
be that you told them about the software.

Sign up for Michael's affiliate program and start telling your
friends, clients, customers and prospects about the software
and start making money right away.

All you have to do is get into action and join now at:
http://activemarketplace.com/w.cgi?sec_signup-8517
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You'll find more fine affiliate programs to earn money with at:
http://www.smart-web-promotion.com/affiliateprograms.htm

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7. Questions and Answers
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Reader Michael from the UK asks:

"I just created an E-book, and now I want to have a nice
cover for it. I have no graphic talent, or the right software
to do this. Do you know of a service where I can get this
done? Thanks for your excellent newsletter,
Michael."

Answer:

"Dear Michael:

E-Book-Cover-Art designs professional cover art for your
electronic book or software! They say that you can increase
downloads and sales by 300% or more - instantly- when
you choose one of their designs!

I don't know if this is true, but it surely helps to motivate
a potential buyer to act, when you present him/her with
an appealing cover. It worked for my own E-book!

They ask 99$ to design a cover, and you must allow 5
days for delivery. Some famous covers have been made
here. Click the link below to see some examples:
http://www.smart-web-promotion.com/coverart.htm

Hope this help!"

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If you have a promotion tip to share, or if you have a web
design tip, or a specific question, please feel free to post all
tips, questions, or answers to posted questions here and I
will add your email or URL with it. It's FREE promotion!

Send your tips, questions or answers to:
mailto:editor@smart-web-promotion.com?subject=Q_&_A

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8. Smart Software
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Xenu - The Ultimate Link Checker

Send Xenu to a web site and in no time, Xenu will verify
all internal and external links. Xenu provides an option
to run again on just the links reported as broken and it
builds a terrific site map on each run. Get it, it's FREE!
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

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and they need you! Thanks!)
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9. Contact Information
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Publisher: Dirk Dupon

Email: mailto:webmaster@smart-web-promotion.com
WWW: http://www.smart-web-promotion.com

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