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| | The Minding Your Own Business Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | My intro and a question | Views: 777 | | Apr 15, 2006 4:21 pm | | My intro and a question | # | 
Audrey Okaneko | | I want to thank Denise for the nice welcome I received. I have been a Ryze member for quite a long time but went MIA for about 2 years.
My problem was I was burnt out. I had been selling the same products since 1983 and I was just burnt out.
I think when someone is a true salesperson, it's in their blood. After two years and after a friend kept telling me to search for my passion, I resurfaced.
I've been a scrapbooking hobbyist for about 5 years. This friend kept encouraging me to turn this passion into a business and so, here I am.
So much has changed in the two years I went MIA that I've joined several Ryze groups in the hopes of learning the newest information and the newest strategies. (I did sign up for the free SEO course mentioned in this group)
I was encouraged by yet another friend to develop an ecourse. So I did. It's 6 lessons on how to begin scrapbooking. Now for my question. I really want to offer a monthly newsletter, with tips, ideas and sales and/or contests.
On my site, do I offer the ecourse as a bonus for signing up for my newsletter, or do I offer them both seperately and hope folks will opt in to two different things? Do I offer the ecourse only and then in lesson 6 give a link to sign up for the newsletter?
Would love to hear others thoughts along with why they believe one way is better than the other.
Ok, do I get two question? LOL. Aweber is the autoresponder that has been recommended to me. I've never used an autoresponder before. Prior to going MIA the person who designed my site, also wrote a script to automatically sent folks requested information. He too is now MIA and so an autoresponder is my next choice. So would love input on why or why not Aweber is the route to go.
Thanks,
Audrey :)
www.scrapping-made-simple.com Private Reply to Audrey Okaneko | | Apr 15, 2006 7:52 pm | | re: My intro and a question | # | 
Andrew Barnes | | Audrey,
Welcome back.
I would go the other way around.
I would offer the free 'e-course' and towards the end of it, suggest they learn more by subscribing to your newsletter.
As a new venture, with a smaller list, I would suggest using Vertical Response as your auto-responder solution.
You get to create your opt-in pages and build your list for free. Then, when you want to send a message, you only ever pay for the messages sent, rather than a monthly fee, so for a smaller list, it is ideal.
Best.
AndyE
'First Impressions Count'.
Update yours today.
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