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Autoresponders are essential to business. I have a love/hate relationship with them personally.

I have tried them in the past but for one thing I hate whiners who subscribe – even by double opt in – and then because you didn’t send something every week or they’re too dumb or lazy to unsubscribe they just lot it as a “spam” report.

I also don’t like getting on lists myself and having 50 emails from 50 different people trying to sell the same thing. Now, all these products might be completely fine but when they are mass marketed to me in that format I just shut down and tend to believe it’s all more junk. Maybe – in addition to a hectic schedule – that makes me hesitant to send out emails myself. I don’t know.

But also, the cost of these services to maintain a large list keeps going up. As I told one friend “These guys have gone all ‘Fortune 500′ on us!” As you’ll know if you’ve read the book “FREE”, the cost of storage and bandwidth has been going down so drastically, you have to wonder if there’s not some price gouging going on here in the autoresponder market, but then, as my friend reminded me, one of these companies in particular is supposedly getting clients at the rate of one every 7 seconds.

But that leaves me with what to do?

I am at the point where I truly believe that you have to have a solid autoresponder lead capture system just to function as an affiliate marketer these days. The one time sales are too hard to come by unless you have a way to turn them into recurring income as appropriate.

So here’s the service I found through a friend’s referral (affiliate link): Imnica Mail. I chose it because of the 14 day free trial and the price of $15 per month up to 10,000 subscribers over multiple lists.

I will be doing a review of the product down the road with more indepth comparisons to other services I’ve used before.

You can see the service in use through my new list here.

The interface was easier for me to use in Google Chrome. It wasn’t working that well for me in one version of Internet Explorer.

It doesn’t have some of the bells and whistles other services have had (or at least I haven’t found them yet!). But for what I’m doing – and likely what you’re doing – it seems solid and completely functional.

The one time I filed a support ticket, it was given a timely and accurate response.

I’ll be putting out a special report for my friends on this later which you can receive by signing up here.

So in making this autoresponder purchase from a variety of available providers, it boiled down to this… this provider came suggested by a friend and they didn’t seem to have become uppity with success. The other providers made me feel like they were doing me a favor to take my money…that’s just my impression.

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If you’re an Adsense publisher, you’ve already seen this email. If not, it may be interesting news. Google will be allowing other “Certified” ad networks to display ad in the blocks currently used by Adsense Publishers.

In theory, at least, it could allow your site to make more money by better targeting ad offers to your clientele.

Hi,

We’re writing to let you know about an upcoming update in your AdSense account designed to help you generate the maximum revenue from your ad units. You’ll soon be able to allow multiple ad networks to show on your pages, which means that advertisers from external Google-certified networks will be able to compete with AdWords advertisers for your ad space.

If you’re unfamiliar with what ad networks are, they’re companies that partner with advertisers and publishers to buy and sell ads on sites they don’t own themselves, similar to AdSense. Ads from these networks will compete with Google ads to show on publisher sites, and the ad generating the highest revenue for publishers will be displayed.

To ensure the quality of the ads appearing on your sites, we’re certifying all participating ad networks for adherence to our standards for user privacy, ad quality, and speed. You’ll also have control over which networks can show ads on your pages — you can choose to opt out of receiving ads from specific networks, or all networks completely. This means you can continue to show ads from only AdWords advertisers if you’d like.

Finally, some ad networks use tools similar to Google’s interest-based advertising to show more relevant ads to users on the sites they visit. These ad networks won’t be permitted to collect data from your site for the purpose of subsequent interest-based advertising, but we’ll allow those who comply with user privacy guidelines to show ads using these tools. You’ll have the ability to opt out of showing ads based on user interests from these ad networks, and we’ve changed our requirements for third-party ad serving to reflect this. More information is available at http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94230 .

These new capabilities will automatically be enabled for your account, and you’ll see a new section in your Ad Review Center where you can allow or block specific ad networks. Please note that we’ll gradually be adding new ad networks to AdSense accounts over the next few months, so you won’t see any immediate impact on your ads or your earnings.

To learn more about this launch and managing the ad networks appearing on your pages, visit the AdSense Help Center at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=13522 and watch our video demo at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HyJPOVLd3I .

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

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My friend Markus Allen has a new blog. I love Markus’ honesty among online marketers. He’s a regular guy slugging it out like the rest of us and he’s been honest as to why he’s doing this. He wants more financial breathing room. As the online stat junkie par excellance, he’s known for quite some time that he SHOULD be doing better with article marketing than he presently is.

He knows he “SHOULD” be able to create a stream of relatively passive income from articles generating adsense clicks and affiliate commissions. But to date that hadn’t happened for him. His latest project to make that happen is documented on this new blog. Now I’ll warn you up front, this is an affiliate link in case you want to purchase anything Markus sells. But you can read all his articles without buying anything. Here’s the link: Article Marketing Secrets

Now Markus’ goals are ambitious. He wants to generate $5,000 per month from Article Marketing. Hey, I’d love an extra $5,000 per month I didn’t have to claw and scrape for all the time – wouldn’t you?

But I also love it when someone works to document what they’re working on in this manner so I can SEE what’s going on. I’m sure they won’t tell me ALL their secrets (maybe Markus will) but I’ve learned to read between the lines.

So I look forward to following this with great interest!

Here are the topics Markus has posted to date:

Day #1:
Article Marketing Domination
How to make $5,000 a month writing articles.

Day #2:
Article Marketing Handbook
Secrets revealed on how to make more money with content marketing.

Day #3:
Article Marketing Strategies
Inside secret strategies of a professional content publisher.

Day #4:
Article Marketing Course
Article promotion the fast & easy way.

Day #5:
How to Make Money with AdSense
Tweak AdSense for higher profits.

Day #6:
Internet Marketing Article Directory
The best place to submit an article.

Day #7:
Article Marketing Trends
How to use trends data to find what to write about.

Day #8:
Keyword Marketing Research
Does this Keyword Bible deliver the goods?

Day #9:
Niche Finder
How to find the best niche markets.

Day #10:
Link Juice
The best way to go about getting page juice.

Day #11:
SEO Link Building
How to link build the fast and easy way.

Day #12:
Affiliate Marketing Disclosure
Bank more money being honest about your affiliate links.

Day #13:
Online Business Building -
Weekly talkcast reveals how to build your business.

Day #14:
Article Marketing System
Introducing a nifty checklist to make your content marketing pay off.

Day #15:
Link Building Forum
My secrets to create valuable backlinks from your favorite forum.

Day #16:
Article Marketing Benefits
3 reasons to be excited about publishing your articles on the Internet.

Day #17:
Auto Content Generator -
How to put your article marketing on auto pilot.

I love to write as I have the time, so this interests me because I too would like to have extra income coming in without extra additional work. I personally found his post on auto content generation very helpful. While we all love to write if we’re into blogging, legitimately syndicating content from other writers can help you build a niche blog more easily to be sure!

Again, here’s the link: Article Marketing Secrets

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