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In this Module we are going to create a newsletter and opt-in form for your website.

Q, Why do I need to create a newsletter in the first place?

The answer to that is quite simple: Email Marketing!

Say for example you have a website but don’t have a newsletter. You will need to drive fresh traffic to your website over and over again. Some of those visitors may (or may not) make a purchase and then leave your site. Once they have left your website the chances of them coming back is somewhat slim as there are so many other websites to choose from. Meaning that you have to keep trying to drive fresh traffic to your site, (traffic = potential customers). This can be quite difficult to achieve and you will probably give up at some point in the near future, meaning all your hard work has been for nothing. Don’t get me wrong, you need to drive traffic to your site whether you have a newsletter or not, but……

……by creating a newsletter and placing an opt-in form on the same website you are able to capture leads, (potential customers), that are interested in what you have to offer.

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I wrote a blog post last August about eBay changing the policies over postage of items within the media categories, (books, comics, magazines, DVD’s, Music etc). eBay felt that the postage prices were putting people off of making purchases and stopped sellers charging postage in all media categories.

I’m very pleased to be able to tell you that eBay have now changed their minds and have returned to the previous policy. You can now charge postage again, however it is set to a maximum limit to stop excessive postal charges.

Although if you continue to list your Fixed Price items with free P&P they will appear higher in the search results.

Further Changes, Coming Next Month:

Items listed as GTC, (Good Till Cancelled) that haven’t sold in 16 months will automatically end as from April. If this affects you I suggest that you have a good look at what it is you’re selling or how you’re trying to sell your items as 16 months without a sale shows that something is going wrong.

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A quick catch up for my regular readers:

As you can see I’m back; the operation went well and the op’ site seems to be healing as it should be, fingers crossed it will continue to do so and I can crack on with my work load.

My mum is still suffering the affects of her burst aneurysm but seems to be out of danger.

Onto the blog post:

How valuable is your work and the time it takes?

While I was laid up I had to use my laptop to work and then I was very limited to what I could and couldn’t do. As I was laid on my side it was impossible to type so all I could do was copy and paste.

I opened up Turbo Lister and started to add a few sales pages to my listings. At times adding them to my website so that the images were in place.

I had just uploaded one to my eBook website when a few minutes later Outlook Express asked me for the password to one of my email accounts: Which was very strange as they should be automated. I entered the password and a box popped up asking for it again.