I just quit my job, but I own a free-lance graphic design business. I am sending out an email blast and postcard to tell my customers about the big event. Any good ideas for a subject line for the email blast? I really want to capture their attention.
The big event is, me quitting my job and having more time to focus on my clients…

A sale is good, but they see that a lot from me, I want something more personal.

I’m about to launch a classified website

My business adviser is through the enterprise but he is not an (IT) expert

I have purchased the domain name for my classified site with go daddy and the site is about ready to upload to the servers, I was wondering if anyone can kindly offer me some help on how to make a good amount of income from this website and how to best market it etc.

I have a Google Adsense account, plus Bidvertiser and I’m now an affiliate for commission junction and Clickbank.I am willing to join any other affiliates ppc advertising etc to enhance/boost revenue.

I have already seen leads in my cj account from another website I have that is a niche community site that has been going for just over a year and has 765 members to date. Its kind of like a mini Myspace/Faceparty with the option for members to upgrade their accounts to premium.profile uploading, pictures videos blogs etc

I am very enthusiastic flexible and learn quickly.

Below is a link of the sort of website I am going to launch

http://www.shoofi-mafi.com/en/index.php

Obviously my site will be for midlands (uk) members but the above link is an idea of how the site should look and feel.

I shall also be adding forums for members to interact more and so enables me to build up an email database for newsletters

I shall be offering incentives to advertise by way of cash prizes this way hopefully boosting my traffic to the site

I’m fed up of trying to search for IT help just to be told to click on links to peoples sites which is obviously in hope that you will click their ppc adverts or buy an expensive ebook from them and gain them money.

Please could someone train and mentor me to success, (IF) I can only make a small amount of money from this one site I am prepared to copy the idea to other areas of the UK to gain more revenue.the sky is the limit

Thanks for reading this article and please buzz me for advice and if you would like to be my mentor.

I look forward to hearing from you savvy clever IT folk in helping me on this journey

Does anyone know if its possible to make a reasonable living just off one or two of these types of websites if the marketing is done correctly etc

thank you for your time

Kind regards
ok. to all the people commenting that are leaving links to their sites please stop!!

look at this section here i wrote in my original message

I’m fed up of trying to search for IT help just to be told to click on links to peoples sites which is obviously in hope that you will click their ppc adverts or buy an expensive ebook from them and gain them money.

And i am truly fed up with this!!

let me explain again the sort of answers i would like,

very simple this!

i would like someone to say for example, ” ok listen if you go here and grab a bit of code from this affiliate then put it here in your website and generate traffic you will make x amount”

not just random links to peoples sites making money from adsense and their own affailate sites.

i hope this is clear enough.

i would like to know info on places such as e-business club and other sites that offer free advice and do not ask you to get your credit card out at the end of the blog/forum landing page etc. thank you..
i have also tried the spiderweb and it is not for me because they do actually ask for money to buy a domain and basically unless you do there is not much chance of making any money

i am doing my own website but it is only for one area and not globally, its a classified site for the midlands area, no point in people posting info and adverts from usa because it is too far away etc.
plus i would like to avoid scams so if anyone can give advice there,

please help in these questions i have posted

thanks

My school gives us a certain amount of bandwidth to use as we please, so I upload the (pdf) newsletter I do for work every month and send the link out in an email to everyone at work. My question is, how can I track the amount of hits I’m getting to the link?
I would like to have that information when I go to ask my boss to buy me a software program that would help me build and design the newsletter in an easier way.

Thanks for any help

I have been asked to submit a bid for a major contract by the end of this weekend. The email was sent to a number of large companies…and me! This is an amazing opportunity for me to pick up some evening and weekend work. I am a new graphic designer and I want to charge a flat rate for projects, not by the hour. I don’t want to bid too low or too high but really have no idea what to charge. The company needs flyers, posters, manuals, brochures and ads on an ongoing basis. What flat rate should I charge for the initial design AND what should I charge for editing the content of their monthly newsletter, for example. Thanks!!!!
I just want to clarify that the only service I am providing is the design. The company is going to do the printing through their in-house print shop so I won’t be spending any money on paper, ink etc. I create the design for them, PDF it and email it to them. I want to do a flat rate because even though I have great design skills, I am pretty slow so how can I penalize them with an hourly charge? I am confident that I will get faster with more experience so in a few years, my “per hour rate” is going to increase even though I’m charging a flat rate. I have tried being sneaky and getting quotes from “real” design shops. They all charge by the hour and want to see the project before they quote on it. Thanks for responding so far.
Hi. Me again. I only do print design, not web design.
Thanks Charlie D for your advice. I will have to give this whole thing some thought. It will be very difficult to raise my price significantly if I’ve been working for them at a very low rate.

I am the computer training at our company. There are about 500 people in the building that have the opportunity for computer training. Currently, I send out a newsletter with tips and security information, which also includes the training calendar for the next two months. I normally have more people sign up for training when this is sent out; however, I do not want to send out more emails because I am afraid of spamming people basically with unwanted emails.

I have my training calendar posted on our intranet but because of the setup of this intranet it is rather difficult for people to find. You also cannot bookmark it because every time it is updated it gets a new url (I know, out of my control).

Also, HR sends out a monthly email with a link to the training calendar as well.

What can I do in between these items to get people to sign up. I’ve tried making posters, but I haven’t had much luck with that. I’ve had a give away for an all-in-one printer, which went well, but I cannot do that every month.

I’ve thought about taking food or candy to each department with a note next to it, but wasn’t sure about that.

Any ideas to draw more attention to a training schedule periodically and what I can do to get more people to attend?

Thanks!

I have used HTML emails to run my email campaigns is past but found that if i send the entire as one image and provide hyperlinks via image mapping, i could save a lot of time as well as do not need to fear of email template getting distorted at the recipient’s end. Can somebody advise whether its a right idea or not?

Assuming both are concise and well written, and both link to a Web page with more information.

I need to know how to make templates and enter text so I can print them out on my printer. It’s a lot cheaper that way.

Hi,
I’d like to start my own e-newsletter. Where can I get good ezine templates? Free is nice, but wouldn’t mind paying for them either.

Part of my job is creating templates and designing formats for business communications. I’ve been helping a colleague in Europe to develop a regional email newsletter that will be sent to several hundred employees. The purpose of the newsletter is to help employees feel more engaged, so it is a mix of articles on business topics (major initiatives, etc.) and personal topics (employee profiles, etc.). Her draft design used about 8 different colors, the layout was random and was very amateurish in appearance. I redesigned it to use just 2 alternating colors and tightened up the format so it looked more polished. She didn’t like it and wanted her rainbow of colors back. Her reasoning was “we don’t want it to look so professional.”

I have a REALLY hard time agreeing with that perspective and told her so, but I also couldn’t really articulate why I felt so strongly about it. What would you do? If you had a coworker or a customer say they didn’t want something to look so “professional”, what would you say to convince them otherwise?

To me, her approach looked sloppy, disorganized and was difficult to read. Other than telling her the blunt truth about the design, how could I have persuaded her to see that a clean, polished design is the better way to go?