In 1 of my previous articles I told you about my past list building experiences and why I went with a paid service. However since that article a new free service has become available.

List Wire is a free autoresponder service created by Gary Ambrose, a well known online marketer, and it offers many of the same features as the more expensive autoresponder services.

Now because seeing how something works is better than just being told it does, I’m including 2 videos and a demo signup form in this article.

This first video explains some of the advance features of List Wire:

And here’s how to put the List Wire form on your Wordpress blog. If you don’t have a Wordpress blog that’s OK because putting it on your web page or Blogger blog is much the same.

Want to see in action? Below is a List Wire form I created just for this article. If you use it to sign up you’ll get a total of 3 messages:

1. The first message is the verification message and you must click the link included or you won’t receive the other 2 messages.
2. The second message is the 1st message in a follow up series and would normally include the link to the gift I had promised.
3. The third message is the last message in the demo. You should receive it the day after joining the list. Of course I could have written more however this demo will give you the opportunity to see the types of email you could be sending to your list members automatically.

So go ahead and give it a try. Like I said, you’ll only get 3 messages from me using the form below. To get additional emails you’ll have to fill out the form on the right side of this page. It was created with my paid autoreponder service.

Here’s the form for seeing List Wire in action:

center> Get 3 Demo Messages For List Wire Name: Email: Your information is safe and will never be shared with anyone! click here for your free autoresponder

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Susan

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Everyday millions of people use the internet to search for businesses in their community and if you don’t have an online presence they won’t find yours!

However just having a website is not enough. You see, there are millions of websites and most of them are never seen by potential customers because the owners of these sites don’t know anything about marketing their small business online.

Now to be totally honest with you I don’t have a small local business. However, I do have an international online business. And I know 1 of the most important things you must do is some on-page and off-page search engine optimization if you want the search engines to find your site.

Don’t know what search engine optimization or SEO is?

Basically SEO is putting the right things in the web page code to make it easier for search engines to find you. On-page SEO are the things people can see when they visit your site while off-page SEO are the things the search engines can see but people can’t. You can find a lot of free information online giving both more detailed descriptions and information about how to do both on and off page SEO.

As you research SEO, 2 of the terms you’ll see a lot are “keyword” or “keyword phrase.” Pay close attention to the information about keywords and keyword phrases because using them correctly is the basic building block of all search engine optimization.

Another one of the important things you’ll discover is there are several free keyword research tools available. And while these tools are extremely useful to those of use doing international online marketing, they may not help you find the best keywords and keyword phrases for your local business. Fortunately there is a keyword research tool designed specifically to find local business keywords at http://www.5minutesite.com/local_keywords.php.

Click here to watch a brief video tutorial that explains why this tool is better at finding good keywords for your local business and learn the basics on how to use it.

The video and the tool are both free to use.

Good luck with marketing your local business online.

Susan Carroll

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To Your Success,
Susan

Chris Farrell created a 26 part video course, “How To Build An Online Business That Will Last For Years To Come,” and it’s available for Free. You don’t even need to sign up.

Just scroll all the way down the page and you’ll see the links for each individual video.

 

 

 

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When you have an online business one of the things you find yourself doing a lot of is copying and pasting. You do it when you’re researching for a new article, product and sales copy.

So today I want to share some information about a free tool that can save you a few seconds every time you want to copy and paste.

The tool is the NoteTab text editor and you can get it at http://www.notetab.com

I’m using the free-lite version and here’s how I use it to save time.

NoteTab has this great feature called, “Use as Paste Board.” When you turn this feature on for a NoteTab document, NoteTab will automatically take any text that’s copied to your clipboard and paste it in after a blank line at the end of the document. In other words, while you’re busy finding things you want to use and copying them, NoteTab automatically puts what you wanted to save in a text file for you. Thus you’ve just saved the time it takes to click on the file where you’re saving the information and pasting the information into it.

Here’s how to use the “Use as Paste Board” feature:

1. Create a new document in NoteTab, and save it.

2. Under the View menu select “Options.” Click on the “Files” tab. Check the boxes for “Save Files on Close” and “Automatic Save Every.” Put the number of minutes you want to have NoteTab do an automatic save in the “Minutes” box. Click the “OK” button. This step isn’t necessary to use the “Use as Paste Board” feature however I recommend it so you won’t lose your work in the horrible event your machine crashes or automatically shuts down for some reason like an automatic restart after an upgrade.

3. To turn on the “Use as Paste Board” feature, click on the Document menu. Simply click on the “Use as Paste Board.” It’s located in the 3rd section down from the top.

Now you’re all set so try it out. Highlight some text on a web page or in a different file and do a CTRL-C. Check your NoteTab file to make sure it was pasted into it.

Using NoteTab while you’re researching a topic will save you a few seconds every time you find something you want to use. When you find something useful, simply click in the address bar of your browser, hit CTRL-A and then CTRL-C to save the web address. Then highlight whatever is on the page you want to save and hit CTRL-C.

And here’s another way to use “Use as Paste Board” to save time:

You know that swipe file or email folder you have for saving the good ads you get in your email? Now you can easily put those ads into your own text file by having it open when you’re reading your email. And after you’ve automatically copied those ads into your file you can delete or archive the email.

Saving a few seconds on tasks you do repeatedly will add up. It may seem like it’s only taking you a couple of seconds each time you do the task however if you do it 30 times you can save a minute. And if you can save 1 minute a day, in 1 year you will save over 6 hours of your precious time.

To Your Success,
Susan