| Automating Your Online Business - Part 1.
by: Alan Wilson
Automating Your Online Business - Part 1. Last week I talked about using Automation to do most of the This tool box is a set of tools that you will need to automate Tool#1: Ezine Writing Tools. These are my seven primary tools I use to keep my online business as automated as possible. Sure, there are more tools that I use, but these are the key ones that you need to get going with. To keep the Newsletter within my guidelines (short and too the One of the first tools you'll want to pick up is something to help you write your ezine. Remember, it's vital that you develop some sort of ezine so you can stay in contact with your customers on a routine basis. There are several packages out there that will make creating your ezine fast and simple. You want one that will allow you to simply control your margins without much hassle. Most Ezines are set to a right margin of 65. This makes them easy to read on most email programs. If you go longer, you run into the problem of scrolling your pages in the window. You Keep everything as simple as possible. Go out to your favorite shareware site and check out various text editors. I've tried many and two that I like are Crimson Editor and Ziney Pro. Both are shareware and can be found rather easily. Crimson Editor has many, many additional features that I never used, so I switched to Ziney Pro. Ziney Pro is a work in progress, so it does have a few quirks, but the creator is constantly working on updates. It gives you what you need: Spell check, Margin control, Word Stats, etc. Too many bells and whistles just get in the way. If you want to learn more about ZineyPro, visit Next week we will look at the tool I use to Automate the actual delivery of my ezine. You don't want to spend hours with a simple email program trying to BCC: your ezine to hundreds of viewers. Until next week, Thanks for reading, Alan Wilson Publisher |
