Archive for February, 2010

Here are ten easy tips to help ensure your ezine or business newsletter builds trust and confidence. Give them a try and see just how big a difference they can make!

Ezine Tip #1: Content, Content, Content

Learn to leave the hard sell at home. No one likes to subscribe to a newsletter only to be constantly pitched on a product or service. The focus of your newsletter MUST be helpful and relevant content.

Here are some ideas to get you going.

1. Explain to your reader how to do something. “How to” articles are a great way to demonstrate your expert knowledge and to build credibility among your readers.

2. Publish an interview with someone in your field that is considered an expert.

3. Write an article on an important business topic in your field.

4. Provide the results of polls or surveys that are relevant to your readers.

5. Publish question and answer topics. If one customer has a particular question, chances are others will have the same question.

6. Provide reviews on specific products and resources in your field.

I’m not saying you should never promote your own products and services. However, if you do, make sure these suggestions are woven around specific editorial content that is providing helpful information to your readers. Don’t overdo it. Remember, your reader signed up for your newsletter for content that will help them solve an issue. Make sure you overdeliver on that expectation.

Ezine Tip #2: Create a Newsletter Landing Page on Your Website

In addition to placing subscription boxes on your website, I recommend you create a special landing page that focuses on the benefits of your newsletter. Make sure you create a navigational link from your homepage to your newsletter landing page.

Here are some helpful content ideas for your newsletter landing page.

1. List the type of content visitors can expect with each issue.

2. List the benefits of subscribing.

3. Offer a few testimonials from actual subscribers.

4. Optional: Create an audio or video message about the benefits of signing up.

Ezine Tip #3: Offer an incentive for signing up

Offering an incentive to visitors is a great way to increase your newsletter signup rate. Here are some ideas inspire newsletter signups.

- Free demo
- Free service
- Free tip sheet
- Free informational CD, DVD, MP3
- Free sample
- Free shipping on next order

It’s always nice to provide something with instant gratification. That way, as soon as the visitor signs up, they are able to access whatever it is you’ve offered as the incentive. Experiment changing the offer from time to time to see how your newsletter signups are affected. Whatever it is you decide to provide as an incentive, make sure it has a high perceived value and state that value upfront (e.g., a $97 value!)

Ezine Tip #4: Design a Cover for Your Newsletter

Displaying a graphical ezine cover on your landing page will help evoke a sense of professionalism and trust. Keep your ezine cover simple and state the name of the ezine as well as a short tag line on the front.

Unless you have good design skills, I recommend you hire a professional designer for your ezine cover. If you need a recommendation on a ecover designer, take a look at Killer Covers. I’ve personally worked with them and have found them a great resource.

Ezine Tip #5: Include a Unique Recommendation

I like to include a small section at the end of my newsletter that gives a fun non-business recommendation. Obviously, I try to make it somewhat relevant but the point here is to point people to interesting stories, events, music, or blogs that might help enrich their lives. This can be a great way to make your newsletters a bit unique from your competition. However, don’t overdo it!

Ezine Tip #6: Test Your Newsletter Subject Lines

One of the first things your readers see when they get a new email is the subject line. Some people may not open an email if the subject line is boring or doesn’t appear relevant.

One great way to zero in on subject lines that get good open rates is to simply start testing. To do this, you split your recipient list into two equal but random sub lists. Send the same exact newsletter to both sub lists but split the subject lines. One will group get one subject line and the other group gets the second subject line. In a few days, you can compare statistics to see which subject line resulted in a higher open rate.

By testing subject lines on a regular basis, you will get a good feel for crafting interesting subject lines that get your readers to click. You can also test your newsletter content this way. This is helpful for when you want to test the appeal of one special offer against another.

Ezine Tip #7: Link Back to Your Website

One of the great uses of a newsletter is to generate enough interest to get people back to your website. Within the content of your ezine, think of ways to link back to more relevant content on your website. Link back to additional articles that provide more information or to specific resources on your site that you mentioned in the article.

Ezine Tip #8: Use It or Lose It

There’s no reason why all the good content you write for your newsletters has to be lost with each passing month. Instead, review your past newsletters and see if there is any content you can flesh out as additional content for your website.

In addition, you can also rework your main articles and submit them to article sites. This will help build your link popularity and help promote your business.

Ezine Tip #9: Multiple Subscription Boxes

Even with a dedicated landing page, you still should provide multiple subscription boxes on other pages of your site. My recommendation is to place a subscription box at the upper right or upper left of every single page. You never know where someone will enter your site or when someone will be ready to subscribe. Multiple subscription boxes make it easy for your visitors to register no matter what page they happen to be viewing.

Ezine Tip #10: Survey Your Readers

I recommend periodically surveying your readers. In your newsletter, place a link back to a survey on your website. If you don’t have the tools to create a survey on your website, use an external service like Survey Monkey. You don’t need to do this more than once or twice a year.

I recommend you also provide some type of incentive for completing the survey. Surveying your newsletter readers is a great way to help determine the type of content THEY want to see. It’s easy to assume you know what your customers want to read about, but the only accurate way to really know is to simply ask.

Here are some good survey topics.

1. Ask about the relevancy of the newsletter.

2. Ask about the frequency. Should it be more/less frequent?

3. Ask about the quality of the writing and the general layout.

4. Ask about the usefulness of the information provided.

5. Ask them for specific article topics they would like to see in future issues.

6. Ask if there is any regular content that they would like to see removed.

7. Ask them to rate their overall satisfaction level of the newsletter.

8. Ask them if they have any ideas for improvement.

Following these ten ezine startup tips will help ensure your small business ezine launch is a successful one!

For additional Ezine tips, read Starting an Ezine.

Corte Swearingen
http://www.articlesbase.com/small-business-articles/ten-tips-for-a-successful-ezine-707435.html

A wedding engagement and subsequent ceremony has not been valid unless there is a right music to setting the mood and making sure people have fun with the music. Music has the power to set a mood, evoke emotion, and give moment cohesiveness. Wedding bands with a repertoire of tried & tested crowd pleasers and state of the art sound & lighting equipment, dedicated to making your event a truly memorable experience. When selecting wedding bands, many things must be taken into consideration; most importantly, whether or not the wedding band sets you choose will look terrific, wear well and accommodate your active lifestyle.

Wedding band line-up consists of vocals, drums, bass, guitar and keyboards. The band plays a variety of popular music – Robbie Williams, Queen, Santana, Van Morrison, and Ricky Martin with superb vocals making the band of choice for parties and all kind of function. Some wedding bands can really only play one sound, and have a hard time switching genres or styles. The wedding band combines elegant music with lush harmonies and high-energy dance music, featuring an extensive repertoire spanning seven decades.

The wedding band will usually provide the bride and groom with a sheet to fill out indicating all of the announcements, special dance selections and other details regarding the order of events that will take place during the party or functions. Talented musicians working well together with artful use of musical equipment can often create a better sound than bands that employ a larger number of musicians.

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Dinesh Gupta
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/wedding-banda-symbol-of-your-eternal-love-for-your-dream-engagement-110394.html

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Just yesterday, somebody posted a link to a cool site called Tabnabber: http://tabnabber.com/convert_guitar_sheet_music.asp#output If you can find the regular tab, you can copy and paste it into tabnabbers tab to music converter. Standard tab is pretty easy to find….

http://www.12WeekGuitarCourse.com Learn Eric Clapton’s acoustic version of Layla from this DVD guitar lesson clip.

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This is just a Vocaloid Generated Version of Black Magic. I can’t find any version of the song Black Magic without lyrics, so I just used the normal one. The Vocaloids Voice Volume were not risen (In fact, I lowered them) because it would not sound good if it were too high. These were all bone by ear so there isn’t any music sheet or lyric sheet. Enjoy!

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Note: I did not make the song Black Magic, all I did was generate the Vocaloids and put everything together.

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In this lesson we teach you about subsituting 6th chords into your rhythms and progressions to spice things up. Many players use these chords including Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Mayer.

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Learn how to play Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ and other popular songs in this free video clip series that will have you playing everyone’s favorite songs on guitar in no time.

Expert: Joe Wiles
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Bio: Joe Wiles is the founder of the Rock and Roll Conservatory which is a facility dedicated to mentoring the next generation of influential artists.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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Learn how to read sheet music for piano in this free video on music instruction and piano techniques.

Expert: Annie Brunson
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Bio: Annie Brunson has a degree in Music and Theater from Bretton Hall and has taught piano, oboe, and middle school band.
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Most people are familiar with the slide whistle, but do not often view it as an instrument that is to be played for the same reasons that someone would pick up the saxophone or violin to play. It is a great little instrument that most will use as a sound effect, or to use in adding something into a piece of music they are playing. Also known as the swanee whistle or the piston flute, the slide whistle has a simple design. It is a tube with a fipple in it, like the recorder or the win whistle has, and has a piston that fits within the tube. By moving this piston up and down, the musician can create different sounds.

The slide whistle is a member of the woodwind instrument family and creates a different pitch as the musician blows into it and moves the piston to a different position within the tube. As mentioned before, it is most often used as a sound effect, either in different musical situations, or in a cartoon to emphasize something that is happening. What most people don’t realize is that it is actually possible to play some tunes on the slide whistle. It can create different sounds after all.

It is not an exceptionally old form of whistle. In fact, it is a fairly new instrument that became extremely popular in the early twentieth century. It was a common instrument to be used in jazz and other popular music of the times. It even continues to find a place in today’s music on occasion, though cartoons or comedies will tend to have it more often.

The slide whistle can be manipulated in such a way as to create different melodies, but it does take someone with a certain amount of talent and practice to do this. It can be difficult to create these melodies because there are no marks on where to have the piston in order to create the different notes, and there is no sheet music for the slide whistle in order to create music. It takes someone with an imagination and with the ability to create music in order to use the slide whistle in this manner. This is not to say that only a select number of special people through out the world are the only ones that can do this. Anyone can give it a try and might be successful at it.

While it is not an instrument that someone would choose to play as their main instrument throughout their musical career, it can be a great instrument to play for fun on free time. The different sounds that it can make do vary quite a bit and someone could easily come up with something unique that might interest others. It could easily be a great background instrument in different tunes, but it does depend on what is being played. It is certainly not limited to any specific genres and can be a versatile instrument if necessary.

Victor Epand
http://www.articlesbase.com/music-articles/the-silly-and-sometimes-amusing-sound-of-the-slide-whistle-407196.html

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