E-mail publishing is growing faster than the World Wide Web. This book shows entrepreneurs how to use e-mail to create newsletters, discussion groups, news bulletins and other powerful communication skills. This book presents the essentials of E-mail program, signing up members, successfully moderating a list, and using the lists to promote a product without alienating members. It also discusses making money by selling advertising, writing newsletter messages, using E-mail services when your subscriber lists is down and much more. With the help of this book, readers can confidently stem into the fastest-growing area of Internet communications.
Say all you want about push technologies: plain old electronic mail works best. Everyone has it; everyone uses it; everyone likes it. Poor Richard's E-Mail Publishing shows you how to create and grow communities around e-mail publications.
The book describes author Chris Pirillo's experiences in building the Lockergnome newsletter and extrapolates nuggets of advice from them. In the process of sharing his accumulated wisdom, the book explains the technical (HTML formatting, mailing list software) and nontechnical (content selection, subscriber management) aspects of running a list. But the author doesn't remain in the spotlight. Poor Richard's E-Mail Publishing includes a series of chapters authored by leaders of other e-mail communities, including the Naked PC Newsletter, the LangaList, and This Is True.
The book doesn't promise that your e-mail newsletter will make you rich--Pirillo opines that the medium isn't yet mature enough to generate much more than a modest income for most publishers. However, he describes a medium on the verge of profitability and tells his readers how to give their lists maximum business appeal. He advises readers to make top-quality content their first priority, build brand names, and provide excellent customer service. Perhaps most important, the book explains the difference between spam and legitimate mass mailings: subscribers have absolute control over legitimate mailings, and their information is never used behind their backs.
In addition to the advice of newsletter publishers, the book provides appendices listing mailing-list software, list service providers, and e-publications worth a look. --David Wall
Topics covered: Why e-mail newsletters work, how to build mutually supporting Web sites and newsletters, configuring mass-mailing software, managing subscriptions, creating and collecting content, plain text and HTML formatting, list service providers, and advertising.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Um excelente livro:
Excelente livro sobre o uso do e-mail para a divulgação de informaçòes pela Internet.
Livro de facil leitura, mostrando de forma clara e através de exemplos páticos e concretos a arte do uso do e-mail. Um dos melhores livros que ja li sobre o assunto, que tem 100% minha aprovacao e recomendacao
The definitive guide to e-mail publishing:
An interesting book. Chris Pirillo discusses publishing an e-mail newsletter, or e-zine. In fact, he covers it almost completely. The only problem I had with this book was the author's incomplete and sometimes rambling discussion of configuring an e-mail account for your mailing list. I had to look elsewhere (online) to understand this. To his credit, it is difficult to understand. Other than that, this book is a fabulous introduction to e-mail publishing and will give the reader many good ideas and tips... more info
Don't throw away your money:
This is truly a terrible book - very thin on usable content. Further, the author, Chris Pirillo, writes like a high school "valley girl." It is a prime example that the Internet allows anyone - despite how dumb they are - to venture, and in this case, publish their opinions. Don't waste you money. And for the author, become a cheerleader!
Poor Rehash of Poor Richard Trash:
This book was a poor excuse for a definitive guide. Poor Richard rehashes are...well.......kind of like Sam's Publishing IT books being definitive guides on how to fix a network in 10 days.
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