So often when we are setting up or autoresponder messages we’re so focused on what we are saying that we forget how important it is to keep the message personal to our readers. We end up putting out what I call “public address” messages.

Sure, if you’ve set it up correctly, the subscriber gets a message that starts off with a personal greeting but then it trails off into a message intended for anybody that happens to be reading it. They lose the feeling that it was written for them at all. Instead, they find themselves bumping through it because(hopefully)they respect you as a source of information and feel like they “should” read it because it might be important.

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I came across a blog post at Problogger and I had to write a quick post telling you about it because it’s huge.

According to the post, when Google’s Webspam head, Matt Cutts, wants to add links to while blogging he uses Linkify. In fact, Matt named Linkify as the shortest, easiest thing he did to improve his blog in 2007.

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I was very excited when a friend of mine bought me an early Christmas of the Build A Niche Store, or BANS as it more commonly referred to in internet marketing circles.

Why was I juiced about it?

This product promised to be able to get you set up in a short time with a site that would act as a highly-targeted storefront to whatever hot category you selected from ebay. You would be providing an excellent means for people looking for a specific item or group of items to come to a site that could give them information they needed to make informed buying decisions and then give them one-click access to the eBay.com network.

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I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

Jeff

It was just another day working at the computer. I got up and got ready for another day in my home-based business. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

I sat down and fired up my old mac and waited. I logged in an opened my email program.

Of all the messages I received, one struck me as out of place. It was an email from Dan Fogelberg’s site. I remembered hearing that he had been diagnosed in 2004 with advanced prostate cancer and I had signed up to receive updates on his condition when they were available. I had not heard anything since signing up and this had concerned me whenever I thought about it.

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