Most week days I walk about 3 miles and I’ve been doing that since 1981 or so. If you total up all those miles it’s somewhere over 20,000 miles. During that time I could have walked from New York to Los Angeles and back four times. If I could walk on water […]

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Most of the time on a sign up form I ask for the first name and primary email.
I want their first name so I can personalize emails I send out and, by doing so, increase response. (Using a name will make you more money.)
Sometimes–whether by intention or accident–subscribers leave the name field blank or […]

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Today has been dubbed “RSS Appreciation Day” and one of the ways I am celebrating is by putting to work a subtle but powerful leadblogging tactic:
Giving people a reason to tell others about your list.
I am using a promotion I dubbed FeedaPALOOZA to encourage many bloggers to not only promote their own lists, but to […]

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