Ezine Mailing Mistake Lesson

Yesterday, I had sent our HTML email newsletter by mistake…as I had put the HTML code into the PLAIN TEXT box instead of the HTML box. The reason I didn’t catch it was because my email program (Eudora Pro) was smart enough to know it was HTML and it rendered it perfectly…fooling me into thinking the newsletter was good to go.

One day later, it’s interesting to report that 172 members (2%) of our email newsletter out of 8,271 that were sent the issue were able to render it perfectly.
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 24, 2005 at 9:44 am

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Honoring Laura M. Walker

Tribute to EzineArticles.com Author and 24-year-old 1st Lt. Laura M. Walker

Less than 3 weeks ago, Laura Walker opened up and registered an EzineArticles.com membership account. She sent in one article called “The Route to Democracy“.

On Friday morning at 5:07 AM, we received an email from someone who works with Laura:

“I regret to inform you that this fine officer was killed in action August 18th, in an IED attack in Afghanistan. Please pray for her family and the family of the Soldier who was killed in action with her. They will both be sorely missed by their unit and all that knew them.”
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 23, 2005 at 11:19 am

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Introducing…The Wally

If you’ve been interacting with our system over the past month, there is no doubt you’ve had an article or comment or support question answered by Associate Editor #4.

But, who is this mysterious Editor #4?

If you guessed “Wally”, then you win.

Wally became part of the EzineArticles team back in June and took over the daily operations of EzineArticles in the first week of July. Soon, you’ll see his blog posts here whenever he has an Article Marketing rant or rave to share with you.
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 23, 2005 at 9:45 am

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1,000 Word Comments

Previously, we had placed a limit on COMMENTS that were posted to any article on our site to a 400 word limit.

Seeing that our 400 word limit was wrong due to commentors posting multiple parts to make a comment, we’ve upped it to 1,000 words per comment.
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 23, 2005 at 9:07 am

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Getting Picked Up

Author Question: Could you make some recommendations as to the types of article that get picked up most by publishers?

Publisher Answer: 250-550 word articles that do not self-promote in the article body, give original content preferrably in a form that is easy to digest (lists, bullet points, and short/punchy explanations), and end with 2 or less URL’s in the resource box.

You’re either writing to amuse yourself or you’re writing to amuse your reader. One way will give you an ego boost and the other way will put your article into mass viral distribution. :-)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 23, 2005 at 6:34 am

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New Member Alerts

At any given minute of any given day, one or more of our registered members are using our system to send in their articles or review their article reports.

With that said, from time to time we have the need to do database maintenance to keep our site running fast. In the greater majority of cases, this is seamless and no one should know we’re doing database work…but we’ve just implemented a cool new broadcast feature that is part of your members only area:

NEW: Member Only Broadcast Alerts

At the top of your article management membership login home page, you’ll find a note on the top that will give you messages…such as new features to check out, notification that we are scheduling maintenance for a certain time period or having to do unscheduled reboots, and tips or techniques to help you avoid common mistakes.

It’s our hope that this additional communication will reach those who are actively logged in to their accounts and prevent anyone from losing the work they were working on when we are working or maintaining the back-end systems. :-)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 19, 2005 at 4:24 pm

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Trainers and Speakers Q?

Same question that I just asked print magazine publishers:

Our Publisher TOS prohibits using any article reprints from our site for any audience that paid a fee to come listen to you speak or any corporate training program that you charged a fee for.

With that said, would you be willing to pay a reasonable fee to license a pre-set number of copies (you’d receive the article in PDF form and it would not be private labelable as we must respect the copyrights of the authors, not to mention giving them proper credit and their resource box at the bottom of each article) that you could distribute to your audience or the employees of companies you train at?

We would of course do a profit sharing thing with our authors for any sales of this type of product, but was just exploring this in concept to see if there is any market interest?

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 18, 2005 at 8:38 am

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Magazine Publishers Q?

Any print magazine publishers reading this article marketing blog?

As you may know from our publisher TOS, we don’t allow articles to be reprinted in any medium that requires someone to pay for the privellage of reading the articles…which pretty much excludes ALL print magazines that are not given away in totality for free.

Curious: Would you be willing to pay a fee (that we would share with the authors) for the right to reprint the article in your fee-based magazine?

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 18, 2005 at 8:33 am

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Cancer Articles- New Screening Process

To reach a higher level of confidence that cancer related article submissions are original works, we now screen all cancer articles submitted via multiple exact match searches of complex sentences within the articles via the major search engines.

Normally we do random checks and have a series of insider tools we use to track, catch and stop non-original submissions from becoming accepted…but with cancer articles, they will all get a higher level of attention as we work harder to ensure we only represent original articles.
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 18, 2005 at 8:05 am

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Pre-Basic Membership

Now that we’re keeping up with incoming submissions (almost too well), we’ve had time to tighten up our system and begin looking at ways we can help new registered authors with us get from point A (having registered an account with us) to point B (submitting their first in a series of articles).
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 18, 2005 at 7:04 am

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