E-Zine Articles from Direct Magazine

How to Build Your E-Zine List

Permission to send e-zines or e-mail newsletters to a consumer needs to be proactive and voluntary. The only correct way to get permission to send your e-zine is by having people sign up with the understanding that they want to receive e-mail from you....

How to Write an E-zine Your Subscribers Will Love (or at Least Open and Read)

For many marketers, the fastest way to build a house list of opt-in e-mail names and addresses—an absolute necessity for online marketing—is with the offer of a free subscription to an online newsletter or e-zine....

How to Start and Run an E-Zine

E-ZINE IQ recently talked with David Fish, CEO of IMN, to get his thoughts on what he calls informative marketing. He believes that an e-zine is “a little bit different than an e-mail blast or event-triggered marketing, although it relates to both of them.” Here’s his personal seminar on what it takes to launch and run an e-zine....

E-zine Education

WE'VE ALL GOTTEN them. Some of us, to our vexation and bewilderment, have produced them: e-mail marketing newsletters that fail to keep recipients opening and clicking over time. Here are some simple things you can do to create an e-zine that looks great, and works even better....

Designing and Formatting E-Zines

Your approach to e-zine design must be fundamentally different from print, direct marketing or even Web page design. The reason is simple: Your customers’ experience with e-mail is fundamentally different than with those other media....

The Pros and Cons of HTML in E-Zines

Should you build your e-zine using HTML or text-only...

Tips for Building E-Zines

Marketers who want to develop e-zines -- a.k.a. online newsletters -- would do best just to launch them quickly, despite imperfections, and smooth them out later, according to Bob Bly, direct marketing copywriter and e-zine developer....

The New E-zine Metric

Today, CMOs are demanding more from metrics they use every day. Open rates and clickthroughs are only part of the equation: They need to know if the e-zine is contributing to actual sales. And it'd help if they could see if and how customers are interacting with the content....

E-Zine Resources on the Web

The Ezine Directory

The Ezine Directory is a free resource for ezine publishers and subscribers, and lists thousands of the best email newsletters available on the Internet....

EmailUniverse

Ezine Strategies for Email Newsletter Publishers covering issues such as e-zine content, formatting, list management, promotion and revenue, with resource reviews and interviews with E-zine experts....

Ezine Articles

A searchable Internet article directory with hundreds of articles on the subject of ezines. And you can submit articles from your ezine....

E-Zine Case Histories

Small Pediatric E-Zine Gets the Job Done

It's short and sweet but it gets the job done. The pediatric e-zine sent out by Dr. William Sears reaches roughly 20,000 subscribers without the bells and whistles used by many e-mail newsletters....

The E-zine for Cinephiles

New York's Film Forum is using their e-zine to capitalize on their online ticket sales success....

Daydreaming with Leading Hotels of the World's E-Zine

Everyone dreams of posh accommodations in exotic locales. And since it doesn’t cost anything to dream, Leading Hotels of the World has found a growing audience for its e-zine....

The Bombay Company Builds an E-zine Program

In 1978, when Brad Harper started The Bombay Company it was strictly a mail-order company. Almost 30 years and almost 500 retail outlets later, the firm is reaching out to its customers in a new way—through e-zines. And it has plenty to talk about....

Volkswagen Dealer Tests Video in E-Zine

A Boston-area Volkswagen dealership is testing a video in the current issue of its e-zine. If successful, the concept will be rolled out to various dealers and brands nationwide, said David Fish, CEO of IMN, creator of the program....

DSW's E-zine Way to Loyalty

Shoe retailer DSW Inc. is using a monthly e-zine to connect with its 4.5 million active loyalty program members....

Red Lobster's E-zine Reels Them In

Red Lobster's e-zine ties into their promotional calendar and offers notes from the chefs, information about food, recipes and promotions and special opportunities...

PTC Starts E-zine Program

PTC, A FIRM THAT OFFERS product life-cycle management tools, has launched an e-zine program for its value-added resellers, enabling them to deliver material from a central content database....


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