Ezines - Marketing Tool Or Business Venture?
There are a few ezines that have moved beyond the realm of knowledge-based content to a business venture.
One service in particular is called The Dabbling Mum. The owner of the site is also an accomplished editor. The service provides content at no cost to visitors, but provides authors with financial rewards for accepted articles.
This ezine features content that helps with personal relationships, business ventures, recipes and more and because the owner pays for material the standard of excellence is well above average.
In this case the cost of developing the ezine is directly related to the fees collected in advertising and sales made through the online store.
This owner made the decision to create something that was worth coming back to again and again. She knew that to develop the quality site she wanted she would have to enlist outside help.
The site informs writers how to submit articles for potential publishing and helps them learn more about the publication and the types of writing she requires.
At this point the editor side of the site owner comes into play. She reviews the articles thoroughly, makes her selections, and works with the author to provide revisions until she is satisfied it meets or exceeds her standard of excellence.
This magazine also relies on affiliate revenue as a means of keeping the ezine available.
In most cases an ezine is developed to augment an existing business. In the case of this ezine and others it is the ezine that ultimately facilitates business.
The reason this works for The Dabbling Mum is the emphasis on quality content. The content does not remain static and the standard does not degrade over time. This site even features a variety of contests for reader participation. The combination of skills needed to put the site together ultimately makes the ezine itself the basis for a business venture.
Some businesses view an ezine as a necessary part of marketing an existing business, but The Dabbling Mum provides proof that if executed correctly an ezine can actually develop into the focal point of a business venture.
Maybe you’ve never considered an ezine as a means of facilitating a healthy affiliate revenue program, but inventive entrepreneurs are discovering that the efficient use of a variety of marketing tools can create something much bigger than typical wisdom might indicate possible.
Ezines can help sell products, but they can also sell a concept that may be bigger than a single product. No matter how you seek to develop an ezine for your business it is possible to make ezines a potent marketing tool.
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