Mara's Ads
Volume 1, Issue 3
Date: August 3, 2001

Editor/Publisher Christie Pegoda
http://marasads.vze.com

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1. Welcome from the Editor
2. Feature Article
3. Classified Ads
4. Mail Bag
5. Tips & Shortcuts
6. Subscription Management
7. Disclaimers

Welcome to Mara's Ads! This is a weekly ezine. In an effort to improve this ezine, starting next week, it will be sent out on Saturday.

I should be back on schedule now that I am back from visiting my daughter and granddaughter.

You are receiving this newsletter because you requested a subscription. Un-subscribe instructions are toward the end of the newsletter.

If you would like to contribute an article, please feel free to submit it to me along with an advertisement that you would like run. If I run your article, I will run the ad for 4 issues. If you subscribe, you get a free advertise- ment. Actually, all the advertisements are FREE. I will publish weekly (for now). The ads are first come, first to be published.

Submit your article to:
mailto:[email protected]?subject=article

If you want to post an ad but not subscribe to the ezine, contact me about ad prices.
mailto:[email protected]?subject=nonsubad

I also welcome suggestions of what you would like to see included in the ezine.

If you would like to submit a free ad please send it to:
mailto:[email protected]?subject=freead

I am considering running some solo ads if you guys are interested. The cost would be $3.00 per solo ad. Let me know what you think!

The ads that run in the ezine will still be free as long as you are a subscriber.

Again, I have got some pretty long ads, but as I had not posted the rules in the first issue, and I got some of these before I sent out the 2nd issue, I am running them. But... PLEASE format your ads as following:
6 lines 65 char. including url and email

Deadline: Ads need to be in by Thursday to go in Saturday's issue.

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Col. 3:17

HARVESTING EMAIL ADDRESSES
by Debbie Solomon
http://www.marketingtrendz.com

The first time I saw these websites that offer you thousands and thousands of opt-in email addresses for just pennies, was so tempting and so inviting, I ALMOST fell for it. Heck, who can resist it? You don't have to work your butt off trying to gain a subscriber base. This is a ready made subscriber base, and also potential clients for my product. And this software that is offered that will extract people's email addresses from newsgroups, messageboards, etc... This is just so easy to do, and alot less time consuming then having to advertise advertise and advertise some more.

BEWARE...This is called Harvesting Email Addresses. Sure they make it sound so simple, and legit, but it isn't. Even the BEST OF US is always tempted by this ploy, but PLEASE do not fall for it. This is NOT Opt-In. These people are NOT asking for your offer. These addresses are harvested. They did not ask to be added to any of these lists. I bet, YOUR email address is on a few of them too. How would you like to fall victim to their ploy of selling YOUR email address to others? I promise you, you will get in so much trouble if you decide to buy one of these lists, or use software for that purpose, it is only a matter of time before you face dire circumstances.

To be honest with you, harvesting email addresses is not illegal. You will not be fined and you will not go to jail. But what will happen will hurt your business immensely. Here are just some of the consequences you will face:

--You will lose your ISP.
--You will lose your Domain host.
--You will lose your Domain.
--Your name will be added to the spam list.
--Your business will be blacklisted.
--You will gain a very bad reputation as a spammer.

Just think of all the hard work you put into your business. Getting listed in Search Engines, Advertising everywhere you can find exposure and networking on the internet. ALL this is down the drain, cause you now lost your domain, so if a potential client sees your AD, or sees you listed in a search engine, it will do no good, cause your domain is GONE!!!!

Once you work your BUTT off getting back up and going again with a new ISP and new domain, guess what?? Now you are faced with another dilemma. You have gained such a bad reputation as a spammer, that people will not want anything to do with your business because of your previous ethics.

Is this worth it? Many of you do not know the seriousness of what Harvesting Email Addresses can do. I am here to give a heartfelt warning. NO MATTER how good it sounds? Do not FALL FOR IT!

For all of you who are fairly new to the internet...I hope you now realize what harm harvesting email addresses can do. And how falling for these big offers, no matter how tempting they are, will just ruin any business.

Please DO NOT ruin your business for the Easy -Way -Out. I am not one of those Anti-Spam radicals who goes nuts every- time a Spam is received. Honestly, I just delete them and not even bother with it. The only time I get annoyed is if I am constantly bombarded with emails from one person. It does get out of hand. I will email the person and tell them to either remove from their list or suffer the consequences. It is up to them to remedy the situation. If they persist, they I will notify Abuse@ their ISP. The only constant emails I will read are newsletters and ezines. And only the ones I ask for.

Just remember...Harvesting Email Addresses is very bad business etiquette with dire circumstances to face. Honest etiquette is and honest business. You will gain a respected reputation, and your business will flourish. SO, as you can see, hard work does has its rewards.

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Author: Debbie Solomon
Debbie is the Creator of The HomeSource Arena, which is The Leading Source in Certified Home Employment, and owner of The Online Exchange Ezine, a Top Rated, world renowned Ezine. The only Ezine that will give you FREE Access into an Exclusive Members Only Club, just for subscribing for FREE to The OnLine Exchange Ezine.
Please visit her site at:
http://www.marketingtrendz.com
[email protected]

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Here's a chance for you to contribute.

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!!!!!DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!!!!!
I am still taking opinions about the POPUP ADS! Go to the website http://marasads.vze.com and vote at the Opinion Page or send me an eamil.

My 7 year old granddaughter gave me her opinion while I was visiting! You guys need to add your vote to her's! When I publish the results, I will tell you what the future web designer had to say!!

mailto:[email protected]?subject=vote
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I keep a notepad program open most of the time I am online. When I find an URL in an email that I want to investigate, or an article that I would like to read don't have the time right at that moment, I copy and paste into the notepad. Then, when I have the time, I can go back and read the articles, etc. that interested me. Then I can delete the email and keep down the clutter in my mailbox.

It really helps if you are like me and get tons of email ads and quite a few ezines!

The notepad in Windows will work fine, but I usually use a freeware program that allows me to paste, save without naming the file, and move on. It also allows the insertion of date and time. The program I use is called MegaHype, but I've been unable to locate that program again. I downloaded it from http://download.cnet.com/ and as far as I can tell, it is no longer there. However, there were several other programs that looked interesting.

Go check them out or go to http://www.Znet.com
I LOVE these kinds of websites! You can get freeware or shareware!

Do you have a tip or shortcut that you would like to share with us?

Post it to the MaraBoard or email me!

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