Boomer eZine

The Blog for Boomer Online Entrepreneurs

Friday, August 25, 2006

Volume 1 Issue 20 8-25-06

For those who would like to read this in HTML format, this issue of Boomer eZine is posted on the Boomer eZine website at http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I20_082506.htm and on the Boomer eZine Blog at http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com/.

Table of Contents for this issue.....

  1. Authors Comments
  2. Building a List
  3. 15 Proven Strategies to Grow Your List
  4. Tip - Deleting Emails from Outlook
Author's Comments

Not much excitement this week. I had to fly to Houston for the day on Tuesday. That makes for a long day, but it was up and back the same day so I got to sleep in my own bed.

On Wednesday, I turned 63 and Linda cooked a great birthday meal for me. She is a really good cook and the meal was wonderful. All my children called me and wished me a Happy Birthday. Grown children are such a great gift!

This Saturday is the annual Quail Unlimited banquet so we will be going to that. It is always a great event, and I usually buy something in the auction. I guess I will try to sit on my hands this year.

As we promised last week, the theme of this week’s issue is about mailing lists. This is a very important part of being successful on the Internet. It is much easier to sell a person the second time than to sell them the first time. Once they have bought from you and you treated them well and delivered as they expected, you have won their trust and they will buy from you again. This applies to e-goods as well as to hard goods on eBay.

Building a List


In all the research that I have done on being successful on the Internet, the most common theme that runs through the success of the most successful individuals is to build a list of customers who then become repeat customers. You know from your off-line life that the businesses that you continually use are the ones that do a good job and treat you right. Once you gain confidence in them, you continue to go back to them. The same is true on the Internet.

I read an eBook called The 30 Day Blueprint for Success that convinced me of the importance of building a mailing list. The book was a compilation of articles from 15 highly respected Internet professionals from different arenas of the Net who were challenged with the following scenario.

“Dear Internet Marketing Expert,
You suddenly lose all your money, along with your name and reputation, and only have your marketing know-how left.

You have bills piled high and people harassing you for money over the phone.
Plus, you have a guaranteed roof over your head, a phone line, and an Internet connection for only one month.

You no longer have your big guru name or JV partners. Other than your vast marketing experience, you’re an unknown newbie.

What would you do, from day 1 to day 30, to get yourself back on top?”


(The above quote was excerpted from Volume I of The 30 Day Blueprint for Success.)

The most common method that these individuals used was to rebuild a customer list as quickly as possible so they could be effective in building the business they once had. Just as an aside, the book was very revealing about the thought patterns of these experts during their 30 day quest to restore the income stream that they once enjoyed. There are four volumes of this book, but I only read the first one since the pattern they used was repeated.

In a class that I took under him, my friend and mentor, Jim Cockrum (author of The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay) said that if his office caught fire the first thing he would save was the backup with his mailing list on it.

How to manage a List - Autoresponders

Some might consider this a little backwards, but let’s plan for how we are going to handle the list before we figure out how to build it. We need to be able to capture basic information like name and email address. We need to be able to automatically send a reply to the person joining the list and verify that they were indeed the person who sent the request to join. (This is called double opt-in and it is vitally important so you can prove that you are not sending SPAM in the future). We will need to send out emails to the people on the list in the future when we start communicating with the customers on the list.

To handle this in any volume on your own is an impossible task, but there are services called autoresponders on the Internet that will handle all of this for you.

There are free autoresponders such as FreeAutoBot.com and there are paid autoresponders such as Aweber.com and GetResponse.com. Free sounds good for a start up, but the downside is the fact that the autoresponder puts its link and sometimes advertising on the emails that it sends for you. It does not look as professional as a message from a paid autoresponder. If you use a free autoresponder and then want to switch over to another one later, you face the conversion problems of converting your mailing list. This can be done with import features in autoresponders that allow for mass input of lists, but it is additional work and the autoresponder will take a close look at the list since this is how large SPAM mailing lists can be loaded into an autoresponder. This is your choice and should be carefully researched before you make your decision.

I use Aweber.com so that is the one we will discuss. The site has a 30 day free test drive that will allow you to experiment with it and decide if it is for you. Go to
http://www.aweber.com/?211286 look around.

If you decide to use it (and you will have to use an autoresponder to build a list of any size), one month of service from Aweber.com is $19.95 as of this writing so you can start off with a monthly plan. Once you are satisfied that this is for you, you can save $60.00 per year with an annual plan.

After you have signed up, log on to Aweber.com and go to the “How to Get Started” page. This is very complete and has great instructions and tutorial videos to help you set up your first autoresponder. I like the feature of Aweber.com where you compose your messages off line and then import the info into the autoresponder. You will need Notepad to compose your messages. The program is found under your Accessories in Programs on your MS Windows. If you have not already done so, I recommend that you set up a shortcut icon on your desktop or on your systems tray for Notepad. It is very handy to be able to open this quickly. I use it as a scratch pad for copying and pasting things from web pages to print so I can use the info in research later.

Each week when I get ready to send the weekly issue of Boomer eZine, I log onto Aweber and set up what is called a broadcast message. I copy the newsletter from MS Word to Notepad. This removes all the Word control characters. I then copy the text from Notepad to the input area of Aweber and check the formatting. I then test how it looks by sending it to my own email address. If I am satisfied, I click a button on Aweber and the Boomer eZine is sent to everyone on the list.

My Aweber autoresponder automatically sends follow up emails. I recently added a follow up email that is sent 14 days after the initial sign up to thank a new subscriber for being a reader. Some of you received that email this last week and some will get it in the future. Aweber does this for me automatically.
Now that we know there is a simple way to handle all those names that you will add to your list, let’s see how to grow your list.

15 Proven Strategies to Grow Your List

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I read this article and felt that it fit well with the theme of this issue – List Building. It gives some great advice on how to build your list.

By Guest Author Donna Gunter
(c) 2006 Donna Gunter

I've been publishing an email newsletter since 2000, and have to admit I wasn't very attentive to the whole process at the beginning. Hindsight is 20/20, and I could kick myself for not taking this strategy very seriously, as my email newsletter list is my gold mine because it's filled with subscribers who already know something about me.

Each week after I send out my ezine, I receive several emails that begin, "Hi Donna! My name is <fill in the blank here>, and I know you don't know me, but I know you, as I've been reading your newsletter for a couple of years now." I love those emails, as I know that my reader has begun to like, trust and respect me -- all the characteristics that need to be in place for them to decide to buy something from me.

Many of you may be asking, "Well, Donna, isn't the email newsletter dead? Everyone is blogging now." True, blogging is quite an effective way to publicize your business. However, I believe in the power of doing both. There are people who don't have the time/energy/desire to read a blog and would rather have the info delivered directly to them in their inbox, with no additional clicking required. So, as long as I can, I'll be doing both..:)

How can you grow your own list? Or, if you're just starting an email newsletter, how can you get subscribers to the list? Here are 15 strategies I've used over the past 5 years to get subscribers to my email newsletter list:

1. Tell your clients, colleagues, friends and family. Just like a birth announcement, tell everyone you know about your new "baby" -- your email newsletter. Because you want a list in which subscribers have opted in, don't add people directly to the list. In fact, many ezine distribution services don't permit you to do that. Instead, provide them with an email sign-up link, or send them to the form on your web site where they can subscribe to your newsletter.

2. Have a sign-up box on every page of your web site. You never know on what page someone will land in your web site. As I look at my web site statistics, I am amazed at some of the search terms that visitors use that make them land on an internal page of my web site. Don't take a chance that you might lose them -- offer them the option to sign up for your newsletter on every single page of your web site.

3. Make your sign-up box compelling. Don't have a simple sign up box that says, "Join our mailing list." Yuck--who wants to voluntarily receive more email? Not me! Give your visitor a reason to sign up for your newsletter, i.e. "Join over 2000 other solo business owners who receive weekly advice on how to get more clients online."

4. Create one clear call to action. If you have too many options for action on your web site, your visitor will become overwhelmed and leave. Conversely, if you don't ask your visitor to take an action, you potentially lose that person forever. Make your primary call to action on your web site a request to subscribe to your email newsletter. It's short, simple, to the point, and will help you build your contact database gold mine.

5. Ask for only 2 pieces of info: a first name and primary email address. Many web surfers are want to disclose as little personal info as they can, as they fear receiving spam or phishing emails. Make it easy for people to sign up for your list -- require them to disclose only a minimal amount of info to be added to your newsletter list.

6. Create a free give-away for new subscribers. If you know your target market well, you know what problems they struggle with daily. Write a short report/article/ecourse that provides the answer to a very overwhelming problem that they have. They can receive the answer to this problem (your freebie) by giving your their name and email address.

7. Create a squeeze page for lead generation. A squeeze page is just what it sounds like -- a web site page that "squeezes" contact info out of a visitor. I have a content-rich ebook that I give away to new visitors. One of my promotional strategies is to list the domain for that squeeze page,
http://www.getmoreclientsonline.com/, and write very compelling copy about why they would want this information. I get 10-15 new subscribers per day with this technique.

8. Make an offer in your signature file. Don't overlook the power of an effective email signature. Whether you use it on a discussion list, online forum, online networking site, or just in an email that gets forwarded to someone else, ensure your signature file works for you. In it, make an offer for your free give-away and let the reader know how they can receive that info. I've been hooked more than once by a compelling email signature -- they really work! You can see mine here: http://www.onlinebizcoachingcompany.com/emailsig.htm.

9. Create a visual icon for your newsletter. Visitors respond better to pictures than words. If they can see a visual representation of your newsletter or of your give-away, they are more likely to see the value in what you're offering and part with their contact info.

10. Use a pop-up or pop-over box on your web site. Yes, pop-up boxes are annoying, but they're quite effective. There are many new varieties now available that look like sticky notes or a paper list, or ones that seem to bounce on your screen. Most of these newer varieties are not blocked by pop-up blocker software. You'll want to use one that's eye-catching, contains a very compelling offer to subscribe, and won't be blocked by your visitor's browser.

11. Make subscribing to your newsletter your #1 goal at events. Anytime I attend an in-person networking event or speak at a meeting, my primary goal is to get people to subscribe to my email newsletter. I simply ask people to indicate they want to receive my newsletter by placing an "X" on the back of their business card, and then I add them to my list and they are sent my opt-in message. At one event, I had to tell the women at my table what I needed in the next 30 days, and I said I wanted subscribers to my newsletter. Every woman at the table gave me her card and said, "Sign me up!"

12. Offer a free sample or your archives for viewing. Some visitors have to be shown before they bite, so show them where you archive your prior issues and let them experience first-hand all the value you offer in your newsletter. Once convinced, they'll sign up!

13. Ask for referrals from your readers. In your newsletter or on your web site, ask your readers to "tell a friend" about your newsletter. There are both free and paid services that offer this option, Bravenet.com being one of the more popular ones.

14. Get your articles published in other ezines. Writing articles and having them published online or in other people's newsletters or blogs has been a tremendous asset in helping me grow my list. Make sure that your article resource box (the info that appears about you at the end of your article) includes your compelling offer to get readers to sign up for your newsletter and receive your free gift.

15. Advertise on the back of your business card. The back of my business card contains compelling copy about the free give-away I offer for subscribing to my newsletter. Don't let the back of your business card go to waste and stay blank -- make that space work for you by helping you add subscribers to your newsletter list.

Growing your list takes time. Better to have well-qualified prospects on your list who are truly interested in what you offer than a large list of people who never read what you write. Implement 1-2 of these strategies each week to grow your well-qualified email newsletter list.

(c) 2006 Donna Gunter

Online Business Resource Queen (TM) and Coach Donna Gunter helps self-employed service professionals learn how to get more clients online at
http://www.onlinebizcoachingcompany.com/. To sign up for more FREE tips like these and claim your FREE gift, TurboCharge Your Online Marketing Toolkit, visit her site at http://www.getmoreclientsonline.com/.

Tip - Deleting Emails from Outlook

Here is a simple tip for deleting emails from your folders in Outlook. If you highlight the file to delete and hold down the shift key as you click the delete icon “X” in the tool bar, you can delete the file completely without it going to your Deleted Items folder. Just be careful not to delete a valuable file. Outlook will give you a warning message and ask you if you are sure that you want to permanently delete the item(s). This saves you from having to deal with it later.

If you want to delete a range of files (like those in your Junk folder), highlight the first one in the range, move your cursor down to the last file in the range and hold down the shift key as you click it with your mouse. This will highlight the entire range of files. If you want to delete all of them, hold down the shift key as you follow the instructions in the first paragraph.

That wraps up our issue for this week. Until next week, stay tuned.

John and Linda Howe
http://www.boomer-ezine.com/
http://www.boomer-entrepreneur.com/
http://www.boomer-marketplace.com/
http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com/
http://stores.ebay.com/BOOMER-RETIREMENT-STORE

Administrative Details …………….
If you are changing email addresses in the future, put a note on your calendar to send us a blank email after you have changed your address. Send the blank email to:
boomerezine001@aweber.com. We want to remain in contact with you!

It is OK to go ahead and join our subscriber list with more than one email address. You never know when an email will be blocked by those tough SPAM filters. They are getting tighter and tighter and are blocking many legitimate emails.

If a friend sent you this newsletter and you would like to receive your own issue next time, send a blank email to
boomerezine001@aweber.com and we will send you your own copy on the next issue.

Copyright 2006 John Howe, Inc.

posted by John & Linda Howe at 8:23 PM 0 comments

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Volume 1 Issue 19 8-18-06

For those who would like to read this in HTML format, this issue of Boomer eZine is posted on the Boomer eZine website at http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I19_081806.htm and on the Boomer eZine Blog at http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com/.

Table of Contents for this issue.....
  1. Welcome to New Subscribers
  2. Wikipedia Definition of Infopreneur
  3. Search Engine Optimization
  4. Cajun joke
  5. How Graphics Appear on Web Pages
Author's Comments

For the Boomer cat lovers. I realize that I must give cat lovers equal time after my comments about my dogs last week. Linda and I have had cats for many years. (If you asked the cats, they would have told you that they had us). We currently have a black cat named Boo whose job it is to keep the buffalos away from our house and yard. I guess that she is doing a good job since we have never seen a buffalo around here.
Click here to see Boo helping me write this issue of Boomer eZine.

Linda was off this week with friends at the lake. She practiced with a friend's kayak. She really liked this kayak better than the one she used when we took lessons. She and her friend spent time in the lake tipping the kayak over and practicing getting back in it. She came home exhausted. Now all I have to do is get her to stay awake long enough to proof this issue.

Welcome to our New Subscribers from the Tim Knox Newsletter

Welcome to all our new subscribers. Tim Knox is my friend and mentor and he is a great one. I met Tim when I attended the Tim and Jim Internet Boot Camp in Huntsville, AL last April (Article and pictures at
http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I3_042406.htm). I realized that I could learn a lot from Tim so I signed up for his mentoring program. It has been a great experience, and I continue to learn from the master. Thanks, Tim, for your support.

Wikipedia definition of Infopreneur

In the process of doing research for the article in last week's issue, I was amazed to discover that there was not a definition for "infopreneur" in Wikipedia. So I wrote and published an article. Check it out at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infopreneur.

Wikipedia is an interesting site where people contribute their knowledge to create the database. Since it is a free access database, one needs to be cautious of using new definitions from Wikipedia without verifying them.

You can publish new articles on Wikipedia or you can edit and comment on any article that you read on the site. All you have to do is open an account (free) and you are ready to go. Give it a try and be a contributor to Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia".

If you publish or edit on Wikipedia, you get exposure for your contribution. This makes you an expert which is one of your goals in building a reputation on the Internet. Any place you can put your tagline on the Internet helps your reputation and leaves links pointing back to your website or blog.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

To start this article, let's make certain that everyone knows what a search engine (SE) is. This is a website that will accept an input word or phrase and search a database to give you information that matches the input information that you supplied to it. The best known SE's are Google and Yahoo.

There are many definitions for SEO so I will try to boil them down into a simple one. My condensed definition of SEO is -- SEO is the action of using techniques to make your page(s) appeal to search engines so they will rank the page high in the search engine results pages (SERP). For additional definitions, run a Google search and you will get plenty of reading on the subject.

Why be concerned about the SERP ranking? This is what produces your free traffic that found you all by themselves using the SE. This traffic is the life blood of your business. Another consideration about SE traffic ... Readers who find you through the SE's are much more open to what you have to say or offer since they found you on their own. They were looking for you. This is a different situation from coming to your location from a sales page or a pay per click ad. When they come via these methods, they are immediately suspicious and wary of a sales pitch. This makes them much harder to sell.

SEO has created the profession of search engine optimizer. This profession breaks down into two groups called the white hats and the black hats. (I guess this is from the old western movies where the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore black hats).

The white hats work to create good, solid content that the SE's are looking for. Their form of optimization is presenting the good, solid material in a format which appeals to the SE.

The black hats try to trick the SE into thinking that a site has valuable information on it by various methods and tricks.

When search engines (SE's) first came on the scene, they were not very sophisticated and people on the Net found ways to easily trick them into giving a page a higher ranking on the SERP than the page deserved.

The first black hat trick that I remember hearing about was to fill in all the white space on the page with the page keyword in white font color (white letters on a white background). If the page was viewed on the screen, it looked normal with five or six keyword occurrences, but if you looked at the HTML, you would see the keyword on the page say 300 times. This was called "increasing keyword density" and this worked for a short time until the SE's got smarter. When they learned to look at the background color and the font color for these 300 keywords, the SE's started penalizing the website for cheating. The interaction between the black hat SEO's and the search engines has developed into a "cat and mouse" game and is still on going.

Google has some of the best minds on the Net working for it and those minds are constantly working to stay ahead of the "black hats".

It is not uncommon for a "black hat" page to be ranked well in the SERP's one day and gone the next. This is because Google has changed its algorithm for what it considers relevant on the page. The black hat tricks that worked yesterday were discovered and the page is gone from Google or ranked so far back in the SERP that it is "dead meat".

Google has a goal to rank pages with outstanding, relevant content high on the SERP and if you create that outstanding, relevant content and develop traffic, your page will rise in the SERP rank. You are not trying to fool Google, you are trying to build what Google wants.

I learned this information from using Site Build It (SBI) since it guides you through this part of building your page. Each time you create a page, you first preview it to see that it meets your visual requirements. Then you submit it to "Analyze It" a program that evaluates the page. Once it has done its evaluation, it opens a new window that tells you what it detected that needs to be changed to make the page more acceptable to search engine spiders.

You make the changes to the page and resubmit to "Analyze It" until it gives you a report with no more suggestions. At that point, you preview the page to make certain your changes have not affected the visual presentation and it is ready to publish.

The following are a few SBI guidelines what I learned from building retirement jobs online.com on Site Build It. If you follow these guidelines, you will build a page that is structured the way the SE's like.


  1. The web page file name should contain the primary keyword. For retirement jobs online.com this would be retirement-jobs-online.com/keyword.html.

  2. The page title should contain the primary keyword. This is the Title tag in the HTML code.

  3. The page description should contain the primary keyword. This is the description meta tag.

  4. The keyword list should begin with the primary keyword. This is the keywords meta tag.

  5. The first heading in the body should contain the primary keyword. This will be the H1, H2, or H3 tags in HTML. "H" tags indicate a heading which will be bold font. The 1, 2, or 3 indicate the size of the font for the heading.

  6. The keyword should appear in the first 90 visible characters of the text.

  7. The key word should appear a moderate number of times in the body. Here is where it gets a little fuzzy. Too few occurrences will not help you and too many occurrences can be considered "keyword spamming". I do not know the exact formula, I just do what SBI says. Quite often "Analyze It" tells me to lower the occurrences of keywords on a page.

  8. The keyword should appear in the text of a text link on the page.


If you build your own website, you will need to know HTML so you can fill in the Title and the meta tags for the keywords and the description. This is not hard to do and you can learn it without too much trouble. If you use SBI, you fill in text boxes in the template that it gives you and it writes the HTML for this.

If you are using MS Internet Explorer, to see the HTML for these inputs, go to
http://www.retirement-jobs-online.com/ and right click in the center of the page. Click View Source in the dropdown box and a Notepad window will open with the HTML code for the page. Here is what you will see near the top:

___________________________
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Retirement Jobs Online - retirement jobs online for people over 50</TITLE>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://retirement-jobs-online.com/retirement-jobs-online.xml">
<META Name="Description" Content="Retirement jobs online for retirees seeking flexible work schedules">
<META Name="Keywords" Content="retirement jobs online, retirement careers, entrepreneur, part time, retiree, retired">
____________________________
The <TITLE> tag is the page title.

The <META Name="Description" Content= is the description.

The <META Name="Keywords" Content= is the keyword list.

You can write this HTML if you just use the tags exactly like they appear and insert your text between the quotation marks.

On the title tag, don't forget the closing tag. Almost all tags in HTML end with the same tag as the beginning except the tag name will have a forward slash in front of it. As an example, the closing tag for the title tag is </TITLE>.

Enough HTML lesson! All I wanted to do was to show you where these various inputs appeared on the page. If you build your own website, do not forget to fill these out each time you build a page.

Also, having a site map for your site in the format that Google and Yahoo suggest helps your page's ranking. See Volume 1 Issue 16
http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I16_072806.htm and Volume 1 Issue 17 http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I17_080406.htm for information about site maps.

I have learned this from building pages on SBI so I am not going to claim to be a genius on the subject. I just know that SBI techniques get results, and I am seeing those results on
www.retirement-jobs-online.com.

In a survey, 1000 SBI sites were randomly selected by an independent research firm and then Alexa.com was used to measure the rank of these sites. Here are the results:

  • 35% of the 1000 SBI sites ranked in the top 1% of all sites (i.e., their Alexa Traffic Rank was in the Top 560,000, higher than 99% of all sites on the Web).

  • 53% were in the top 2%

  • 62% scored in the top 3%.
  • I consider those to be convincing numbers. If you want more information about Site Build It go to http://proof.sitesell.com/boomer.html.

    In summary, do not chase after the latest "hot" SEO technique. Focus on creating great content and follow a few rules on how to structure your page and no matter how Google changes its SE algorithm, your pages should continue to rank well.

    How Do It Do Dat?


    If you ask my wife and children, I am always asking the question "How does that work?" My degree is in physics, and my scientific mind is always trying to figure out how something works.

    I am reminded of the joke that is told in many different geographic locations. If you are in Canada, it is a Newfie joke, in the Eastern US, it is a Polack joke, in Louisiana, it is a Cajun joke, in Texas, it is an Aggie joke, and anywhere it can be a blonde joke. Let's make it a Cajun joke.

    Three Cajuns, Boudreaux, Robicheaux and Thibodeaux were discussing the greatest inventions of all time? Boudreaux thought that the jet airplanes were the greatest. "Those 747s can carry so many people, so far, so fast." What do you t'ink, Robicheaux? Robicheaux thought that computers were the greatest invention. "You can see so much information on dere. All over da whole world! Right in yer own living room." They looked at Thibodeaux, "What do you t'ink?" Thibodeaux thought for a minute and said, "I t'ink dat da Thermos bottle is the greatest invention." "What? Why do say dat? All it does is keep t'ings hot or keep t'ings cold." And Thibodeaux says, "Yeah, but how does it know?"

    I found a follow up to this joke. Boudreaux was so impressed with Thibodeaux' idea that him bought himself a thermos bottle. When Thibodeaux saw him at work the next week, him say, Hey Boudreaux, whatcha got in your thermos? Boudreaux answer, "Some hot gumbo and two Popsicles."

    Now on to "How do it do dat?"

    How Graphics Appear on Web Pages

    You all know that the web page you are viewing is generated by your browser from the HTML code that it received when you told it to load this page. If you are using Internet Explorer and reading this on the Boomer eZine.com site, position your cursor in the middle of the page away from any table or graphic and right click your mouse. On the drop down box, click View Source. Notepad will open a window that will display the HTML code for the page that you are viewing.

    If you do this on a page with a picture or graphic, you will not see the picture or graphic embedded in the HTML, but rather in its place, you will see some HTML code that says this:

    <img src="images/Linda_John.JPG" width="197" height="154">

    "img src" is the HTML code that tells the browser where to go to get the image. The numbers after it are the size in pixels on the screen.

    This tip applies to eBay since you can place pictures in your description box on eBay and you do not have to pay for any pictures that you supply if they are not hosted in the eBay picture gallery.

    The eBay description box will allow you to use some basic HTML formatting to insert pictures.

    AUTHOR'S NOTE: The following example is time sensitive and the links to the Mickey Mouse Calculator will not work after August 20, 2006 . The narrative of the example is still valid so don't stop reading the valuable information that follows.

    As an example, go to this link to see an item that I currently have on auction at the eBay Boomer Retirement Store
    http://stores.ebay.com/BOOMER-RETIREMENT-STORE. When you get there click on the Mickey Mouse Head Calculator.

    When the Mickey Mouse Calculator page loads, position your cursor over any of the pictures of the calculator and right click. Select Properties on the drop down box and it will tell you where the picture is located on the Net. In this case, the picture location is:

    http://www.boomer-ezine.com/images/eBay_Pictures/Mickey_Calculator1.JPG

    If you click the above link, you will be able to view the picture directly from the boomer-ezine.com website.

    The HTML in the page that specifies the middle picture on the page is:

    <p align="center"><img border="0" src="http://www.boomer-ezine.com/images/eBay_Pictures/Mickey_Calculator1.JPG" width="288" height="294"></p>

    This tells the browser to center the image on the page (align="center", there is no border around the image (img border=0), get the image from the address on the boomer-ezine.com site and the picture is 288 pixels wide and 294 high. The <p and </p> tags begin and end a paragraph.

    I think that this technology is great. You can post a picture on any website on the Net and you can load it into the page of any another website. The amazing thing is that all this is done in the time it takes for the browser to load and format the page. This is why sometimes you see the page text load first and the pictures loads a little after it. Also, if you see a blank frame with a small red X in it, this means that the link to the picture was broken or the website host was down and the picture could not be accessed.

    One other eBay tip ...Notice the time when the Mickey Mouse Calculator auction ends. It is August 20 at 19:52 PDT (Sunday evening). It is a proven fact that the best time to end an eBay auction is Sunday evening. This one ends just before 8:00PM PDT so it is in the ideal time range to end an auction in the United States. Remember this for your future eBay auctions.

    Here is my sales pitch. While you are at the Boomer Retirement Store, bid on the Mickey Mouse Calculator as a gift for your grandchild. There has not been much activity on it and you might be able to "steal" it when no one is looking. There is no reserve on it so it will go for whatever the auction brings. Good luck and good bidding!

    Building Lists

    Linda and I were reviewing past issues of Boomer eZine, and we realized that we have not discussed one of the most important actions needed to be successful on the Internet. That is building a mailing list.

    We will cure this oversight next week when we take on the topic of building lists. Until next week, stay tuned.

    John and Linda Howe
    http://www.boomer-ezine.com/
    http://www.boomer-entrepreneur.com/
    http://www.boomer-marketplace.com/
    http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com/
    http://stores.ebay.com/BOOMER-RETIREMENT-STORE

    Administrative Details .........
    If you are changing email addresses in the future, put a note on your calendar to send us a blank email after you have changed your address. Send the blank email to:
    boomerezine001@aweber.com. We want to remain in contact with you!

    It is OK to go ahead and join our subscriber list with more than one email address. You never know when an email will be blocked by those tough SPAM filters. They are getting tighter and tighter and are blocking many legitimate emails.

    If a friend sent you this newsletter and you would like to receive your own issue next time, send a blank email to
    boomerezine001@aweber.com and we will send you your own copy on the next issue.

    Copyright 2006 John Howe, Inc.

    posted by John & Linda Howe at 4:33 AM 0 comments

    Saturday, August 12, 2006

    Volume 1 Issue 18 8-11-06

    For those who would like to read this in HTML format, this issue of Boomer eZine is posted on the Boomer eZine website at http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I18_081106.htm and on the Boomer eZine Blog at http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com/.

    Table of Contents for this issue....
    1. Authors Comments
    2. Infopreneur
    3. Key Word Search Tool
    Author's Comments

    Well, this week I was a bachelor since Linda went to nurse a friend back to health after surgery. Things were quiet around here, and I was able to focus on some of the Internet projects that I had been putting off.

    I have told you that I raise and train quail hunting dogs for a hobby. On Tuesday, I had to do the worst job that comes with the hobby. I had to take our 14 year old pointer named Char to the vet and put her down. Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “The Power of the Dog” and it ends with the line “Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?” My answer is “Yes”. I am never living without a dog so I will continue to have my heart torn. That is the price we pay for a dog’s unquestioning friendship.

    Linda and I are off to spend the weekend with friends on the Texas beaches this weekend so I must publish this and get going. Linda is tapping her foot in the background. We wish you a great week.

    Infopreneur

    Infopreneur is a new term that has recently developed on the Internet to describe a person who sells information. This word is derived from the word entrepreneur since an infopreneur is generally considered an entrepreneur who makes money selling information on the Internet.

    The job classification of infopreneur has created a totally new field on the Internet which allows individuals to use the Internet to start businesses publishing information that appeals to a specific market. The infopreneur develops traffic to his/her site by publishing popular, sought after content. The infopreneur then makes money from Adsense ads on the site, affiliate links, referrals and leads, and/or selling ebooks.

    Being an infopreneur is being in the publishing business. You put down in electronic print form what you know from experience or what you learn and pass on to the Internet world through publishing on websites, blogs, ebooks, emails, etc.

    If this type of Internet work appeals to you and you feel that you have the ability to sit down in front the white screen of a monitor and fill it with words that will interest a niche market on the Internet, this could be your calling. It is easy to start. It requires very little investment and the rewards can be substantial.

    As I (John) sit here writing this information to share with you, I am an infopreneur. I am publishing what I am passionate about. That is sharing valuable information with people who want to make a retirement living on the Internet. I want to make some money for my efforts, but it is not my driving motivation since the money is supplemental income and not our primary income.

    I have read that being an infopreneur is somewhat like a hobby that pays. You write about something that you like and get paid for it. Not a bad job!

    How do you decide what your subject area should be? If you are an infopreneur for fun and you are not concerned with income, you can write on any topic you like. In this case, you are writing for self fulfillment and the subject is immaterial. Many blog writers fall in this category. They lay down words in their blog that satisfy an urge to write, but they have very few readers.

    If you are a profit motivated infopreneur, you should do market research on how much interest there is on your area of interest. The top level of this research can be done free using the key word tool at
    http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/rc/srch/.

    On the right side of this page under “Tools”, click Keyword Selector Tool. This will bring up a new window for the search. Enter the keywords for your area of expertise and see how many searches took place on the Yahoo Search Network in the previous month. A rule of thumb that I have seen is you need over 10,000 Yahoo searches per month to create a profitable site. This can be lower if you feel it is a growing market and will grow in the next few years or if you are not focused on monetary return from your publishing.

    Keep in mind that this is a computer tool and does not take the place of “gut” human instinct. It should be used to help you, but you should not let it make your final decision.

    Keep doing your research and find additional related keywords. When you add all of them up, you should have a plan for a website or blog that covers all of these. The sum of all the keyword searches for these will measure level of interest for your topic.

    There are more advanced keyword tools that are much stronger than Overture, but they cost money ($$). The granddaddy of them all is WordTracker at.
    http://our.affiliatetracking.net/wordtracker/a/15565. This site captures searches from all over the Internet and is considered the ultimate source of search information. It does have a free trial feature that is cumbersome, but you can search for one free search term at a time. Try it and see what you think.

    WordTracker is a subscription service at the rate of $267 per year, $53 per month, $27 per week, and $8 per day. I recommend that when you are getting really serious about this research, prepare your materials and buy the time you need on WordTracker and blitz it with your keyword searches.

    Once you decide that you have a topic that is yours to publish, launch out to be an infopreneur.

    My recommendation on how to launch this effort is to start a blog (free) or to use Site Build It ($299 per year) to create your website. For full disclosure, I am an affiliate of Site Build It, and I earn a commission if you buy Site Build It. However, I personally use it for my site
    http://www.retirement-jobs-online.com/, and I can tell you from first hand experience that it is the best, easiest, and most effective way to become an infopreneur.

    Site Build It (SBI) has developed a systematic method of leading you through the keyword research (Brainstorm It) to help you focus in on your best keywords. As a part of the fee that you pay for Site Build It, 25 searches in WordTracker are included. You can buy more searches through SBI at a substantial discount if you need them. I used about three of the 25 WordTracker searches during my research for retirement jobs online.com so 25 is plenty for most research projects. In the SBI process, you only use WordTracker after you have narrowed down your choices using the free Overture tool.

    Whether or not you use Site Build It do not skimp on using WordTracker for your final research before you make a decision on your future topic. It is false economics to not pay for WordTracker.

    Site Build It takes care of all the mundane details of managing and promoting a website so you can concentrate on what you want to do and that is to publish information and be a great infopreneur. Go to
    http://infopublishing.sitesell.com/boomer.html for additional information on how SBI helps you become an infopreneur.

    You can also publish a blog and be an infopreneur and you might want to do this to start. This will allow you to get experience and see if the title of infopreneur is for you before you invest too much money or time in the project. Blogs are free and I recommend that you go to
    http://www.blogger.com/ and set one up just for the experience. Go back to Volume 1 Issue 12 (http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I12_063006.htm) and read the article “Publish your own eZine without a Website” for more information on setting up a blog.

    Let me share a major lesson that I have learned on the Net. Take this to heart because it is important to your Internet future. The time that you spend trying to succeed on your own without good support and good tools is wasted time and wasted opportunity. If you work on the Net for a year on your own and come up with a big, fat zero, the lost revenue from being successful during that same year would more than pay for professional help, good tools and guidance. Also, consider your personal time and how hard you worked during that year for nothing. Remember this when you look at the price tag of Site Build It. The $299 per year looks high compared to some of the cheaper sites, but the value received far outweighs the seemly high price.

    To get a list of all the features that are included in Site Build, go to
    https://secure.sitesell.com/build/order.html and study the value of the features included in SBI. When I first read this before I became an owner of an SBI site, my initial reaction was that this was a lot of sales hype. Now that I am an owner of an SBI site and I have used the listed tools and features, I still feel that some of the numbers may be slightly inflated, but they are not too far off the real value of SBI. Who would not trade $299 per year for tools and help worth over $5,000?

    I encourage you to take action and launch you future Internet job as an infopreneur. Good luck and good writing!

    Keyword Search Tool

    While doing some research on keyword search tools (and there are thousands of them), I found the following tool that you can use to get a feel for what a keyword search tool does. I do not recommend it over any other. It was one that supplied the HTML code to include on the page of Boomer eZine. For those who are reading the email text version of this article or reading the article on the Blog, you will not be able to use the tool directly from this copy. To use it, go to the Boomer eZine website
    http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I18_081106.htm and use it from there.

    When you use it, go to the very bottom of the page and read “How Does It Work?” This tool is based only on results from Overture and makes the assumption that Google is twice the searches of Yahoo and the MSN search volume is half of Yahoo.

    Another word of caution, this site is oriented to SEO (search engine optimization). Do not waste your time with SEO. I will write an article about why in the next issue.

    Gotta go! That wraps up our issue for this week. Until next week, stay tuned.

    John and Linda Howe
    http://www.boomer-ezine.com/
    http://www.boomer-entrepreneur.com/
    http://www.boomer-marketplace.com/
    http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com/
    http://stores.ebay.com/BOOMER-RETIREMENT-STORE

    Administrative Details …………….
    If you are changing email addresses in the future, put a note on your calendar to send us a blank email after you have changed your address. Send the blank email to:
    boomerezine001@aweber.com. We want to remain in contact with you!

    It is OK to go ahead and join our subscriber list with more than one email address. You never know when an email will be blocked by those tough SPAM filters. They are getting tighter and tighter and are blocking many legitimate emails.

    If a friend sent you this newsletter and you would like to receive your own issue next time, send a blank email to
    boomerezine001@aweber.com and we will send you your own copy on the next issue.
    Copyright 2006 John Howe, Inc.

    posted by John & Linda Howe at 7:22 AM 0 comments

    Saturday, August 05, 2006

    Volume 1 Issue 17 8-4-06

    For those who would like to read this in HTML format, this issue of Boomer eZine is posted on the Boomer eZine website at http://www.boomer-ezine.com/V1I17_080406.htm and on the Boomer eZine Blog at http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com/.

    Table of Contents for this issue.....

    1. More About Google Site Maps
    2. The End of Front Page
    3. Setting up an eBay Store
    Author's Comments

    Last issue I told you that it was our 40th wedding anniversary and our children had planned a surprise for us. Well, that was an understatement.

    For over six months, our clever children worked on a surprise party for us. It was amazing that no one slipped, because we were totally surprised. Several of our friends told us that they had to make certain that they took the invitation off the refrigerator before we came over for dinner.

    I have included a few pictures on
    John and Linda 40th Anniversary if you care to share it with us. Since we are a few years ahead of most of our friends on making the “big 40”, they want to borrow our children to throw a party for them.

    It is a wonderful thing when your children grow up and become your adult friends. Life is good!

    More About Google Site Maps

    We discussed Google sitemaps last week. Here is some additional information about site maps.

    Let’s take a look at what the site map looks like for
    http://www.retirement-jobs-online.com/ (RJO). Click on the link http://www.retirement-jobs-online.com/gAe7FNB6.xml to see what is in the site map. It is basically a list of the pages in the website.

    Here is an example of an entry in the RJO site map.

    <url>
    <loc>http://www.retirement-jobs-online.com/advanced-ebay-education.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2006-07-01T16:04:36-04:00</lastmod>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    </url>

    The site map is written in XML. The <url> tag starts the entry. The <loc> tags specify the URL for the page. The <lastmod> tags tell the date of the last change to the page. The <priority> tags specify the priority of this page relative to other pages on the same site. The value is a number between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 is the lowest priority and 1.0 is the highest priority. The priority can affect the order that search engines select URLs to explore on your site. Since the priority is relative, it is only used to select between URLs within your own site; the priority of your pages will not be compared to the priority of pages on other sites. The </url> ends the entry for this page.

    Google has a free utility to help create site maps at
    http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html.

    We will not spend anymore time on site maps right now, but be aware of them and how they assist the search engines in crawling your site.

    Go to Google for more information on how to submit your site.
    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769.

    The End of Front Page

    This is information that I am quoting directly from a Microsoft website about FrontPage:


    “What happened to FrontPage?
    After nine years of being an award-winning Web authoring tool, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006. We will continue to serve the diverse needs of our existing FrontPage customers with the introduction of these three brand-new application building and Web authoring tools using the latest technologies, Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 for the enterprise information workers, Microsoft® Expression™ Web Designer for the professional Web designer and Microsoft® Visual Studio 2005 for the Web developer.”

    I have used FrontPage to design and maintain our web sites for almost as many years as FrontPage has been in existence. I will now have to start planning to change to something else. However, I doubt if I will have to change too quickly since I am sure that FrontPage will be around for a long time to come. It just will not be supported by Microsoft.

    If you are using FrontPage, be aware of a change in the future. If you are not on the cutting edge of new web technology, don’t get in a big hurry to find another web development tool since FrontPage will serve you well for a while yet.

    For more information about the tools that Microsoft has developed to replace FrontPage, go to
    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA101205221033.aspx.

    Setting Up an eBay Store

    Back in Volume 1 Issue 13, I discussed the eBay Boomer Retirement Store and said that the shelves were empty, but I would post items for sale soon. Well, “soon” was longer than anticipated.

    I expect that everyone has heard of Murphy’s Law. “If anything can go wrong, it will and at the most inopportune time”. Another corollary of the Law is “everything takes longer than you expect” and that is the one that got me.

    We thought that posting books in the store would be easy, but when we started our research and we realized that we were making policy decisions for the future of the store that needed research and thought. We probably made this into a larger project than was necessary, but those who know us, know that we are not prone to charge into battle without being fully prepared.

    The store has five books listed in it now and we invite you to go look at it prior to reading the rest of this article.
    http://stores.ebay.com/BOOMER-RETIREMENT-STORE. Open one of the items and scan through it from top to bottom. Then come back here to continue the article.

    I must warn you that this is a marathon article, but I want you to understand that listing an item in a store or in an auction requires research of the market and research of the competition to see what the competition is offering. This needs to be done ahead of sitting down in front of the computer and bringing up the “Sell Your Item” screen.

    I will go through the steps in posting a book on an eBay store and the thinking that goes with each step. Bear with me since this takes a lot of steps. There is one thing to remember as we are wading through the detail, once you go though this exercise the first time, the next time is much easier since your inputs will be retained in eBay and most of them become your default options going forward.

    The first decision to make is to choose your selling format. That is easy since one of the formats is “Sell In Store Inventory”.

    The next page asks for the eBay Category. This is selected from the master list. “Books” is a no brainer choice.

    The next page asks for the book subcategory which in our case is Non-Fiction. Again, not too difficult.

    The next page has a time saving feature that is really helpful. You enter the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) for your book into the input box and eBay will access a database and give you a picture of the book and a summary of the content of the book. If your do not want to use this, you can elect to enter your own description.

    I had trouble with this and some other eBay features due to our security software not allowing some eBay scripts to run properly. Ultimately, I had to shut down the security software (Zone Alarm) to post the eBay supplied information.

    When you enter the ISBN, the next page will show the eBay supplied information about the book. Verify that you have the correct information. Here is where you enter if the book is new or used so don’t miss that input.

    You can enter a subtitle on this page which is recommended since this give additional search information for the buyer. It costs a whopping $.02 extra per 30 day listing period.

    Next, you enter your own description. This is where you can get creative. I use FrontPage to create the description and then copy and paste the HTML generated by FrontPage into the description box on eBay. You can enter the information directly into the box, but I recommend that you use an HTML editor to create the description off of eBay and then copy and paste it into eBay. There are many HTML editors from which to choose. Many of them are free software. Use Google to research this.

    Our intent for the store is not to become rich from the selling of books, but rather to use the traffic visiting the store to grow the subscriber list of Boomer eZine. The description section is where you can put links encouraging the reader to visit your “About Me” page. Our “About Me” page has an audio message promoting a subscription to Boomer eZine. You cannot be too blatant about this promotion, but eBay will allow this link.

    There is another link to the “About Me” page at the end of the description and a link to the Boomer Retirement Store in the middle of the description.

    The rest of the description section is tailored to the specific book and it ends with store policy information. This store policy information is what took some time to formulate. Here is the policy statement that we finally developed.

    We Guarantee 100% Satisfaction


    Book Availability: All books may be sold elsewhere before the eBay listing ends. If you bought an out of stock item, we will cancel your order and promptly issue a refund. Please do not leave negative feedback for cancelled orders.

    Book Condition: Please check the individual book information above for condition, attributes and special notes.

    Combined shipping: Email us about combined shipping and we will try to accommodate your needs.

    Payment Method: We only accept Immediate Payment through PayPal. Sorry, we cannot accept other payment methods.

    Shipping Info: We only ship to the US. We cannot ship internationally. Orders are shipped within two (2) business days of receiving cleared payment.

    Shipping Cost USA: $3.50 standard (media) mail; $5.50 expedited mail.

    Delivery Expectations:Standard Shipping: 4 - 14 business days, may take up to 21 business days.Expedited Shipping: 2 - 7 business days

    The next page of the selling form deals with “Enter Pictured and Item Details”. First, you enter the store categories for the item. You are permitted to have your own categories for your store to help your readers more easily find items in the store. These are set up ahead of time in the “Manage My Store” page of eBay. On the selling form, specify the category and subcategory for the item. You may have to go back to the Manage My Store and add a category.

    Next, enter the pricing and duration of the listing. What is the market price for the book? I spent time on eBay researching the postings of the same book of the same condition (new or used, used with markings, amount of wear, etc.). For the duration, we used “Good ‘Til Cancelled” which renews every 30 days.

    The next input is the quantity if you are offering multiples of the same item. We are selling single books so this is easy – one.

    The next is the item location. This is set up once with your zip code so you do not have to enter it multiple times.

    The next step is to add pictures. Every eBay “how to book” that you read says that pictures make the difference in the number of bids for an item. With a book listing in eBay, a picture of the front cover is standard, and we did not elect to use additional pictures.

    Next is the Layout Designer. Here you can dress up the listing, but eBay will include your store heading in the listing automatically so we did not use any other design options. (additional fee for this).

    The next section is “Increase Your Items Visibility”. Here you are offered options (for an additional fee) to promote your listing. The only option we selected is the “Gallery Picture” which puts a small picture of the book in the store listing for the book ($.01 extra for 30 days).

    The next section is “Promote Your Listing on eBay”. This costs $19.95 for 30 days. We declined this option.

    The last (yes, we finally reached the last option on this page) is if you want a hit counter. We opted for the one that is visible only to us when we look at the item in “Manage My Store”.

    The next and final page in the selling form is the “Payment and Shipping” page. This page is not too difficult, but you do have to make the decisions about your payment and shipping policies to complete this page.

    First, in “Payment Methods”, you specify how you will accept payment. We decided to only accept payment through PayPal. This will allow the customer to use PayPal direct or use a credit card through PayPal. There are other options, but I will leave them for you to explore at your leisure. PayPal is the easiest and cleanest method.

    Next, you specify your “Ship-to Locations”. Again, to keep it simple, we specified the US only. You can select various other locations if you wish.

    In the “Shipping and Sales Tax” section, specify how you will ship. There are all kinds of options using the United States Postal Service and UPS. We chose the USPS Standard Flat Rate Shipping Service for $3.50 and the Standard Expedited Flat Rate Shipping Service for $5.50. If you must charge sales tax for any sale within your state as we must in Texas, enter the information in this area.

    We stated that we would ship within two days of receiving a cleared payment. We will not offer shipping insurance and we will not combine orders. We actually say in the description terms and conditions that we will consider combining if the buyer emails us and requests it so we will do this if requested.

    The next decision is if you want to enter a formal return policy. What about a return policy? eBay says that 70% of all buyers prefer to buy from a seller that has a stated return policy. I did not see one in the book stores that I studied. I wrote up one that basically said that if you return the book at your expense along with the receipt and the book was returned in the same shape as which it was sold, I would refund the cost of the book, but not the postage.

    After thinking about this for a while, we decided against it since the cost of a book is so cheap, people are probably not going to pay to ship it back. Probably they will just resell it on eBay themselves.

    We finally settled on an idea that I saw on a site that covered the subject in the “Seller’s Payment Instructions” section of the auction format. We rewrote it to say, “Thank you very much for your order. PayPal is the only payment method that is accepted. If you are not satisfied with the book, promptly return it along with the receipt at your own expense, and we will refund your payment.”

    You might think that this allows people to take advantage of you and I agree, but feedback on eBay is a “life and death” issue for future success. This policy will allow a buyer to return the book and hopefully not leave negative feedback. As I said earlier, I do not think that the cheap price of the book is going to warrant too many returns.

    This completes the input for the sale of one book. The good news is that most of this information is saved for you for the next listing. Once you slog through the first listing and make the tough decisions, the second listing requires you to select the category, select the book ISBN, enter your description information, and specify the selling price.

    Click to the “Review and Submit” page and you will be given a complete summary of all your input and options. There is a link on this page, “Preview How Your Listing Will Look to Buyers”. Click this and you will see exactly how the listing will appear live on the Net. I do not want to tell you how many times I viewed the first book we listed to find mistakes and go back and correct them.

    When you are satisfied with your work, click the “Submit Listing” button at the bottom of the page and pat yourself on the back for listing an item in an eBay store.

    I will discuss some additional eBay tools in a future article, but I expect that is all the eBay you can stand for today.

    That wraps up our issue for this week. Until next week, stay tuned.

    John and Linda Howe
    http://www.boomer-ezine.com/
    http://www.boomer-entrepreneur.com/
    http://www.boomer-marketplace.com/
    http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com/
    http://stores.ebay.com/BOOMER-RETIREMENT-STORE

    Administrative Details …………….
    If you are changing email addresses in the future, put a note on your calendar to send us a blank email after you have changed your address. Send the blank email to:
    boomerezine001@aweber.com. We want to remain in contact with you!

    It is OK to go ahead and join our subscriber list with more than one email address. You never know when an email will be blocked by those tough SPAM filters. They are getting tighter and tighter and are blocking many legitimate emails.


    If a friend sent you this newsletter and you would like to receive your own issue next time, send a blank email to
    boomerezine001@aweber.com and we will send you your own copy on the next issue.

    Copyright 2006 John Howe, Inc.


    posted by John & Linda Howe at 11:36 AM 0 comments

    About Me

    My Photo
    Name: John &amp; Linda Howe
    Location: Kingsville, Texas, United States

    View my complete profile

    Links

    • Google News
    • Edit-Me
    • Edit-Me

    Previous Posts

    • Final Issue
    • Volume 4 Issue 1 4-1-09
    • Volume 3, Issue 12, 3-1-09
    • Volume 3 Issue 9 12-1-08
    • Volume 3 Issue 9 12-1-08
    • Volume 3 Issue 8 11-1-08
    • Volume 3 Issue 7 10-1-08
    • Volume 3 Issue 6 9-1-08
    • Volume 3 Issue 5 8-1-08
    • Volume 3 Issue 4 7-1-08

    Archives

    • June 2006
    • July 2006
    • August 2006
    • September 2006
    • October 2006
    • November 2006
    • December 2006
    • January 2007
    • February 2007
    • March 2007
    • April 2007
    • May 2007
    • June 2007
    • July 2007
    • August 2007
    • September 2007
    • November 2007
    • January 2008
    • February 2008
    • March 2008
    • April 2008
    • May 2008
    • June 2008
    • August 2008
    • September 2008
    • October 2008
    • November 2008
    • December 2008
    • March 2009
    • April 2009
    • June 2009

    Powered by Blogger