Many who have struggled with paying their debt also have bad credit. While nothing can be done about accurate bad credit items on your credit report, steps can be taken to get you back on track towards financial stability.

One way to help bad credit is to pay off the credit card debt that you have. While you may have had missed or late payments in the past, you will want to eliminate this in the future. It takes time for these negative items to work off your credit report, so you need to work on stopping them now.

On your own, it can be difficult to pay off your credit card debt, especially when you are being charged high interest rates and fees because of your bad credit. Still worse, a debt consolidation loan would likely carry high interest that would not improve your situation. Your bad credit will likely prevent you from even being approved for a loan.

A debt management plan can be an easier way to accomplish the same goal. Unlike a debt consolidation loan, you still owe the original companies but are able to pay them through a debt management plan.

A debt management plan allows you to pay in one consolidated payment according to a plan provided by your credit counselor. They will in turn pay this consolidated money and split it up between your various credit accounts in set amounts. Not only can you benefit from the debt consolidation and the accountability it provides, but they can also save you on interest and fees on the accounts.

If a debt management plan can be beneficial to you, it will allow you to pay off these debts in five years or less. While bad credit will persist for a couple of years, these steady payments will start to counteract the negative items on your credit report. The drop in your debt balances will also help to restore your credit rating.

In order to get rid of bad credit the right way, you must start to change your credit habits. Getting out of credit card debt through debt consolidation is certainly a great help to your financial standing.

Ronnica Rothe graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Oklahoma. She is currently enrolled at Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, NC.

She is a regular contributor to educational information disseminated through Personal Financial Network. Learn more about free debt consolidation help for bad credit.

How many parents out there spend more energy trying to keep up with your children than you do wondering how to spend your “free time?”

In this article I’m going to help you understand why kids have so much energy and what you can do to keep up!

Do you know why children have so much energy? Those little bodies are turning everything they touch in to energy. At least it seems that way.

The real reason is that their little bodies are in a constant state of movement. Remember that Law of Physics, bodies in motion tend to stay in motion? Same principle.

When watching a group of kids playing, you can almost be exhausted seeing how much they want to play. That is one little secret to remember, too.

They have no worries about anything. Mix in a little sugar and you’ve have just created your very own ball of energy. Kid’s bodies process and burn nearly double the amount of energy as an adult of proportional size!

So how can you go from wanting to take a nap in the afternoon to gaining the energy it takes to keep up with those little ones?

Unlike what some others might say, multi-vitamins are a great source of energy and nutrition. But before you go buying just anything, keep this in mind:

- Multi-vitamins aren’t a substitute for a balanced diet or lifestyle.

- Just anything isn’t going to cut it. Don’t sell yourself to the lowest bidder.

Multi-vitamins also do a couple of things that you may not be aware of:

First of all, they don’t contain calories. This is huge because there so many diets plans and ideas running rampant that focuses on losing weight. You often lose nutrition, too.

This leads into the second point. What is the point to losing weight if you feel tired or ill all the time? A good multi-vitamin will give you the extra nutrition you need.

So what if you are already taking vitamins?

Check to see how they stack up to others. Not all vitamins are equal. What’s better is that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to get the quality you deserve!

Since your body will be getting a nice dose of nutrients, this may actually curb appetite and allow some of those pounds to start melting off anyway. Not to mention regaining your energy!

After all, that is the name of the game for parents and grandparents, right?

Thanks for taking time to read about how regain some lost energy and why kids seem to find it. It’s important to note that you should consult your physician before starting any new supplement regimen.

The author works with a team in the Health and Wellness industry. They use a science-based program to help others achieve fantastic results. For more information about the article and the author, please go to: http://www.free-n-healthy3.blogspot.com

There are twice as many non-English users searching for information on the Internet. Only about twenty percent of the content on the Internet is in another language besides English. However, translating website content into multiple language versions to attract foreign visitors is costly and painfully time-consuming. Trying to maintain updated language versions is a virtual nightmare. ‘On-the-fly’ website translation like that offered by Google or Babelfish is practically useless as it does not give you a searchable translated version. If you want to be found by people using search engines, your website content must contain the keywords on which they are searching.

There is an important difference between translating websites ‘on the fly’ and accessing an already translated one. The basic difference is whether the content on the website is searchable or not. Web surfers generally search for information in their language of preference. If you have an English-only website, only visitors searching in English will find you. If your website is not in French, for example, people searching in English will never find your site. The point is if you want non-English visitors to find your site, you must have content that can be indexed in the language of the searcher.

There is already an ocean of content on the Internet, much of it published in one source language. After all, your website is accessible to people all over the world. The problem is how to avoid the hassles of translating the content and maintain the language versions without breaking the budget?

Some large web publishers, mostly the multinational companies that have big budgets, are successfully using multiple language websites to reach global audiences. Some smaller sites publish different language versions, often with only selected pages translated.

Machine translated versions that you can host with your original website, offer a low cost alternative that delivers the keywords to attract more foreign visitors to your website.

Once your foreign keywords are indexed by the major search engines, you have a good chance of being found by visitors searching on those keywords. Without a translated version that has all your keywords indexed by the search engines, there is little chance that your site pops up when someone searches in a different language. Even if the quality of the translation is poor, you will have a much better chance in being found. The important thing is the indexed foreign keywords. If the visitor gets the ‘ghist’ of the content, this is sufficient to make that important first connection. For those who simply want to be found, machine translation offers a good alternative. A simple method that normalizes the translated content to ensure understandability is available.

How do you get a machine translated or normalized version of your website?

Do not be tempted to use the Google or Babelfish ‘on-the-fly’ website translation to navigate through your site one page at a time and save each page manually. Before you waste your time trying this, read this article On The Fly Website Translation - Who’s Doing It ? Google or Babelfish website translation does not give searchable web pages. Unless your website is only one or two pages don’t even bother trying.

Zai Sarkar is the C.E.O of Universal Solutions Inc.a company that specializes in website translation technology. The company’s offers products and services for Adsense with foreign keyword optimization.

Have you heard of the Who Loves Money ebook yet? It is the latest product in internet marketing that is awaiting launch on 1 May 2007. Kyle and Carson, who are behind this product promise that it is a sea of ideas, techniques, strategies, and things that they do which differentiates them from many other marketers.

They are also saying that its purpose is to teach people how to become better marketers, and how people should take advantage of the techniques that they describe to reach a totally different level.

The Who Loves Money ebook is being touted to change what people currently think about internet marketing. Not another rehashed book to be rolled out that will fool people into thinking that it includes brand new techniques.

They say that the “catch” about the Who Loves Money ebook is that the techniques can be implemented with zero risk. That you do not have to invest a dime out of your own pocket.

Initial news is that the Who Loves Money ebook will include information of how the authors earned $60/minute with a single niche market. They are promising to expose which is the exact niche and product that helped them achieve this.

They are also including in their ebook techniques on how to determine which keywords sell and also guidance on niche hunting.

The Who Loves Money ebook also takes an in-depth look at Clickbank.

So far so good, but getting traffic to your site has been a challenge for a lot of people. The Who Loves Money ebook promises to cover what they call Penny Pincher Traffic techniques.

There is a mysterious Kyle and Carson’s Slow Roller Technique that will be in the Who Loves Money ebook that is yet to be exposed.

Kyle and Carson’s Wealthy Affiliate program has a very healthy following. Considering the fact that this is a monthly subscription program, these guys must be providing good content. Will these guys now be able to pull off another product that is refreshing with new ideas that will help people pull in the money?

After all it is the one who loves money that is going to consider buying the Who Loves Money ebook. Whether this ebook will deliver what it promises will soon be known as it will be launched on 1 May 2007.

They have set up a pre-launch site providing a countdown and also some incentives for people who register early to be kept informed of the Who Loves Money ebook.

You want to find out how $60 can be earned in a minute with a single niche market? You can find out in the Who Loves Me ebook that will be launched on 1 May 2007.

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I want you to think about this statistic for a second. About two and a half million children are injured or killed by hazards in the home each year. Home accidents account for more children’s injuries and fatalities than all childhood diseases combined. Not only are accidents the single largest cause of death in children fifteen years old and younger, but they are also the leading cause of permanent or temporary disability in those over the age of one year.

It almost doesn’t seem possible for these types of avoidable accidents to occur in the 21st century. Scary, isn’t it? What’s even scarier is the fact many of these accidents could have been avoided with a little precaution. At each stage in a child’s life, parents will need to reevaluate potential household hazards and think about ways to eliminate them.

Here are a few steps you can take to insure your children’s safety brought to you by the experts at MyHomeUs.com. Coupled with your own awareness and constant vigilance, these procedures might help you get your kids through childhood without any heart-wringing emergency room visits.-

1. Install child-resistant covers on all electrical outlets.
2. Keep dangerous chemicals out of children’s reach.
3. Shorten curtain and blind cords.
4. Use corner bumpers on furniture and fireplace-hearth edges.
5. Safeguard heating and gas systems against accidents.
6. Be sure that furnaces, fireplaces, wood-burning stoves, space heaters, and gas appliances are vented properly.
7. Place screened barriers around fireplaces, radiators, and portable space heaters.
8. Install carbon-monoxide (CO) alarms outside bedrooms to help prevent CO poisoning.
9. Install smoke alarms outside each bedroom and on every level of your home.
10. Consider placing plastic guards along the hinge side of frequently used interior doors to prevent the doors from pinching fingers.
11. Safety-proof windows and fire exits.
12. Test homes built before 1978 for lead paint.
13. Safety-proof stairs. If possible, install carpeting on stairways to protect from falls.
14. Make sure bathtubs and showers aren’t slippery.
15. Install ground-fault circuit interrupters on outlets near sinks and bathtubs.

Childproofing is an ongoing, never-ending process. Your child is always one step ahead of you and will certainly think of things you couldn’t possibly predict. Some kids are adept enough to master latches and locks in no time, in which case it is recommended that you place all hazardous materials out of their reach. Remember to update your home and re-childproof regularly.

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Odyssey of the White House oval office desk - from the ghost ship HMS Resolute to Queen Victoria to President George W. Bush - borders on the eerie.

The strange tale begins in 1845 with Sir John Franklin, a veteran Arctic explorer. He set out from Britain, by command of the Admiralty, to find a northwest passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

At the time, there was no Panama Canal. The Ferdinand Magellan voyage of l521-2 had discovered a southwest passage around The Horn of South America. However, it was long and dangerous. The oceans mingled there in perpetual storms.

Geographers knew there was ocean north of Canada, but it was locked in ice. For 300 years, explorers searched for a summertime way between the Arctic icecap and the many islands at the north edge of Canada. Such a route would open a lucrative trade with the Orient.

Capt. Franklin led a task force of two ships. Three months later they spoke to a whaling ship as they approached the icecap. They were never heard from again. In the decade following, 32 British ships and three from the United States attempted to find the lost expedition.

The admiralty in 1852 organized an expedition of five ships, under command of Sir. Edward Belcher, to find a navigable passage and determine the fate of the Franklin crews.

Two ships, including the Resolute captained by Henry Kellett, started from Melville Island. Two others, including Belcher on the Assistance went up Wellington Passage. The fifth vessel was stationed at Beechey Island as a backup.

All ships were frozen in as anticipated. Plenty of food had been brought. Exploration was resumed in the summer thaw, but the ships were frozen in again by an early winter.

Commander Belcher had enough. He directed that the Resolute and her sister ship to be abandoned. The crews were to come to his flagship and two others at Beechey Island for return to Britain.

Capt. Kellet said the Resolute was a stout ship with adequate supplies for a third summer of work. The vessel was 115 feet long and 38 feet wide. The hull had three courses of oak, and the decks were double planked. A furnace fed steam through a network of pipes to every cabin.

Belcher dismissed Kellet’s assessment and ordered him to come forward with his crew - which they did after a two-week journey over the ice.

Back home, Belcher was court-martialed for giving up without adequate cause. Kellet was commended and went on to become an admiral.

Ghost Ship

As Capt. Kellet predicted, the Resolute survived the winter ice and floated free during the summer thaw.

Unaided - a “ghost ship” — she drifted 1,200 miles to Baffin Bay. There, in September 1855, she was found by Capt. James Buddington of the American whaler George Henry.

Historian Elizabeth Loeppert, says that when Capt. Buddington and a “prize crew” came on board to take possession of the Resolute, they were awed. “A deathlike silence, and dread repose prevailed. For a year and four months, no human foot had trod the deck of the deserted ship.”

The sailors were not so awed, however, that they could not enjoy a few bottles of wine found in the ship’s locker.

Buddington sailed the Resolute to New London, Conn. The British government waived all claim to her. The U.S. government took possession of the ship for its assessed value of $40,000. However, Buddington never received anything for his prize, and the crew got only small amounts.

The Resolute was refitted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a gift to Britain. The hull was repainted. Rotted sails replaced. Thousands of feet of cordage re-strung. Books in Capt. Kellet’s cabin were re-shelved. A music box was returned to an officer’s cabin. An organ in the ship’s mess hall was tuned.

January 13, 2002
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It’s a shame the gourmet’s of the world don’t unite to present an annual award to the Best Restaurant Of The Year.

I felt this shortcoming rather acutely some weeks ago when some of us gourmets - hearty eaters always refer to themselves as gourmets - were sitting around drooling on our bosoms.

The favorite indoor sport of those who enjoy good food is recalling Memorable Meals at famous eateries.

I opined that Antoine’s of New Orleans has to be ranked with the leaders because of its Steak Robespierre.

“Steak what?” demanded my incredulous companions, as learned eaters are wont to do. “Who ever heard of that dish? You’re putting us on.”

Stung to the quick of my taste buds, I asserted stoutly that Antoine’s concocted the most delectable steak this side of the Pearly Gates; and, indeed, Robespierre, was its name.

“Pooh,” they replied.

Thus it was that I set out on a quest for the recipe of Steak Robespierre.

None of our household cookbooks - already pledged to the Smithsonian Institute upon my death - had a word about Antoine’s famous steak.

Likewise the Public Library department of cookery.

Likewise the food editors of three great daily newspapers.

At last, in desperation, a long distance telephone call to Antoine’s itself.

Voila!

A conversation with the head chef.

How do mere mortals converse with men on whose shoulders rests the awesome responsibility of preparing Great Meals?

“Please, oh august one, sir, my credentials as a Master Gourmet are in jeopardy because certain neophytes have failed to make your pilgrimage and are, therefore, ignorant of the joys of Steak Robespierre.

“Would’st thou, in this extremity, deign to enlighten the miserable ones in Ohio who doubt my veracity and thy culinary skill?” Long pause at other end of wire.

“Sacre bleu!” the Great One intoned. “Eet ees a secret recipe which I have sworn to give only to my son.”

“I am desolate,” I replied. “I shall be drummed out of the Gourmet’s Club and back to pork and beans every Saturday.”

“Weeeeel, in that case, I will tell you the ingredients - but not the quantities. My son - you understand?”

“Yes, Yes, Yes! But please to proceed, my three minutes are nearly up.”

Here, then, Friends of the Sauce Pan, are the materials that go into Antoine’s unique Steak Robespierre. This is a culinary scoop in the world of food journalism - other papers may copy.

Marinate whole, aged, beef tenderloins in red wine and French dressing up to four hours. Bake to medium rare.

Next, make a small brown gravy from beef stock and arrowroot. Add these ingredients: sauteed, diced bacon; scallions; red wine; tomato juice; chicken livers sauteed in the bacon drippings; sliced green olives; mushroom caps; and finally, chunked veal sweet breads well boiled and cleaned.

Garnish with artichoke hearts marinated in olive oil, wine vinegar and dill.

If this description hasn’t started your digestive juices boiling, leave us and turn to the sport page.

For those of you who are now faint with involuntary twitchings of the stomach muscles read on at your own risk.

The proof of the pudding - that is, the steak - is in the eating so the Mother of My Children graciously agreed to prepare the dish for our doubting friends. Our friends, now eager, promised to surround it with the same viands that accompanied our first Steak Robespierre at Antoine’s, lo, those many years ago.

Oh, what a dinner it was. It will be a legend to be cherished by my children.

First there was bouillabaisse soup with great chunks of white fish, scallops, and eels. Boiled shrimp with hot tomato sauce. Salad Ponchartrain with sliced tomato marinated in red wine, topped with finely chopped and blanched asparagus tips, potato salad, Thousand Island dressing and black caviar.

Steak Robespierre, cloud light and dripping with that exquisite sauce.

“Dirty” rice steamed in beef consomme. Crackling Rose for the table wine.

For desert, my specialty, Bananas Foster, flambe.

Cafe au lait.

Bon bons and mixed roasted nuts. Panatella cigars and Southern Comfort for both ladies and gentlemen.

Well, sir, and Bob, you can imagine the effect this masterpiece had on my doubting friends. Already there is a movement afoot in my gourmet club to give me a Certificate of Appreciation, and maybe make me Grand Guard Of The Skillet.

I hope I can bear the title with modesty.

October 10, 1973

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On any day, at any given time, we are tolerating something. It might be a person, a location, a job, a broken household item, an old car, etc. At times, our tolerations propel us forward on a fast current. Other times they hold us in place like a buoy in the middle of the ocean.

What is a toleration?

Tolerations are little tasks, thoughts, people and actions for which we make excuses. “My office is messy because I don’t have time to clean it…because my boss keeps me late…because my kids have practice…because I have too much other stuff to do.” This can quickly become a verbal flood of excuses that eventually drown out the positive aspects of your life.

Understanding the Flood

Beginning with the mind, your list of tolerations expands to overwhelm the items you want to do on your priority list. By not filing your mail or keeping up with routine maintenance, a pile begins. Before long that small pile becomes a mountain that seems too big or time consuming to conquer. Similarly, when you cannot say “no,” your schedule is at risk of becoming a toleration. If you stop allowing time for some of things you want to do, your tolerations sneak in and take over.

Next, your friends become weary of hearing the continuous rushing of excuses for why you haven’t just taken care of what obviously plagues you so much. How much of your conversations seem to be rattling off an excuse list, or a “to-do” list? If your answer is “a lot of the time,” then your toleration list is a long one.

Most severe is when your environment becomes contaminated; your mind, your conversations and your actions are all directed by the swirling list of tolerations that have helped you to forget all the free time you once had. Friendships dissolve as they tire of hearing about all the emergencies. You feel exhausted all the time because you are trying to catch up instead of keeping up and your mental and physical energy suffers, which can affect your mood and self-esteem.

At any point during the flood, you must choose whether you:

1. Put off and continue to perpetuate the flood of overwhelming “to-do’s”
2. Give in and begin checking off tolerations
3. Give up and remove the toleration by making a life shift

Put off

Your first choice is to ignore the flow of frustration and continue putting things off. For every day you choose to push aside your tolerations, the flood coming toward you gains speed. Take yourself back before the wall of tolerations began to take over. Would you have stood in that place and said, “In a year, I hope to be drowning in paperwork, treading water in my relationships and hanging out in a sea of unhappiness?” If you choose to put off your tolerations, you stand here, today, and say that for your future self.

Give in

Sit down and put all of the swirling tolerations down on paper in the form of a checklist. Prioritize which items are high-level tolerations and which are low. Begin to wade through the list one day at a time, conquering an achievable mix of large and small items first. Sometimes it’s just a matter of starting. Many of my clients have noticed that soon, some of the “consistent every-day items” can be taken off the list because they become habitual. Like brushing your teeth in the morning, filing your mail each day can be done without thinking about it.

Give up

Ever felt like you were living in a parallel universe? Sometimes you have to give up to make forward progress. Tolerating an environment, a job or a relationship can be overwhelming. When you begin to notice that most of your energy is wrapped up in one area, it’s typically time for a life shift. Life shifts create the nourishment for new growth. They are also the hardest to make. Ask yourself: are you getting anywhere doing what you are doing? Are your conversations focused on one area of your life? Are you tolerating more than you need to? If so, it’s time for an emotional revolution. Dive in, move past the fear of change and check the biggest toleration off your list.

Building the dam

Tolerations can devour your time and energy, or just nibble at you little by little. Think of each toleration on your list as a small crack in a dam. Each crack that you plug secures all that you’ve worked for from the danger of flooding. As you neglect the dam, cracks re-form and water will flow through. Neglect it long enough and you will be frantic to make large repairs. Neglect it for too long and it will break, washing you away with it.

If you need to, call in help. Sometimes you need an assistant, a bookkeeper, a maid, a therapist, a mechanic, etc. Whoever it is that can help you take care of your list, don’t hesitate to pick up the phone. There is no weakness in asking for help - even if it’s only in the form of support from friends and family as you tackle this list.

Enjoy the view

Each time you take care of a toleration, reward yourself. It’s hard work! Experience the beautiful calm as you get things done and enjoy the free time you gain. Managing your tolerations allows for a quiet mind, a life with little to no unwanted surprises and a more relaxed lifestyle. If you’re tired of the storm over the ocean, maybe it’s time to buy the house on the lake. Enjoy the view.

Momentum Coaching’s mission is for each of us to energize the moment we’re in. As owner and professional coach, Katie Mattson energizes her clients to stretch their boundaries, deepen their awareness and indulge in life. She coaches individuals and small groups around topics such as: building confidence, career and life transitions, shifting perspective and stepping into new experiences.

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To me the word ‘guru’ signifies some other unknown internet marketer trying to capitalize on the term, trying to push a product on the newcomer into internet marketing world, like I was some two years ago. Maybe if they came up with some other word, people would listen more.

However, it is because of those ebooks and courses that I was able to learn and apply, through trial and error, everything I know today about internet marketing. At one point in the learning curve, if you persist, it all comes together.

For some, it takes longer simply because they didn’t apply what is taught or applied it all wrong and then say it doesn’t work. We know who those are. What they’re really saying is “I didn’t apply it to the letter” or “I feared losing more money (in a ppc campaign)” or “I tried to shortcut my way to success”.

It is through those internet marketing ebooks that I’ve come to know on a personal level some of those ‘gurus’, the real famous ones, and they are truly nice guys and girls and will do everything to help you. After all, they do have a vested interest in you!

I remember Michael Cheney saying, “who ever said that knowledge is power is full of crap, it is applied knowledge that is power”. And I can tell you, that Michael will be the first to admit that before succeeding online his head was spinning with information overload, as a newbie.

As a ‘newbie’ we have a tendency to complicate the hell out of internet marketing, don’t we?

Case in point, Andrew Fox out of Ireland was really a “newbie” before it all came together for him and with just two promotions as an affiliate marketer, within two short months, pocketed over $74,000, which of course led to the development of his own successful product and he is now labeled a ‘guru’. See my point?

I got a chance to review his product, but before even doing that, I knew where he was coming from just reading his sales copy. Of course I wouldn’t have known that had I not been a ’seasoned’ marketer.

Anyway, in reading Andrew’s product, because his brother Chris insisted, I realized that the blueprint to success had all been simplified in one format. All one had to do is follow his success plan (to the letter). Like I said, you can figure it out on his sales copy alone, if you’re advanced enough, but there was one little method which I never thought of, which completely took me back. To your success!

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The old saying is that the money is in the list. Well, the money is actually in a good list. Trust me on this, there are plenty of lists that aren’t worth their weight in spam. So if you want to build a list that will actually be responsive, you have to walk a very fine line between a number of areas. This article will cover some basic do’s and don’ts that should improve the quality and size of your list greatly.

The first thing that you need to realize, and I can’t stress this enough, is that you’re not going to get somebody to sign up to your list by just telling them that they’re going to get a newsletter. Can you say yawnsville? If you want to get somebody into your prized list, you need to give them something; a free report, a small ebook, a software download, something. This will give them a good incentive to join your list.

Once you’ve got them on board, the key is to keep them on board. This is where things get a little tricky. Because everybody is different, you’re going to have some members of your list who will want to be emailed regularly and others who will get annoyed if they’re emailed everyday. So you have to try to strike a balance between the two, understanding that you won’t please everyone. It’s best to email your list maybe a couple of times a week and no more than three times a week. This should keep most people on both sides happy.

The next issue that comes up is what to email your list members. The first thing that most list owners do wrong is send their list members one offer after another. People don’t join lists to be sold to. They join lists to get some relevant content to their business that will hopefully help them with building their business. This is where, again, you have to strike a balance between giving them too much content and not enough. Give them too much and they have no reason to purchase any of your products, though they might hang around for a long time. Don’t give them enough content and they’ll unsubscribe faster than you can blink. If you’re going to email your list three times a week, it’s best to give them pure content in at least two of every three mailings. This way they will see value in staying on your list and you’ll have a few chances to make some sales. Again, it’s a real balancing act that isn’t always easy.

Finally, you want to make it easy for your list members to unsubscribe. Many list builders bury their unsubscribe links so far down the email after a ton of white space that nobody can find them. This will only lead to ill will and a bad reputation. Treat your list as you would want to be treated.

By following these few simple tips, you should have a list that is both happy and profitable.

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