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               by Mike Banks Valentine
I spend the majority of my time reading. I receive about a hundred e-mails a day, sometimes much more than that. Yes, some of it is spam and junk and unsolicited commercial crap. But most of it I've asked to be sent to me. I've requested that wrtiers submit their articles to my weekly newsletter. They do, and I have a huge file of articles waiting to run in the WebSite101 Reading List.
I've subscribed to the Link Exchange Digest, the HTML Writers Guild business list, the List of Lists newsletter, a dozen moderated discussion lists, several business related bulletins a freebies announcement, a search engine news and advice list, a daily achievement quote, updates from all of the paid and free services I subscribe to and on top if it all I operate several online businesses, each of which get regular e-mail correspondence and inquiries from customers. Why do I submit to this barrage of information raining down on my overflowing e-mailbox? I came to online marketing and the internet with less than zero information about the online world. I knew no HTML. My Internet Service Provider laughed at the list of silly questions I had to ask about how the web worked and what I get for my monthly service fee. My first web site was designed by a professional web designer. While I waited for the world to start pounding down my door for the services that were advertised on that beautiful site, I began to learn HTML through a free online course called Volcano Web at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/index.html it's a step by step tutorial on writing HTML, the language of the web. Upon "graduation" from that course, I took another, then another and another. While I was STILL waiting for my online business to blossom from my first web site, I knew now what went in to that pro- fessionally designed site I had paid for and started to add to it, using the paid-for page as a template to expand the site. If that were all I had done, I would still be waiting for that business to come pouring in. I began subscribing to newsletters, discussion- and announcement-lists.I read great articles by the more experienced business people on the web. I joined some discussion lists for online business development run by a small business groups. Then subscribed to multiple services offering help to "launch" my business with promotion techniques and marketing "secrets". Search engines and free tutorials were the beginning of WebSite 101, where I list the services I used and the tutorials I took. I learned what I could and then distilled them into what is now offered at WebSite101 as a "Short Course, How to get my business online!" That course was likely the introduction of a good deal of the readership of this list to WebSite101. I now study the top web gurus and research and read about improving my skills even further and offer that to this list the way it was first given to me, free. I hope that you can use the knowledge and ask only that you consider visiting the sponsors of this newsletter and pass what you've learned on to others, while I go read my e-mail. -------------------------------------------------------- WebSite101 "Reading List" Weekly Netrepreneur Tip Sheet Weekly Ezine emphasizing small business on the Internet http://website101.com/arch/ e-tutorial online at: http://website101.com/shortcourse.html By week's end you're ready expand your business to the web! --------------------------------------------------------
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July 16, 2001