Ezine Ad Co-ops: Do you make these mistakes too?
Today’s article contains three tips for advertisers who purchase advertising space from ad co-ops at lower prices but under the condition of subscribing to the ezines that will publish their ads.
There is nothing wrong to buy such ezine advertising but you always have to take care to avoid 3 sure ways of losing your money.
==========
Mistake # 1
==========
Buying advertising space from ad co-ops that promise you to publish your ad in ezines that are no longer published or from ad co-ops that show fake figures for the subscribers count.
Usually this is the worst situation and it’s more difficult to avoid because you need more information.
Bookmark this blog, read it from time to time and you’ll get the information you need.
At this very moment there are 2 posts related to this topic: Ezines United and Solo Ads Only.
==========
Mistake # 2
==========
Since you are required to subscribe to the ezines, another mistake is not to read your correspondence. When you buy this type of advertising, after submitting your classified ad and paying, your work is not finished. You still have a task to complete. Some of the publishers will ask you to confirm your subscription to their ezines. If you don’t confirm, then your ad is not published.
Warning no.1: It’s not enough to read the correspondence that arrives in your Inbox. Some of the publishers messages may arrive in your Bulk/Spam filter.
Warning no.2: It’s not enough to read the correspondence that is sent to you within one or 2 days after placing the order. Some publishers may send you their confirmation request later. Ezine publishers are human beings as you are. They may have offline jobs and their schedule may allow them to deal with the new subscribers only on weekends. This is just an example, not necesarry the reality. What you have to understand is that a publisher is not a machine waiting for your ad and sending instant confirmation requests to you.
==========
Mistake # 3
==========
The third big mistake is to use as subscription email address an address provided by a service provider that censors your correspondence. Don’t stare at the sentence you’ve just read. This is fact. Some providers wrongly believe that they are helping their customers by installing powerful spam filters on their servers. If the publishers’ messages are blocked by the spam filters, you don’t get the confirmation requests and your ad is not published.
What is maybe even worst is when you read carefully all your correspondence, and then start complaining that certain publisher never contacted you. Not being aware of the fact that some of your correspondence is blocked and never arrives to you, you may continue your complaining actions causing trouble to honest publishers. When you cause trouble and you’re not right, then you may expect to be called a “trouble maker” and then blacklisted by the publishers.
If you want to make online business, never ever use an email address from the following domain names:
AOL.com, myway.com, juno.com, netzero.net, charter.net, hostdude.us, cox.net, optusnet.com.au, optushome.com.au, cs.com, techemail.com, wmconnect.com, hughes.net, excite.com, aemail4u.com, iwon.com
A serious email addresses provider that I recommend you is Google which provides Gmail.com email addresses. A spam filter is installed for your safety, however your correspondence is not blocked but certain messages are sent to the Spam folder and you may check them to see whether they are really spam or not.
