Jan 10, 2001 http://interestalert.com/ In this issue: 1. #1 way to drive traffic to your site and make affiliate money. Its simple. Use Interestalert Newsletter service. a) Build a mailing list of email addresses of friends, business associates, suppliers, customers and industry contacts. b) Mail a newsletter 4 times a month. Incude links to new info at your site or industry news headlines (from interestalert) which link to stories at your site. Optimum list size? Lists that are at least 1000 names are effective and 2500 names is what you should shoot for. c) If the content at your site is updated with news or information on your business/industry you can expect up to a couple of hundred visitors from each mailing. d) Even better....Remember we pay affiliate fees on every HTML newsletter that is opened by the recipient in any case. e) Pick up the code at Developer Center to put an opt in form on your pages to collect your visitors email addresses and their requests for your newsletters...grow your list! 2. Newsletters launch program a success! Congratulations to all the sites who have taken advantage of our special introductory offer. If you mailed at least 1000 emails by Jan 31, 2001 (and continue to mail at least 1000 a month) our Custom Newsletter program is free. This service is easy to use and drives traffic to your site. Regular cost on this is $250 a year or higher depending on volume. Newsletters are created by you and have your content in them in TEXT or HTML form. All mailing functions, unsubscribe bounces, etc are handled automatically! Havent sent a newsletter yet? Load a list and get one out! Want Headlines in your newsletters? there is a script that inserts headline links to the stories....earn affiliate fees! 3. Site Referral program is back! This time with banners you can put on your site to increase referrals. Remember, InterestAlert pays $.50 to you for every site with a valid paid domain name that registers for InterestAlert. Two ways to play. The green InterestAlert Free News button on your headlines automatically pays you and now you can also pick up Referral Banners or buttons at Developer Center to earn even more. 4. Branded News - Branded News upsell for $2400 a year. This puts all full news pages in your look and feel. ($200 a month). Free News is proven to improve stickyness and traffic and Branding improves your customers experience and promotes YOUR brandname. Questions - Call your sales guy steve at 800 847 8288 or email iasupport@interestalert.com http://interestalert.com/