[epub] Re: Free to Fee [was Re: Whether it is every ok to add subs without permission

["Lois Carter Fay/Marketing Idea Shop" <lcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another way to handle the influx of emails is to answer the questions in a 
blog. That way the answers should get indexed and help you with your search 
engine positioning, right?

To your success,
Lois Carter Fay, APR
Marketing Idea Shop, LLC
Editor of "Brainy Tidbits," "Brainy Flash" and "Success Secrets of Women 
Business Owners" ezines
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Phone: 540.289.3840 or 800.203.8660
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Knight" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Epub Discussion Group" <epub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:54 AM
Subject: [epub] Free to Fee [was Re: Whether it is every ok to add subs 
without permission


At 08:46 AM 1/11/2005, Maria Marsala, Sm. Business Builder wrote:
>Recently I've had an influx of folks who write me to ask for advice that
>they don't want to pay for.  In addition to telling them to pay for that
>advice, I suggest that they go to my web site to subscribe to my ezine.
>About 1/2 of those "freebies" do subscribe.


I'm at wits end with the same time management challenge.

...cept the questions I get are already from members of my ezines.

A few emails a day I could handle, but 30-45 a day is just beyond my
interest level.

Probably my own fault for not having tiered info products to offer them.
Working on that.

My gut instinct is that I need to do what Michel Fortin did in terms of
telling his audience that he is not accepting or able to reply to any
emails for free advice unless the person is a member of his monthly paid
discussion board.

I'd like to hear how other experts handle converting all of the freebie
question asking that goes on without offending these folks and without
giving dozens of hours a week of free consulting.




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