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Poor Richard's Email Publishing

Creating Newsletters, Bulletins, Discussion Groups,
and Other Powerful Communication Tools

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ISBN: 0966103254
Publisher: Top Floor Publishing
Author: Chris Pirillo

In the same way that Poor Richard's Web Site (hereafter abbreviated to PRWS) explained in plain English how to set up a web site, Poor Richard's Email Publishing (hereafter abbreviated to PREP) explains in plain English how to use email to publish newsletters successfully.

PREP is written in an interesting way. Chris Pirillo (of LockerGnome fame) wrote the first half of the book. He explains what you should know about setting up an email list (discussion groups, HTML, or text), ideas for messages (welcome, unsubscribe, other autoresponders), and then ends with marketing and how to make money from the list. Anyone who has read his LockerGnome newsletter knows that he is a very friendly, funny person. As a reader, you feel very comfortable with Chris, which makes you want more. PREP is written with this same attitude. His open, straight-forward approach makes you feel that you can trust him. At the very least, you can trust him because of the great success he has had with LockerGnome.

The second half of the book is written by 7 different people, all of whom have had success with email publishing:

  • The Importance of the End-User Experience
    by John Funk
  • This is True
    by Randy Cassingham
  • I-Advertising
    by Adam Boettiger
  • The Accidental Publisher
    by Fred Langa
  • Poor Richard's Web Site News
    by Peter Kent
  • The Naked PC Newsletter
    by T.J. Lee
  • In the Trenches with the Kleinman Report
    by Geoffrey Kleinman

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