I recently moved a customer’s PHPlist installation to BlueHost. As you may know, BlueHost (along with Hosting.com) is one of my preferred hosting providers. The move itself went well.  I installed PHPlist via the Simple Scripts installation process.  I exported the list from the old system and imported it into the new system.  I copied [...]

If you publish an online newsletter be sure to sign up for it yourself.  It helps you answer some important questions, questions that you should be asking. Did the newsletter really go out? Earlier this week I assisted a client with his newsletter.  He was going to send out the newsletter email later in the [...]

It seems like there’s a new financial crisis happening every day.  I have friends that have lost their jobs, while others are having their hours cut.  Let’s not even talk about my 401K. So what’s a person to do?  We can have faith in ourselves and in the future. That’s the subject of an ezine [...]

This is the second part of a response to an article on the Wall Street Journal entitled How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing). You can see part one of my response here. In part one I analyzed points one through three of the article. Today I’m going to take [...]

I’m on the mailing list for a local wine shop. The weekly newsletters are great. They alert me to shop specials and let me know about wine tastings. I signed up for the newsletter when the wine shop first opened. Things had been going along merrily for about a year and a half. Then it [...]

A great way to keep in contact with your customers, encourage return visits to your website and increase sales is with a newsletter. The newsletter system I recommend is phplist. In fact it’s the one that I use for my three newsletters. (Yep, I have three newsletters.) Here’s an example: Subscribe to the Charles Dickens [...]