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Titus Cheng asked:


Have you ever receive a newsletter that is truly valuable? Or majority or your newsletter is simple sales pitch and promotion offers?

I just can tell you that the majority of the newsletter that I received is plainly sales pitch with an interesting story.

It’s just the way the internet marketing works, people send out email promotion and a hour later, thousands of dollars came through their merchant account.
Sometimes you can’t even stop your self from not taking out your credit cards, because the sales copy is so compelling.

I do agree with email promotion and that it could help many internet marketers make money. But the fact is that there is a better way of doing things.

When I receive email offers, it’s usually the high profile internet marketers starts off by telling me a story, about how much they could make by using some top notch secret that no one else is using.

After that, there goes a link for you to purchase your product. I totally agree with that, it’s how email promotion works.

But there is another method that you can make money and build a relationship between you and your customer.

Remember the phrase Give Before You Receive.

I recommend that you give out some good valuable information out first before you ask your prospects to take action. Give out something that can truly improve their business, even a tip, a strategy or advice could truly help them.

It can also be something that helps them solve a problem or helps them better in growing their business.

One of the top marketers I really like is Dan Kennedy. He truly gives out good valuable information, not just sales pitch that you can find almost in every newsletter. Over 70% of his newsletter is something valuable that he gives out.

Another newsletter is ETR, early to rise. This letter is balanced, there is sales promotion and the same time, there is valuable information.

These are all good examples of good newsletters.

Another thing I want to mention about is that the key point of a business is relationships. And I think that the word relationship applies to your daily life. Your spouse, your family and friends, it’s all around you.

Many marketers said that The Money Is In The List, even the top marketing guru Corey Rudl are serious about his list, if his staff leaks one of his prospects to someone else, they are getting a heavy fine of $20 million.

The Money Is In The List is just part of the answer, the real deal is how you build a relationship with your list and turning them into a life time customer. That’s the most important part of the game.

So if you want to build a highly responsive list, start building a close relationship with your subscriber, starting from today.



JAMEL

Barry Rhodes asked:


Very few golfers know the Rules as well as they would like. My goal is to assist players to assimilate them gradually by presenting interesting information relating to a variety of Rules situations.

Here are 9 quick tips taken from my CD ’99 Golden Nuggets to Demystify the Rules of Golf’ produced by GolfSwingSecretsRevealed.com**, each of which could save you several strokes over the course of a year.

1. Put personal identification marks on all your golf balls.

•    I am confident that this tip saves me at least ten strokes a year, by materially reducing the risk of playing a wrong ball. And there is the added bonus that sometimes friends find my lost balls and return them to me!

2. Read the Local Rules before commencing your round.

•    Never start a round of golf on a new course without checking their Local Rules. You need to know such information as whether any immovable obstructions are designated integral to the course, whether you can take relief from staked trees, whether taking relief from GUR is mandatory and whether you can remove stones from bunkers.

3. Hover your club above the ground in windy conditions.

•    Avoid the risk of incurring a penalty if the wind moves your ball after you have addressed it (i.e. taken your stance and grounded your club) by not touching the ground with your club before making your stroke.
4. Work out the Nearest Point of Relief before lifting your ball.

•    There will be times when it is better to play your ball as it lies (if permitted by the Rules) rather than taking relief that means you have to drop your ball in a less favourable position.

5. Get opinions from fellow competitors on points of information.

•    Under the Rules, distances, position of hazards, line of play (except on the putting green) and where the flagstick is located are public information and not advice.

6. Think before you drop a ball under the Rules.

•    If there are loose impediments in the area that you are going to drop the ball you are permitted to remove them. It is wise to do so  rather than have your ball come to rest against a stone or a twig. Also, try and drop the ball somewhere where its roll might be to your advantage. For example, it is easier to play a ball that has rolled down a slope to a smooth lie than play it off the face of a slope.

7. Deem your ball unplayable if you really don’t fancy your next stroke.

•    A player may deem his ball unplayable at any place on the course, except when the ball is in a water hazard. So, you may always take a penalty stroke and choose one of the three options under Rule 28 - Ball Unplayable.

8. Develop a routine to use when you are asked to mark your ball to the side on the putting green.

•    What I do before marking my ball to the side at the request of a fellow competitor is to turn my putter round and hold it by the head rather than the grip. This triggers me to remember to replace my ball where it was, thus avoiding the general penalty for playing from the wrong place. 

9. Learn the Rules!

•    If you are not sure about a Rule ask your fellow competitors because information on the Rules is not advice.

No Rules, no improvement.

Know Rules and know improvement.

Barry

rules@barryrhodes.com

http://www.barryrhodes.com - Miscellaneous content for anyone who wishes to improve their knowledge of the Rules of Golf

** Go to http://www.golfswingsecretsrevealed.com/99goldennuggetscd.htm



DAVIS

Marsupirami asked:

An Allen Iverson in his year in Denver.

HENRY