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Subscribe by sending a blank email to bob_sub@HomeBusinessOnline.com?subject=Subscribe_BOB For information on advertising in the new BizOpBytes ezine, send a blank email to BOB_ads@HomeBusinessOnline.com?subject=BOB_Ad_SpecialsRAMBLINGS... Give me your thoughts... and don't forget to tell me about yourself. I read every email. Heidi Perry P.S... Here's the current tally for what the first ten years of this new millenium should be called: The 2000's 40.6% This poll ends next Monday. You can still place your vote at We'll put up some new polls this weekend. _________________________________________ I mentioned the AOL-Time Warner merger last week in my ramblings. Boy, did I get an earful. Here are a few of our reader's responses: Dear Heidi: I'm with you -- I don't see any good coming out of another consolidation of media power unless you already own a ton of their stock. Our future is evident in Hollywood now, where people who try to create entertainment are blunted by the fact that the networks now own all the production entities and give first priority to keeping their own companies busy, rather than buy the best product around. This week's Newsweek examined this merger in detail and it was chilling to read their editors confess that their objectivity *is* affected when they cover companies in their own corporate family (we knew this, but few journalists admit it). I suppose the one silver lining is that Microsoft (however they emerge from their DOJ problems) will still have competition for total domination. Donna Schwartz Mills If Henry Luce or someone with his genius was heading Time Warner we may have small reason for concern. As it is, one could not find a larger group of bland, less innovative, and conservative group of business men. AOL is a Potemkin Village made up of mass mailings of disks to every nook and cranny of America. There are a legion of people who take their disks, use up the 250 free hours and then switch to another one. AOL does not seem to care because this tactic and many others not so obvious inflates their customer base and somehow justifies their stock price. It is a poor service that is being tied to an even poorer journalistic and management machine. Instead of this behemoth narrowing opportunity, it has done the opposite, increased it. Hail to the Merger! [John continues in a later email] There was a day when I worked as a financial analyst investigating stock market valuations and I suspect that as many as 20% of the so-called 15 million who use AOL are simply skipping from one free 250 hour CD to the next. I know my son and his friends at Texas A&M think it a great joke and some have up to 20 different accounts all based on the 250 hour freebe. Now, if one multiplies that by a million people doing the same, the entire 15 million vanishes. I do not know one serious user of the internet who relies on AOL. Might be a good question to ask your readers. I think Bill Case has scammed everyone as he turns his truly worthless stock into real money at Time-Warner. If I were in the stock business, I would be telling my people to sell Time-Warner, collect their profits and don't look back. John Livingston http://youngagain2000.com John raises some interesting points. Sound Off at Editor@HomeBusinessOnline.com _________________________________________ to Quadruple Your Ezine Subscriber Base Over the Next Two Months Occasionally, I come across information and articles that reach out and grab my eyeballs. Something inside of me says, "Yes, that's it!" Well, what you'll read below is such an article recently written by Dr. Bill Nieporte, a true master of internet marketing. Remember my Editor's Ramblings in the first issue? I mentioned we were starting our premiere issue with 7,000 subscribers. I've been wanting to tell you how to achieve this. When I saw Bill's article, I realized he outlined some outstanding tactics beautifully. These are strategies we, ourselves, are working on at this very moment. They will make you go, "Ah hah... That's it!" I'll outline some more tactics that we have used in another article, but first, let Bill tantalize you with his marketing saavy. His ideas will start the wheels in your head spinning something fierce. Here we go... Four Joint Venture Strategies to Quadruple What would an influx of a several thousand new ezine subscribers do to your profit margin over the next two months? If you've got a worthwhile product and a site that sells, you could easily quadruple your profits! So how do you build your subscriber base? I want to suggest four Joint Venture strategies that really work. A joint venture is an arrangement where two or more people trade on their resources for the mutual benefit of all. 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