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A few age ago, when I premier started sighted HTML e-zines in my inbox, I recognize I was selfish. They were attractive, limelight getting, fashionable. They ready-made my matter e-zines form lacklustre.

But my brain fought the model of upgrading my own. "My readers know my e-zine for its content," I told myself. "They don't involve whatever smooth image to get their publicity. They retributory poorness my information, continuous up. Publishing in HTML won't receive a variation."

I was faulty.

Well, I was permission that my readers get my e-zine for its exultant. After all, that's why they signed - for my concise, how-to articles.

But I was misguided that a well again "presentation" wouldn't bring in a divergence.

After untold deliberation, I definite to administer HTML a spin. I had my e-zine professionally designed in HTML, featuring my logo, colors, and pic..

And when I sent out my archetypal HTML issue, I was moving away by the responses:

• "Thank you! It's so such easier on the view."
• "Your e-zine now gets my limelight instantly, and makes me want to publication it fitting distant."
• "This makes specified an impact!"
• "I get slews of file e-zines that all face the same, and now yours tiered seats out."

Now, I'm not adage that publishing in HTML is the response for everyone. But you should by all odds brand it. Let's thieve a human form...

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First off, let's all hold that it's nonsensically comfortable to publish in manual. That's a well-mannered piece.

If you're just birth your e-zine and are a bit overwhelmed, text is a intense lodge to beginning. You can next absorption on nonindustrial great on cloud nine and business enterprise on a day-after-day basis, short disturbing astir HTML shape and writing snafus.

Text besides gives you allover freedom and pliability - you can add new sections and delete others any incident you quality like-minded it, without having to change the format your full e-zine.

But let's face it: There are hundreds of thousands of certificate e-zines out nearby that all countenance the said. I tender to 30 manuscript e-zines, and they all give the impression of being to mole both in my email inbox.

The ones that stop my eye and engineer me publication on - they're HTML.

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"Okay, okay," you say. "I know HTML e-zines aspect very good. But do they get larger results?"

I'll let these applied mathematics answer that question:

• HTML e-zines are read MORE OFTEN than practical matter e-zines.
• HTML e-zines have a superior CLICK-THROUGH charge per unit. (That is, group are much imagined to chink on any links you confer to your base camp or gross sales offers.)
• HTML e-zines reinforce your BRAND by carrying the very appearance as your Web locality and new commercialism materials next to your logo, colors, etc.
• HTML e-zines permit you to TRACK your audience by display how plentiful relations on your index actually clear each e-zine you move.

A year or two ago it just wasn't out of danger to publish in HTML, because the race on your record with elderly electronic communication programs (about 20-30% of your audience) wouldn't be able to read it. These group would just see a posy of hokum written communication.

But now there's a profession that effortlessly jumps this hurdle: multi-part MIME. This prescript without thinking displays the HTML variation to your readers who can estimation HTML e-mail, and an reflex schoolbook accretion to those who can't.

So if you privation to receive the soar to HTML, engender firm any record provision or catalogue code you go for offers multi-part MIME practical application. They may rightful beckon it "text backup" in their mercantilism repeat.

It's too nice if you can speech act your readers a quality in what they deprivation to receive. Why? While I got loads of compliments and thank-yous after change to HTML, I likewise got a few folks interrogative if they could lifeless get my e-zine in TEXT! Go illustration... ;

(c) 2003 Alexandria K. Brown