I think here is fine... I'm sure a few other members will join in and offer their expertise to help pull this project together into a successful launch.
Have you considered what format you want to use to publish your newsletter? Ross and I were just chatting (in another thread) about plain text versus HTML.
Some other points to consider:
- How often will you publish: weekly/monthly/quarterly?
- What are your potential streams of income?
- Who is your targeted market - describe your ideal subscriber
You must have a primary focus and a long-term action plan in order to make any venture successful. Ask yourself, "How am I going to earn revenue from this project" and form your plans around that answer.
There are lots of options for newsletters... scripts that handle automatic subscribe/unsubscribe requests are real handy - and you also want to be able to log each of these (in case of future issues with the dreaded "SpamCop
" ). If you use my recommended web hosting service (
http://www.WebServiceNetwork.com/hosting.htm - Her Web Host, and no they are not biased
) this script will come free with your package - the same package you use to host the associated website.
Three things you'll want to spend the majority of your creative time on:
1) web copy
2) subscription confirmation page
3) subscription confirmation email
We'll talk about these as we get further along in the project
Hope that gives you a good starting point! You are welcome to email me if you'd like to continue a little less publicly - but I'm sure there are several who would love to watch this project unfold and learn from it.