I find it so annoying to get emails addressed to ‘Dear Domain Name’ asking me to partner with them.

Like I am going to take the time to read let alone respond to someone who couldn’t take the time to look up my username or real name while they were on my site.

How I Would Approach Someone Through Email

1. The first thing I do when I want to approach someone with, well just about anything, I would first find out their name. Their real name if it’s available.
2. Then I would be sure to say a few things while introducing myself that would show them I have been to their site and actually read something.
3. Next I would ask them for permission to send what I want to send to them. I would not send it with an apology if they didn’t like it.

Short Example of an Email I would send:

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Dear Robert Smith

Good day Robert. First I would like you to know I am most impressed with the work you have done on you “name of site” in the last month.

I was on your site again today reading about “specific topic here”, and thought you might be interested in offering an ecourse I created on “same topic here” to your readers.

I know you must be a busy guy so I will keep this short.

I would love to send you a copy of my ecourese to evaluate, no cost to you of course other than the time it takes to evaluate it.

Here is my domain so that you can take a peek at who I am. It should give you a better idea of who you may be working with in the future.

http://www.mydomain.com/

Let me know if you are interested at this time and I will get right back to you.

BTW: Keep the great content coming.

Sincerly James Mann
Owner: ebooks-with-reseller-rights.com

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The example email above has a few things that make it real and worth reading.

• The site owner’s real name.
• I mention something about his site. He has made changes over the last month. Proof that I have at the least visited his site previously.
• I specify what we have in common that made me email them.
• It’s short and to the point.
• I didn’t go into detail about what I was offering.
• I made it quick and to the point so as not to take up too much of their time, just enough to peek their interest.
• I left them with my domain so they could check up on me if they wish. Hiding nothing.

I don’t know about you but I would have read this email without considering it spam at all.

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By putting a little more into my blogs I am referring to putting in a little personality, my personality into my blogging. I get a little shy about that in most of my blogs other than the blogs where I share my hobbies. I get ME right into them without hesitation.

So from this point on, when I blog or create a blog I will focus more on just being myself.

I have thought about being a little more personal in my business blogs but every time I go and put some personality into it I just don’t think it fits and delete it. Must be low self-esteem. I must work on that one.

I guess what convinced me was the hundreds of posts about putting your personality into blogging. Some times it takes a lot to get through my preceptions of online business.

The thing is I just read them and thought I should but ended up ignoring the great advice, until this morning.

What’s funny is I wasn’t even suppose to be home to day. I wanted to go fishing but my fishing buddies were all busy today and I worked in the garden all week so I don’t feel like gardening plus it’s already too hot and muggy for that.

So, instead of just sitting around watching the TV I thought I would check out bloglines and see what my blogging friends are talking about today.

Glad I didn’t go out today, other than for breakfast with my wife. That’s a nice way to start a Saturday if I am not off fishing at 5am.

One blogger, new to my list is Deneil Merritt. Check out his post on putting some of my personality into blogging.

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Does MySpace ring a bell? Just think about Facebook now?

Facebook has over 150,000,000 members. That’s not a typo. We’re talking about a membership that’s half the size of the United States population. And it’s happening on a global scale.

To Internet marketers, that means one VERY big thing… a market so huge it’s almost laughable. In fact, this is the biggest marketing opportunity to come along since the web began. But you can’t take Facebook on alone. It took them months to get their first site up, and years to get it to where it is today. You don’t have that kind of time. This all feels so far away..why is this? Because social networking is a trend.

The ones leading the trend get to surf it all the way into the beach of major profits. The laggards just get to watch the fun (and money) everybody else is having (and getting). The question is: can YOU hop on board the trend? You could try to get on board the system and make your own money through them by marketing to people, but the likelihood of failure is high. Others are ahead of you, and the rules can change in a flash.

The smarter thing to do is to build your own community site… but can you do it? Most people can’t. The reasons are simple: Most people don’t have the technical know-how and savvy foresight to do it themselves. The ones who recognize the potential and ‘get it’ often don’t have the money to pay somebody else to create what they want. Up until now that is…as both of those problems have now been solved!

You see, Andrew X and Steven Lee Jones faced the same challenges once. They were stuck. These guys saw the massive opportunity that social marketing brings, but couldn’t see a clear way to constructing their own social networking cash machines. So they forged their own trail.

They spent months and a ton of money to create their own community site platform. It lets them build phenomenal community sites that attract members like crazy. Best of all, their software is extremely easy to use, and lets them build sites fast. They call it Niche Socializer, and the reviews it is getting are amazing. One tester said: “I’m so impressed I can barely describe it.

Niche Socializer makes this so easy I was shocked. I’m no dummy, but I’m not some kind of technical genius either. Your software had me up and running within (I’m not kidding) three hours. And that’s because I took my time!” But what really counts is the money you can make with Niche Socializer.

The creators of the highly successful Niche Blueprint have developed a number of simple ways to monetize your site. For example: You can charge your members to post their own classified ads (that module’s built-in) You can sell your own products using the eCommerce module. You can use the built-in ad module to rotate ads on your pages without alienating your members. And it doesn’t end there.

You’ll own each site you create with Niche Socializer, so you can do anything you want with each site, including selling them! Dave Anson who tested the Niche Socializer system built a site which grew to $500 each month within only 45 days, that’s $500 on autopilot every month. What happened next was nothing short of amazing, he flipped the site for $6,000 after 54 days.

Andrew and Steven will even show you how to flip sites like that yourself. The software is easy for anyone to use, but it’s also powerful enough to create profit-pulling sites with just a few mouse clicks. And they’ll let you try it for a month to prove that YOU can make it work for you. That’s what you call a no-lose proposition. Here are all the details: Niche Socializer

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