Re: [epub] Etiquette for using subscriber's names

["Online secrets,marketingdreams" <marketingdreamz@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Online secrets,marketingdreams" <marketingdreamz@yahoo.com>

Dear Diana

Good luck with your new zine, smart move.

As for your question, many E zines ask their 
subscribers for feedback, and most of them publish
such feedback in different forms, some use first
names only, others use full name, some even ad the 
E mail address of the person.

Tha main point here is the consent of your
 subscriibers, so I think the best way to go
about it the right way, is to ask your subs if
it is ok to put their names with their comments,
this way you avoid any embarrasment, and still
protect the privacy of your subs.

Hope that helps

Osama Taha
Publisher & Editor
All your Marketing Dreams
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--- Diana Ratliff <dratliff@mail.coin.missouri.edu>
wrote:
> Hi, everyone!
> I'm new to the list, an expert in business card use
> & design
> who's just started an e-zine.  First issue went out
> 2/14; next
> issue going out Monday... I already have more than
> 100 new
> subscribers since the first issue, so it's off to a
> good start!
> 
> My question:
> I'm trying to create a sense of community, and my
> marketing-
> oriented ezine welcomes tips from subscribers.  In
> fact,
> subscriber submissions will be a big part of the
> 'zine (and, I
> hope, part of its appeal).  Naturally, if I publish
> a Marketing
> Tip or Marketing "Pet Peeve" from anyone, they get a
> bio.
> 
> However, do you feel it's acceptable for me to refer
> to subscribers
> by name, who make comments to me (not actual tips
> they've
> submitted)?  For example, to say in my Publisher's
> Comments
> section that "John Doe and Jane Smith both
> noticed the 'wordo' I made in my first issue; guess
> I'll have to
> stay on my toes!".  
> 
> Should I use names?  Full names?  First name, last
> initial?
> Not use them at all?  Only with permission?
> 
> Whatcha think?
> 
> Diana Ratliff, Your Business Card Consultant
> http://www.bizbooklets.com
> 
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