RE: [epub] Article Submission

[mtoussaint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Dale,

Just a quick question -- do you mail each one individually
(or use a program that achieves that effect), or do you put
everyone in the blind CC box? I've tried both, and mailing
individually works much better for me. First off, a lot of
people filter e-mail that doesn't have their name in the
"To:" box, so they may not even see it. Secondly, as an
editor, I'd feel a lot more comfortable running an article
that I didn't think was going to appear in my competitor's
zine as well.

Another thing is that if you're using cc/bcc, it's easy for
an editor to make the conclusion that if you haven't taken
the effort to mail to him/her individually (at least learn
his/her name, the title of the zine, and something about
it), then the mail doesn't warrant the effort of a response.

I'm not trying to insult you here. I made a lot of mistakes
when I started, and I thought those mistakes might help you
figure this out.

Mark Toussaint
MyDearDiary.com
http://www.mydeardiary.com

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the list and don't know if this is on
> topic or not (I hope it is
> because it's important).
>
> Recently I have had reason to examine my own
> behavior as an ezine editor and
> writer.
>
> I had need to send out a few new articles to
> other ezine editors (about 40
> ezines in total). Out of the forty editors I
> contacted only 5 responded to
> me.
>
> Now I'm not bothered if the other 35 weren't
> interested in my articles, heck
> that's just part of life. What does bother me is
> the fact that the other 35
> couldn't be bothered to let me know one way or
> the other if they were
> intending to run my article or not.
>
> It is common decency to reply to people who go to
> all the bother of emailing
> you their article, even if it's to say thanks but
> no thanks.
>
> Those editors who did not reply to me in any way
> what so ever have left a
> negative impression on me. I will have to think
> twice before doing business
> with them ever.
>
> I know your going to say that editors are just to
> busy to answer every email
> they receive. Well maybe so, if they have 200,000
> subscribers, but that
> didn't stop one lady editor I know of from
> replying to me and even giving me
> some good advice.
>
> Even an autoresponse is better than nothing, at
> least the submitters would
> know their article reached you, right?
>
> What I'm trying to say is, if you value your
> ezine and more importantly the
> business it bring in for you then reply to people
> who go out of their way to
> help you. Simple, straight forward good business
> tactics. Just because your
> publishing on the internet, doesn't mean that you
> can be ignorant or that
> you'll loose business because of it.
>
> All the very best,
>
> Dale O'Neil



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