How new USPS rates can save businesses money

Inc.com reports that new USPS rates effective May 14 could save businesses money. The cost of mailing a letter will go up by two cents, but rates for other categories will drop.

Letters weighing up to two ounces will drop to 58 cents — five cents less than the 63 cents they currently cost. Businesses that reduce the frequency of their mailers by combining them stand to gain. A small business mailing 5,000 such letters would save $250 more than what it would have saved before the rate drop.

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Get print jobs done and in the mail before the USPS rate increase May 14

Are you planning any large mailings? Tip — get it printed and in the mail before the USPS rate increase effective May 14.

See USPS rates and fees

Need a good printer? Check out my favorite, PrintingForLess.com. Use my Promotional Code RP1LQZ43O to receive $25 off your first order. Get any printing orders in by Friday, May 4, to take advantage of the current postage rates.

Here are some other money-saving tips from PrintingForLess:

• Mail postcards to your customers instead of sending letters
• Save up to 50 percent by folding large marketing pieces before mailing
• Check your mailing list and remove questionable addresses and duplicates

For more tips, visit PFL’s mailing services information page.

Free guide from online copywriter Nick Usborne

Veteran copywriter Nick Usborne is getting his feet wet at the new FreeIQ information site by offering a truly valuable resource for free. Go on over and pick up your copy of Writing for The Web #1.

This is a 35-page guide to writing for the Web, written by Nick Usborne, a leading online copywriter and author of “Net Words — Creating High Impact Online Copy.” This free guide outlines 7 challenges every writer and copywriter faces when writing for the Web.

Writing for the Web is different than writing for print. According to Usborne, the challenges online copywriters face include:

1. You need to help every visitor avoid getting lost.
2. You need to write for the company, your readers AND the search engines.
3. You need to earn your visitors’ trust.
4. You need to write every page as a landing page… or not.
5. You need to make your content pre-sell.
6. You need to make the sale before it’s too late.
7. You need to know that web designers are not always on your side.

I read Usborne’s book Net Words - Creating High Impact Online Copy several years ago and used it to write an article geared to technical communicators who were getting into writing for the Web. Read the article, What Every Writer For the Web Should Know.

Be sure to get your free copy of Writing for The Web #1.

Also consider joining FreeIQ as a content provider. They are looking for experts with quality content!

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Content and product development services for Free IQ

Don’t be left out of the Free IQ revolution! If you’re an expert with helpful information to share, promote or sell, consider becoming a content provider yourself. Your content can take the form of an article, book, report, guide, manual, newsletter – any document that can be saved in Portable Document Format (PDF).

You can also provide your information as audio recordings or videos.

Don’t worry if you don’t know how to create PDFs! Don’t worry if you have no idea how to produce an audio recording. Talking Feather Communications is here to help you develop your products.

Join Free IQ now as a content provider. Explore the site and get ideas for your free and paid content. Then contact Lana at Talking Feather Communications to discuss your project.

You can also sign up as an affiliate and start earning income.

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Free IQ — the new marketplace for your ideas

Attention authors, speakers, experts, coaches!

I just learned about the brand-new site Free IQ created by Brad Fallon, a highly-respected Internet marketer (if you know anything about Internet marketing, being respected in this business is extremely rare). Brad runs myweddingfavors.com, which pulls in $30 million a year.

As an idea person, business communications consultant and information addict, I LOVE this concept: A google/youtube/amazon-like marketplace where you can promote (and sell) your ideas and knowledge (in the form of articles, e-books, articles, videos, Webinars, etc.) — all hosted for free. And, you can become an affiliate and promote other people’s products.

 

If you are an expert on just about any topic, Free IQ is the perfect solution to display your ideas and showcase your knowledge.

We will host and stream all your content for free, whether it’s video, audio, articles or ebooks. While we reserve the right to eventually set limits, currently there is no limit to how much content you can upload. And if anyone buys an electronically deliverable (downloadable) product from you, we’ll deliver it for free as well.

For content providers, there is no monthly fee to use the Free IQ shopping engine to sell your information products. We host and stream (and digitally deliver) an unlimited of audio and video for free. For any sales you make, we charge just 5% of the sales price (plus credit card processing fees.)

At the urging of a friend who is a business coach and savvy Internet marketer, I signed up as an affiliate today, before this whole thing busts loose. He writes:

We’ve all heard about the phenomenal success of YouTube.com and how Google bought them for $1.6 billion.

But, there’s something even bigger on the horizon…

I know that sounds like a bunch of hype but trust me on this. As we all know, success comes from getting in early, and here’s your chance.

So what am I talking about? It’s called Free IQ.

And there is a very real chance this site will become a bigger phenomenon than YouTube.com Seriously… and you can be a part of it.

The new site is currently in beta, but next week it goes live, and that’s why it’s so imperative that you create your account NOW.

You see, Free IQ is an amazing new web 2.0 concept that combines the YouTube.com user added content concept and combines it with the Google like search engine, and an ever growing educational database of content like you might find on Amazon.com.

But unlike all the garbage content on YouTube, (I mean who really cares about a video clip of a monkey smoking cigarettes, or some Danish car commercial), Free IQ focuses on educational, business and instructional content only — both free and paid.

What’s very cool is that this new model allows you to be an affiliate for any or all of the paid content uploaded by other users.

Think about that for a moment and really let that sink in…

As amazing as it sounds, you actually get paid for promoting videos and content supplied by other people.

There are no hidden or additional costs to get a free account or to upgrade an account while the site is in beta.

That of course will change when the site goes live, so there’s yet another reason to get your account now.

It would not surprise me at all that this site becomes an acquisition target by Google, Yahoo or Microsoft sometime within the next 18 to 24 months.

This is truly one of those situations where if you wait to get an account, you’ll lose the chance at getting your place at the head of the line so to speak.

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