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Member Newsletter
December 15, 2000 Volume II, Issue 9
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SPECIAL HOLIDAY ISSUE

NEWS YOU CAN USE
Make Your Opinion Count
Back Up Your Site

FOCUS ON HOLIDAY SITES
Building Web Sites for the Holidays
Holiday Shopping on Freeservers Member Sites
Holiday Helps from Freeservers Members
PROMOTE YOUR SITE
Proudly Display Your Web Address on FREE Business Cards from VistaPrint.com
Get Targeted Traffic to Your Site With Sprinks
ENHANCE YOUR SITE
Learn to Be a Better Webmaster!
Plug-in Community by Everyone.net
Add Custom Headlines to Your Site!
MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR SITE
Earn Revenue with High-Margin, Premium Products
Be Free to Make Money
Link to the NextCard Visa, Make $20 Per Sale
FREESERVERS' "SUPERB SITE AWARD"
USER UTILITY LINKS
CONTACT FREESERVERS.COM
PAST ISSUES

THIS ISSUE'S HOT PICK

It's not too late to squeeze some extra income from your website this season!

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Here's the advantage that QuinStreet offers:
  • High commissions - up to 25% per sale
  • Specialty gifts for everyone: older adults, children, gourmands, homeowners and more!
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Learn more or enroll now!
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NEWS YOU CAN USE
Make Your Opinion Count
Freeservers' parent company, About.com, has partnered with StyleClick to offer an exciting new program that will let you add an online store to your site absolutely FREE -- and pay you a generous commission for every product you sell! As part of this exciting E-Commerce program, you'll be able to fill your store with a wide product selection featuring more than 300 national brands. Before this program launches, StyleClick wants to find out how they can make it the best one around. So take a few moments to fill out their online survey--and you'll become a "Charter Member" with special benefits when the program launches. Click here.
Back Up Your Site!
We probably cannot remind you enough that if your Web site is important to you, you should back up your site to protect against possible disk errors or other problems. Freeservers makes a tremendous effort to protect your site against data loss, but we cannot guarantee that no loss will occur. To read more about backing up your site, please click here. If you are a beginner and would like more information about using FTP to back up your site, click here and choose the tutorial about backing up your site.
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FOCUS ON HOLIDAY SITES

Building Web Sites for the Holidays
The holidays generate additional need for Web sites, and at Freeservers we want to help you set up new sites for the holidays. The following are examples of things you can do with a new holiday Web site, both to save money and to make money, and some specific site-building help:

  1. Store Sites: Sell things over the Internet for online holiday shoppers. Don't know where to start? Try building a simple site with a home page that introduces your products and company, with a few individual product pages, a contact page, and a purchase page. (If you use our Site Builder templates, you can be selling in 10 minutes!) Customers can call, e-mail, fax, or mail in their orders and payment information.
  2. Online Christmas Cards/Letter: Do you send out piles of Christmas cards each year to friends and family? Try sending with your cards, or in place of your cards, a URL so friends and family can link to your holiday Web site to see pictures of your family and a seasons' greetings. The following are some examples of personal holiday Web pages:
    · http://cozycottage.freeservers.com/Christmas.html
    · http://sallyrae.freeservers.com/christmas.html
    · http://poetess.8m.com/christmas.htm
    · http://mandm.freeservers.com/christmas_99.htm

We've also gathered some sites on the Freeservers network that allow you to add Christmas music, clipart, and more to your site:


Holiday Shopping on Freeservers Member Sites
Our new search box on the banner bars and the search options from the Freeservers main Web page allow you to search the 1.8 million Freeservers sites for unique gifts and bargains this holiday season. We've gathered a few sites together to show you an example of what you can find on the network:

Holiday Helps from Freeservers Members
Need a good Christmas recipe? Want to print an advent calendar or send online Christmas cards? Check out these Freeservers Member sites for some holiday freebies!
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PROMOTE YOUR SITE
Proudly Display Your Web Address on FREE Business Cards from VistaPrint.com
Yes, it's true. You can't actually hand your customers your Web site. But you can hand them your business card with your corporate URL professionally emblazoned on the front. What's more, the cards are FREE! VistaPrint.com is the Web's innovative e-printing service that lets you design and order your own FREE, full-color, professionally printed business cards. Click here to learn more about this unprecedented offer.

Get Targeted Traffic to Your Site With Sprinks With over 16.4 million visitors and over 700 topical GuideSites, About, a top ten Internet site, is reaching your audience. Now you can too! About offers SPRINKS, the only place online that you can choose your price, your placement, and your context. SPRINKS gives you integration, ease, and efficiency in your advertising and enables you to reach an audience already looking for your products and services. To learn more, click here.
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ENHANCE YOUR SITE
Learn to Be a Better Webmaster!
If you're serious about improving your Web Development skills, discovering new online marketing techniques, or simply enhancing your knowledge about the Web, then you do yourself a favor and visit SitePoint.com.

SitePoint offer a bunch of great resources, including popular Help Forums and two FREE newsletters. To subscribe simply go to http://sitepoint.com/newsletter/ You could even WIN a copy of Flash 5.0 from Macromedia, valued at $399.00! We encourage you to take a peek, it's well worth it!

Plug-in Community by Everyone.net
Add 100% free, fully branded, message boards and chat to your site! Our powerful services will help your site attract and retain more users. They are fully customizable and integrate so tightly with your site that visitors will think you developed them yourself. Plug-in-Portal is absolutely free and takes only minutes to set up, so simply sign up and start offering it today!
Add Custom Headlines to Your Site!
Freeservers has teamed up with Moreover.com to allow you to put newsfeeds right on your site. You can choose from hundreds of categories, or even create your own news category, to give your visitors just the news they want. And you can customize the look and feel of the newsfeed to match your site. So, what are you waiting for? In just a couple of minutes, you can have fresh, cool content built in to your site. Click here now!
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MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR SITE
Earn Revenue with High-Margin, Premium Products!
Are you serious about earning incremental revenue? Join QuinStreet and get up to 25% on sales and generous payment for leads--always among the highest on the Internet in every category. Double your commissions with performance bonuses AND refer others to earn up to 33% of their commissions! Plus, get great deals and promotions proven to drive your sales. Click here to sign up, and you can start earning revenue by promoting great products!
Be Free to Make Money
Sign up with Be Free to make money through hundreds of different affiliate programs. This includes major Internet merchants such as Reel.com, American Greetings and more. So
click here to sign up today and start earning money!
Link to the NextCard Visa, Make $20 Per Sale
Freeservers introduces a great opportunity for you to make money through your Web site. All you need to do is sign up as a NextCard affiliate and put their banner on your page. For each sale you generate through your Freeservers Web site, you'll receive AT LEAST $20.00! For more details on how to sign up, click here.
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FREESERVERS' "SUPERB SITE AWARD"
Each issue of the Freeservers Member Newsletter, we award the Freeservers' Superb Site Award. Chosen by the staff at Freeservers, each Superb Site winner is a model of how to use the features available to all Freeservers members. To nominate a site for the Superb Site Award, click here.

This issue's recipient of the Superb Site award is "Toz's Deepspace Nebulae Photo Gallery." You'll get a chance to see some fantastic pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as a great site design. To visit this site and get ideas for your own site, go to http://deepspace.s5.com/.

To see past winners of the Freeservers Superb Site Award, click here.
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CONTACT FREESERVERS
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