First Timer's Strategy - Crit?

Hi guys, this is my first post so please be gentle.

My overall strategy so far is to follow a "Link-Push" model that focuses on article submitting to build pr, and then I'm going to start using blogger/wordpress to promote those articles on my main sales page's behalf. I provide a quick/easy free service that is distributed over time in a newsletter, which I hope will help to generate a targeted mailing list from leads I generate from personalized forum interactions.

1) What can I do with all the extra domains I jumped the gun on purchasing before I knew what I was doing. Things like duplicate .info domains, and related domains that don't have a hope in hell for generating any pr without sinking a stupid amount of time into them. Is shelling out $5 for GoDaddy auction really that worth it? (Please don't suggest something like autoblogging, I'm so white hat it hurts)

2) Does anyone have some suggestions for making the newsletter? So far its composed of a product review and a small piece of customized content. I'm a door-2-door salesman, which means I'm completely foreign to this kind of medium, so I was wondering if there's any good ways to really push the close in these things.

3) What's a good free mailing-list program or wp-plugin that I can use before I start generating enough cashflow for aweber.

Thanks for the help!

Hi, a free mail program is MailChimp - think it is free up to 500 emails/month or something. Good to start with if you can't risk the 20 something bucks/month for Awebber.

Link-push, I remember downloading that PDF from here. You can build PR in other ways like using a 301 redirect (but you will need an older domain to do that....haven't downloaded it but in our downloads section check out a listing for purchasing domains, should have instructions in there). Good luck.

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