I'm trying out a new way to reward people for referring me more subscribers.

It's based on the idea of "tell a friend" but instead of having people fill out a form on a website, you ask people to use their own email to refer the friends.

Friends Reach Friends 

The benefit is that more people are going to email their friends direct if they have control over the message and are not having to type in a friend's coveted email address into a form.

Emails Get Opened

Even better, your friends are more likely to open up your email than if it came from some unknown address used by the "refer a friend" form tool.

And there's more...

Because it uses someone's email address as the key to the referral code, EVERYONE on your existing mailing list is instantly your affiliate.

No affiliate signup page needed :) 

It's live now 

I'm using the tool myself to grow my list.

To see it in action and get more details on this Empressive tool (hint hint) check out my refer page, which is given out to EVERY new subscriber in my autoresponder, adding a little viral spice to the mix. 

--- (Edited on 4/9/2008 5:02 pm [GMT-0500] by Peter) ---