Hey,

Start giving your subscribers some very informative content before you promote any products.

It's a sad scenario these days, almost all of us these days start promoting products from day 1.

One guru, who sets a classic examples of how you retain customers according to me is Travis - the bum marketing guy.

He sends good articles, informative ones often, doesn't promote too many affiliate products & he keeps it simple & also sends funny stuff across every once in a while. According to me, that's a way to go. We can't just keep promoting products week after week after week. Making money is important but it's about time we provide value to the customers.

If you don't have time to write articles & if you don't have money to get them written, you may well find good articles on ezinearticles.com & promote it to your list saying, 'this is something very good I stumbled upon, Must Read'

Hope this helps you get a gist

Cheers