One thing that should always be a focus of you marketing campaign is developing long term visitors and customers by creating an email marketing campaign.
I have been absent from this blog for about a bit because I have been working on a project that I have kept secret until the day it was finished. [...]

This is a slightly taboo subject because with many product launches there is a launch competition not only for sales, but also for pre-launch opt-ins.
If you are offering an incentive for people to just opt-in, there is a high possibility that that lead might be worth less than a lead that has viewed some launch [...]