Sending bulk emails without solicitating permission from users would definitely be counted as spam...I'd advise on steering clear of this...never use your websites' email id even if you go ahead...use one of the free webmail service providers' id in case.
There are countless ways of promotion....you could provide a lite version and let people download it from download repositories...download.com or others...you could also provide full featured version for 3-4 months and issue a free license key by asking users to register with their email id (for...
I'll go with others....don't think of slowing your posting frequency...dont' worry about posts getting pushed down in the second page...posting frequency is very important..keep churning out good content...you may add a box in the front page that could pull titles of older posts to give them...
Well, I am not certain of calendar scripts to be sure. Your friend might want to give Google calendar a try, it has all the features he needs and probably much more.
http://google.com/calendar
Continuity in website updates is necessary. I agree very much with fresh content being posted almost daily for bloggers. Frequency of posts sometimes help a lot.
Great copywriters are in high demand. Writing articles, reviewing products and getting affiliate commissions are better ways however writing is a very demanding job and not everyone is suitable for it.
Objective of SEO is to bring leads to the website in whatever form they are. Leads are what help in generating revenue and therefore profit out of a site. Targeted traffic is therefore better usually.
Parking sites is not a very wise option. Minisites are any time better if you are able to capture visitor leads by some newsletter sign up form or something.