Every product or service requires marketing, and this is a well established fact. Marketing a product of service informs the customer or client the existence of the product or service and what it has to offer. The information flow has to take place via a particular medium. Marketing is the name of this medium on which the information flows from the business people to the customer base. The medium adopted could be a direct method or an indirect...more
Every book on direct email marketing and every such website as well, including this one, will give you a list of donts when it comes to getting past spam filters. There are words and phrases that must be avoided, limitations on the form your text should take, what you should not do with images and other such prohibitions. Lists, such as 20 Things to Avoid, abound. The problem is that such articles normally give excellent advice. No one, including me, is going to tell you to tune in to your wild side and let rip the creative muse. Spam filters are simple in principle and complex in execution so they need to be managed. So what can you do?An answer is to put your address on other email lists. Subscribe to your competitors and those who are making a success of email marketing. Fill your inbox with offers, opportunities and holidays in the sun specially tailored for you. And then study them.Do not think original is necessarily bad but there is a lot of truth in the saying that the best idea is to copy someone elses best idea. And you will have in your inbox examples of emails which have been successful in the battle against spam filters.Ignore for the moment the fact that your email...more
Time is precious and theres a good chance that not everyone you get to meet or who passes by your virtual stores portal has enough time to fully appreciate what your company or business has to offer.Rather than waste time making the sale, just do your best to obtain your customers email addresses and be able to enjoy a more direct approach in...more
Organizational skills are an absolute necessity for anybody working online! The internet is the perfect breeding ground for information overload and unwittingly we allow our email to work against us in this way. The problem stems mostly from our own failure to better manage information that we receive in our in box and simply compounds over time....more
Wouldnt you love a funny email address? How many email addresses do you have in your contact list? Probably hundreds, but how many of them can you remember off by heart? Probably none but why is that?Email is the most convenient and common form of written communication in the world and yet we seem to have absolutely no imagination when it comes to creating our address. Why is this? My theory is that we think of our email address a bit like our home address - plain, dull, boring and something you just get stuck with because you happen to buy a house in Bland Street. Well it doesnt have to be like that. The Internet gives you power to let your imagination run wild, so why not create a funny email address that your friends and family will always remember with a smile!A personalized email address should be an extension of you, your personality, your sense of humour or something that people always remember about you. Here are a couple of examples to get you thinking. What about Gary@manboobs.com or Sharon@shoefettish.net; perhaps David@ilovefishing.com or Grandpa@greynomad.com.Just imagine how easy it will be for your family and friends to contact you if they dont have to look up your...more
Online entrepreneurs, nowadays, have a lot to deal with.It is not anymore as simple as just making products and services to sell in the web site. With the existence of thousands of other web sites in the online community, the competition can get...more
Each one these list builder sites will offer you a one time offer page after you first login to your account. Now these sites are completely free to join hence the title of this article but that being said you will multiply your efforts 10 fold by...more
Put these 10 tips into action and watch your productivity increase.10 Ways to Send 10% Fewer E-mail Messages By: Marsha Egan About the Author Marsha Egan, CPCU, PCC is CEO of InboxDetox.com a division of The Egan Group, Inc., a...more
Email lists are often misleading in terms of data. It may take the lead generation process to a completely different trajectory. For example, you may end up making telemarketing calls to people who don't exist! Email lists often contain defunct email...more
Don't have any idea about SMTP or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol? SMTP is a protocol or in other words it is a set of rules by which a mail is sent to the receiver's domain. It generally uses port number 25(Twenty-five) if you do not change it to a...more
Make a Mailing Envelope for Your Own Use By: Leah Delaney About the Author Lea Delaney is specializing in writing articles on a printing company. Try to check out this website for more information about custom made mailing...more