Reach Out and Slap Someone If email survives the spam wars as a commercial communication device, it will face a far swifter and deadlier opponent. This foe of clear and personal communication has the power to kill a business deal with just one message. And you may be willingly and knowingly spreading it.
Seven Tips To A Perfect Email Ads Everyone at some point in their Internet experience has
received an email ad that was simply to difficult to read
or it's text was so badly broken up that it was impossible
to understand.
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intelligence in automated interactions is good business."
My Emails Are Not Being Delivered. Black Lists and White Lists Explained. Over 40% of all emails within your marketing campaign are not being delivered. You may not even be aware of this, as many ISPs will not send back a bounce message. In fact if you are sending messages to AOL customers, AOL is now blocking over 80% of the messages that come into their servers.
Online Marketing Through Newsletters So you want to start publishing an online newsletter? Why? Because that's what all the online marketing experts and gurus said to do. You've been told you'll pull in lots of new customers if you just start publishing an online newsletter AND purchase their list magnet ebook. I am not going to tell you that because I know it's not that simple. In fact, I'll tell you the truth as I'm always compelled to do, and offer you an alternative while I'm at it.
Is Your Autoresponder Truly Promoting Your Company? Getting other people to promote your web site is one of the most popular Internet marketing methods around, today. Affiliate relationships are all the rave with people who have web sites. Web marketers worldwide are trading links everyday, in hopes of driving each other's traffic to their respective sites. This is certainly something any hard-working Internet business owner should do, but it may be a bit overrated. While using affiliate advertising is a strong marketing ploy, effective use of multiple e-mail lists and an autoresponder is one of the most powerful, multi-faceted marketing tools available today.
Are You Backing Up Your BIGGEST Asset? Have you ever accidentally lost an important file on your computer? Perhaps your computer crashed (again) or your cat sauntered over a dooming sequence of keys. Remember that little pang in your stomach you felt when you realized that file was gone for good?
Six Easy White-Listing Ways... Stop Losing Important Emails! Are you dead sure about receiving of all the important emails that is sent to you? "The chances are that you are among the 42% of the people who ARE NOT receiving the genuine emails and newsletters ...
Email Communication Gartner estimates that half of the 5.5 trillion emails sent in 2001 was business related. Email has already taken over as the businesses' main communication channel. What most people have failed to l...
Email Marketing - The End Is Nigh! Consider if you will the resources, the time and the financial investment given to attracting new web traffic. Banner advertising, link exchanges, search engine ratings, affiliate schemes and the li...
Avoiding Blacklisting: Making Sure Your Email Gets Through We all know that email is probably today's most popular way to advertise. Every day our inboxes are filled with messages from people who want our business--whether we asked for the contact or not. ...
Let The Email Wars Begin Things just got a lot hotter in the hyper-competitive world of online email providers. In response to Google's announcement that their soon-to-be-launched "Gmail" service will offer users 1 gigabyte...
Is the IronPort Whitelist Actually An Extortion Tactic? It appears that Mr. Gates' prophetic prediction that charging marketers to send email across the Microsoft email networks (MSN and Hotmail) to cut down on Sp*m is about to come true. According to CI...
Is Your Email Address Blacklisted? A lady emailed me yesterday very upset over the fact that her friend's Internet Service Provider (ISP) wasn't delivering important email messages. This lack of delivery caused a real problem for th...
Dont Use FFAs To Build Your Newsletter Subscriber For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, The initials FFA stand for "FREE For All" and my advice would be don't waste your time! FFA's DON'T WORK! FFA sites are directories where anyon...
The Lazy Way To Build A Responsive Opt-In Email List If you're in business on the Internet to make a profit, then you're probably aware of how significant a list of prospects is to your success. But what if you don't want to spend countless hours each ...
Free Traffic Exchanges Are King If you're a serious online marketer with your own website or websites, or you promote affiliate marketing programs, you know how expensive PPC (pay-per-click) a...
7 Writing Muse Kickers to Fill Up That Blank Page Nothing is more daunting for any writer than having to stare at a blank sheet of paper. When we stare at a blank sheet of paper, we often think, "What am I goi...
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Pampering Your Favorite Puppy Make your dog feel special with some pampering ideas and services that will make your pup feel happy, loved and cared for.
Business Gifts for Your Clients and Employees Giving business and holiday gifts to your clients, vendors and employees isn't just the nice thing to do, it's also good business. Here are a few things to reme...
How to Plan Your Wedding and Honeymoon 1. Weddings typically can cost you anywhere around $15,000 or more. The big question is: who foots the bill? The 21st century has heralded a shift in the way th...
Generate Savings with Smart Use of Electricity! No matter what income level you are currently at, generating savings is always a smart move to make. So what is one area you can generate a satisfying level of ...
Politics and Christianity There has been many an article about this past election. Some, praising Christians and some condemning them. As for me being a Minister, I'm disappointed in...
Policy Separated from Politics Here is Noam Chomsky making a most important connection. Politics has become something totally absurd. We see Mr. Chomsky makes a good case for something quite ...
Are You Lost or Are You Found? One is often confused, but are we ever really lost? Do we believe that just becaue a barrier seems impenetrable then it probably is. No one's every really los...
Trade In Your Diet For A Lifestyle! Dieting is a pain. I think basically everyone would agree that having to adhere to a rigid restriction of your free-flow eating preferences puts a bit of a dam...
Sunny 16 Rule -- Light Readings Without a Light Meter Ever get caught without a light meter? Stuck on an important photoghrapic expedition without a way of determining your exposure settings? Well I have, and it wo...
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Fourth of July Quotes MADRID - For millions of Americans, this Fourth of July will be a time of celebration and remembrance of those passed or distanced by war. The annual commemora...
Canine Bloat Bloat refers to the bloating of the stomach. Essentially it is a build up of gas in the stomach which is unable to be released. Bloat with Gastric Dilatation-Vo...
Starting Your Own Blog I was sitting in my local Internet Cafe yesterday, I like to get away from my 'home office' from time to time and it's a great place to go for a cup of Espresso...
Auto Loans: Top 5 Tips For The Best Rate You've got your eye on that shiny new Lexus - okay, maybe it's a Kia, but it's perfect and you want it to be yours, all yours - as soon as possible. At the same...
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