Email marketing is a popular way for bloggers to connect with readers and promote their products and services. It’s a key tool of affiliate marketers too. Regular readers will know that I have stopped sending out newsletters as I want to connect with people directly through my blog and through …
Known spammers and sources of malware are placed on internet blacklists. There are a number of different types of blacklists used online. Blacklist monitoring lists, for example, are used by large email services such as Gmail, Outlook (Hotmail), and Yahoo. They use blacklists to filter emails for their customers. If …
Sending emails directly from your email account or from your website’s server is never a good idea. Your delivery rate will be low and if enough subscribers label your emails as spam your server’s IP address could be blacklisted. That is why most website owners use an SMTP email service …
Self-hosted email marketing solutions are an effective way of reducing the cost of your email marketing campaigns. If you are currently using a hosted email marketing solution such as MailChimp, I recommend doing some homework on a self-hosted alternative as you could save hundreds or even thousands of dollars per …
Email marketing is an effective strategy for promoting your brand, product, and services. Many website owners use established email marketing services such as MailChimp. There are some drawbacks to using hosted email marketing services to manage your promotions. Firstly, you need to abide by their rules and guidelines. For example, …
The money is in the list. How many times have you heard that? The reason internet marketers go on about growing your email list is because a large email list is such a powerful tool. It allows you to send a ton of traffic to any article you publish. It …
Let’s face it: if you’re doing any kind of marketing online, you have to have an email list. Product announcements, special offers, job postings – they all feel personal when you’re sending them to individual email addresses. Instead of blasting it all over social media. But if you’re not adapting …
One of the biggest problems I faced in August was my ongoing issues with GetResponse. They have failed to deliver my weekly newsletter correctly since 21 July. Today was the sixth week that they have failed to send my newsletter. My weekly newsletter always sends a few hundred additional unique …
Spam remains a big problem for everyone. Even though Gmail is generally good at reducing spam, I still receive a lot of emails every week from companies that I did not permit to email me. Google appear to be tackling this head on. On 6 August they announced that any …
Those of you who subscribe to my newsletter will know that I sent an email out yesterday about my new project Rise Forums. Do not worry if you are not currently a subscriber as I later decided to publish the newsletter as a post. There are a huge number of …