Whilst I am semi-active on Twitter, email remains my primary method of speaking with potential advertisers, partners, and customers. I receive dozens of emails every week through this blog. Unfortunately, a large number of emails come from time-wasting choosy beggars who want something from me, but are not willing to …
Growing an email list is a tiring affair. You need to entice people in with free eBooks, competitions, and other free goodies. Even when you bait people in, it will probably still take years of adding content to your website in order to generate the traffic necessary to acquire a …
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 …
Business is all about generating leads and conversions. Without satisfying these two metrics, death is imminent. Fortunately, the digital realm has provided marketers with an array of avenues to fill a sales funnel. In the past several years, thanks to the meteoric rise of video content, webinars have become one …
WiseStamp is a service that helps you add professional signatures to your emails. Launched in 2010, the company is currently helping over 700,000 users project a professional image in their emails. It can be used with most email providers. This includes Outlook, Gmail, Android, iPhone, Mac, Yahoo, and more. It’s …
They say that the money is in “The List”. I am sure this has been drilled into you time and time again. This is a common phrase that has been regurgitated by internet marketers and bloggers for as long as I can remember. I have said the phrase myself in …
An email list means big business for organizations. In fact, it’s not only a beautiful way to get people back to your online store, blog or forum, but if you have enough people on the list it serves as a way to show off your social credibility. Telling people that your …
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 …