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Feb '09

Email Marketing – Monitoring Email Deliverability

Email Marketing – Monitoring Email Deliverability

The world of business communications has changed dramatically in the last two decades and with it the way you go about marketing your products has changed too.  In this new century if you are not assured you can be successful with internet marketing and to do so using email, you are behind the curve in getting to the customer base you need before your competitors too.

For many companies the only way to reach the volume of customers you need to reach to reach your financial goals is through mass email advertising campaigns.  But the services you can subscribe to are costly.  If you pay a price to deliver 100,000 emails to potential customers and only 5000 actually get to those email inboxes because spam filters are catching your advertisements first, then you have wasted a lot of money.

The only way you can really know what percentage of emails are getting through to the customers is to find a way to monitor them.  That is why employing an independent agency that can help you track your emails makes sense.  If that company can deliver to you a report that shows in detail and by ISP what percentage of your emails are being trapped by filters and conversely how many are getting to customers, you have what you need to make some decisions about how to spend your internet marketing budget in the next quarter.  But that data has to be reliable and usable to you and it must be graphic so you can use it in presentations to current management to illustrate the problem and what you plan to do with it.

It makes sense to look into the top email delivery monitoring services to determine if they can provide you with those statistics.  An example of such a service is DeliveryMonitor.com.  This service makes it possible to see in detail how many of your emails are getting to their intended email inboxes, how many are being diverted to spam filters and how many vanish entirely from the internet (presumably automatically deleted by spam filters).  This information is reported by major ISP so you can quickly spot if your message is  being caught more often by one ISP than another.

Armed with this kind of information, you can dig deeper to find out what spam detection rules the ISPs in question are using and then tailor your next mass communications email so your message is approved by the ISP filters and goes on to the customers.  The outcome is that if the service is accurate, within a matter of months, you will have what you need to fine tune your email marketing plan and see a significant improvement in successful delivery of your advertising to customers.

When you see that percentage start to go  up, you will immediately see a corresponding increase in inquiries about your product or services followed by an increase in sales.  That kind of refinement of your marketing program is exactly what needs to be done every week and every month by your marketing department to assure long term success in this modern world of digital commerce.

A good email delivery monitor provides two important services for your business.  The first is the one we just described.  By giving you the data you need to evaluate why your emails are not getting to the customers email boxes, you can make changes to fix the problem and see a dramatically higher rate of success for your marketing dollar.

But the second service is just as valuable because the reports, statistics and graphs that are given to you are crucial both for your management of internet advertising and for communication with corporate management.  You are going to be held accountable for the success of your internet marketing programs.  This data will help you be able to show both where you are successful and where work needs to be done and to show management the path to success you have planned.

This is not a commercial for any one service but DeliveryMonitor is a good example of how they work and a good starting place for your evaluation.  But be a thorough business person and evaluate the field of services so when you do budget to bring a email delivery reporting service on board as a vendor, you know what you are paying for and you know what they can do for your business.

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Wed
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Feb '09

Website Development – WEB 2.0 to the Rescue

Website Development – WEB 2.0 to the Rescue

You may have heard about WEB 2.0 but perhaps you thought it was some trendy new toy that would go by the wayside like lots of them do.  Instead it represents a revolution in how the internet works.  And to an internet retailer or merchant such as you and I, it represents a solution to one of the biggest problems we face in staying in touch with our customers and that is email deliverability problems.

The reason WEB 2.0 is going to come to the rescue in saving us from our email deliverability problems lies in how it basically changes the way people use and view the internet and internet communications in particular.  Before WEB 2.0, if you wanted to communicate with your customers, you had to take the communication to them.  Hence you put together an email that you sent out via a mass mailing or using a service and you hoped that you would hear back from some percentage of your customers about this most recent promotion.

To a large extent under that system, you never knew if the customer got your email or if they took advantage of what you have to offer because of the email you spent money to send out.  But a bigger problem that has grown bigger and bigger with each passing year is that spam and spam filter software that is designed to protect individuals from the potentially dangerous effects of spam also have created a huge problem of email delivery verification for online merchants to contend with.

As long as the formula is that the merchant must take marketing to the customer, email delivery problems will be the bane of the internet merchant’s existence.  That is why WEB 2.0 is going to come to the rescue by changing the basic assumption of how we communicate to customers.  With WEB 2.0, you no longer have to take marketing to the customer because the way the internet now works is customers come to you where you can interact and market to them dynamically on your web site where they might “hang out” for extended periods of time.

WEB 2.0 and how it works can be seen in some of the most explosive new internet services of the last five years including YouTube, MySpace and Wikipedia.  These web sites are the first fruits of a redesign of the internet that makes cyberspace a place where the internet population create the content and how customers interact on  your web site is as important or more important than what you put on the web site yourself.

WEB 2.0 has the potential to take email out of the marketing loop entirely.  If you retrofit your web site to accommodate the interactive concepts you see used on Wikis, on YouTube and on MySpace, you can create an environment so driven by customers that it is an ideal environment for marketing, for customer communications and for sales.  You can use this kind of online community setting to place your sales force in a cyber sales room to casually interact with customers and guide them to purchase decisions in a low key, no pressure way that is just what customers like in an online community.

One of the great innovations of the WEB 2.0 approach to web site design is that you can actually link videos or web site pages from other web sites and make them part of your own.  Get familiar with the way modern web sites work and interact with your web development gurus so they can guide you in how to use WEB 2.0 methodologies to bring customers to your sales setting rather than having to go to them with email marketing campaigns.  And when you have successfully made that transition, you may never have to worry about email deliverability issues again.

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Avoiding Private Label Rights Scams

Avoiding private label rights Scams

With the internet chocked full of ways to make money it is very important to ensure that you are actually working on a legitimate way to make money yourself. There are a ton of scams that are abounding on the internet and if you are not careful, you can find yourself the victim of these scams and left out entirely in the cold. In order to really combat these problems it is critical to know exactly what you are looking for and be positively sure that you can actually make some money.

The one problem that most people tend to overlook is the sales pages that they are reading. If you are unsure what you are looking at a sales page can be a really scary, exciting and alluring piece of reading. The whole point is to have you ready and willing to whip out a credit card and start signing up for everything that you read. However, while you are reading these sales pages there should be some key information present before you are reaching for your credit card. Without this valuable information you could find yourself out your money and with nothing to really show for it as well.

Your first step is to look over the sales letter, this means looking over all of it. While many of them are longer than some of the biggest textbooks, you should still understand exactly what it says. You should notice that while you are reading it the sales letter should tell you exactly what you are getting, and also exactly how much you can expect to pay. For example, if you are obtaining your private label rights products from a membership site you should be told upfront what you can expect the site to give you. Of course, they are not going to tell you exactly what they have available, but you should be able to at least come up with a few good ideas such as 100 website templates are included along with 1000 eBooks.

On the other hand if the sales page simply says that website templates and eBooks are included you could find yourself paying top dollar to only receive two templates and two eBooks. This would after all be technically and legally acceptable with what they offer you based upon their sales information. However, as most people can agree paying a large amount of money for only two templates and two eBooks is not acceptable.

You should also look for very clear terms about payment, refunds, and satisfaction guarantees. Many places will not offer a guarantee giving you the money back if you are not satisfied. This is just as much to protect them as it is to protect you. However, as long as you are willing to really look over the details you can typically find someone to work with that does look after your personal interests as well. For example, this means looking for a site that will clearly tell you what the upfront charges are, as well as all monthly charges.

Remember, if there are details and information missing from the sale page this should be a signal of problems. If someone is actually providing a useful and satisfactory product they are not going to need to hide or lie about anything.

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Blog Marketing – The Secret To Blogging Success

The Secret To blogging Success

Looking for information about blogging? You have clicked the right article. This article will give you tips on how you can earn tip on blogging.

blogging is the easiest way to gain money over the World Wide Web. It originated from writing hobbies and sometimes used to make it as their career. In many ways, people used blogging to earn much money online.

There are obviously many ways to earn extra money through blogging. You can earn tips from blogging, but how are you going to get tips from it?

The answer is simple. You should give the people reasons to give you tips. This is done by giving the good information, reliable sources and highly entertaining that can make them feel that you deserve to be appreciated. In this way, you will be telling them to give you tips. To make your writings invite readers, you should put everything on it.

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Polish your writings by providing them with updates, keep your articles fresh, gives real information and writes interesting topics. It is very necessary for you to do well in your writings to be able to make money in this venture. In these ways, your audience will give you tips without you asking it from them.

Once that you have written a perfect article, you are now ready to promote it. You will need to expose your blogs to sell. Market it by targeting the search engines online. With you quality blogs, make sure you are going to get something from it.

Register in the different blog websites submit your blogs to the different search engines and post it to other people’s blogs. In this way, you are going to invite many audiences through your high quality, informative and entertaining contents of your blogs.

The next step after marketing your blogs, you will be ready for some tips. However, there should be a vehicle to which your audience can tip you. There are heaps of ways to gain money or to receive money payments online. There should be at least one way in which the reader can pay you anytime they want. Make sure that the way they are going to pay you will not give them more time. Very critical way of paying will make your readers think of not paying you anymore.

If you want to earn more tips, you can ask them to pay you in some ways. You can add post after a blog telling that tips are appreciated to fund the blogging services. In either way, you also have to state that the clients’ generosity is also appreciated without sounding like you are in a bad need of money.

Blogging can be so much fun, aside from making it a good business. You are sure to gain a lot of money if you are going to work hard for it. One way of making money is to gain tips from your readers. This will be a good replacement for the work that you have done and for giving them entertainment. By making sure that the content of your blog is of high quality, realistic and informative, you are sure to not only gain money but also positive reputation that can make you famous over the web world.

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