One of the most common phrases you’ll hear from web marketers is “the money’s in the list.” When they say this, they’re talking about an email list – regardless of whether it’s a subscription-based email newsletter that you send weekly/monthly or a list of contacts that you only email when you need some extra cash [...]
1971: Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sends the ???rst electronic mall message. Tomlinson has since forgotten what the message said. 1976: Queen Elizabeth II becomes first head of state to send an electronic mail message. 1978: The ???rst electronically- sent advertisement goes out, over a network of government and university computers. 1982: The word ???email??? is [...]
Questions about Small Business marketing sample emails and business email etiquette are among the most popular articles for 2010. It seems more questions surround HTML email every year due to their effectiveness as nicely designed marketing messages. How to: Business Email Etiquette & Professionalism Email is as much a part of your professional image as [...]
A big aid to the success of any online business is those customers paying attention to the site and its messages, including e-mail and newsletters. People who are following your progress on a regular basis are receiving more exposure to your product, and are more likely in the end to purchase the services or item [...]
Many organizations are replacing their hard copy, dead-tree-edition newsletter with an email publication. Emailed newsletters have the benefit of requiring fewer resources, going out faster, reaching a wider audience with less effort and being easier to correct if a mistake slips in. However, many of them end up being ignored just as much as their [...]
I typically write a lot more about the “human side of marketing,” because I think topics like trust, sincerity, and emotions get overlooked in most marketing advice discussions. And no matter how clever your copy and fail safe your system, neglect trust building and you will have to work twice as hard at your marketing [...]
Unfortunately, the first word that pops to mind when many people mention email marketing is ‘spam.’ The junk mail of the modern era, spam is frequently held up as an abominable combination of inconvenience and social evil, with spam blockers and anti-spam petitions filling the news online and offline. Of course, this means legitimate email [...]
When you have an online business, one of the most important things you can do is to build a mailing list. It is not as hard to do as some people think it is. You just need to know how to build a mailing list effectively. To help you get started, there are some important [...]
One of the systems I help my clients to implement is a schedule for getting on track with their ezine (electronic newsletter) as it’s so important that you have a systematic stay-in-touch strategy in place and a regular ezine is the perfect medium for achieving this! However, the downside, and where so many solopreneurs fail, [...]
Ethical Bribes: 10 Most Effective Client Attraction Device Giveaways Copyright © 2009 OnlineBizU.com One of the quickest ways to build your email marketing list is by creating an ethical bribe, or what I refer to as a client attraction device. This free giveaway serves to entice visitors to your site to sign up for your [...]