Are You A Syndicated Columnist? How To Make Your Newsletter Work Without You The latest trend in e-publishing is that more and more publishers start using RSS in order to enhance deliverability of their email newsletters or readership of their web sites RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (someone will say Rich Site Summary) In plain words it is technology that enables publishers to deliver their content more effectively to their visitors or members of their email newsletters Today, RSS is still a "buzz" word and not mainstream ...

How To Use Your E-mail Address As A Branding Tool Even before you launch your website, you can (and should) begin to use your domain name Why? Because it is the worlds cheapest advertising tool and an excellent way to brand your business How? By using your domain name in your email address and in your signature file If your email address reads yourname@aolcom or you@bellcom - you are branding the name of your Internet Service Provider Why should you do it? Your ISP doesn't pay you ...

How Can I Prevent Spam? Email -- we love to get personal email We need to get our business email But, do we need to get all the junk emails, too? Back in the early 1990's, I remember checking my email one morning and finding a really neat one -- some creative computer science student from Hawaii had sent me his résumé It took me a little while to figure out what had happened This was my first-ever piece of spam This kid had sent his ...

6 Steps To Effective Customer Relationship Management Nurture Your Customer Relationships Simply put, customer relationship management is a way of tracking and nurturing your customer relationships throughout the customer's life-cycle, as they move from prospect to customer, to repeat-buyer Once a customer buys from you, it is much more profitable to make efforts to keep that customer, than it is to acquire a new one, because there is now trust between you If your customer is happy with your product, then that customer is much more likely to ...

Taking Email Marketing To The Next Level Many types of Internet advertising don't work as well as they once did People have gotten used to banners and don't click on them Some ezines have failed to keep their readers' interest and ads sometimes get less response Search engines are overflowing with submissions Getting your site listed high is almost impossible More and more businesses and organizations are now turning to email marketing to keep profits rolling in While an increasing number of people say they rarely surf the ...

Top 5 Tips To Building A Large, Responsive List Regardless of which type of product or service you're marketing Online, building an in house list of prospects is absolutely essential One thing that is often not taken into consideration is subscriber quality and retention Having a big list won't benefit you if it's members are unresponsive Here are a few tips designed to help you maximize the productivity of your ezine, newsletter, follow up, etc 1) Build a website, sub domain, or page off of your main site, solely dedicated ...

Who Can Read Your Email? Internet Security Threats: Who can read your email? =================================================== Nov 23, 2003 Before being able to choose a secure Internet communication system, you need to understand the threats to your security Since the beginning of the Internet there has been a naive assumption on the part of most email users that the only people who are reading their email are the people they are sending it to After all, with billions of emails and gigabytes of data moving over the Internet every day, ...

Stop Internet Pollution As we blaze into the new millennium, technology continues it’s rapid pace yet most people and businesses are not realizing the consequence of e-mail Even as we increase our level of electronic communication, so goes the multitudes of new e-mail and internet users flooding the bandwidth Along with all this new hyper growth comes new internet-based abuses and challenges that affect all of us personally and professionally These days everyone receives too many e-mails Unnecessary messages are annoying The information contained in this article suggests ways ...

Building An Email Marketing List There's a marketing estimate that it takes something like seven contacts with a potential client before they purchase Email is a wonderful way to handle these contacts for a variety of reasons: 1) you can send one message to a large number of people 2) compared to traditional hard copy marketing it can be a lot less expensive 3) if you use a list management system you can get instant results like how many people opened the email and how many "click throughs" ...

My Emails Are Not Being Delivered Black Lists And White Lists Explained My Emails Are Not Being Delivered Black Lists and White Lists Explained by Karen Fegarty 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 One of the main reasons that this ...