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Taking Advantage of Email Marketing


It is estimated that almost all Internet users have one or two email accounts being maintained and regularly visited. Moreover, almost all types of both formal and informal communications are now conveyed through email services. Reading and sending emails is typically one of the most common online transactions done by Internet users. Everyday, people get online to get and reply to emails.

That is one good reason why many businesses are now targeting to utilize email systems in boosting marketing campaigns. Now, email marketing is one of the most used and important marketing campaigns rolled out by companies and marketing firms. Email advertising has really attracted the attention and participation of more businesses and entrepreneurs. It is estimated that the sector for such marketing services has grown tremendously over time.

OptinCenter is one of the most active and reliable email marketing services providers. If you are planning to take email campaigns to boost the sales and profitability of your business, it is time you check out the appropriate and usual email advertising services offered by OptinCenter. Visit the company’s Website at http://www.optincenter.com/ and find out which specific email marketing package would be best for you.

Through the company’s targeted opt-in emailing service, you could be sure your advertisements are aimed at appropriate and specific targets. It is important to make sure that the message and ads are sent and are received by the right people. There is such a thing as consented email sending wherein the recipients of the message agree to receive the email messages. This practice helps alleviate spam messaging and unnecessary sending.

Some other email marketing providers boast of sending up to 10 million email messages heralding clients’ services and messages each day. The big question should follow: How many of those recipients would actually read the ad? It is estimated that more than 75% of email marketing messages sent to different emails are not read and not even opened by receivers. That is because usually, such emails fall as spasm.

OptinCenter makes sure its email marketing messages are sent to people who intend and agree to receive the emails. Through this, the company can assure clients that its efforts in sending emails will never go astray. Bulk email marketing services offered by OptinCenter are simply one of the most effective and most results-oriented in the market currently. Clients attest that their subscription brought about numerous actual sales transactions.

Other features of OptinCenter that would surely convince you that the firm is one of the best email marketing solutions providers are as follows: bulk sending of email marketing messages to numerous people at the same time, facilitating the one-click email messaging action with Web browsers, utilization of a safelist email services, instantly sending of emails, automated email validation services, and massive email advertising.

On top of that, the company also rolls out affordable email marketing services that would surely attract most businesses. If you are budget conscious and aims to appropriate expenses to minimalist but effective causes, OptinCenter services would be best for you. The company respects and ensures privacy so you could be sure of the security and confidentiality of your business relationship with the company, if you are particular about it.

Through the years, OptinCenter’s numerous client base has been raving about the optimal and helpful effect of subscriptions. That is why as a thriving and striving business and entrepreneur, you should aim to spend budgets on advertising on the best and proven solutions. In no time, your email marketing campaign would be fully rolled out and would be reaching customers who really matter. Your sales would be bolstered and your overall margins would be widened. Helping your business grow through simple email marketing techniques is OptinCenter’s basic operational mandate.

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Taking the message online: new e-mail marketing program keeps PRO Group on the cutting edge.: An article from: Hardware Retailing


 Taking the message online: new e mail marketing program keeps PRO Group on the cutting edge.: An article from: Hardware Retailing

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Taking the Easier Route to Generating RSS Subscribers


Copyright 2005 Rok Hrastnik

RSS is certainly still far from being user-friendly, which is
especially evident once you try and left-click on an RSS
subscribe button.

In most cases your browser will simply display the XML code of
the RSS feed … which does not go far in making internet users
comftorable with RSS.

Heck, if you didn’t know what RSS was and clicked on an RSS
button only to get a page full of code you don’t understand,
would that aid in turning you in to an RSS user?

Probably no. And much worse, you’d probably never consider
clicking on one of those buttons again, at least not any time
soon.

Consequently, if as a marketer you’re trying to generate RSS
subscribers, simply using an RSS subscribe button is the worst
way to go for you and for the RSS industry as a whole as well.

So, what alternatives are there?

a] CREATE AN RSS PRESENTATION PAGE

If you’re trying to generate RSS subscribers from your site and
are targeting audiences that might not be farmiliar with RSS,
you need at least a basic presentation of what RSS is on your
site, and you need to link to that either directly from the RSS
subscribe button or from a location right next to that button,
like you can see on the MarketingStudies.net example.

On this page you should explain in easy-to-understand terms what
RSS is, how your visitors can use it and how they’ll benefit,
and then provide links to some RSS readers and again links to
your RSS feeds.

This page will be instrumental in telling your visitors about
RSS and helping them subscribe to your feeds.

And of course, the feeds themselves and the RSS presentation
page should be promoted in prominent locations on your website,
especially directly below your e-mail e-zine subscription box
and, if you’re publishing topic oriented feeds, next to their
respective topics on the site, just as Lockergnome.com is doing.

B] TRANSFORM AN RSS FEED IN TO XHTML

Having a link to an RSS presentation page right next to your RSS
subscribe button does aid visitors in learning about RSS and
helps them to subscribe, but it still doesn’t solve the problem
of a user actually clicking on an RSS feed button. That will
still result in the visitor getting heaps of code he really
won’t know what to do with.

Going one step further, you can use XSL Transformations to make
sure that the feed can in fact also be displayed in a browser
(without making it useless for an RSS reader as well) … and
that with some additional information and instructions, such as
a brief overview of RSS and a quick explanation on how the user
can subscribe to this feed via an RSS reader.

I don’t want to get technical here, so to see what I mean simply
click on this link (via FeedBurner):

http://feeds.feedburner.com/BurnThisRSS2

This is basically an RSS feed, which has been transformed in
order to be displayed in a Web browser with some additional
information, but can still be subscribed to via every RSS reader
as well.

Some feed maintanance and publishing services such as FeedBurner
already provide this functionality “out-of-the-box”, without you
having to do practically anything. All you need to do is
register for their free service, enter your feed and then get
this link, which you will place “behind” the RSS subscribe
button on your site, as a link, instead of a direct link to your
RSS feed.

If you don’t want to use a third-party service like FeedBurner,
you can actually do the XSL Transformations by yourself. More
information on how to do this is available at Wikiedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xslt).

c] TAKING THE MIDDLE ROAD: SMARTER SUBSCRIBE BUTTONS If you
don’t want to use a third-party service such as FeedBurner or if
your RSS vendor does not provide this functionality or if you
don’t want to be bothered with doing XSLT by yourself, there is
actually an alternative you can use.

David Battino at MacDevCenter.com
(http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/7821) just wrote a simple
piece of code you can use instead of the typical link to your
RSS feed behind the RSS feed subscription button, which will,
after you click on the link, display a simple message saying
that in order to subscribe to the feed you need to copy and
paste this URL in your your RSS reader.

This certainly doesn’t go very far in making RSS more
user-friendly, as the notification really can’t be used to
explain what RSS is and why your visitors should use it, but it
at least saves the visitor from getting the XML code in his
browser and hating RSS before he or she even find out what it is.

The simple code to do so is
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/7821

Also, do not forget about using buttons like Add To MyYahoo!,
since many MyYahoo! users for example don’t know what RSS is,
but they will use this button to subscribe.

d] TARGETING EXISTING RSS USERS

If you’re targeting existing RSS users or at least users that
won’t be put off by a long list of names they won’t be able to
understand, using the free script from Methodize.org might be
the solution.

When the user hovers his mouse above your RSS feed subscribe
button, the script will display a long list of RSS readers that
the visitors can use to directly subscribe to the feed. By
simply clicking on the appropriate link, the user will quickly
subscribe to the feed with the RSS reader he is currently using.

There’s also a “What’s this” link at the bottom of the list, but
still many visitors will be put off by long list of RSS reader
names they won’t be able to understand, before even being
motivated enough to click on the “What’s this” link at the
bottom.

But still, if you’re targeting a more technical or internet
oriented audiences, this just might do the trick.

The script is available from here:

http://www.methodize.org/quicksub/

e] USING RSS AUTODISCOVERY

RSS Autodiscovery is a very nice feature that allows certain RSS
Autodiscovery-enabled browsers to find a feed on your site and
promptly offer the subscribe option to the visitor.

While most browsers still do not support this, FireFox for
example does.

Using RSS Autodiscovery can’t substitute the other options
above, but it will serve you well for the small part of your
audience that’s using RSS Autodiscovery-enabled browsers.

How to use this?

Simply place the following piece of code in to the HEAD section
of the HTML code of your webpages:

[link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://rssdiary.marketingstudies.net/index.xml" /]

And don’t forget to replace the [ and ] characters with .

f] STRONG COPY

No matter how many times we write this, it still needs
repeating. The best way to get your visitors to subscribe is to
entice them to do so with strong copy that provides clear and
valuable benefits, explaining to the visitor exactly why he
needs to subscribe to exactly your RSS feed.

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