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Monthly Archive for September, 2009

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Email Marketing Links – the best of the week #2

It’s time for our weekly Blog roundup of the most interesting email marketing posts.
Take a look at our fav links:

Don’t Be Filtered Out as Spam!

nospamNowadays most mail servers have built-in antispam filters. They are quite smart, but sometimes they fail and delete (or mark as spam and redirect to some “spam” folder) perfectly legal messages; this is a common problem with Hotmail and other very popular free mail services. If you feel a lot of your messages are filtered out and not delivered, here are some basic rules to avoid being named a spammer by mistake:

1. Always include plain text: “personal” e-mail messages, even if written using HTML format, always include a plain text part. If a plain text part is missing, most antispam filters become suspicious. When you finish composing your message, use SendBlaster’s “Text from HTML” button to automatically create a plain text part from HTML.

2. Write, don’t paint: most of your message must be text; avoid including large images. Once again, antispam filters become suspicious when the image / text ratio is too high.

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Email Marketing Links – the best of the week #1

Every week we’ll post a few links to some of the more interesting articles related to email marketing industry.
Here the first ones:

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How to expand your subscribers list

Effective email marketing campaigns can really help you achieving your goals. Newsletters let you deliver the most up-to-date information directly to your customers’ email boxes.
But how can you collect email addresses?
In this post we listed a couple of good practices that may help you grow your newsletter subscribers base.

Post great content
Publish good content that people want to share and give your subscribers an easy way to submit it to social bookmarking sites like Reddit, Diggit, Del.i.cio.us. If you’re on Twitter tweet your newsletters to your followers too.

Add your newsletter subscription form to your website/blog.
Make it easy! Do not ask for too much information. Name and addresses are quite enough. A good idea is to include a privacy advice like “We respect Your privacy . We will not rent or sell your email address” as well as a little explanation regarding what you are going to offer (resources, tips, updates…). Be sure to include a link to a sample issue.

Add extras to your newsletter
Try to boost your subscribers offering some extras. Some ideas: a free copy of your course, a free admission to your member area, a free ebook not available anywhere else and by creating a contest for new subscribers.

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