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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
7:18 am	3 Viral Marketing Tips to Help You Succeed No matter what method of marketing you use for your products and services online, you need to be ready to do some real work if you want to see trackable results. However, a smart online marketer knows how to harness the power of viral marketing and spread the word about the product by leveraging the target audience itself. In this article we will talk about three great ways to run a viral marketing campaign.G Headshot, G Headshot Review and G Headshot Bonus One of the most common mistakes made by new marketers is trying to force people to participate in their new viral marketing campaigns. It is important that you understand how viral marketing works: people spread the word about your business through word of mouth simply because they like what you have to offer or find you interesting. It is obvious that when you try to force affection into people, your efforts will backfire. Rather than putting a bunch of energy into that, concentrate on making your campaign special and unique and as good as it can possibly be. See to it that your content is so good that people have no choice but to spread it around. If you find that getting people to participate in your campaign is really hard then there might be something wrong or off about it. The best way to test this out is to ask "would I tell my friends about this?" if you answer back "yes", you're on your way. Do everything you can to get your campaign to spread out by itself instead of forcing it to do so. When you start a viral marketing campaign, your goal is to give something away that should get passed on to others who will then continue spreading that something to even more people--kind of like the way a virus spreads. Every viral marketing campaign needs something that will "wow" a targeted audience so that they will continue to show interest in whatever you are marketing. Always put in a full effort, even in your giveaways because you will get a better response from your giveaways in the long run and you stand to make more money from them. A great way to start a viral marketing campaign is to give away a free ebook or report that has been custom written for your target market. It is incredibly important to include your contact and branding info with your free product so that, as it spreads out across the internet, the people who get it will be able to easily contact you if they want to hire you for further materials. Finally, if you are looking for a way to take your business up a few notches for free then put this stuff into action. The better you get at these techniques the more traffic you'll be able to generate. You might not hit a home run on your first try but if you keep going you will get better and better at social bookmarking for traffic. As with other free methods, you are free to test and experiment with anything without worrying about losing a ton of money, and the rewards can be very large when you test ideas and one of them works. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
6:26 am	Boost the Effectiveness of Your Email Marketing Campaigns with Constant Contact As you well know, email list marketing has been here since email was invented, and the revenue generated from it has to be in the billions. Yes, indeed, marketing to your email list is fun because there are so many good (profitable) outcomes from it. Whatever you're selling, you'll have a much higher chance of seeing the kinds of ROI with list marketing. Shopping around for an email management service can be a little daunting if you're new, or don't have much experience with list building; so to that end we're going to look at Constant Contact which is one of the major services online. What we'd like to do is review Constant Contact and highlight some of the main features and benefits for you.G Headshot, G Headshot Review and G Headshot Bonus We agree that it was the layout and human engineering aspects of the user interface that caught our eye. Naturally, it's perfectly understandable that all email marketers are concerned about how their emails present themselves. But no need to be overly concerned about that issue as Constant Contact has specifically designed templates for business emails. What's more, you don't have to really waste your time understanding the template editor because it's simple to use. They needed to be prepared for any situation, and that's why their templates have an almost universal application regardless of your audience. It's no secret, part of the marketing process dictates that you distinguish all your marketing vehicles to the utmost. You will be surprised in a pleasant way how much of the boring work has been removed from the processes involved with email marketing. Constant Contact gives you a very fast and hassle free way to create highly customized campaigns. You can create any look you want, as the templates Constant Contact provides can be edited to your specifications. If you are familiar with editing codes, you can change them this way, as they use XHTML and CSS. There is, fortunately, another option for the less technologically inclined, which is a WYSIWYG editor that you can use for the same purpose. Another option you can choose is to get your website visitors' email addresses by inserting a subscription box. Feedback on your email campaign performance is vital to success, and they know this very well. You will need to know how you're doing in terms of optin numbers, click thru rates, bounce rates, percentage bounce, and there are others as well. No guessing at all about campaign performance or stats, and you can make the best decisions about any changes you will need to make. Optimizing your email campaigns will become much quicker and easier when you have all the information you need. We do feel strongly that Constant Contact really nails it in the area of customer service. Make no mistake, Constant Contact knows fully that your problems are their problems, and it will be swiftly dealt with. Should you need any help getting started or using any aspect of their service, then you can easily get a quick video training tutorial on the subject. But if you prefer to talk to and get to know people, then you can join an active community of CC users. We can confidently recommend that you consider Constant Contact if you're currently shopping for an email management solution for serious web businesses. (Comment on this)
5:06 am	A Marketers Review of Constant Contact If you are an internet marketer, you have probably heard about many different methods to find and stay in touch with prospects and customers. Even now, however, email marketing remains the method that is most commonly used, because it has proven itself over the years. The fact is, to get the most out of email marketing, it's essential that you have access to the best resources. One company that gives you the ability to control every aspect of your email marketing campaigns is Constant Contact. It has a wide variety of features that enable you to get more out of your email marketing. If you are wondering if Constant Contact might be a service that can help you with your email marketing, this review should help you decide. This particular service does have some peculiar features not commonly found in similar services. You'll find similar services offering such similar features, but when it comes to effectiveness, then we feel that's where the difference begins. The Constant Contact service actually allows you to get the most out of your email marketing campaign by giving you full control of it. Whether you're a pro or a novice, you can easily create professional grade emails that will get the job done as long as your content does it's part, too. When you're ready to wrap your email copy with a proven, professional template, then you'll find them easily accessible and ready to go. The service gives you access to a template editor that is easy to use when it comes to taking care of your email's look. So, as you know full well, if you can gain the slightest amount of advantage over your competitors, then that's what you need to do whenever possible. One thing that is seems Constant Contact has done is make everything as convenient and as powerfully effective as possible. When you're using Constant Contact to manage your email marketing campaigns, you can easily customize the emails the way you want. Also, anything you wish to add in the way of links, graphics, or images is easily done. In fact, you can go to the core of the templates that you get from Constant Contact and change them according to your wishes. However, if you prefer the WYSIWYG editor, then of course it's entirely up to you. If you ever had any desire to build a list, then you can find an impressive manner in which to accomplish your goals, here. If you want help designing an effective optin box, then that is easily done as well. There is also a high level of support available when you join Constant Contact. When you join, you get access to very helpful training videos, as well as a forum where you can ask any questions you might have. Everything about this service is well thought out and designed to make things easier for you. Constant Contact is a professional service offering email/list management resources for the online business, and they have all the appearances of a high quality organization that's worth a closer look. (Comment on this)