Is Email Marketing Dead? I have been told that since 2004 and I not only don’t believe it, I have proof that it is one of the most effective marketing tools you can use. Email is here to stay and I use it on a daily basis for:

• Keeping in touch with clients and customers
• Sending out information updates
• Providing a monthly ezine
• Mini courses
• Eclasses
• Tips
• Sales promotions
• Recommendations
• Autoresponders
• And more

Does it still work? Well, I am in regular contact once a month with over 20,000 people just by email and that enabled me to sell out in just 48 hours a webinar I set up. Want more? Well in just 30 minutes I wrote an email that brought in 42 sales in the first 36 hours for a Chinese cooking ebook. Yes, it works! That certainly proves to me that email is still a powerful sales tool, but in a more competitive market you need to have an edge.

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I have to admit I’ve been slow to jump on board with the whole social marketing trend.

After so many years spent in marketing and frequently hearing about the “next big thing”, I’ve come to the decision that all these technologies are simply communication tools for building trusting relationships with prospective customers.

No one tool is going to make you a gazillion dollars.

But used with common sense and an understanding of where your customers hang out and what your customers are most wanting, I think social marketing technology is well worth learning to use.

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If you’ve reached the point of exhaustion trying to keep up with answering the mountain of e-mails that threatens to bury you alive every single day, you’re ready to learn about autoresponders.

The bad news is that people expect prompt replies to their e-mail inquiries. However, unless you can figure out how to work continual 24-hour shifts, or hire enough people to constantly monitor incoming e-mails (while they’re eating up your revenue), you have a problem. The good news is an autoresponder is an inexpensive—or even free—method of quickly responding to e-mails. What these programs do is automatically respond to incoming e-mails as soon as they are received.

E-mails are essential to your business for many different reasons. Most importantly, these invisible e-mail voices give you their feedback about your website—for free! However, if you spend all your working hours answering these e-mails, how are you supposed to run your business?

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With the world wide web of social media and the constant reminder that this is not a fade but a reality, we are all faced with questions on how do I use these Social Media sites successfully and at what point to get others to help.

I was watching the News last night and they were talking about the Lakers big win and how unruly people went out of control and started destroying things in plain view for all the news cameras and security cameras to see. Then they followed up with asking people to go to their twitter account and comment on what they think about these events. As you can see this type of social media is very popular and being used now in ways we never thought possible. When the television starts telling you to use twitter you know we are on to something big here.

I am not going to give any real meat here on social networking but wanted to touch on one aspect here which involves the URL which is most commonly used for the micro blogging sites like “spnbabble” and “twitter“. When postings to sites like this since the character limit is 140 then the need to shorten URLs comes into play as some URLs are so long that it can take up the majority of your message. So sites like MyOpenID start appearing all over the web allowing us to use our own tiny URL to help manage this shortening of URLs.

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One of the more important aspects of network marketing (aka MLM) is the lowly e-mail – the thing people love to hate simply because these days it’s often viewed as spam before it’s even opened.

Not sure you should try this this kind of marketing because people may delete your e-mail? They might anyhow, no matter what you do, but that doesn’t mean you don’t do this type of marketing.

Targeted e-mail is one of the most powerful marketing tools available if done correctly. A good crafted email marketing strategy is the foundation for network relationship marketing.

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Have you heard of targeted social bookmarking? Is this game new to you? More profits are gained with a targeted approach. This approach has become the major means to send traffic to a website. Businessmen and women are helped in a big way. Driving traffic is the first requirement of business. Whatever causes people to feel that it will fufill that requirement becomes the buzz word in marketing circles. Currently this word is ‘social bookmarking’. Profits are generated for all concerned through the magic it creates. Is there any wonder more and more business people and marketers are attracted towards it.

Functional Tips For Social Bookmarking

How do you effectively drive more online business using social bookmarking? More than a few marketers have been befuddled by this question. There are so many sites to choose from that people get confused. You too may find yourself in the same dilemma. How do you find the site that serves your motives and purposes the best? In this regard know first of all what your driven purpose is. Forge ahead and select the most functional bookmarking site for that purpose. It costs you nothing so go ahead and register yourself with many social bookmarking sites even if have not been able to identify such a site or if you are not too sure about their efficiency. There is no charge for registration so there is no sweat. After you begin working with them you will know which one is the best amongst them, or you choose to work with more than one. That is cool also.

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Blog commenting is an excellent marketing tool to drive traffic to your online presence – whether it is a website or a blog. But, it must be done in a planned-out manner. Following are three things to keep in mind when you use blog commenting to drive traffic to your website/blog.

Choose Blogs in Your Niche

Select a list of blogs in your niche that you want to start commenting on. Take the time to research and gather a list of 10, 15 or 20 that you can regularly interact with.

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How to make $1000 a month online from scratch – Part 2 of 8

Put simply, for most of you, the biggest hurdle you’ll have to earning $1000 a month online is your own mind. This guide provides a blueprint of practical steps to direct you towards success. However, it’s one thing to say and quite another thing to do.

Most of the time, motivation is not the problem. No, it’s the sneaky mental enemies that you have to watch out for. There are two in particular I’m thinking about.

The first enemy of the mind is self doubt. If we have self doubt, it will erode everything we do. There is a saying I live by that says, “You will go where you look.” This means simply, if you expect to fail, you probably will.

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What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is a program designed to increase sales for any given business/company. To get started you can sign up to cj.com, this website boasts a whole range of affiliated websites ready for you to promote. You then act as a middle man for the business driving traffic to their website for a commission. Understand this process and you can begin your first steps to Internet Marketing.

What Does Internet Marketing involve?

Internet Marketing involves techniques and strategies these are known as:

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Email marketing always gets a bad press? but a new study proves it?s actually the most effective and efficient marketing tool available to online entrepreneurs.

Sure, spam is still as problematic as ever. But if you?ve got a targeted list of opt-in subscribers and a message they want to hear, email marketing can be incredibly powerful!

A new survey by Forrester Research and Shop.org says email marketing messages sent to in-house subscriber lists provide the highest return on investment of any type of e-marketing activity.

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When it all started…

Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s. It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one?s opinion on the said page. What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun. As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog?s potential. Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool.

1.Blogging is simple

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