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Here’s another video with email marketing tips.
Other links:
Email Marketing 101
Defining Your Target Market
Constant Contact
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My fellow Sparkplugger, Brandie Kajino, the Home Office Organizer, has invited me to speak in her teleclass, “Secrets of Effective Email Marketing” on January 23. We’ll be talking about what makes great email marketing, the best platforms to use, and I’ll even give you some secret tips, like the best time to send out emails for best open rates.

You guys love the email marketing tips, don’t you? Here’s a video with some great ones:

I recently interviewed the author of Email Marketing for Complex Sales Cycles. We discussed email, spam and how to succeed at email marketing.
Marketing Eggspert: Why do you think some people send spam emails, ruining it for everyone else?
Winton Churchill: The vast majority of all spammers do it for financial reasons.  Unfortunately they’re able to convince [...]

I’m happy to say my next ebook is available now! If you want to unveil the “secrets” of email marketing, grab a copy of this ebook, Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing today.

This amazing ebook includes step-by-step instructions on creating effective email campaigns (going way beyond what I covered in my Email [...]

I’m a marketing professional. I want people to pay me to do their marketing. But in reality, I understand not everyone can afford to hire me or someone else. I’m still a nice person, so I like to help people do their own marketing.

y Natalie Grbic
Over the years, marketing has transformed immensely. Old school marketing has been outdated with today’s “new” emerging marketing strategies. Press releases, search engine optimizers (SEO), and pay per click ads are taking over the marketing world. Old school marketing, such as direct mail and print ads, was generally used in previous years; [...]

Holidays are some of the best excuses to get a little PR and marketing out. If you remember, “Holidays” were #20 on my list of 24 Reasons to Toot Your Own Horn post. Real or otherwise, there’s something to be said about riding on an event that’s on everyone’s mind.
Here are some ways you can [...]

I just read Suzanne Falter-Barns’ post on ProBlogger: Have Blogs Killed Conventional Websites? and I’d like to put in my 2 cents.

Used to be everyone was struggling to keep up with competitors just by having a website. Now if you don’t have a blog you’re behind. Forget for a moment that you’re not web-savvy, if [...]