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		<title>The Business Of Email Marketing And The Effects On Businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Business Of Email Marketing
The world is adapting fast and easy ways to communicate and do businesses. Email is also an electronic means to communicate and as we all know stands for electronic mail. It only Takes seconds to send or receive an email regardless of where they are residing and from where the email [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The Business Of Email Marketing</strong></p>
<p>The world is adapting fast and easy ways to communicate and do businesses. Email is also an electronic means to communicate and as we all know stands for electronic mail. It only Takes seconds to send or receive an email regardless of where they are residing and from where the email is being sent. Email marketing has become one of the main resources for doing business and the potential seems to rise as more and more people are now towards electronic sharing of information. There are currently millions of active emails accounts that are accessed everyday.</p>
<p>As it is such an active technology, people have been encouraged to take up email marketing to advertise their products through emails. A website may also not be this effective since it requires people to discover it first and then to come to the site exclusively for viewing the product. An email however, is sent directly to a person from where the product can be seen and if there is a link, a person can visit the website if the product seems appealing. An email helps direct the viewer to a website.</p>
<p>Seeing the potential and opportunity, there are some companies and websites that offer to undertake mass emailing to users as required by an advertiser. Some function exclusively for this purpose while some may take it up as a supplementary service. Nevertheless, people are making a business out of it. They charge a fee for sending emails. Some may charge per email sent and some may have other options and packages.</p>
<p>By employing such companies, people can save their time on research and sending emails. The email marketing companies benefit by making the most of a company’s marketing needs. The emails sent can be limited to particular users as specified by the product owner. A premium car seller may like to advertise to the elite belonging to the upper echelons in society or a company selling computer parts may not get respectable sales from an area that does not have adequate facilities or customers who may be interested in the computer industry.</p>
<p>Many advertising companies take the responsibility of sending emails to the concerned group of people so that more productive results can be seen from using fewer resources and funds. The advertising companies adapt various methods to achieve this and the system can be expected to become more sophisticated if the email marketing potential develops further and more people sign up for e.mail accounts</p>
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		<title>Internet Marketing 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autoresponders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emarketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet marketing tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you hear the term &#8220;internet marketing&#8220;, what do you think of?
 For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs.  All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you hear the term &#8220;<a target="_blank" title="internet marketing" href="http://internetmarketing.BryanEllis.com">internet marketing</a>&#8220;, what do you think of?</p>
<p> For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs.  All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.</p>
<p> At its core, internet marketing is about these things:</p>
<p> * Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal<br /> * Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet<br /> * Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market<br /> * Collecting information about your target market (also known as &#8220;leads&#8221;) for follow-up and conversion into sales<br /> * Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads</p>
<p> Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.</p>
<p> My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing.  Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent.  The &#8220;permission&#8221; aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.</p>
<p> My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list.  When you have thousands of loyal subscribers &#8211; as we do &#8211; and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.</p>
<p> However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.</p>
<p>  Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.</p>
<p> While there are many more aspects to internet marketing than just permission-based email marketing, email has definitely been the cornerstone on which our business is built.</p>
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		<title>Prospects Don&#8217;t Always Behave As We Guess</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if every Internet marketer is similar to me. I often think, &#8220;If I had only known then what I know now.&#8221; By &#8220;then,&#8221; I mean my early months in my adventure into the quagmire of online business. I could easily fill a book with important things that I didn&#8217;t know how to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not sure if every Internet marketer is similar to me. I often think, &#8220;If I had only known then what I know now.&#8221; By &#8220;then,&#8221; I mean my early months in my adventure into the quagmire of online business. I could easily fill a book with important things that I didn&#8217;t know how to do but that I tried, anyway. It&#8217;s unbelievable how many tasks that had consumed hours of my precious time had to be redone, once I overcame my ignorance bit by bit.</p>
<p>Periodically I try to share one of those bits of wisdom that have subsequently come my way. I identify one or two simple realities of the online business world about which I had been ignorant and that cost me a lot of money, a lot of wasted energy or, usually, both. I hope you find these useful.</p>
<p>Here is today&#8217;s life altering advice: <strong>Every page on a website is a landing page.</strong></p>
<p>You see, I originally believed that every visitor to my websites would come first to my home page. They would all digest the valuable content there and progress through my site in an orderly fashion, like third graders marching to music class.</p>
<p>If I had been smart enough to hire a consultant to explain to me how my prospects would actually discover my site and move around it, my websites wouldn&#8217;t have looked the way they did those early years. The sites may not have been as pretty, but they might have produced a respectable income. I needed to either contract with an outside expert, take much more time to learn before acting or had someone with Internet marketing experience <a target="_blank" href="http://www.99sites.us/Website-Design.html"> build a business website</a> for me that could have met my expectations much sooner.</p>
<p>Here are some things that would have saved me a great deal of time and money in the long run:</p>
<p>* Understand that search engines do not view the Internet as a collection of websites; instead they see a collection of individual pages</p>
<p>* Recognize that each page on a web site should be created with the goal of achieving the ultimate purpose of the site (obtaining the desired action on the part of the visitor)</p>
<p>* Track real human beings to see how they move through my website, which is often very different from the way that I expected that they would</p>
<p>* More quickly discovering that, cumulatively, the interior pages of my website receive more first time visits than my home page</p>
<p>* Recognize that an aesthetically pleasing page is not the same as a productive page</p>
<p>* We should all &#8220;bite the bullet&#8221; and spend some money wisely in the early stages of our business development, because that will lead to greater income sooner than if we behave as the iconic Mr. Scrooge</p>
<p>I truly enjoy building websites, so that is not something that I would have wanted to have outsourced. But, when I build my first site, I needed to learn so much more before I moved on to the fun part&#8211;fun part for me, at least. Meanwhile, there were plenty of other tasks that I could have had done professionally to allow me more time for my learning.</p>
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		<title>A Guide for Managed Webhosting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web hosting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managed web hosting is a fresh trend in the affordable web Hosting industry, and is to some extent different from dedicated web hosting. Although dedicated hosting has been there for long time now, it has its part of weakness that are defeat in managed hosting. There are a some technicalities that are not easy to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Managed web hosting is a fresh trend in the <a href="http://webhostingreviews4u.com/" target="_blank">affordable web Hosting</a> industry, and is to some extent different from dedicated web hosting. Although dedicated hosting has been there for long time now, it has its part of weakness that are defeat in managed hosting. There are a some technicalities that are not easy to run in dedicated hosting and the requirement for additional services by hosting has become more and more. These additional services are available in managed web hosting, and the services provided are managed load balancing, monitoring and reporting, managed security, managed databases and managed storage. Companies that own a dedicated web server and looking to contract out their IT-hosting requirements or businesses should consider opting for managed web hosting.</p>
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<p>The concept is so innovative those web host companies such as <a href="http://webhostingreviews4u.com/Top10/HostGator-Web-Hosting-Review.html" target="_blank">Hostgator</a> that provided dedicated and shared hosting solutions are now providing managed services. Web host directories and search engines are excellent places to look for managed hosting services. By performing a simple search you will get a list of providers. Contacting web hosts that provide dedicated web hosting and asking them if they can supply managed hosting is other method to get a solution. </p>
<p>Hosting per item and pre-configured plans are the two offers that managed hosting companies allow their customers to choose from. When select for a hosting plan, the plan you want can be opted while a pre-configured plan as the name recommend shas the services offered with the dedicated web server and at a monthly cost.</p>
<p>There are several advantages for a company that chooses managed dedicated solutions. The first thing is that the firm has a tax-advantageous accounting because the money expense are endured by the service provider. The web site has a most uptime because the hosting company diligently exam the web servers and supply a lot of technical support that make sure an online guarantee. This is very important for online business and <a href="http://www.aplus.net.nz/Search-Engine-Marketing.html" target="_blank">internet marketing</a>. The web sites function and expansion choices are huge since using a managed server help flexibility.</p>
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		<title>How Expired Domains Can Help You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is an expired domain and how can it help you in your internet marketing endeavors?
Put simply, an expired domain is a domain that hasn&#8217;t been renewed.
There could be a number of different reasons for this &#8211; maybe the owner forgot to renew the domain, there&#8217;s a possibility the domain registrar didn&#8217;t remind the owner [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is an <a title="Expired domain" href="http://links.replymagic.com/expired-domains" target="_blank">expired domain</a> and how can it help you in your internet marketing endeavors?</p>
<p>Put simply, an expired domain is a domain that hasn&#8217;t been renewed.</p>
<p>There could be a number of different reasons for this &#8211; maybe the owner forgot to renew the domain, there&#8217;s a possibility the domain registrar didn&#8217;t remind the owner (or used an out of date email address to tell them), possibly the domain owner bought the domain intending to do something with it and then changed focus. There are hundreds of reasons why a domain name has expired.</p>
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<p>So what&#8217;s in it for you?</p>
<p>First off, it&#8217;s generally considered that the older a domain name is, the more &#8220;important&#8221; it is. By definition, an expired domain has been around for a minimum of a year, so it&#8217;s older than buying a new domain.</p>
<p>Secondly, if the domain has actually been used, there may be existing links to the site. There&#8217;s also a very good chance that the search engines will know about it and will have indexed it.</p>
<p>The icing on the cake is if it actually has a Google Page Rank.</p>
<p>Yup, you read that right. There are a lot of expired domain names that have a Google Page Rank and even attract traffic.</p>
<p>The problem is, you won&#8217;t be the only person on the planet who is hunting for expired domains. The best of them are snapped up within minutes or even seconds of becoming available.</p>
<p>Which means that if you are thinking about buying one or more expired domains either for a site of your own or to &#8220;fix up&#8221; and sell on to others, you will need to act fast.</p>
<p>The simplest way to achieve this is to use one of the online services that will show you a targeted list of domains that are due to expire soon. This will give you an advantage and will allow you to snap up the domain names you&#8217;re interested in as soon as they expire and are allowed to be purchased again.</p>
<p>Check out this <a title="Expired domains" href="http://links.replymagic.com/expired-domains" target="_blank">excellent affordable service to hunt down expired domains here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Designing An Effective Squeeze Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[List Building]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lead page generator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Squeeze pages, also referred to as lead generator pages or optin pages, are a very useful tool for any internet marketer.
Squeeze pages are very single minded pages. Their sole aim is to prize an email address from a visitor. Once they&#8217;ve signed up, you have their permission to email them again. But you need them to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Squeeze pages, also referred to as lead generator pages or <a href="http://FirstOptinPage.com" target="_blank">optin pages</a>, are a very useful tool for any internet marketer.</p>
<p>Squeeze pages are very single minded pages. Their sole aim is to prize an email address from a visitor. Once they&#8217;ve signed up, you have their permission to email them again. But you need them to sign up to your list first!</p>
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<p>First up, choose a template for your squeeze page. You can find landing page templates for free or for a small charge. Or you can have one designed specially for you. The free option is OK if your market isn&#8217;t saturated. Don&#8217;t use them for more competitive markets such as dieting, day trading, internet marketing and even dog training. Otherwise your potential customer will likely have seen something very similar to your squeeze page tens or even hundreds of times before. Which means they&#8217;ll be more likely to click away.</p>
<p>Next, change your template. At the very least, you&#8217;ll want to put in your own headline and bullet points. You may also want to <a title="Split test software" href="http://links.replymagic.com/split-testing/index.php" target="_blank">split test your headlines</a> to make sure that you&#8217;re getting the maximum number of sign-ups. Some people report results in the order of 70% and more sign-ups from their squeeze pages.</p>
<p>You can also test other elements on your lead generation page. Most of the time, people report that they get better results when they <a title="Audio message software" href="http://links.replymagic.com/sonicmemo/index.php" target="_blank">add audio messages</a> to their squeeze pages. Test this as well as whether the message plays automatically when a visitor reaches your squeeze page.</p>
<p>Nowadays, you will find <a href="http://OnlineVideoBasics.com" target="_blank">video </a>appearing more frequently on squeeze pages. Many marketers have found that using a &#8220;part one&#8221; video on their squeeze page with &#8220;part two&#8221; only available after sign-up is a very effective technique. If you want to take this path, make sure you leave your readers with a &#8220;cliff hanger&#8221; at the end of part one. Just like the ones they used to have om Saturday mornings at the movies. If you don&#8217;t rememer these, think of the ending of an episode of the television show &#8220;24&#8243;. Leave your viewer desperate for more. Which you&#8217;ll let them have &#8211; once they&#8217;ve confirmed their email address.</p>
<p>You can get your squeeze pages designed at the click of a button with this <a title="Lead page generator" href="http://links.replymagic.com/lead-page" target="_blank">simple lead page generator</a>.</p>
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		<title>Does PHP Scare You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeanette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re new to online marketing you may not even have heard of PHP. It&#8217;s a programming language that controls the behavior of your web pages and website.
Many people fear PHP because they haven&#8217;t used it and consider it complicated and scary. And while many people have at least looked at HTML and removed their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re new to online marketing you may not even have heard of PHP. It&#8217;s a programming language that controls the behavior of your web pages and website.</p>
<p>Many people fear PHP because they haven&#8217;t used it and consider it complicated and scary. And while many people have at least looked at HTML and removed their fear of that programming language, PHP remains a mystery.</p>
<p>I used to feel the same way, but a good friend of mine helped me get over that. His name is <a href="http://learn8.robertplank.com/" target="_blank">Robert Plank.</a></p>
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<p>Robert is not only a very smart guy, but a really great PHP programmer. However, being the savvy internet marketer that he is, he realizes that many people don&#8217;t want to learn PHP. Instead, they just want to use PHP. So Robert has created a whole line of products, centered around PHP.</p>
<p>So what can PHP do for you?</p>
<p>Some of those really cool things you see on other people&#8217;s sites and ask &#8220;how did they do that?&#8221; For example, with PHP  you can:</p>
<p> - Create One-Time Offer confirmation buttons that make buyers MORE likely to choose your upsell than your downsell&#8230;</p>
<p> - Implement a simple email tracker that identifies the 10% of your list who reads your e-mails and takes action</p>
<p> - Do simple split testing by just copying and pasting a couple lines of code.</p>
<p> - Provide follow-up with repeat web site visitors showing a different benefit when they visit your site again.</p>
<p>Robert&#8217;s made it even easier by putting several <a href="http://learn8.readytogophp.com" target="_blank">PHP scripts in a bundle</a>, complete with PDF documentation and video instruction so there&#8217;s no WAY you can fail.</p>
<p>These are all PHP scripts that boost conversion rates so you get more sales and more income from the same number of visitors. It doesn&#8217;t get any easier than this! You can <a href="http://learn8.readytogophp.com" target="_blank">increase your sales painlessly</a>.</p>
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