email marketing

[wisteriabusinessplans]

Hi,

I am interested in email marketing or drip marketing software to help me and my business.

I was wondering whether anyone had ideas as to which program is the best and why.

Thanks

 

[Mailing Manager]

Hi,

We, at Mailing Manager, would be happy to help or offer advice to anyone who is considering email marketing. We are a UK-based company and would be happy to assist in any way we can. We have local, national and international customers and have been around for a long time so we can offer some good, sound advice.

Our contact telephone number is on the website and I would be happy to answer anyones questions.

Regards

Tim Wilson
Mailing Manager

 

[fusingcreativity]

I think it's probably best to establish the reason for wanting to use the programmes first... Is it to communicate with current customers or for acquisition?

What is it you are looking to achieve? We may be able to help you a little more effectively

 

[Mike W]

Hi. Depending on your budget and how you want to it to work, there are a number of options available out there.

However, in my experience, however well intentioned you are or how capable, if left to yourself, it'll be one of those things that fall by the wayside. With a multitude of other things to do in your business, other priorities will always take over.

Most of our clients used to do it themselves (or didn't, as the case may be) and now we do it all for them ...and the job gets done.

If you're interested in finding out how we could help you, just PM me or find us via Google.

Mike
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[wisteriabusinessplans]

it is to communicate with current customers that order with us as we will wish to keep in contact with them with future marketing as well as reminders to inform them of upcoming deadlines.

mainly, we are just trying to keep current and new clients informed after they have ordered with us so that it saves myself and my colleagues time having to remember when to and having to send out emails personally.

 

[Mike W]

It's exactly the service we provide to many different types of clients, all aimed at keeping in touch with their customers, keeping their name in their mind.

We work from the briefest of briefs, so unless you want to be totally specific in what you say etc, you can just give us a simple brief and we'll put it all together for you, sending you an initial draft for checking etc.

Once approved, we send the email, manage the data etc ...and are there at the end of an email or phone for when you're next ready to go - we'd pre-agree a frequency (eg. monthly).

 

[JayChambers]

We offer a sending service that is cheaper than mailchimp, vertical response, icontact etc.

Our software makes it ridiculously easy to set up a drip campaign - and i will personally help you set it up.

We are offering a free account with 500 sending credits so you can try out the service.

Please visit:

http://pages.jaymail.net/free-account/

to take advantage of this.

Cheers,
Jay

 

[WebWizard]

Email marketing is only EFFECTIVE if its DIRECTED towards your TARGET AUDIENCE.
Otherwise its just a waste of your time & Money.

Be smart in the descion you make, email marketing is a tough industry to gain ground with all the SPAM alterations that are happining. Best of luck with this!

 

[wisteriabusinessplans]

Hi,


Thank you all for your help and advice on this topic, I will look into the various suggestions and decide from there.


Thanks again,

Wisteria Business Plans
www.wisteriabusinessplans.co.uk

 

[Joyce Asante]

Hello,

If you want to communicate with your current customers, keep in contact with them, as well as to remind them of upcoming deadlines; then you could set up a Facebook fan page for your company and invite them to join you there. Besides, why not include a Facebook button on your website or blog?

There you should add an opt-in button, so that people who might be interested in your newsletters can sign-up.

But it is also important to have an opt-out button in your newsletters, in case they may like to unsubscribe from it.

I think the best way to keep them updated about your company would be to alert them on their mobile phone.
Because mobile phone is something we always carry with us and they're more likely to reply to an SMS than an email.

Hope this helps,

Please let me know if you have anything to say.

Thank you,

Joyce A.

 

[debbidoo]

Email marketing is,as the name suggests, the use of email in marketing communications.

You don't say.

 

[Mike W]

lol debbidoo ...I think he did. He's known as Alfred the Great.

 

[debbidoo]

lol debbidoo ...I think he did. He's known as Alfred the Great.

...also known as "posting any old rubbish so I can get to 15 posts and start spamming the forum with links"

 

[DCS Lead Gen]

Im looking to obtain a list of lanlord contact details such as email adresses, the email's would obviously be cold, but it offers them a free service, im looking for tips on the best way to operate email marketing and how can i get the reciepient not to assume it is spam, also where would be the best place to purchase the contact details?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Mike W]

Hi DCS

You should be able to find what you're looking for via marketingfile.com.

If I can help you with the email marketing aspect, just PM or email me. (If you Google me, you'll find our website).

Regards

Mike

 

[fusingcreativity]

Im looking to obtain a list of lanlord contact details such as email adresses, the email's would obviously be cold, but it offers them a free service, im looking for tips on the best way to operate email marketing and how can i get the reciepient not to assume it is spam, also where would be the best place to purchase the contact details?

Thanks in advance.

Ultimately, if the recipient is not expecting your email then they likely will treat it as spam - just think about all the stuff you get in your inbox nowadays!

The trick is writing content good enough that it doesn't get filtered by spam and making sure the content is actually worth reading and not the same as all the others - really important to capture what your audience will really want - they are probably bombarded with similar offers all the time so you need to make yours different.

p.s. don't use the word FREE in your email subject line - more than likely will end up in the spam folder....

 

[markwalton]

Hi,

It depends is the answer. IF you want to email your own contact list or send random mailshots to opted in mailing lists.

awber.com is an excellent tool for emailing your own lists of contacts.

listjoe.com
viralurl.com both offer free services to email random opted in lists.

Follow like for guide to e-mailing

http://markwaltons.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/e-mail-marketing.pdf


REgards

Mark

 

[Ricko619]

Depends on your needs! I suggest you explore more than one channel ... So you reach all your public.

Try these! Seem to have more than one channel (EMAIL MARKETING INCLUDED) and is very userfriendly: E-goi.com

 

[emailblaster]

Hi

PM sent!

Kind regards

Jamie

 

[winsoar]

I couldn't find any solution that would do what I wanted accurately and effectively enough, so this year I designed some software called the Email Marketing Robot that will target specific types of companies in a defined geographic area. It replaces the need for buying in business to business email data.

Have a look at www.emailmarketingrobot.com which has a video showing exactly how the software works. I'd be very happy to give a 10% discount for members of the UK Business Forums. Please send me a PM if you are interested or have any questions.

If you already have your own list and are wanting to just to bulk emails, I'd suggest using Mozilla Thunderbird and the free Mail Merge plugin. This works very effectively. There are free scripts on the net for building your own opt-in email lists.

 

[silvercreek]

It all depends on what you want to do with the results?
If you want to call and continue the converstaion with your clients then look no further than iTMScrm
Integrated Email Marketing and crm and very cost effective

 

[emailblaster]

I couldn't find any solution that would do what I wanted accurately and effectively enough, so this year I designed some software called the Email Marketing Robot that will target specific types of companies in a defined geographic area. It replaces the need for buying in business to business email data.

Have a look at www.emailmarketingrobot.com which has a video showing exactly how the software works. I'd be very happy to give a 10% discount for members of the UK Business Forums. Please send me a PM if you are interested or have any questions.

If you already have your own list and are wanting to just to bulk emails, I'd suggest using Mozilla Thunderbird and the free Mail Merge plugin. This works very effectively. There are free scripts on the net for building your own opt-in email lists.

Be careful, Using 'harvesting software' and your own I.P is a dead cert to getting blacklisted by Spamhaus, this will mean all future emails will be blocked until you are de-listed.

 

[crissyjones]

Be careful, Using 'harvesting software' and your own I.P is a dead cert to getting blacklisted by Spamhaus, this will mean all future emails will be blocked until you are de-listed.

I agree. "Harvesting software" is not always a good choice. Remember that this will put your sender reputation at risk and the possibility of being blocked.

 

[Mr potato]

You can try some other ways to promote

like SEO, blog and news promotion.

 

[winsoar]

The software will work with Gmail or commercial SMTP servers but it is designed not to spam. It will only email a website once, and there is the option to email the site only if an email is given on the site.

The email itself needs to be carefully worded so it is not spam. I've got a lot of customers doing very well with the software now.

 

[debbidoo]

The email itself needs to be carefully worded so it is not spam.

Doesn't matter how you word it; if the recipient didn't ask to receive it, it's spam.

This sort of thing royally p*sses me off. Legitimate email marketing to people who've double opted-in to receive the sender's newsletters is an uphill struggle because of all the spam-merchants out there sending unwanted crap to people who aren't interested.

Personally, I take immense pleasure from marking as junk every email that contains the immortal line "we are a New Delhi, India based SEO/web development/online marketing [delete as appropriate] agency".

Just to be clear: if my email address is on my website, it's *not* there for spammers to harvest so they can send me their rubbish. I will never, NEVER do business with anyone who spams me, on principle, no matter how good their product or service is.

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[winsoar]

There is a lot of software out there but the software I've invented is not for spamming. It doesn't work any faster than a human can send emails so would not be suitable for bulk emailing anyway. It is for precise targeting of specific company types in certain geographic areas.

I've got one client who sells a special type of radiator and he has had tremendous success contacting property developers asking them if they would like a brochure. He has recently had an order for I believe more than £1M from a company that is fitting several of them into a number of new properties.

When used in the right way email is an excellent tool but used the wrong way and it can annoy a lot of people.

 

[gilchrist]

I would rather prefer using SEO techniques.