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(Internet technology) Making Use of an Email Marketing Program

By Garrett36 Pierson36

 Why do you need an email marketing program? You need such a program because you will have a hard time without one. That is not even being pessimistic; that is just stating facts. Have you ever tried printing a lot of fliers and leaflets and distributing them to as many clients as you can? That took a lot of time, surely, and you did not even get to as many clients as you had hoped. Then, you thought that making use of technology would make things much easier. Now, consider this. With technology, you have the opportunity to send more emails to more people. Without an email marketing program, you have to scour for all those email addresses. This is because your technological infrastructure is not setup to properly organize and manage all of your contacts. You have to create all your templates and send the emails manually. Manually here does not mean that you are going back to the snail mail days. However, you may just well have done so. Every time you are on some campaign, you have to send an email to prospective clients. You have to be physically present in front of your computer, typing in each email address. Furthermore, some ISPs limited how many emails you can send per hour or per day, which is an additional roadblock to your marketing efforts. When you do make use of an email marketing program, the process will go like this:

Various ways to capture new contacts from your website are readily available.

Your email marketing program creates all kinds of sign-up forms to help you expand your mailing list. You can use these templates on your website without needing any technical skills at all. Prospective clients can make use of these forms to fill in their information and join your mailing list.

Email addresses are stored.

The email addresses keyed into the forms are stored into a secure database through the help of your email marketing program. Whenever you have to send a newsletter, your program accesses the database to automatically insert all the email addresses into your outgoing message. There is no need to key in possibly hundreds or thousands of email addresses every time you have to send an update or newsletter. Everything is always online, up-to-date and ready for your next email.

Welcome emails send automatically.

When your new subscriber has joined your mailing list, most email marketing solutions will automatically dispatch a welcome email to that person. This often includes a confirmation link, to ensure your list is double opt-in (which is the best type) and also welcomes the person to your mailing list. Since this all happens automatically, there is no further administrative or manual effort on you.

Regular newsletters are sent.

You can set your program to send newsletters at given dates. You can do this way in advance so that on the day that the newsletters are sent out, you do not have to be at the computer, waiting for the outgoing mail to be successful. For urgent updates you can quickly put together an email and send it out. Still, there is an choice to have the newsletter sent a day, a few days, or even months from the time you have finished crafting it. This helps put your marketing efforts on auto-pilot. Simply schedule it, and then let the program do all the work.

An email marketing program, as you can now see, is a truly helpful tool. It makes sending emails to all of your contacts so much easier. Since email marketing can help you build relationships with your customers, it truly is a tool that every business and website operator should be adopting.

Victor Green is an Account Executive at EliteEmail.com, the award winning email marketing program. No longer is email marketing software complicated to use or learn. You can deploy the complete email marketing solution in a matter of minutes. Try it free today!

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The Good and the Grave of Receiving News On the web

By editor notthetimes

 A news editorial written by Doug Gross on March first 2010 and published by CNN, reported that as many as 75% of the population in the United States acquire their news and information from on-line resources as opposed to television or newspapers. Why would so many turn to this new resource for news and information?

1. In spite of of your political persuasion you are undoubtedly aware that what passes for news from the major news outlets is usually rubbish. Too frequently they serve up super-sized helpings of worthless but dramatic reports, while neglecting to put out news that is crucially significant to you, your family and friends. About a year ago every major news outlet was publishing stories about two collage aged adults video tapeing upsetting events at ACORN offices. It was a sensational story that ran for days. Did you learn the later story when the FBI studied the tapes and determined that the young man’s voice was dubbed in later so the ACORN person was not answering the question you thought you heard? While few taxpayers would understand it if our tax dollars in reality were being used to sustain what the video pretended to demonstrate, there is a larger matter here. Why wasn’t the main stream media, both television news and newspapers trying to figure out where 700 BILLION dollars vanished to?

By contrast, useful information is in reality what the internet is for. While it occasionally requires some time, browsing for news frequently results in finding those essential news stories.

2. We recognized the truth in the old saying “Whoever pays the piper, gets to call the tune.” Commercial news outlets have an monetary interest in not offending companies or industries who purchase advertising from them. Too often and often too late the public is advised of a major news event that wasn’t published until the problem was settled. Months later we are told of the information withheld by the key publishers to look after their advertisers.

The world has lots of individuals who are actively occupied in weighty events going on in and around their lives and for any one of a lengthy list of motives, they often want to get information to the public. To those citizens the internet is the perfect medium to enlighten people. There are no corporate obligations to inhibit the information from being disseminated rather just people determined to get the information to other people who might profit from it.

3. But there is a hazard of news from the net as well. Too often well intended to malicious people make up hysterical threats that plainly don’t exist. One new case of this was the “boxcar and shackles” story. The story was that boxcars were being designed and fitted with shackles to haul people off to concentration camps located across the US. After researching this it was obvious that the freight cars in question have been in use for about 20 years for moving vehicles. The shackles? They are the tackle used to hold the autos in place during transport.

Unhappily this rumor got some “traction” and scared people who believed it. So the challenge of using the internet for gathering news is little different from handling a firearm. Manage it carefully, know without question the source, examine and research over again. Information that seems extremist should be researched until all doubt about the accurateness is definite.

Internet news is regularly exceptional in its’ breadth and scope. Using it you will discover information that impacts your daily life and outlook. But do be thorough when you read, listen to or see information that is extreme. It might be right, but it is your duty to study the information. Or, simply gather your news from dependable sources and save the time.

Not The Times is a new source of important but not hysterical news on a variety of topics you can use every day. Pete Orthmann, Editor

USA soccer is growing

By ScottX

 The United States of America has always been a soccer country. However, it hasn’t been a soccer super power. That has been saved for countries like Brazil, England, German, Argentina, and some others. What has been happening in the USA since 1996 is steady growth in soccer. The soccer news coming out of the USA has been positive. I’ll be talking about some of ways the sport of soccer has been growing and expanding in the USA in the past decade or so.

The United States has always had a lots of young soccer players. Most kids play when they are little. Usually the allure of other sports pulls them away from the sport of soccer. Everyone knows the popularity of football, basketball, baseball and even sometimes hockey, trumps the popularity of soccer in the US. So most teenagers or slightly younger kids learn soccer, then leave the sport to start another. Since the inception of Major Leage Soccer, more kids are actually sticking with soccer and trying to become professionals. MLS doesn’t pay as well as other professional sports usually but if you get discovered and end up going to Europe or somewhere else, you can make millions.

MLS or Major League Soccer as it’s called in the USA, is another reason soccer is growing in America. MLS is the highest tier soccer league in the USA. Many people have said MLS would just fold due to lack of interest, but it’s still going. Fourteen years later to be exact. More and more of the teams in MLS are doing better finacially every year and the future looks bright. Every year more of the teams are closer to making a profit instead of a loss. And like every league, it still needs to grow.

Another example of the United States growing in soccer is the 2002 world cup. The US men’s team went in knowing they had an uphill battle against Portugal in the first game. Portugal were the favorites, with players such as Jorge Costa, Luis Figo and Sergio Conceicao. Portugal was also ranked 5th in the world at the time. What happened during the game made world cup history for the US team. Goals by the usa team in the 4th, an own goal in the 29th and a strike from Briank McBride in the 36th minute gave the US 3 goals and by the end Portugal could only muster a goal from Beto in the 39th minute and an own goal. Riding their momentum from the 3-2 win over Portugal the US men’s team in their white and blue soccer jerseys tied host country South Korea 1-1 in a nailbiter. While losing the last game to Poland 3-1 the USA was still able to advance to knockout phase of the world cup because Korea defeated Portugal 1-0. In the first game the USA faced their arch rivals from south of the border Mexico. Everyone knows how great the games are between the USA and Mexico. This was no exception. Especially with the world cup on the line. The US bested the Mexicans that day 2-0 on goals from Brian McBride and Landon Donovan. The next game the USA was eliminated from play by a determined German team 1-0. The US team gave the Germans all they could handle in this game. It however showed the world the USA could get to the final eight of the world cup and still compete.

One last way to see soccer growing in the USA is in the soccer specific stadiums being built around MLS. There are currently 7 soccer specific stadiums in MLS. Two more are being added for the 2010 season. Also, an older stadium is being renovated in Portland for a MLS play in 2011. These new stadiums have the best soccer equipment, seating, vendors and more. Shops in these stadiums carry items such as soccer shoes, soccer jerseys and more. So if you looking for MLS soccer jerseys, you should get out to a game and explore the stadiums. Overall, these new soccer specific stadiums show that american soccer and MLS is here to stay.

Soccer in america is growing. There’s no doubt about it. It’ll take time before the USA can actually have a chance of winning a world cup. But we are heading in the right direction as shown by the reasons i’ve explained here. Before you know it, you may see American’s holding up the world cup for the first time in history. With the huge population of the USA and the passion for soccer, it’s just a matter of time before we are a soccer power on the global scale.

This article was written by the Webmaster of SMB Information.com- Scott Beshenich
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