how to become an expert at email marketing

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Becoming an expert in email marketing systems relies on basic knowledge of some general principles and strategies of internet advertising in general.

First a marketer need to know some of the history that has shaped the way email marketing works today, in part to avoid doing anything illegal.

Second, a marketer needs to determine how they are going to get email addresses to market to.

Third, a marketer wants to make money doing this, but hopefully not at the cost of their integrity.

As such, it is important to learn email marketing strategies that have a high CTR (click through rate) on the emails that are sent out - to maximize income and not waste the time of uninterested parties.

Finally, marketers can attract people who submit emails or purchase products in a number of ways, though the best strategies will depend upon what a person is marketing.

Context and History: The current email marketing industry has been largely shaped by FTC and CANSPAM regulations, which stipulate that people are not legally allowed to just go out on the web, find a person's email address and send them unsolicited mail. This came in response to spammers who would simply create programs that automatically searched for and copied down email addresses from all over the web. In light of that fact, email marketers need to find other ways of getting emails of people who may be interested in purchasing the market's or in using their affiliate merchants (which give a marketer a commission for referring customers or clients).

Getting Email Addresses: The best way to get e-mail addresses is with what is called a 'rapid conversion' page, that quickly gets people interested enough to voluntarily submit an email address to a system or website. For example, someone might want to promote or sell X-Box games. They can make a nice-looking but simple site that talks about how neat the X-Box and mentions a company that has great discounts on (or a vast selection of) games. One that person inputs their email address to find out more, a marketer is allowed to contact them. The advantage of this from the marketer's standpoint (and ethically) is that they are not sending out emails about X-Box games to just anyone. Instead, they are targeting only interested people.

Sending Emails: Next the marketer must decide the content of the emails they plan to send. Typically diversification is the key to this. They might have their own game-selling site (using the above example again) but it might not be the best for everyone's needs. For example, the marketer might only sell games, but what if the person they send the e-mail to wants to rent games? This dilemma has a simple solution: a marketer can add affiliate links to their emails as well as product descriptions. Affiliate links work as follows: a person who clicks them gets taken to a page (e.g. Netflix for games). Then, if they make a purchase (or in some cases if they even fill out an informational form or sign up for a free trial) the marketer gets a commission or other reward for just bringing the person there. By splitting targets like this, an email marketer can maximize their revenue and do the most good for their clients. On the one hand, the marketer makes money either way - by selling a product or referring a person. On the other hand, a client has more choices and is more likely to find what they are looking for.

Maximizing Traffic: Email marketers can use PPC advertising (such as Google Adwords or MSN Adcenter) to bring people to their landing page, but these services cost money (from a few cents to a few dollars per click). They can also promote their landing page for free through SEO (search engine optimization) or other techniques, including blogs or forums.

What approach an email markter takes to getting people to a selected page depends upon (1) how much they are willing to initially invest in the project and (2) how much they think they will earn, on average, from each person who visits their landing page or referred site. If they are experienced and quite sure they make an average of $5 per visitor then it is clearly well worth the investment to pay Adwords $.50 to get people to a page in the first place. If they are not as sure about their page's potential success, they should try getting free traffic as mentioned above and see how well it does. If it performs well, they can up the ante and start paying to market the page.

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Dealing with Your Company's Spam-a Great Spam Battle

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In essence, 9 out of every 10 e-mails is nothing but a waste of time.

Though spam is so widespread that many simply take it as a matter of course (you want to use email, you've got to have spam), dealing with spam takes up a surprising amount of time. Want to get an idea of how much time is wasted sifting spam? Think in it in terms of a company. If you get a few dozen (or a few hundred) spam emails mixed in with your important correspondence every morning, so does everybody else in the company. Multiply the time you spend by the number of employees, and you have a good idea of the productivity that's wasted each day. 

几年前你可以购买电子邮件列表和群发电子邮件,并可能给您的公司网站带来不错的流量或业务。然而,时代已经改变了,这种做法只是不再凑效了。

   随着时间的推移,人们已经发现,厌恶垃圾邮件塞满电子邮件的收件箱。电子邮件收件人不会容忍这种类型的营销很长一段时间,群发电子邮件营销,现在不容易得到回应。

  现在能够得到回应的邮件,通常会是现有客户和opt in email 收件人。当某人收到一封电子邮件,他们会在意识里面判断邮件是不是自己同意并授予接受的。如果不是就会被毫不理会地删除或忽略,或投诉,最终关闭接收你的电子邮件。最严重则导致您的电子邮件服务提供商关闭你的服务。

  电子邮件营销就像是任何其他形式的交流,只有正确不被滥用,才会发挥巨大作用的,该是调整并采取不同的方式的时候了。毕竟,任何人不想有这样糟糕的一天,不断地按一下按钮,删除垃圾邮件或提交投诉。

Email Marketing Squidoo 介绍

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Email Marketing of Squidoo.com介绍


Squidoo是资历比较深的Web2网站。 很早国内就有介绍。其理念就是“Everyone's an expert on something,每个人在某个方面都是专家”。通过传达自己所掌握的知识和想法,让更多人知道,让自己结识更多的朋友,
  Squidoo更像是带有Digg功能的Blog,正如宣传标语所说每个人都能成为专家,用户通过书写全面系统的领域知识或者某一主题,传递分享知识。



Squidoo 通过一种新的方式来让人们表达和分享自己的信息与知识。用户创建多个自定义页面,我们可以在这些被叫作Lens的页面上方便的插入不同的模块和内容,包括页面简介、文本、链接、RSS、Technorati Tags及Flickr图片等。和用户分享广告收益也是Squidoo的一个亮点,Squidoo将提供AdSenseAmazoneBay等多种形式的广告服务,你可以在Lens中添加这些广告来为自己获得收入。另外,邀请朋友成为lensmaster有可能拿到5美元,不过前提是当你的朋友在Squidoo上赚到15美元。Squidoo也提供了像Zimbio一样的书签功能,可以直接将链接添加到自己的lens。


  有时候网赚并不需要花费你一分钱的广告费。所有大的搜索引擎都给那些有质量并且时常都有新鲜内容的网站一个很好的自然排名。所以,如果你希望你的网站在GOOGLE,YAHOO,MSN有一个好的排名,学会使用squidoo.com能够使你成为一个更有效率的article marketer



下面的指南将教我们怎么样使用squidoo来快速创建articles(或者叫“lenses” Squidoo中是这么命名的),并且在不会花一毛钱的情况下月入数千美元。你将学习到为什么我们这么“严重推荐”squidoo给article marketer,怎样去精通squidoo的有用工具,还有最重要的,怎么让google在squidoo挑选出你的文章。
  如今一些论坛,许多帖子都是围绕这个话题在进行讨论,许多的成员通过这项技术,每月在不花一分钱的情况下赚得数千美元!Article marketing with Squidoo 对于任何互联网市场商人来说都是一个伟大的开始点,在这里可以帮你获得你的互联网第一桶金,你可以把赚到的钱再投入到业务中的其他部分,比如PPC广告,甚至你可以通过你在squidoo上的文章在相当长的一段时间内产生持续的收入。



一、创建 Squidoo 账户
  1 – 申请地址: www.squidoo.com
  2 – 点击 “Sign Up” 开始创建squidoo帐户.
  在注册一个帐户的过程中,他们会要求你创建你的第一个”Lens”,其实就是第一篇articles:
  Step 1:
  Step 2:
  Step 3:
  Step 4:
  **最后不要忘记去EMAIL激活Squidoo 帐户!
  
二、创建一个Lens
1、你应该写点什么?
  在创建一个Lens之前,你必须阅读squidoo的terms,squidoo不允许发布成人内容,spam,欺诈性的内容等。只要没有违反squidoo的政策,你可以为任何你想要推广的产品或服务创建一个成功的Lens,关键的是你应该选择那些目标性强,而且在搜索引擎中竞争不是太激烈的主题。
2、加入组件
  Squidoo的Lens由一些组件块组成,在这里我们将介绍几个对affiliate marketers最有用的几个组件。包括”Text/Write”组件和”Rss Feed”组件
  在你第一次创建你的lens的时候,会有一些组件已经预先为你加入了。你可以保留或者删除它们中的一些组件,建议只保留下面这些组件:
  * Introduction
  * Text / Write Modules
  * RSS Module
  Introduction Module【介绍组件】: 这个组件出现在你所有的lenses中,并且非常重要。介绍组件允许你添加图片,你可以简单上传计算机中的图片到这里。在这里放置一个产品的截图是不错的选择!
  Text / Write Module: 【文本组件】 这也是最通用的组件,在这里允许你添加大标题,Text,Image,HTML links等。
  优化小贴士: 建议使用多个Text/Write组件来建立你的lense。因为大标题和简介可以让读者不用一字一句的看你的文章就能迅速了解你文章的内容,这有助于你利用优化大标题去吸引读者的眼球。另一个原因是因为Squidoo要求发布者必须在一个Lens中至少有4个组件,期望能够阻止spammers,你也可以发布一个很少组件的Lens,但是squidoo会分配给你一个非常低的squidoo rank排名。


  下面是一个带多个组件的Lens例子
  http://www.squidoo.com/aWealthyAffiliateReview


  RSS Module(RSS 组件): 添加一个RSS FEED到组件中去,能使搜索引擎蜘蛛更频繁的爬你的文章,因为RSS feed是动态更新的。所以,添加一个RSS组件到你的lens的底部非常有助于你的搜索引擎排名提升。
  怎样添加一个RSS feed:
  1 – 你可以使用来自于任何博客或网站的RSS feed,但是如果你想让你的lens用flash运行的话,参考blogsearch:
  http://blogsearch.google.com/
  2 – 在google blog search中进行有关的关键词或字句搜索
  3 – 在搜索结果中,你会看到一个ATOM链接到左边的搜索结果,拷贝这个链接。
  4 – 使用这个链接作为你squidoo rss组件的RSS源


  小贴士: 如果你有自己的博客,你可以添加你的博客RSS feed到Squidoo Lens。
  Lens 最优化
  对于Lens的优化,可以采用对landing page一样的优化方法。
  在此之前你需要确认已经做了下面的工作:
  1. 为每个Text/Write组件设置了相关的大标题
  2. 一些使用了你的网站或者affiliate链接的”Call to action”链接
  3. 一些帮助切断文本的图片
  4. 避免使用没有设置断点,链接或图片的长段落
  5. 最大化的吧lens焦点放在你的推广页面上
  6. 通过RSS feed组件添加新鲜的内容到页面
  

下面是一些有帮助的资源:
  Landing Page Optimization Tutorial
  记住,lenses的优化跟普通web page的优化没有什么区别
  下面是两个WA论坛的两个成功利用squidoo抓取流量的帖子,需要注册WA后才能浏览。点这里注册!
  Forum Post 1: 3 Days On Google Front Page With 30 Mins Work + Proof
  Forum Post 2: Dominating The SERPS with Squidoo! For the Bums


  Tags

 Squidoo允许你使用Tags标签功能来描述你的Lens,这也是为什么在该关键词下的squidoo文章被搜索引擎喜欢的原因之一,在很多情况下你能得到一个与主关键词相关的关键词列表,将列表中的词也加入Tags,将对你的文章排名起到非常有利的作用。
  最大化你的Lens (是个好主意吗?)
  关于是否应该最大化Lens的讨论有很多,从互联网营销的前景来看,最大化你的Lens除了将焦点从你的Lens内容移开之外,什么也没有做。事实上你会希望你的读者把焦点放在Lens的内容上面,因此WA建议不要最大化Lens。
  登录squidoo,选择你不想最大化的Lens点击”Edit”
  如何让你的Lense创造收益
  使用squidoo能让你每月纯收入数千美元,但是并不是你创建的每个lens都能赚到钱,建议你创建一个可管理的周任务集合,跟踪他们的表现。
  下面是一个工作得很好的任务计划实例:
  每个星期天列出10个你想在下面一周里创建的lenses。可能只会花上你10来分钟的时间来考虑这个列表,包含你想在Lense中使用的关键词。
  在接下来的一周里,你每天应该按照计划写作,每天2个squidoo lens。对于习惯中文的我们来说,可能要求有点多了,不过刚开始的时候我们可以每天写1个,300到500个词长度,并不是很难,贵在坚持!!就当是在学习英语,按照文中介绍的方法和步骤,你坚持3个月下来看看,我保证你有大惊喜!

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