All you have to do is sign up, opt-in to receive emails (there won’t be a lot, so you won’t feel annoyed), and earn points.

When you have reached $50, you can request payout.

What’s more?

After joining Take the Internet Back, you will also have access to a large collection of internet marketing & SEO software, eBooks, reports and videos.  These are exclusive to members only.

Wait no longer – it is Free to Join.  Let’s Take the Internet Back!

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As we all know building a list can be a long and painful process.  There are lots of ebooks about how to build your list.  But then, for a quick win, this might be the solution for you.

Join The List Auction for free

By joining as a free member, you would be able to send emails to 500 random members for free, once every 7 days and up to 26,000 emails per year.

You are able to earn credit by clicking on the ads on the member homepage.  However, one click per hour.

(If you feel that you are in need of more quota, then you can choose to upgrade.  There are 2 packages available: the silver membership costs $19 per month and the gold membership costs $29 per month.)

If you have an one-off offer, you can bid for more credits – that’s how the name “The List Auction” came from.

Upgraded members can also advertise on the member homepage.

Commission (from 20% for free members to 60% for gold members) are being paid monthly if your downline earns money.

What is the benefit of joining The List Auction?  The most important part is that you can build your list through it.  It has already created a channel for you, so that you don’t have to start from zero.

How effective is this list?  Well the service is only on launch stage, and hence I am not able to tell.  But well, it is free so join The List Auction now!

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1. iPhone – do you know that Gmail has a new look on iPhone browsers?

2. AOL Integration – now you can chat with your AIM friends in the chat list in Gmail.

3. Colored labels – you can organize your emails better with the color labels offered.

4. Emoticons – better express your emotion in your emails!

5. Group chat – chat with more than 1 person at the same time, in 1 window only.

6. IMAP – do you know you can sync your other IMAP mails for free through Gmail?

The list just goes on and on.  New features might be added from time to time.  Check it out here.

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However, I am a blogger. Is there any email application that is designed specifically for bloggers?

Now there is one. Zookoda provides email newsletter service for free! Zookoda enables you to send a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts directly into your visitors inbox. And most importantly, it is FREE!

We know how important it is to post regularly in our blog. It is the way to encourage visitors coming back to visit the blog. However, how do we inform people about our posting?

I have both in this blog – RSS feeds and emails. In addition to the usual, Zoodoka provides an alternative way to broadcast your blog post, at a frequency that you specify.

Zookoda also use an auto-opt-in method to save you time. You don’t have to manually accept or decline a subscription. Zookoda does it all for you. You can choose a template design for your email, or customize one.

Traffic tracking is important. By analysing the click, open, and bounce rate, you can unlock a lot of hidden information about your newsletters!

And who hates spam? Everybody does! All emails sent via Zookoda are spam compliant. No worries anymore!

Not a surprise at all, Zookoda enables you to:

• Manage your email list
• Design your own email to match your blog’s design
• View Traffic Report, real time
• Newsletter subscription form for your blog
• Control broadcast frequency
• Email in text format

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The email address finder researches email addresses in 2 ways:

1. Reverse Search: You have an email address and want to know who it belongs to.
2. Find a Person’s Email: You have a persons name and want to find their email address.

Their databases cover almost the entire world and are used by Law Enforcement, Government, Lawyers, Private Investigators, Regular Internet Users and many others.

You can try it out here: Email Address Finder.  There is a form on the site that you can test out the service.  Try before you buy!

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1. Make sure your contents are relevant
If you have a shopping site, it is a good idea to segment your email list to the products of interest.  Base on the segment you can send emails out with highly targeted content – and hence a jump in conversion.

2. Are You a Safe Sender?
In the welcome email, make sure you ask the subscriber to add your email address as a safe sender.  If your email landed in the junk mail folder, it is very likely that it will not be read.

3. How often do you send? What do you send?
Don’t over/under promise.  If you claimed to send monthly, send monthly. Don’t annoy your subscribers with ‘Act now! Offer close in 48 hours’ every few days.  Moreover, send newsletters with information rather than just products on special.

4. Is your email spammy?
Make sure you go through the spam test (provided by most email services)  and eliminate any spammy words / characters etc.  A line with 10 exclamation marks is not a good idea either.

5. Personalization
Use this carefully as spammers tend to do this now. However, an email with personalized header / subject is more likely to convert.

6. Make the new comers feel special
Along with the welcome email, why not send along your latest newsletter / recent offers?

7. Make sure you keep your permission from the subscriber
Double opt-in is important. Make sure your database keeps such information, in case you receive a complaint or even a law suit later.

8. Focus on what is most important
Open rate – for informative emails
Click through rate – for sales focused emails
I found these the most important.  Every business has different KPI.  Identify and focus on them.

9. Handle unsubscription promptly
Make sure your database handles subscription promptly. If someone unsubscribed, follow up with a ‘I’m sorry to see you go’ email and ask them to come back to visit your site more often.

10. Testing
Last but not least, a poorly designed / broken email design is very likely to drive people away, as this reflects your professionalism.  Make sure you run enough testing before sending it out.  To learn how to compile an HTML email, you can visit my older post Email Marketing Made Easy.

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Thanks to Campaign Monitor, this useful guideline has provided a helpful hand to many email coders.

The sad thing about what happened (if you don’t know) was that MS has decided to use Word as the HTML rendering engine for Outlook 2007.  This took the standard back to ancient and has been a nightmare for most of the email marketing coders.  I On the other hand, Windows Live! Hotmail has also been unique in rendering HTML emails as well.

To view the full post, click here:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/04/a_guide_to_css_support_in_emai_2.html

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Basically you write up an email, but choose not to send now.  Instead, you can choose to send it at a later time, determined by you only.

This would certainly slow things down.  You can now have a report that you don’t really want your client to complain about today before EOB – send it at 3am and worry about it tomorrow.

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Our company has to process a lot of HTML email send-outs every week, and this has been causing us a lot of trouble.

Finally we found what has gone wrong.

Windows Live Hotmail renders HTML in standard mode.  Any inline element (eg. img) in a table cell will be aligned to the text baseline.  This allows space for any descenders that extend below the baseline for some letters.

To fix this is really simple: put style=”display:block;” on the img tags.

When will MS stop giving us problems?

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Therefore, one very important thing is you must provide lots of links to your website on the email, so that recipients would have better chance of clicking through.

For an e-commerce website, it is better for you to feature a variety of products suitable for general use, and provide a link directly goes to that particular product page.

If you need to tell someone you have a stall in an exhibition, be sure to provide enough information so that people would be able to find you.  If you see them face to face you have a big chance of converting.

It is good to include some company news on the email.  But keep in mind, the whole point of sending out the email is to make people buy from you.  They don’t care if you have got 2 new staff in the Hawaii office.  Don’t make this the whole content of the email. Put it on the side in a nicely wrapped table/box.

Remember, lots of links to your website.  Guarantees you success.

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