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  • When Your Business Embraces Email Marketing

     

    A competitive edge

    Are you a business person who recently incorporated an email marketing campaign with your Web marketing objectives? If so, a self-congratulatory sentiment is in order, because you’ve embraced what is widely considered one of the most effective types of online marketing for your business. And while many business owners tend to shy away from email marketing campaigns based on a belief – erroneous as it may be – that such campaigns are always viewed as spam, others realize the importance of this marketing type (which ultimately is another kind of advertising) and are willing to invest a great deal of time, money and effort into organizing email marketing campaigns.

    Business owners who have added email marketing campaigns to their overall marketing strategy will likely find that they are able to enjoy an advantage over their competitors who do not take the time required to implement an effective email marketing campaign. So if you are already using email marketing as part of your marketing and advertising strategy you may soon be reaping the rewards of your decision to do so – if, in fact, you have not yet achieved such objectives. However, if you have not yet embraced this type of marketing, you may wish to read on, because in this article will discuss a few of the steps necessary to organize an effective email marketing campaign.

    One of the first elements you should consider when making a decision to start an email marketing campaign is the type of information you wish to include in your marketing emails to potential clients. This is very important because the information you provide will help your email recipients to determine whether or not they think your products or services are worthwhile.

    EM professionals for hire

    What this means is that you can include a variety of techniques in marketing emails which may include, but is not limited to, full length informative articles, short articles enticing readers to visit your website for more information, links to other websites which may be of interest to your readers, links to your own website and even advertisements for your products and/or services, as well as other products or services your customers may appreciate.

    Once you determine the type of content and information you wish to incorporate into your email marketing, it is then time to consider how you want to structure your email marketing messages. Two of the most common structures include an informative email with subtle advertising, or an in depth e-newsletter with a wealth of information, which also includes subtle advertising as well as a few images (graphics). Deciding on the format of emails you will be sending out are important because they will dictate the staff you will need to assist you in your email marketing efforts.




    You might require the assistance of a professional writer to assist you with the content in either emails or e-newsletters; that is if you are unable to write your own content. But keep in mind that if you opt for an e-newsletter you should also consider hiring a graphic artist to assist you in designing an attractive layout and creating graphics that will most likely be needed to create an appealing layout for your e-newsletter.

    Opt-in lists from scratch

    Next you should consider how you plan to create an email distribution (or opt-in) list. This is important because simply purchasing an email list is not likely to be effective due to the “hit-and-miss nature of such lists. In other words, when you purchase an email list, you may reach hundreds, thousands or even millions of Internet users by sending emails to all of the members of this email list, but there is no guarantee that any of those recipients will have an interest in your products or services. However, if you build your own email list of previous customers who have specifically requested additional information, as well as potential customer who have also requested additional information you will have a well formulated list which includes mostly members of your target audience.

    A targeted list is ideal because you are much more likely to sell products or services to members of your target audience than you are to sell products or services to members of an email subscriber group which does not consist of subscribers who have expressed an interest in your unique content and therefore may have absolutely no interest in the products or services you offer. The underlying reason for creating your own list of opt-in subscribers is because they would have visited your website, blog or Web page and expressed a special interest in your content based on its uniqueness (niche quality), and wish to obtain more information from you on a continuous basis.

    Such requests for more information and desire to learn about your company, products or affiliate service lays the foundation for long standing relationships which, in the long term, is most beneficial to your business as well as the subscriber. Once all of these preliminary decisions have been made, you can begin to create the actual emails themselves and can begin to distribute these emails; and after you have sent out your first batch of emails, you can take some time to evaluate the effectiveness of the first email before you send out the second batch.

    Evaluation

    This will be useful because if you determine the first batch was not very successful you can solicit feedback and make changes to the second batch before sending it out. If the second email is more successful than the first, you can conclude the changes you made were required and, in fact, beneficial.

  • A Close-up Look at Macro Digital Photography




    Perspectives

    Few us will deny that viewing things from different perspectives can be truly fascinating. This is true because of the fact that we often discover new things simply by looking at a familiar object from different angles, or focusing on different areas of that object, which might explain why the picture-taking method known as macro digital photography has aroused the fascination of many photography enthusiast (amateur and professional as well as hobbyist) and held such fascination for a long time.

    Macro photography, which is also referred to as photomacrography, macrography, and in some cases have also been identified as macrophotography, is an approach used to produce extreme close-up photographs, primarily of very small subjects, the size of which is seen as greater than life size in the resulting photograph. This method is greatly enhanced due to advances in sensor technology, making today’s small-sensor digital cameras equivalent to the macro capabilities of a DSLR with a “true” macro lens, despite having a lower reproduction ratio, except that macro photography is now more widely accessible at a much lower cost. “In the digital age, a “true” macro photograph can be more practically defined as a photograph with a vertical subject height of 24 mm or less.”

    That having been said, many photography enthusiast, as well as observers of their work, view macro digital photography as an art, and there is certainly no argument with that viewpoint; because it takes the genius of an artist to take an ordinary and, some will say, uninteresting thing and turn it into something that just captures an aspect of life; and isn’t that fundamentally what art really is? Answers to this question will vary, depending on who is providing them, but while no art ever claimed to contain all the truths of life, it is seen as a reflection of the world through the artist’s eyes, so that when a piece of art such as macro digital photography is beheld by different viewers they get to share the perspective of each other and that can be a very powerful connection.

    Skills

    Another thing about macro digital photography which should be pointed out here is the fact that it is not easy to use without the user’s incorporation of several factors when attempting to produce great photographs. You might ask, what are those factors?

    1) Skills – Do you actually have the skills necessary for the proper utilization of macro digital photography? Do you have the eye for beauty that would be appreciated by people who view your photographs? Those are just two areas of skill a macro digital photographer should have, but there are certainly not all s/he will need. A macro digital photographer also needs to have a steady hand, since even barely noticeable movements of the hand(s) can ruin the picture when engaged in macro digital photography.

    You, as a macro digital photographer, need to have certain skills to use a camera properly. Those skills include your ability to adjust the camera in order to take pictures that you truly want to appear; and although you can actually edit a macro digital photograph using your computer, it certainly seems counter productive to create such extra work for yourself when there is a better way available. Of course, there will be some individuals who naturally (innately?) possess these skills, but even in those cases, it is still important to hone these skills by taking classes or attending workshops. Remember that macro digital photography is all about showing things in different ways, and because of this you must be willing to accept the fact that other people may see your work differently from the way you see it; because fresh eye never hurts.

    Equipment

    2) Equipment – You also need the proper tools and equipment in order to properly and appropriately express yourself in this field based on the talent you possess; because the proper tools can go a long way in helping you accomplish your photographic goals, including the effect and/or message you want to convey. Remember that although there are tools today that purported to be usable for any type of photography, it is of the utmost importance that you search for, and find equipment that is specially made for macro digital photography, since the right equipment can definitely bring out the best in your skills.

    The right equipment is essential because macro digital photography requires a lot of work to be done if it is expected to be perfect or as close to perfection as circumstances, skill and subject will allow. If you have the right tools for macro digital photography, you will be able to achieve your goals and show your pictures the way you want them to be seen.

    Subjects

    3) Subject -– Everything is interesting when viewed from different perspectives; and while some subjects may appear more interesting than others, when you choose the otherwise “uninteresting” group as subjects of macro digital photography, they manage to amaze you with the amount of things you do not know about them. It is therefore in view of the hidden values of macro digital photography subjects, and the knowledge that this medium can be worlds beyond what you can see with the naked eye that you should choose your subjects wisely. Macro digital photography reinforces the old adage that “there is more to it than meets the eye.”

    As a token of our appreciation the free ebook titled, Storytelling Marketing can be yours if you have any interest in the art of storytelling. All you have to do is download it here, enjoy the reading and learn how storytelling can be a powerful ally in any business or marketing pursuit!

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  • Marketing Emails Viewed Through Spam-Colored Glasses

    Essential EM elements

    Email marketing (EM) can be very effective as long as it is not viewed as spam. This is critical because when your emails are viewed or interpreted as spam (viewed through spam-colored glasses) they will not likely be read by recipients and may not even reach those recipients if they are trapped by spam filters installed by some Internet service providers. It is for this reason that business owners must work hard to ensure their email marketing campaign messages are not viewed as spam by either their recipients or the recipients’ Internet service providers. That having been said, we will take a closer look at various aspects of email marketing and, specifically, how business owners can ensure that their emails are not viewed through spam-colored glasses.

    The distribution (or opt-in) list for an email marketing campaign is one of the essential elements which can help to ensure that emails sent by a business owner are not viewed as spam; but before this can be accomplished it is important to understand exactly what spam is, so let’s delve a little deeper into what spam really means. According to the CAN-SPAM Act of 2004, email marketers are required “…to include their physical address in the email as well as an “opt-out” link in every email designed to give consumers the ability to reach the marketer and tell them they no longer want to receive information from them after which the email sender must remove this email address from their data base within 10 business days.”

    Essentially, the law prohibits marketers from sending any email which is unsolicited, and sent for the sole purpose of advertising or promoting a product or service. And yet – in spite of this law and all that it encompasses in the way of prohibitions – Internet users still receive mass quantities of spam on a daily basis; quantities which, for some Internet users, is a huge source of frustration even as other Internet users have become so used to the spam sent to their email address that they barely even notice these emails.

    Neither of these scenarios, however, will bode well for business owners who are using email marketing campaigns to promote their products or services, because Internet users who are angered by spam mail in general, may react harshly and report such emails – legitimate as they may be – to their Internet service providers.

    Comprising the opt-in list

    Furthermore, Internet users who do not even notice spam are likely to either automatically delete emails they previously opted-in for and/or might block the sender’s email address to prevent future emails from getting through to them, because they have reached the point where all emails to their inboxes are viewed through spam-colored glasses.




    So if you are a business owner who intend to initiate add email marketing to your already established business operations, or you’re already engaged in email marketing activities, you may find it helpful to pay special attention to your email distribution list and make sure to only include recipients who had specifically asked for additional information, since such actions will help to keep your emails from being viewed as spam.

    You can take certain specific steps to accomplish these goals, the most important of which might be to invite individuals to subscribe to your opt-in list. In other words, simply ask visitors to your website – especially repeat visitors who seemed to have more than a casual interest in your content – to register with your website and specify whether or not they wish to receive future emails with additional information, advertisements or other helpful and useful tips. This ensures that the recipients of your emails are genuinely interested in your products and services and are not likely to view your emails as spam. Don’t allow your marketing emails to be viewed through spam-colored glasses!

    Another way to ensure that this does not happen is to offer recipients the option of being removed from the distribution list with each email (an option required by CAN-SPAM Act, anyway). This is important even when the recipients specifically asked to receive these emails; but they are entitled to change their opinion at any time. Offering your email recipients the opportunity to remove themselves from a email distribution list whenever they want is worthwhile because it allows recipients to have some control in the situation. This is a stark contrast to spam in which the recipients feel as though they have no control over the situation and, therefore, no way to stop the spam from bombarding their inboxes on a daily basis.

    De-spamming your business emails

    Finally, business owners can help to ensure their email marketing campaign is not viewed as spam by including quality content in the emails they send to recipients of their email distribution list(s). This may include providing feature articles, product reviews or a series of short useful tips which will likely be hold interest to all who receive your emails. These emails may also include a soft sales pitch but such a sales pitch should not be the primary focus of your emails.

    Putting too much attention on the advertising is likely to lead recipients to assume that your email is nothing more than spam. Conversely, providing quality information which is useful to recipients and subtly urging them to perform an action such as making a purchase or investigating the details of a product can make the email seem much more worthwhile, and less like spam.

  • The Best Quality Photo Prints are Digitally Enhanced




    From an idea to domination

    From 1961 when “Eugene F. Lally of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory” had an idea “to take pictures of the planets and stars while travelling through space to give information about the astronauts’ position…” to 1975 when the first digital camera was actually created “by Steve Sasson, an engineer at Kodak,”; to 1991 with creation of the Nikon F3, “the digital camera you could [actually] buy; to 1997 when the first cameraphone photo is shared; to 2014 when digital photography dominates the market to a point where “experts predict that as many as 380 billion photographs are taken each year” and that number has continued to rise “as the world gradually saturates with digital cameras,” digital photography had at that time become the technology of choice for all manner of photography, professional and otherwise.

    Digital photography is considered to be the easiest way to take a snapshot and enhance its overall quality, features and appearance, especially when viewed as an artform; because the act of taking pictures without the need for film must truly be seen as art. And because there is no film involved in the process of taking pictures digitally, the photographer will have a unique convenience (luxury?) of saving those shots which are good and eliminating others which are bad. Digital photography offers the easiest method of capturing good images and converting them into interesting art pieces.

    That having been said, it is important to recognize that digital photography has indeed come a long way, as outlined in the first paragraph of this article; and ever since the introduction of digital cameras to the world, along with development of computers, formation of the Internet and the World Wide Web, this seemingly miraculous creation of digital photographic equipment and methodology has produced tremendous conveniences in the world of photography where anyone and everyone with digital cameras can take a picture and upload it to a computer, thereby sharing it with friends from their local area as well as some from around the world.

    Digital enhancements

    Today there are many digital photography services available on the internet; and there are several companies that specialize in services such as digital imaging, image restoration, photo retouching, and photo editing and digital enhancement. Other digital imaging services are also offered to provide satisfaction to photo hobbyists; and while more and more people are using digital cameras for reasons already stated, including the fact that it’s easy to take a picture and edit it according to what you want. After all, who would not want a picture-perfect shot? The fact must be pointed out however, that picture taking (photographic shots, angles and quality) does not always result in the best and most acceptable images, and this is exactly where digital enhancement becomes useful and necessary.

    If you’re wondering, so what exactly is digital enhancement? The answer to your question could simply be that digital enhancement is the answer to all image quality problems; but that kind of answer is a bit too simplistic. A more detailed answer might be that digital enhancement is the best way to improve your snapshot and make it look more attractive, because with digital enhancement, you can easily increase the attractiveness of images by simply adjusting the brightness, contrast and sharpness of the image. And photographers also has the chance to enhance the color balance of a picture, while resizing the image and cropping it at the same time, which can also be done with ease.

    Advantages of digital photography

    There are many innovative ways on how to improve a snapshot; and all of these are made possible because of digital technology. Anyone who is active in photography can take advantage of the digital photography services that are being offered online, as digital prints are long-lasting compared to the traditional photos. They are fade-resistant and water-proof; and another great advantage of digital photography is that everything about editing and printing photos is accomplished with the help of do-it-yourself printers. Photo prints produced in this manner are proven to last much longer, unlike the film-based photography.

    Digital enhancement works in a way that allows a photographer the opportunity to prepare his/her pictures and modify them to achieve the greatest image quality; and anyone can do the photo enhancements using photo editing software, or by utilizing the services of a professional digital photography firm. When you opt to use photo editing software, the image is usually saved in jp or jpeg format, after which you can upload the images and send them to several websites that offer photo printing services.

    All options considered

    When taken into consideration, all these digital photography basics will bring you, the photographer, a number of excellent options when it comes to taking pictures with great quality and in their best form. If you are a photography professional, hobbyist or casual participant, you should make the most of what what digital technology has to offer; because if you want to get quality pictures, there is no better way to accomplish that than to utilize the digital editing and enhancement services that are available through the photo printers available online. With these services at hand, picture-perfect shots are just within reach.

    As a token of our appreciation the free ebook titled, Storytelling Marketing can be yours if you have any interest in the art of storytelling. All you have to do is download it here, enjoy the reading and learn how storytelling can be a powerful ally in any business or marketing pursuit!

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  • Free Blogging Platforms: A Few Pros and Cons




    To start blogging

    For first time bloggers, a free blogging platform is a great way to get started in the blogosphere in the sense that, popular free blogging platforms like Live Journal, Blogger or Eponym allow users to set up and host a blog without paying any fees at all. This encourages people to start blogging, because the fact that one of these sites can provide you with all of the tools you’ll need to get your blog up and running without spending any money means that you have nothing to lose by starting a blog. The fact that it is so easy to find a way to blog for free is one of the reasons why so many people who have never had any other kind of web presence before find themselves drawn to blogging.

    By signing up with a free blogging platform, you may find it easier to get listed in search engines than you would if you were starting your own blog from scratch. For example, Google runs a free blog hosting site known as Blogspot and crawls its pages on a regular basis looking for updates; so if you have your blog hosted by Blogspot you are almost guaranteed to be listed on Google’s blog search engine. This easy access to search engines can take some of the work out of promoting your blog, and can help you gain a following with a minimum of marketing effort.

    So utilizing the tools and resources provided by established free blogging platform to do your personal blogging will provide plenty of advantages; for the blogging newcomers as well as some seasoned bloggers who started with such a platform and find no reason to move. Keep in mind also, that platforms which host many different blogs often provide very useful tutorials about building and updating a typical blog, and most newcomers to blogging will likely encounter very user-friendly software interfaces at most of the established blogging platforms like those mentioned above. In addition, these platforms provide a kind of instant community of fellow bloggers who are capable of providing advice, insight, and feedback.

    Advantages and challenges

    Furthermore, some of these free platforms often keep directories of their members, a practice which can be of great benefit for your traffic logs since it means that other bloggers on the platform will find out about your pages and probably take steps to learn more about your topic (or niche), your writing style and your personal views, among other things. In short, users of that particular blogging platform will want to get acquainted with each other and improve relationships, thereby strengthening common bonds and making the platform stronger and better while supporting each other as well as the overall platform.

    That having been said, it is important to understand that participation in one of these blogging platforms, while advantageous in most instances, can also present some challenges which often come with linking up with any large blogging platform. One example of such challenges is, posting within existing templates of a platform like Blogger, would likely result in an individual blogger – presumably like you if you are an active blogger – running the risk of having your blog look and feel like that of every other blogger on the platform, so that we lose some of the uniqueness and individuality which would otherwise identify your specific brand on a platform of our own creation if we possessed the skills and resources to create it.

    Deciding when to move

    In other words, if your blog attracts a large readership, you may want to consider moving your site. In fact, you might agree with those who feel that being hosted by a free blogging platform gives a blog kind of an amateur flavor that is fine for a new member of the blogosphere, but is not appropriate for a high-profile blog, and if so that maybe even more incentive to move. Having your own domain can help you make your blog sound, look and feel professional, and finding a company that will host your domain is not difficult or expensive. Once your blog takes off, you will probably be able to sell enough advertising space to be able to financially afford a domain and pay for a hosting package, and still have money left over. However, it does not make sense, in most cases, to invest in these glossy luxuries before you have a sizable readership.

    It is no secret that the blogging movement is very much about the creation of distinctive sites which feature, represent and promote the development of individual voices, so it makes plenty of sense that many bloggers would shy away from so-called “cookie-cutter” look and feel that blogging platforms like Live Journal, Blogger or even WordPress (the non-self-hosted variety) often promote. Many bloggers feel that the content of a blog is what makes it distinctive, not the look of the blog, but many members of the blogging community feel that the visual impact of a blog should match the originality of the writing and individuality of the writer.

    The fact remains

    Nevertheless, starting your blog on a free blogging web site is a great way to build a following before you spend any money on your blog; but if and when your blog becomes popular and you are ready to take the next step and purchase your own domain, your readers will follow you to your new home. The fact that it is possible to use a free blog host like any of those mentioned above, or one of the many o0ther platforms available on today’s Web, as a kind of incubator for your blog is great news for bloggers everywhere.

    As a token of our appreciation the free ebook titled, Storytelling Marketing can be yours if you have any interest in the art of storytelling. All you have to do is download it here, enjoy the reading and learn how storytelling can be a powerful ally in any business or marketing pursuit!

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  • A Glimpse Into the World of Professional Blogging




    Attraction to pro blogging

    as a vocation with a lot of potential for entrepreneurs who have a basic understanding of today’s innovative Web technology, as well as discipline, motivation and insight into one or more topics about which to write. The number of so-called pro bloggers who earn reasonable sums of money from their blogs are small; and still smaller is the group of bloggers who make a living entirely from blogging. Kimberly Palmer, a senior editor for U.S. News Money and author of the book, The Economy of You, citing a Pro blogger survey in her How to Earn Money as a Professional Blogger article, wrote:

    “…most bloggers earn less than $100 per month, and 3 in 10 earn less than $10 per month. Only 16 percent of the 4,000 respondents say they make more than $2,500 a month.” That having been said, however, the number of their blog enough to supplement an existing income have increased since 2009 when Ms. Palmer’s article was written; and the pro blogging community is growing at a rate which can be described as moderate, but it is difficult to say whether this trend will continue since competition for online advertising dollars has increased at a much faster rate.

    Many Web users and marketers dream of entering , even while there are some who happily devote an hour or more each day to their blog with the ever present wish that they could earn some kind of financial reward for all of their work. But those who yearn to monetize their blogs must know and utilize existing models for making money from their blogging activity, the most popular of which is to sell advertising space through Google’s AdSense program, or the less popular method of selling advertising space to one or more companies that wish to reach the bloggers’ audience.

    A self-supporting blogosphere

    Indeed, the number of people who do just by selling space on their blogs comprises a very small percentage of an otherwise vibrant online marketplace; but this has not been a deterrent to aspiring pro bloggers, simply because the attraction of this vocation and the lifestyle it it supports appeal to many. Aspiring pro bloggers need not be dissuaded as they will find it comforting news that bloggers – pro, amateur and blogging hobbyists – are very supportive of each other in the sense that most of the people who read weblogs are bloggers themselves.

    The self-supporting characteristic of this blogosphere is due – in part – to the fact that people who use blogging technology on a daily basis are most likely to be interested in what other writers are doing with the medium. And this is a fact that begins to explain why those who succeed in the world of professional blogging are mostly individuals who have devoted themselves almost entirely to learning about, talking about, and writing about blogging. More than any other topic, pro bloggers turn their attention to ; and a lot of pro bloggers make their topic of blogging the stunningly self-reflexive focus of their blogs on an ongoing basis.

    Of course, professional blogging is destined to become much more complicated in the future than it is today; but it must be said that the largest audiences and make the most money are mostly concerned with investigating the blogging movement as well as offering advice to amateur bloggers. However, as the kinds of people who regularly read blogs change, and the demographics of bloggers expand and diversify as blogging software becomes more user-friendly, it is very likely that the world of pro blogging will begin to reflect these changes.

    Pro blogging in flux

    Indeed, it is very difficult to predict exactly what kinds of blogs will be five or ten years from now; but the world of pro blogging is one of constant change, and continues to be in a state of flux – not unlike the overall blogosphere and the larger Internet community – which is part of what makes it so exciting, appealing and inviting. If you are an aspiring pro blogger, it might be helpful for morale to heed the words of pro blogger Jim Wang, who is quoted as offering this advice: ‘Be patient. “It takes years to get to the point where you can earn a living off the site,” a sentiment which echoed by other successful pro bloggers who know what it takes to achieve pro blogging success.