Online Promotion: E-Marketing Using Only Free Resources

E-Marketing Using Only Free Resources

Written by Candy Brauer

E-Marketing Using Only Free Resources

I'll be repparttar first to admit it; I'm a cheap skate. I'm not as bad as many I meet, but if there's a legal, ethical way to get it for cheaper or free, I'm there. I love Walmart. I get all of my clothes there. I love buying used cars - no car payments. I bought a nice house in repparttar 124858 country for only $55,000 dollars - no house payments.

When it comes to marketing over repparttar 124859 internet, I love FREE. But there are some free marketing techniques out there that leave more to be desired. In this article, I'm going to show you some of repparttar 124860 best ways I've found over repparttar 124861 years on marketing your product or service over repparttar 124862 internet for free, with no spamming, and doing it ethically.

There are five techniques that I'd like to show you. They are:

1.-Message board signatures

2.-Hit surfing

3.-Safe lists

4.-E-zines

5.-Search engines

MESSAGE BOARD SIGNATURES

Go to a search engine, such as http://www.google.com , and do a search for message boards. You'll want to search for message boards that are generally business related, and/or directly related to your service or product.

Then, make a list of repparttar 124863 URLs to at least a couple dozen message boards, and read over repparttar 124864 board rules for each board. At least once a week, post relavent responses and/or new threads on each of these message boards, and at repparttar 124865 bottom of your posts, leave a signature. You're signature could either be your name, followed by your email address or webpage, or it could be a one line ad, followed by your url or email.

HIT SURFING

This is a free e-marketing method that many people believe are a waste of time, however I do not. But I have a system. ;-) Here's how to do it:

1.-First, sign up for a free account with each of repparttar 124866 following URLs:

http:/ rafficg.com/index.php?member=genuineprofit

http://www.hitpulse.com/jsp/index.jsp?ref=genuineprofit

http://www.webmasterquest.com/join.php?ref=genuineprofit

http://www.hitharvester.com/referral.asp?ref=genuineprofit

http://www.nomorehits.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi?referrer=prayzgod

http://www.clicksilo.com/referrals/info.asp?Agent=genuineprofit

http://www.iloveclicks.com/signup.asp?referrer=25244

http://www.webmastertools4u.com/cgi-bin/c4hjoin.cgi?ref=gprof

2.-Then, open up 8 separate browser windows on your computer (Ctrl + N).

Can one really get through those SPAM filters?

Written by Anubhav Sinha

The e-mail marketing scenario has certainly changed over repparttar

past year or so (the most significant changes being repparttar 124857

increase in e-mail blocking and filtering). These changes have resulted in updates to e-mail marketing best practices that all legitimate e-mail marketers should follow. The difference is that some of these practices are now required by law. An innumerable amount of SPAM complaints have forced repparttar 124858

law to enforce certain norms that should be complied to so as to keep your business out of disputes. Hence, there are certain precautions which are recommended to keep your marketing campaigns unblocked and on repparttar 124859

other hand law friendly.

There are a couple of questions which need to be answered before you press that send button:

Are you using a good permission policy? Make sure you have a preexisting business relationship and/or affirmative consent i.e. repparttar 124860 recipient of your e-mail has made a purchase, requested information, responded to a questionnaire or a survey, or had off-line contact with you and that he/she has been clearly and fully notified of repparttar 124861 collection and use of his/her e-mail address and has consented prior to such collection and use.

Now, coming to repparttar 124862 "From" and "Subject" part of repparttar 124863 e-mail:

Does your "From" line include your company name or brand? Is your "Subject" line repparttar 124864 right length? (5-8 words, 40 characters including spaces) Does your "Subject" line describe a specific benefit? Does your "Subject" line include your brand? Does your "Subject" line create a sense of urgency?

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