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Email is still the King in Internet marketing. Many people consider it the most powerful promoting tool ever devised, and if this still hasn't really changed. Why is it so? The main reason must be the wide use of email. One study published by the US Department of Commerce established that using email made 84% of all Internet users' activity online, and that nearly half (45%) of the US population now uses email. Another reason must be that email ads produce by far the highest response rates among all the means of promotion available today....

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Among internet marketing strategies that most marketers are not using effectively is autoresponder marketing. An autoresponder course is a group of articles orinformation set up to be sent out separately over aset period of time by e-mail. People just e-mail your autoresponder to receive the free course and it is sent out automatically over time. You can find free follow-up autoresponders to use by typing it into any search engine. Below are ten ways to use them to increase your traffic and sales....

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Here are 22 simple but highly effective methods to build an email opt-in list easily? List Renting One of the quickest ways to build an opt-in list is to rent a list from a company. These lists are normally targeted and you can request what demographics you are looking for. The company can then provide you with such a list that you can then market to and try to get them to opt in to your personal list. These opt-in prospects will now become your list members. There are many companies that sell leads but you'll have to exercise caution here....

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Spam has been such a problem that email filters are nowwidespread on the Net. These filters are a necessary responseto the menace of spam. However, will the excuse of spam beused by companies such as Hotmail to charge for email? Disturbing news that Hotmail (owned by Microsoft) is blocking perfectly legitimate emails because they have been caught by their anti-spam filters is increasing these fears. When SiteSell complained to Hotmail they did not get a helpfulresponse. Microsoft suggested that they use the services of a company called Bonded Sender which would ensure that SiteSell's legitimate non-spam emails would reach their customers....

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Spam e-mail is no longer the mild irritant it once was - it's clogging corporate networks and ISP mail servers and has become a real productivity drain, forcing corporate and consumer e-mail users to spend 20-30 minutes a day dealing with this deluge of junk! According to recent figures, unsolicited bulk e-mail now makes up to 36% of all e-mail, up from under 8% just over a year ago. And, what's worse, more and more legitimate e-mail is not getting through to recipients due to Spam filtering taking place via ISPs and/or corporate networks....

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If you are serious about adding email to your marketing mix, you should take email seriously enough to develop a plan for it. Too many organizations launch a half-baked email program and then are disappointed when it doesn't live up to expectations. * Objectives * Audience Definition * Key Messages * Format * Tactics * Timeline * Budget * Measurement First, determine what is it that you want the email program to achieve from marketing and communications perspectives. Is this a newsletter designed for relationship management purposes, or is it a sales-oriented vehicle?...

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One of the best and newest tools out there for generatingrevenue is the Auto-Responder. If you aren't using thistool in your business you are *losing money*! Many times customers arrive at your website but aren't quiteready to buy. They may not buy from you until they've seenyour product more than once. So how do you keep them inyour net until they are ready to buy? Auto-responders. I've outlined the top 5 reasons you should be using thissimple tool in your business starting today. 1. CHEAP. Of course this is the TOP reason to use auto-responders....

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A powerful reason for making the switch from using theunlimited autoresponders that come free with your web hosting account to paying a monthly fee for an autoresponder service is the building of customer relationships through sequential autoresponders. Although many web hosts offer unlimited autoresponders, each autoresponder is only capable of sending one response. Building business relationships that will increase yoursales begins with the use of sequential autoresponders from a paid autoresponder service....

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It seems that Google is revolutionizing the Net in more than one way. Recently they announced that they will be offering a free email service called Gmail. It will offer its users 1GB of memory space. Now that is a lot of space for anybody to have. Now an email storage war has begun. MSN, Yahoo and Askjeeves have all offered their free subscribers extra memory to make them stay loyal to their service. Yahoo went from 4 Mb to a 100 MB; Askjeeves has upgraded to 125 MB and MSN has moved from 2MB to 250 MB!...

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