Web Promoting Tips

Once you have decided to create an opt-in campaign it is vital that you continually manage your opt-in list. This includes removing old email addresses that don’t work, keeping your list clean, making sure your emails do not appear to be too “spammy” and always providing ways for your visitors to unsubscribe.

When you manage your opt-in list, you must always keep in mind that not only do spam-like emails appear to be less trustworthy (thus creating problems convincing people to visit your site again), they can also cause legal problems. In order to avoid spam filters as well as make your emails look more trustworthy, you need to do the following:

1. Delete any emails that did not send successfully – When you send an email that gets rejected, you tell your internet service provider that you may not have actually obtained that email address legally. You may, in fact, have typed a random email address and hoped that it would work. This may not be the case , of course. The individual may have simply changed emails or mistyped their own email address. But your ISP doesn’t know that. To avoid spam filters, your ISP has to trust that you are sending your emails legitimately, which is difficult if you are constantly having emails bounce.
2. Always have a link so your recipients can unsubscribe – if you do appear to be a spam email, not having an unsubscribe feature is illegal. They are also considered a new way to avoid spam filters, as these filters have begun to look to make sure that an unsubscribe link is available. Also, even if your subscribers signed up legitimately, if they no longer want to receive your emails but cannot find a way to unsubscribe, then you are immediately considered genuine spam. In order to manage your opt-in list, you need to allow this feature to be available.
3. Always provide alternative ways for your email recipients to contact you. If the email recipient thinks they have received your email in error, but do not want to unsubscribe, they will be able to contact you and you can remind them that they did, indeed, sign up to receive the newsletter.
4. Finally, to both avoid spam filters and to keep people interested in remaining on your opt-in list, make sure that the content of your email matches the content of your website. If they are not about the same topic (which is, assumedly, why the individual signed up to receive your email), you will also be considered spam.

You want to maintain a healthy relationship with your customers, as well as avoid spam filters and garner more business. For this to be possible, you must properly manage your opt-in list and ensure that all of the proper safeguards are in place so that you are not seen as a spam email when your recipient receives their newsletter.

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Every day, thousands of new websites are created in order to make a profit in the online market. Most of these websites will be trying to sell the same type of product as another one thousand people that had the same idea. For your website to be successful in this cutthroat business, you must have one important skill: Marketing creativity.

Marketing creativity is more than simply the ability to come up with interesting topics. Marketing creativity is the ability to get people not only interested in your website, but interested in the method you use to market your website.

One of the most well known forms of marketing creativity is Viral Marketing.

What Is Viral Marketing?

Viral Marketing is a form of marketing creativity that involves creating some form of media (whether it be a video, a photograph, a hilarious article, an email, a game, etc.) that is so popular that it is sent around the internet by people who find the type of media so interesting that they feel it is worth sharing with their friends and family.

Viral marketing sells itself. One of the reasons viral marketing is so popular is because after the initial work (the creation of the media form), the viral marketing platform literally markets itself. As it is sent around the internet, more and more people will view this media and your website will become more and more well known, without you having to constantly put more time and effort into your marketing strategies.

This type of website advertising is also generally free, since it propagates itself by the people who view it.

How Does One Use Viral Marketing?

This is where your marketing creativity comes into play. There is no instruction manual for what kind of video to create or what kind of game to create that will create the successful viral campaign. We all remember the video of the dog using a skateboard. Most of you probably received a link to the video in an email some day from a friend or family member that thought it was cute. Had that video of the dog on a skateboard had a link to your website, you could have received literally millions of visitors from all of the people interested in seeing where the video came from.

Similarly a funny photograph or a satirical essay – all of these types of media can become ways to self-propagate your website. With a little bit of creativity and only a little bit of marketing, you can create a form of viral marketing that will take over the nation and bring you the business you have always been looking for.

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Discover more information and resources that will create immediate results, visit Larry’s site at www.elitewebsolutions.com.

Copyright 2008 Larry Lang All Rights Reserved. Lang Enterprises Inc. Reprint Rights: You may reprint this article as long as you leave all of the links active, do not edit the article in any way, www.elitewebsolutions.com