The Best E-mail Marketing Program
E-mail marketing is the lifeline for most internet or affiliate marketing businesses. It is the way that marketers let their potential customers know what they’re up to and what they’re selling. In fact, it is said that you must be in front of these potential customers at least 13 times before they even think of buying one of your products or services.
E-mailing with people who have even a remote interest in your business can be done in one of two ways. You can maintain a folder in your address book that allows to you e-mail your word-of-mouth list from your e-mail client (MacMail, Outlook, Eudora etc), where you run the risk of accidentally forgetting to “bcc” your list thereby accidentally revealing the private e-mail addresses of everyone on your list — trust me this happens A LOT. Or you can use one of the many e-mail newsletter services available, which allows you to put simple code on your site to capture new names and send customized e-mails to everyone on your list using a snazzy template that matches the look and feel of your company’s brand.
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During Gina’s course, she tried to get commissions by having us sign up for an e-mail marketing program that only allowed you to send out e-mail marketing newsletters for $15 a month. If you wanted to do surveys, that’d be another $15. If you wanted to send to more than 250 contacts, that was more money. And I don’t even think they had an online community, where you could get more ranking and exposure for your newsletter and website. If there was, I’m pretty sure you’d have to pay for it. To boot, it was really complicated to use!! I’m pretty techie and couldn’t make heads or tails of the user interface. It sucked.
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So once again, I was back on the trail to make the Esther Experience live up to it’s promise of spending no additional money. I tried at least 5 more programs ranging from free to $19/month. The free one kept deleting my templates and rearranging them from one mailing to the next (it wasn’t pretty). The one that cost $19/mo was nearly as dysfunctional and also had a very difficult interface to understand. Almost everything in between was just as difficult to manage.
Then, I stumbled upon iContact. For only $10 a month, iContact
allows you to capture subscriber names from your website using a simple piece of html code, send e-mails newsletters to up to 500 people as many times as you want during the month, survey your list, and participate in their online community driving more traffic to your website. And if your business is seasonal, you can put a hold on your account which means you can pretty much do everything (except actually send e-mail newsletters) for only $2/month. Not in addition to the $10, instead of!
As if that wasn’t enough, iContact‘s templates are so easy to use. They basically work like a glorified Word program or WYSIWYG html program. Moving around within your account is very easy too. All this and it doesn’t lose contacts or rearrange your templates!!!! Don’t lose time. If you’re not satisfied with your e-mail newsletter program, then iContact is clearly for you!
Affiliate Marketing Simplified
Here’s a video that Rosalind Gardener did. It’ll give you a good idea of the kind of clear tools she offers in her Super Affiliate Handbook.
Super Affiliate Handbook
Known as the ‘bible’ of Affiliate Marketing, Rosalind Gardner’s Super Affiliate Handbook is a MUST-READ for anyone who wants to become an affiliate marketer.
The Super Affiliate Handbook is written in a funny and personable style while providing real-life examples of what Rosalind did to become one of the most recognizable Super Affiliates in the world. You’ll learn about her success as well as her mistakes and how to avoid potential problems.
Exceptionally well written, the Super Affiliate Handbook covers just about everything you need to know about making money as an affiliate marketer.
I only wish I was introduced to Rosalind to Gina’s crooked program. Ironically, I heard about Rosalind through one of Gina’s e-zines. I HIGHLY Recommended this book as a low-cost way to get started making money while you sleep. It has transformed my business!
These Guys Over-Deliver!!!!
I first came across Tim and Steve back in February of this year. Steve’s video reeked of sincerity. No hype. Just straight talk. One thing that impressed me most was that he kept emphasizing how their program actively tried to avoid you having to spend more money to make it work, unlike Gina’s class which at every turn was another opportunity for her to sell her pitiful excuse for private coaching or sign up as an affiliate under one of the very expensive resources she used.
The most impressive part was that when they released their product called ‘Niche Blueprint’, saying that it was a limited time offer, it actually did expire about 48 hours later when I checked the site again. Usually internet marketers selling such programs threaten you with their “act now” spiel only to bombard you with daily e-mails for months to come.
Of all the internet marketing programs I’ve reviewed, these guys are the real deal. They are the only ones I can wholeheartedly endorse. Why? Their products are very fairly priced AND they teach you a systematic method to building reasonable wealth in your spare time.
Tim and Steve offer a few products, but you’ll never be inundated with countless, over-hyped e-mails every day. If anything, you’ll be angry that you might not be able to take advantage of their various offers — if you’re as disorganized as I have become since first starting Gina’s course (this seems to be the biggest complaint of her class participants).
I have only been following their program for about 3 months and barely managing to dedicate 5 hours per week (often it’s none), but I still made my first sale this week and I’m totally psyched. Can you imagine how well this will go when I am actually following through on all the info these guys have given me?
Another trait I like about Tim and Steve is that they prove themselves before they sell you anything. You can sign up for their (very infrequent) mailing list, see their videos and download PDFs to help your current internet marketing efforts by clicking here. Honestly, I cannot say enough great things about these guys. Watch the video below to learn more about their IM Advantage program (limited availability) and watch the video below to learn about all the courses I paid for that are now included.
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