You Are Not Alone…
Use Email Marketing (e-newsletters) to reach out to and stay in touch with your staff, donors, volunteers, friends, and community in an easy, effective, and affordable way.
Social media is BIG these days, both personally and professionally. Did you know that a Constant Contact e-newsletter can be easily shared directly with friends and colleagues on social networks?
As a reader, next time you receive a Constant Contact e-newsletter, look for the Social Share bar towards the top – it’s as easy as clicking a button!
If you’re the one sending the e-newsletter, make sure to (more…)
To avoid adding your logo, colors, and fonts every time you want to send an e-newsletter, in Constant Contact you can create a Master template. A Master template is an email you brand without adding content. Then, you create your new emails from copies of your branded Master template to save time.
But, let’s face it, the look can eventually get stale. Constant Contact offers more than 400 HTML email templates to choose from – why not freshen up the look of your next e-newsletter with a different template?
Capture the attention of your clients, members, volunteers, and donors using Constant Contact’s email templates for newsletters, invitations, coupons, promotions, and more. Change any email template easily to match your organization’s identity. Customize your content with featured articles, sponsors, event photos, and more. Each template even offers suggestions for creating powerful, effective content, and many include stock images you can change out!
When you browse through Constant Contact’s email newsletter templates, I know you will find the right one for your small business or nonprofit. Contact me if you need help to freshen up the look of your e-newsletter.
The month of March is filled with holidays: St. Patrick’s Day, Spring, Passover, Easter… Your Constant Contact email marketing account allows much more than creating and managing terrific business e-newsletters. You can use it to send out customized holiday e-cards, messages, and invitations.
Join us Tuesday, March 12, 2013 in Sedona from 1:30 – 4:30 PM for the Constant Contact e-Holiday Spring Party Adventure free event hosted by Joyce S. Kaye, The Computer Spirit with Websites and Coffee.
We’ll create a customized e-message using an existing template, and show you how to (more…)
My passion is relationship building, be it social or business. Now, when it comes to business (but really how can you separate social from business in today’s world of the Internet and social media?), the way I see it, your website is the hub for everything. It’s like a wheel with spokes, or Home, where all paths lead to, where your heart is.
And the spokes or the paths include (more…)
This is a summary of an article written by Martin Lieberman, Constant Contact Managing Editor. Read the full article at Constant Contact’s Learning Center.
In these days of increasingly more emails in one’s Inbox, competition for them being read is at an all-time high.
You can have the greatest, most relevant content in your emails, but if no one opens them, then it all goes to waste.
Here are five ways to ensure that your emails will be opened and read by your customers: (more…)
Clouds by Susan Barrington, Heron House Productions
ALWAYS, always warmed in heart and spirit when i receive your e-newsletters – thoughtful words full of appreciation and attention. your continuing journey is indeed rippling out into the world (you know this of course but its always encouraging to be reminded, i hope) – your words change my trajectory that tiny bit that may, at the end of the day, make all the difference.
i’m especially appreciative of the video links in your December 2012 e-news, as i am about to start a TED: Creativity series and i’m seeing some links between these projects and our study of inspired living.
also, the Muslim prayer is deeply on target. am always on an interfaith quest to collect words and thinking that somehow perfectly reflect what my own heart knows, and this prayer is exactly that. had never crossed paths with it before. another hearty thank you!
happy new year to the Verde Valley!
- Susan Barrington,
Creative Director of Heron House Productions.
You’re always looking for new ways to build your list right? Well now you can build it anytime, anywhere, on any mobile device. Go Mobile with Text-to-Join, a fast, easy, and free way to grow your Constant Contact contact list.
Just sign-up, get your own personal keyword, then share it everywhere. It allows folks to easily send you their email addresses via text. After that, you’re set – you can promote through print ads, signs at your business, or even just tell the crowd at your next event.
Email marketing was developed with businesses in mind to make it easy for them to connect with customers, and for customers to share their message with their networks. But what’s to say you can’t use it for your personal means? Nothing, absolutely nothing.
With Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, and New Years just around the bend, Constant Contact e-newsletters are the fun, efficient, and inexpensive way to send holiday greetings across the globe. Holiday templates abound to make your message look professional, and you can add family photos to add a personal touch. Leave the drudgery of writing out scores of greeting cards and addressing envelopes by hand one-by-one behind, and get on the Constant Contact bandwagon!
If you live in the Verde Valley area or plan to visit, I’ll be hosting several parties for us to gather together in a small group, sip cider, munch on holiday cookies, AND create your very own e-greeting with my coaching. Receive a 60-day Constant Contact trial account* (your first gift of the holiday season!), have fun, learn, network, and get your card writing out of the way in plenty of time to enjoy other aspects of the season. And, you’ll even be able to find out who opened your greeting!
Space is limited, so even though there is no fee – except to bring some of your favorite treats to share – please register ASAP. Click here for more info and to register for the Wednesday, November 14th gathering.
If you are unable to attend, please contact me to set up your trial account, and arrange for a free one-hour of coaching so that you too can take advantage of fun, inexpensive, and efficient holiday greetings to connect with friends, family, and colleagues.
I look forward to hearing from you. And, speaking of holidays, Happy Halloween!
* Up to 100 contacts and 5 images.
Don’t assume your friends and colleagues are going to forward your emails. Sometimes, you have to ask them to do so. You already ask for your customers’ email addresses (right? I hope so!). So why hesitate to ask customers to pass along your valuable content as well…
Putting call-to-action pass-along messages in your email – not just at the bottom, but throughout your message – will help build referrals and grow your list. This is what referral marketing is all about.
Now, of course, your content has to be worth sharing.
There are a few ways to work the call-to-forward action into your content. (more…)
I am particularly excited about the intro workshops we are offering this week. Each will provide information, insight, and interaction that will help empower you in building your business relationships. They’ll be fun and we’ll provide yummy coffee (or tea) too!
Click on the workshop title below for more info and to register. Our gatherings are small and intimate so please don’t wait to register. I hope you will join us for a Websites and Coffee gathering soon… Remember, (more…)
Visit our sister site websitesandcoffee.com about interactive, hands-on, intimate workshops to empower you to create and control your own WordPress website.
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