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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…)
As The Computer Spirit and facilitator of the Websites and Coffee workshops, I hear client horror stories – much too often – of working with web designers and developers. You’ve probably heard them too, or worse, experienced them. Ya know, like the web guy who thought he knew everything, was arrogant enough to express it, then fired you, leaving you without any user info about your website so you could move forward. Or, the web person who very suddenly dropped dead, and his office was so disorganized there was no clue that you, let alone your website, even existed. Then there’s the one about the designer who up and decided to relocate to Bali – without leaving a trace.
Yikes – enough already!
Even if you do not or cannot build your own website, it doesn’t mean that your head has to be in the sand. You can still be empowered to some degree in your website project, which will help to minimize the fallout if your web person disappears off the face of the earth for one reason or another, and it seems like your website is hostage to the situation. The number of options available to you when you face problems with your web designer is proportional to the extent of your involvement at the initial stages of the creation of your site. While it would be best for you to personally register your domain and set up your hosting account, that might not be feasible. However, here are some suggestions that should be helpful if things go off course and you need to rescue your website… (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…)
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…)
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.
Since there are so many WordPress themes available and it’s so easy to change them, it’s tempting to jump right in and start searching for the “perfect theme.”
However, because there are so many themes, and so many different types of themes, searching for one – while fun – eats up a lot of one’s time. And, soon you realize that you don’t understand much of the language being used, i.e., frameworks, child themes, CMS themes.
Also, you’ll notice that themes, depending on the developer, can differ in Admin pages, layout options, color options, features (i.e., post types, sliders), level of support, etc.
So, even if you do find a theme that you think is just the right one, you’ll never be quite sure it has everything you need. If you start your website building adventure by selecting the theme first, you can’t possibly know what it is you really need.
Never start with the theme. (more…)
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…)
Did you know that you can have emails automatically moved into specific folders upon their arrival? This is but one example of managing Outlook messages using Outlook rules.
A rule is an action that Microsoft Outlook takes automatically on an arriving or sent message that meets the conditions that you specify in the rule. You can choose many conditions and actions by (more…)
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