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Rediscovering The Excellence Of E-Mail Marketing




E-mail marketingSavvy marketers recognize the validity of social media as a highly productive internet marketing tool. However, let’s also remember that e-mail continues to remain a powerful results-oriented platform that can increase sales and drive traffic to your web site or Facebook page.

While the consumers who visit your web site have some interest in your product or service, the majority of them will not make an immediate purchase. But if you can offer these visitors something of value that is absolutely free, in exchange for their names and e-mail addresses, you’ve just created a whole new database of leads. Now capitalize on this initiative by sending these potential prospects e-mails they will find helpful and informative on a regular basis and brand yourself as an expert in the industry that you serve.

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FILED UNDER: Marketing,Social Media — Tags: , , , , , , — Steve Fales at 11:48 am

Social Networking, Retro Style




My 20-something daughter made an amazing discovery recently: vinyl records sound better than CDs. She even bought a turntable and loves it. Once in awhile, something old fashioned has an advantage over the latest invention.


The buzz words in the current marketing world are “social media” and “social networking.” Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and the like are performing blitzkrieg on the ad world. I’m on the bandwagon, but there’s a fundamental problem there if we’re not careful. The focus is all wrong. It’s far too inward.


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FILED UNDER: Social Media — Tags: , , , — Steve Fales at 11:50 am