Building Email Marketing Trust Through Appearance (Part Two)

Last week we looked at building trust in our email marketing campaigns by creating a recognizable ‘from’ line to our messages; optimizing the copy that is viewed through the preview pane; and encouraging subscriber communication.  This week we complete the process with three more tips to polish your email marketing appearance. 4. Include full contact [...]

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Monday, February 8th, 2010

Building Email Marketing Trust Through Appearance (Part One)

Appearance is everything, even in the success you can achieve through email marketing. Your branding, and the trust you gain through recognition, is gauged by the appearance of the messages you send to subscribers. The design you utilize, projects your quality and distinction. Many email users consider commercial messages as spam partly because they look [...]

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Monday, February 1st, 2010

Top 5 Ways to Google Optimization for Websites (Part One)

Staying at the top of search engine results pages requires a website owner to continually improve page content. Unlike Bing and Yahoo who use HTML tag structures, Google separates affiliate pages and ad sites from domains that provide unique, relevant content. Because of Google’s stricter requirements and guidelines, website owners need to optimize pages to [...]

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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

What’s a Brand Got to Do With It?

One of the things I enjoy most about having my own business is the freedom to choose who I’ll do business with.  Not that I’ve always enjoyed that luxury, but my business is at a point where I can be a bit picky about who I decide to partner with.   I just spoke to [...]

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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Creating a Brand That is Uniquely You

A lot has been written about establishing a brand and how important it is.  Over the years, I have learned that my brand goes way beyond my logo, website and marketing materials.  It has a whole lot to do with who I am, personally, and professionally, and the role I play in everyday life – [...]

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Monday, August 3rd, 2009