Isn’t Email Marketing Spamming?
One of my blogging habits is to read John Chow daily. Yesterday he wrote how to do an email promotion. Mark of 45n5 recently put together an email promotion to market his top 100 money making blogs list, which we now rank 19 on.
Isn’t Email Marketing Just Spamming?
I generally get 1-2 “marketing” emails asking us to look at certain affiliate programs, blogs, or posts. Isn’t this just another form of spam?
Wikipedia lists “E-mail Spam” as “unsolicited e-mail”. Unsolicited means “Not looked for or requested”.
This poses the question again, isn’t email marketing just another form of spam?
Same Email to Many Users
Unless it is customized per email, an argument can be made, but what about emails that are exactly the same sent to 100 bloggers?
When doing email marketing you have to be really careful to not look spammy. Several messages I disregard just from what they say. However, I have found useful information via email marketing from other bloggers.
The Top 100 Money Making List
Yes, Mark did use email marketing to further promote his list, but I really think he didn’t need to. The idea and set-up is really solid. I personally didn’t receive an email from him, however I read about the list on another blog. The power of blogging has really gotten the list to catch fire and now you can see tons of bloggers mentioning his list.
Does it take clever email marketing to get started?
Should You Become an Email Marketer?
I think email is and can be one of the most powerful tools on the internet. If you don’t use it you can be missing out on something very useful. However, before you go ahead and send tons of emails out about your latest post, I would first send some to those who you know. Contact bloggers you’ve already conversed with.
Last but not least John Chow shares the three points of effective email promotion:
- Promote your best content
- Don’t sell
- Never email somebody more than once per month for promoting your content
We’ve Been Interviewed
I was approached and interviewd by the blog interviewer and now our interview has been posted. There are 10 questions about me and Blog about your Blog, so if you are interested in learning a little more about me and the history of this blog, go over and check out our interview.
If you are interested in being reviewed, you can submit an interview, just by answering the questions. I answered mine several days ago, so it didn’t take that long to get ours published. They seem to have a nice little community over there, so it can’t hurt for a little more exposure.
Win Cash!
By submitting an interview and getting published, you can win money. The interviews with the most ratings get $$. 1st place gets 25, 2nd gets 15, and 3rd gets 10$. Currently third place has 52 votes, so it will definitely take some time to get there, but why not get some cash?
While your reading our interview, make sure to vote for us. I’ll turn around and throw whatever money I get back into a contest.
Has anyone else been interviewed?
Blog about your Blog Belongs in the Top 5,000
I’ve seen many blogs recently break into the top 5,000 in technorati (some even the top 2,000). Meanwhile, we have been sitting inbetween 5-6,000 for sometime now. There is no reason we should be ranked that high. We need to break that top 5,000! Why not a contest to do that?
The prizes and contests will be simple. There will be a total of 3 winners, and 1st gets to chose their prize first etc.
Prizes
512MB Philips MP3 Player won from The Prize Blog
125×125 Banner in the top right sidebar for 1 month
Full site review by Adsense Tracker on our blog
How to Win
We are mainly looking to have a better technorati score, so we just want you to linkback to us. No particular anchor text, however you can link to us with “blogging tips”. Please mention the contest and that you want to win one of our prizes. No length requirement, just a small mention. I want as many people to participate, so I want to make it easy as possible
Make sure to linkback to this post so I can count it as an entry. Or leave a comment saying you mentioned us.
Deadline
I want this to happen fast, so the contest will end next Wednesday Sept 19th. After midnight PST, no entries will be counted.
The ranking of any web page over the popular search engines is directly affected by internet marketing efforts put in the promotion of the website marketing. Professionals involved in the task, internet marketers, carry it trough various strategies including email marketing, link exchange, paid inclusions or search advertising.
Attention Top Make Money Bloggers
Recently there have been some great lists put together for the top blogs. You can see us on Daily Blog Tips list for the Top 25 Blogs about Blogging.
Today, we just made another list. Mark from 45n5 has put together a list for the top 100 make money online blogs. We have a great make money online section that you should definitely read if you haven’t gotten the chance yet.
We currently rank 15th on the list with some other great blogs about making money.
Do you have a top blog about making money online? Mark is currently taking submissions. After submitting our blog, I also submitted Mikes Money Making Mission. He has a great money blog and I can’t wait to see where he ranks.
This list is getting some great attention so I would definitely recommend getting listed as soon as you can.
Comment Friday Winner: SuperBloggingTips
This week’s topic was SEO. I was surprised at how many bloggers really shy away from it, when there is valuable and really easy traffic to be gained from search engines. Several of our posts rank for great keyterms, just by having a good title.
With so many people not really into SEO I was happy to see thought out long comments about those who are using SEO and how they are doing. So for this weeks winner I chose Tay from Superbloggingtips. She is trying to rank for the keyterm make money blogging by hosting a contest, giving away free advertising. The winner will get a 125×125 banner for a month.
Hosting a contest can be a great way to start ranking for certain keyterms that you want. Recently I did some great contest promotion that may be a valuable service for you if your not getting the results you want for your contest.
Have a great weekend!
UK Card Guide
Our next review is about a credit card comparison site named Card Guide. This again is mostly for our UK friends, but these type of sites are good nonetheless.
What credit card should you get?
A popular credit card choice (it would be popular with me) is one that is 0% credit cards for purchases. These cards offer 0% interest on any purchase you make. Sounds like the perfect credit card to me.
Another popular tyoe of credit card is a cash back credit card. If you normally pay your balance every month, you will get certain benefits. These benefits include earning up to 3% cash back. Unless you are spending loads of money on your credit card, I don’t see this one being too beneficial.
What I like most about a site like this is that each of the UK credit cards listed has a review. There you can see the pro’s and con’s of each card and if it’s right for you or not.
Do you use comparison websites before purchasing or choosing a specific plan or product?
Comment Friday for September 7th
Friday again so soon. It’s been a pretty full week with some great posts and discussions.
If this is your first comment friday, the idea is pretty simple. Leave us a comment about anything you want. I will select one lucky commentor that really stands out, and I will give a free link to them. Not only that, but they will get a one week free blogroll spot for a week.
Last week I chose Adtracker, and in turn they wrote a great review about us. As I understand it they are offering free reviews so why not get one? You can read the review of Blog about your Blog and see why you should get your blog reviewed.
This week I’d like to know what you think about SEO (search engine optimization). How do you implement it on your blog, or do you even bother? After my article SEO Isn’t That Hard sparked up a nice discussion on v7n forum (and apparently pissed of a few people) I’d like to know what you think about SEO.
Increasing Your Stumbleupon Network
With it apparently being stumbleupon week I figured I would give an insight on how you can increase your stumbleupon network. First I will tell you why this is important.
Why it is important to increase your stumbleupon network
By people adding you to their friends list, they are then subscribed to the pages you stumble. The pages you stumble are what they will see, when they are stumbling. If that makes sense. Then if they stumble your page, those people who are friends of theirs will see your page. By getting more people subscribed to your pages, the more powerful your stumbles are. Basically a person who has 100 friends has a more powerful stumble than a brand new stumbler. Not only is it more powerful, but it has a greater chance more people will see it. That is the main benefit of building your stumbleupon network.
Three ways you can increase your network
When I wrote about the importance of building your stumbleupon network I mentioned that I had 59 fans. 2 days later, I currently have 118 fans. How did I do it?
First you should mention your stumbleupon page when writing about stumbleupon like I do. By doing this people go and add you as a friend, trying to build their own network. Somewhat similar to the technorati favorites exchange we saw some time ago.
Ask for friends! Yesterday I was asking for comments and a friend request, in turn I stumbled their blog or website.
The most successful thing I did however was turn to the digital point forums. Under the freebies section I posted 20 free stumbles. In return all I asked was that they add me as their friend, and I would stumble one URL. After doing this twice I gained about 40 new friends.
Nowadays internet phone system has brought about a revolution. The technology uses a voip phone that can be regarded as ip phones by some to spread about the benefits of internet telephone service to the users. Skype, the most popular voip service provider has already gained a secure position among business users by making possible very low cost long distance calls via internet by just a skype download on the mobile phones.
What have you done to increase your stumbleupon network?