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Email Marketing

Email Marketing Is Still My Number One Marketing Tool in 2010

by Gobala Krishnan on January 10, 2010

Since my Twitter account got suspended, I came to realize that social media marketing is just not my cup of tea. I’m just not genetically designed to chat and talk about everything under the sun. I’m not alone – even Seth Godin says it’s not for him. But that does not mean that I don’t [...]

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Email Autoresponder Tips and Reviews

by Gobala Krishnan on September 27, 2009

Over the past 4 years that I have been successfully running my home business, I’ve seen a lot of people come and go. Most of them get into online marketing either wanting to build an AdSense site, or promote a couple of affiliate products. Some are moderately successful at first, but soon realize that every [...]

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Are You Still Relevant?

by Gobala Krishnan on September 5, 2009

I spent the whole day clearing all unread emails in my Gmail account. An hour later when I had about 98 new emails, I decided it’s about time to unsubscribe to a few marketers. Some people I unsubscribed from include Gary Ambrose, Jason Gazaway, Ed Dale etc. They either do nothing but sell, or simply [...]

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Aweber $1 Trial and Aweber Coupon Code

by Gobala Krishnan on May 26, 2009

Aweber is perhaps one of the most important marketing tools you can have. It allows you to build a huge list, and communicate with that list like no other software I’ve come across. There’s just one problem – How do you know if it’s right for YOU? In this video I show you how to [...]

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GMail Themes in New GMail Version

by Gobala Krishnan on November 21, 2008

Whoo.. I logged into Gmail to day and found that they have a new version, with added themes! Cool. Now you can customize Gmail to match your personality with over 30 themes to choose from. Themes range from simple color-only variations to some pretty funky and even weird ones (see below) In some cases, you [...]

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Aweber Integrates Twitter Into Their Service

by Gobala Krishnan on October 24, 2008

If you have an Aweber account you would know this by now – you can now send updates on your latest broadcast to your Twitter account. According to the Aweber blog: Today, we’re happy to announce that you can now use your Twitter and AWeber accounts together to expand the reach of your email newsletters. [...]

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Aweber Defines Email Marketing

by Gobala Krishnan on August 5, 2008

I love my Aweber account. Ever since I switched over to Aweber from 1ShoppingCart and GetResponse autoresponders, I’ve seen the service improve both in terms of usability (a lot of AJAX-based features), deliverability and most importantly in terms of reporting. It gives me total control of my mailing list and allows me to do things [...]

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Marketing Without A Mission Statement?

by Gobala Krishnan on July 26, 2008

Sometimes common sense is the hardest thing to grasp, when you’re so deep into “savvy marketing” and “Web 2.0″. Riding the wave of new marketing technology, we sometimes forget to implement basic marketing concepts such as a “mission statement”. I’m not talking about the type of stuff you’re forced to memorize at work, the ones [...]

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Aweber Introduces FeedBurner-Like Chicklet

by Gobala Krishnan on July 16, 2008

If you have an Aweber account to handle your email marketing, you’ll be glad to know that Aweber now has their own “Chicklet” to show off the amount of subscribers you have. Very similar in appearance to the FeedBurner chicklet we’re all used to seeing, plus you can customize the colors too.

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Paid List Building with GetSubscribers.com

by Gobala Krishnan on January 9, 2008

If you want to build a huge mailing list, you may want to find as many new sources as possible where you can get new subscribers. Sometimes this may mean paying for it like you would via Google Adwords or the service I’m talking about here, GetSubscribers.com This is actually a backend service for anyone [...]

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