Favorite Internet Marketing Tools: Gmail
If you’re looking for a great tool to help you manage your email more effectively, one that is chock full of great features, one that will cut down on the time you spend searching through email and referencing old email, one that will ELIMINATE 99.9% of the spam/junk that is thrown your way, GMAIL is your answer.
Example of Poor Email Marketing
How To Quickly Find All Unread Email in Your GMail Inbox
Did you know GMail from Google has all kinds of easy-to-use “operators” that you can use from the Gmail search box? One of my favorites is an operator that let’s me find all the UNREAD email in my INBOX. That command is: label:inbox is:unread Here...Words That Can Hurt Email Deliverability and Open Rates
Certain words and phrases in your email messages can trigger blocking and spam filtering. If you’re not careful, your deliverability rates and open rates can be adversely impacted.
Email Marketing Isn’t as Easy as You May Think
Email marketing is not nearly as easy as the commercials you hear on the radio or see online would lead you to believe. It’s harder than ever before to get someone’s attention and get them to do what you want them to – and that includes email marketing.
350MM iPad/iPhone Users Still Don’t See FLASH
Did you know that Apple has sold over 350 MILLION iPads, iPhones, and iPods? Did you know that NONE OF THEM see FLASH? I hope your answer is: “Yes, I know that, Chris!” Next question: “Are you using Flash at your website or blog?” If you are, 350+ MILLION people can’t see it and most likely getting this ugly message that tells them to download it – but they actually can’t download anything that fixes the problem. It can’t be fixed.
Do Brands Get the Edge When It Comes to Search Engine Ranking at Google?
There is a lot of chatter about big brands having some type of “advantage” when it comes to search engine rankings at Google. Do companies like Target, Nordstrom, and Walgreens get better ranking because they are big brands and big companies? Here is why I think these companies often “squeeze out” the small, local companies.
SEO – What Every Business Owner Should Know About Internet Marketing (Excerpts)
Search Engine Optimization basics from my upcoming book “250 Things Every Business Owner & Manager Should Know About Internet Marketing.” While SEO has certainly got more complicated over the past year, the fundamentals still apply. A successful search engine optimization strategy, and getting TOP RANKED at Google, requires that you understand these things.
Find Something Online… and Read It Later
Today I’m sharing a link to a very cool app that is perfect if you find something online but don’t have the time to read it right now (or, if you’re like me you shouldn’t be reading it right now because you have other things to do!). It might be a web page, a blog post, or even a video.
Hostgator Offers High-Quality Hosting with Excellent Technical Support
I’ve been meaning to write about Hostgator for a long time and today is the day. If you’re thinking about new hosting, or it’s time to upgrade to a more secure, high-performance host, Hostgator deserves serious consideration. Hosting is critically important to your overall online marketing strategy. The number one reason people leave websites is because of slow loading pages.
Google Currents: Read Free Magazines with Your Mobile Device
Google has a lot of free Internet apps and tools. Certainly, one of my favorites is GMAIL. Another one of my favorites is Google Currents, and I think you’ll like it too. Google Currents is an app you can download for your iPad/iPhone or Android device. It gives you instant access to dozens of magazines for free – yes FREE!
How Do You Get Your Picture To Show Up in Google Results
Chris, I notice some of my competition showing up listed at Google and there is a picture next to their listing on the search engine results page. How did they do this? If a picture shows up it sure gets your attention fast and probably increases click-though! I see it regularly with your rankings at Google when I search “marketing to brides.”
MailTab for GMAIL Will Improve Your EMAIL Productivity
If you use GMAIL (http://www.gmail.com) and a Mac you’ll find MailTab for GMAIL helps you get to your email box faster and more efficiently. Instead of bumbling around trying to find the window in your browser with your email, you simply click an icon in the top menu bar on your Mac – and it instantly appears.
Google Analytics Shows Real-time Traffic
A lot has changed with Google Analytics over the past several months. If you think Google Analytics was complicated in the past, buckle your seat belt because there are more tools, more features, and a lot more things to figure out, use, and configure – if you...Facebook Power Tips – Pinning a Post
Did you know you can “pin” a post on your Facebook business page so that it always appears at the TOP of your timeline? Yes, you can. This is a new feature of the Facebook Timeline format. It’s simple to do and here’s how you do it.
Facebook Timeline Cover Redo
Below you’ll find a before and after Facebook Timeline Cover graphic. It’s only a small change, I’d call it “tweak,” but it punches up a basic graphic by adding a tag-line and award. Facebook Timeline Cover guidelines don’t allow...Favorite WordPress Tools – XML Sitemap Plugin
A sitemap is a file on your hosting server that lists all the pages at your website or blog. It is, in effect, a detailed “map” for search engine crawlers to find, see, and then follow as they crawl the pages at your site.
Pinterest Statistics
Pinterest has taken the Internet by storm with millions of people “pinning” everything from pictures of their pets to their favorite recipes. What I find interesting and equally important is that Pinterest “boards” are now showing up in the Google search engine results pages.
Every Day on the Internet [Infographic]
This crossed my virtual desk today, an infographic titled “A Day in the Internet.” It’s very cool and here are a handful of the highlights: 294,000,000,000 (BILLION) EMAILS are sent each day 2,000,000 blog posts are published each day I wonder how...
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