Spam bills are passing because constituents are pushing legislators for a resolution to their inbox deluge. They want their inboxes reserved for conversations with people they know, not solicitations from people they don’t. Email is NOT direct mail. Traditional direct mail in the online world IS spam. Read on to learn how to prepare to play the new game.
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Every day, scores of legitimate emails get blocked by email filters and corporate firewalls. In fact, market intelligence company RoperASW estimates 38% of permission-based emails are wrongly blocked by filters and firewalls. Your all-important email campaigns and newsletters, and even personal correspondence, may be getting blocked too.
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Marketing Today (New Zealand DMA annual conference) — Auckland, NZ
Presented by Stephan Spencer, Managing Director of Netconcepts:
Presented by Kelly Goto, Principal, gotomedia, Inc.:
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One in five teens between 12 and 17 maintains a blog, according to a US survey, and now corporates are catching on -from telecommunications company Verizon, to analysts Gartner Group, to small Sydney consultancy Step Two Designs. There is a sound business case for blogging. It gives customers, suppliers and staff an inside view of how you think. After all, people buy from people, not some faceless corporate entity.
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Internet World Essentials — San Jose, CA
Learn how to start a word-of-mouth epidemic centered around your company, brand, products or services. Discover how to put together the right offer; examine who’s going to spread your message, and how to make it easy to spread your message via your Web site. In addition, learn how to use e-mail to spread your message. Success stories include Hotmail, Unleashing the Ideavirus, HotorNot.com, Blue Mountain, and more!
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American Marketing Association webinar series — online
Inboxes are quickly becoming a new wasteland, filled with unsolicited, impersonal, useless, and often offensive messages. As a result, consumers have had to find new ways of coping with the suspicious deluge. Alias addresses and spam filters have become standard defense-mechanisms, while the definition of spam has evolved beyond not having permission, to not delivering relevance.
Yet many marketers continue to treat email as a “cheap” contact strategy for chest pounding and mass promotions. Rather than building trust, this impersonal carpet-bomb approach erodes hard-earned trust by branding the company as a “spammer” more interested in economies of scale than deepening relationships.
So what does it take to compete - and win - in this hostile environment? Join Stephan Spencer, founder of Netconcepts (parent company of GravityMail) for an information packed presentation.
You’ll learn:
Who should attend:
Marketing Executives and Directors, Internet Marketing Managers, and others interested in learning the essentials of successful email marketing.
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Step-by-Step Web Marketing (produced by IIR, sponsored by Google, and endorsed by the American Marketing Association) — Atlanta, GA
How to Create Email Campaigns That Drive Action and Build Relationships
Learn how to develop objectives and strategies for implementing email communication campaigns that involve email newsletters and promotional emails.
Deliverable is a 2-3 month email campaign.
How to Decipher Your Web Trends to Maximize Results
Learn how to develop, track, maintain, analyze and utilize the large volumes of data available and turn that into useful information you can use to manage and optimize your business.
Deliverable is to develop historical data, current benchmarks and an understanding of what to measure, why to measure it and what it means.
Developing Strategic and Creative Methodologies For Increasing Results
Learn how to increase your conversion rate one step at a time. You goals are for prospects to make purchases, or subscribe, or register, or make referrals. Each of these goals is a “macro-action,” and you can measure its conversion rate. Every one of your macro-actions is composed of a series of smaller micro-actions.
Deliverable is to develop an efficient conversion system matching your selling process to your prospect’s buying decisions by dealing with real examples from your website.
Development Doesn’t Have to be Rocket Science
Learn how to communicate effectively with web developers about what your requirements are. Did you know that of all software development projects are failures? Did you know that 80% of development costs are incurred after the initial project is delivered?
Deliverable is to take your project from concept to wireframe, to storyboard to final prototype independent of what technology your company uses by effectively creating a prototype of an application you want to have developed.
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Ever wondered how late entrant Google overtook its entrenched competitors to become the most popular search engine on the planet? Or how a small upstart called Hotmail became the leader in web-based email and was then purchased by Microsoft for a cool $US400 million?
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Email can be your company’s secret weapon, or it can end up biting you in the backside if it’s seen as junk email or spam. It all depends on the execution. So says Debbie Mayo-Smith…
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Business-to-Business e-Marketing — Madison, WI
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Seminars
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2820 Walton Commons West, Suite 123
Madison, WI 53718 USA
Phone: (608) 285-6600
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Phone: (+64) 9 476-4601
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