For Marketers: Useful tips to save you time!
The following are just a few good tips to help you as a marketer with your email.
1- Use a form filler to login to web based sites. There are very good applications that do this securely and are very affordable. Roboform is one I have used for a long time. This application is a toolbar installed in your browser. Any time you encounter a for while browsing, it will pop up a box asking you if you want to save the information you entered. You can save that info, give it a relevant name, and the next time you go to that site it will pop up again and let you select that saved info. It will then insert that info with one more click. Saving you the trouble of typing it in.
2- Always install and use an Anti Virus software on your pc. This will protect you from viruses that you may get in your email. Marketers get lots of email and sadly, they get more than the usual amount of virus infected email. Have this installed before you get started marketing.
3- Use a firewall. Either one that comes with your OS or one you install as a third party application.
4- Do regular backups. Windows email clients have this ability built in. You can regularly save your stored email to a folder or disk, as well as your address book. These two things are your lifeblood. Your contacts and your emails. If you have a hard drive crash or OS crash, you will wish you had these files backed up. Once you restore your pc, you can easily locate these backed up files and restore them to your email client.
5- For transaction emails. When you create your folder for each place or site you get a receipt from, always name it the same thing. I always use the year for the name. This has a very specific purpose. At tax time when I need to round up all my receipts it is a very simple thing for me to find them. I simply go to the search function in my email client, and tell it to find all folders named “2005”. I get a list of all the mails in folders with this name making my task of storing or printing just my receipts much easier.
6- Finding lost login data. When you need a lost password or login info, and you cant remember it use the find function in your email client. You probably know the domain or url of the site you are struggling to login to. Type in the domain name of that site in the find, in the “search by from” box. It will return a list of emails you got from that domain and the folder you put them in.
7- Try to make a habit of scanning the subject lines from your safelist contact mailbox. Admins of these sites are always making special offers to members thru the contact address to their members. These offers are usually limited only to the members, that’s YOU. Just today, I got a special deal of 90 premium safelist memberships for $20. Normally that would have costed hundreds of dollars.
8- Exploit the mail you get that you otherwise consider ads or junk mail. Reply to them if they give a real address, not an auto responder, and ask them a few questions about their offer. This will open a dialog between you and them, allowing you to offer what you are promoting to them. Do this only after you have carried a conversation with them and they are personally responding to you FIRST.
9- Join some safelists that offer a free mailbox cleaner. Many times you can get a year or lifetime membership at a very good price with a new safelist. Essentially you buy a mailbox cleaner service with it. Set up the cleaner to regularly clean your subscribe mailbox. Do this with two or three sites, and you will have a triple redundant insurance against your mailbox never getting too full and making your mail bounce.