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		<title>Use Email Marketing Effectively</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email marketing is a powerful tool with potential to increase website traffic and product awareness for websites. It is inexpensive, fast and allows businesses to send pertinent information to their leads that they will find beneficial. To make the best &#8230; <a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/tips-and-tricks/use-email-marketing-effectively/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Email marketing is a powerful tool with potential to increase website traffic and product awareness for websites. It is inexpensive, fast and allows businesses to send pertinent information to their leads that they will find beneficial.</p>
<p>To make the best use of this tool, there are several steps you will want to take to ensure your success.</p>
<p>One of the very first steps towards successful email marketing is creating a quality email list. To build this list focus on interested parties gained through events, guest books, service calls, form conversions and similar sources. It is important to remember that one should always be respectful of the client and ask their permission to send them material about a product or service. Buying email lists, spamming strangers and annoying uninterested parties is a sure way to lose business and credibility.</p>
<p>Next, make sure your content is relevant. Sending your vegan customers coupons for delicious deli meats is not the way to go. If you are not sure what type of media your clients will respond best to you should consider polling them. Sending out a survey is one of the quickest ways to focus your email marketing campaign. While tracking click through rates is useful, polling your clients adds a personal touch and makes it easier to tailor your emails to your audience’s preferences.</p>
<p>This next step is very important, avoid looking like spam. No one is going to read something that looks like it will infect their computer with a party of bugs.</p>
<p>When creating your email make it look professional. Make sure you spell check. Do not put your subject line in all caps or have an email address that looks like a computer randomly generated it. Your email should include your company logo, name and brand information (including graphics or pictures.)</p>
<p>Add a social media button so people can share it on sites like Facebook. Include a call to action, ask people for feedback or poll them about a product they would like to see. When writing your subject line, make it concise.</p>
<p>Your last step will be to track your emails. You will want to know email open rates, click through rates, and the hard and soft bounces. If you have an email bounce, you will want to know the reason why. A hard bounce is when the email is returned due to an email not existing or a misspelled address. It is not advised to resend a hard bounce, as you might send the email to someone else who does not want to be bothered. On soft bounces, it is best to resend as the reason for the return of the email is usually a downed server or full mail-box.</p>
<p>Keeping track of all your statistical information will allow you to make your email marketing campaign far more successful.</p>
<p>If you feel like you need help, check out <a title="Commission Sites" href="http://commissionsites.com">commissionsites.com</a> for more information.</p>
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		<title>Daryl&#8217;s Pet shop</title>
		<link>http://www.commissionsites.com/clients/daryls-pet-shop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Inbound Marketing for the Manufacturing Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 03:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s industry, many manufacturers are asking: how can I attain more interest, more customers, and more growth? Though their skill sets and products may be tried and true, often times manufacturers find it difficult to achieve a greater number &#8230; <a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/business-management/inbound-marketing-for-the-manufacturing-industry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today’s industry, many manufacturers are asking: how can I attain more interest, more customers, and more growth? Though their skill sets and products may be tried and true, often times manufacturers find it difficult to achieve a greater number and variety of customers. As a solution to overcome this problem, many manufacturers today are turning to inbound marketing. Essentially, inbound marketing does not simply create greater interest in the company, but does so in a continuous way, often providing the company with more accessibility to the customer, most commonly through search engine optimization.<br />
Search engine optimization is the first step in attaining leads- potential customers that can both become informed of your product and potentially inform others- creating a wider customer base. In order to help a manufacturer’s (or any type of company, for that matter) webpage flourish, an inbound marketing agency will incorporate specific, well-researched keywords which will boost the sites list standing on Google, with the ultimate goal being to always appear on the first page of search results.<br />
Another way that inbound marketing helps boost interest is through blogging. Blogging not only gives the customer a sense of personalized business, but in turn creates a level of trust with that customer while simultaneously displaying both updates to your product and site, as well as your value and expertise in the field. Blogs can easily generate leads, becoming increasingly effective as more people subscribe and when the amount and frequency of entries created increases.<br />
The next step in acquiring leads, while maintaining the ones you have, is through email marketing. Email marketing creates a wider database of leads by monitoring a lead’s online actions and sending that person/s emails that coincide with their online interests. For example, certain sets of software can easily be programmed to send out advertisements and promotional offers to leads who have researched relevant and similar data online. The point of this is to not simply to make a quick sale, but oppositely to nurture the lead into a sale, creating a larger chance that the customer will not only return, but additionally spread the word and create more leads among the people they know.<br />
Inbound marketing, though subtle and seemingly complicated, is steadily proving itself to be a great solution in generating leads and customers, providing the constant business and steady growth that all companies yearn for.</p>
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		<title>Internet marketing in plain English.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 06:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commission Sites uses search engine friendly, google approved traffic building tactics to promote your business to people looking for products or services you offer. With a continuous stream of updated original content, Commission Sites can build your online presence into &#8230; <a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/content-creation/internet-marketing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/seo1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-557 alignnone aligncenter" title="seo" src="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/seo1.jpg" alt="" width="463" height="210" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/keywords.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-306 alignleft" title="keywords" src="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/keywords.png" alt="" width="64" height="64" /></a>Commission Sites uses search engine friendly, google approved traffic building tactics to promote your business to people looking for products or services you offer. With a continuous stream of updated original content, Commission Sites can build your online presence into an authority on the topic of your business. By targeting keywords for specific pages and areas of interest we guide your customers to the information they need to make informed decisions about your offerings</p>
<p><a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/content.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-463" title="content" src="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/content.png" alt="" width="64" height="64" /></a>Did you know it&#8217;s a standing fact that business that blog relieve an average of over 55% more traffic then those that don&#8217;t. Just another example of how Commission Sites&#8217; Original Content Creation and Internet Marketing Service helps deliver you customers not just traffic.</p>
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<div><a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/social-media.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-307" title="social-media" src="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/social-media.png" alt="" width="64" height="64" /></a>Did you know statistics have shown that one out of every six minuets spent online is spent on a Social Media network? In fact Social Media is the largest growing population in the world. It&#8217;s no wonder companies are scrambling to bring their corporate faces to Social Networks. But how does a stranger &#8220;liking&#8221; your business translate into money in your pocket? Let Commission Sites show you how.</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/lead-nut.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-298" title="lead-nut" src="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/lead-nut.png" alt="" width="64" height="64" /></a>Now that you have worked so hard to earn an audience, how do you make the most of your visitors? Lead nurturing through the use of calls to action, email marketing and landing pages help close the gap and create 80% more leads then traffic alone.</div>
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		<title>Evolution Sports</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commission Sites would like to welcome Evolution Sports as the newest member of the Commission Sites Network. Based in Redlands California Evolution Sports has been serving the Paintball, Airsoft and Hobby community for almost 10 years.    Commission Sites looks forward &#8230; <a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/commission-sites-network/evolution-sports/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Commission Sites would like to welcome <strong>Evolution Sports</strong> as the newest member of the Commission Sites Network. Based in Redlands California Evolution Sports has been serving the Paintball, Airsoft and Hobby community for almost 10 years.<br />
<img class="alignnone  wp-image-522" title="airsoft" src="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/airsoft.jpg" alt="Evolution Sports - Airsoft" width="318" height="180" /> <a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/hobby.jpg"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-523" title="hobby" src="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/hobby.jpg" alt="Evolution Sports - Hobby" width="318" height="180" /></a> <a href="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/paintball.jpg"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-524" title="paintball" src="http://www.commissionsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/paintball.jpg" alt="Evolution Sports - Paintball" width="318" height="180" /></a></p>
<p>Commission Sites looks forward to building an audience together and over the next few months you will have the opportunity to see evosports.net grow as me work our magic. Check out Evolution Sports today and tell them you saw them at Commission Sites.</p>
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