The Four Golden Rules of E-Mail Marketing

Rule No. 1: The e-mail must be Anticipated

Why waste time and effort sending e-mails to recipients who don’t need what you sell, don’t want your products and know nothing about you? We recommend sticking with “opt-in” e-mail lists to optimize results. Don’t have an address list of hot prospects primed to buy? Not to worry. This can be accomplished in a number of different ways.

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How To Marketing – With Twitter

How To Market With TwitterEveryone’s buzzing about social media these days and Twitter is just one of the Social Media tools that you can use to market your business. So, in this How To Marketing article, we’re going to show you a couple of great tips that you can use to market with Twitter in your business.

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21 Things We’re Learning to Live Without

What do you really need?

It’s become a national question. With jobs and money scarce, consumers are taking inventory and tossing lots of stuff once deemed important into a humongous discard pile. To safeguard the essentials–a safe home and supportive community, the kids’ education, Internet connectivity, sustenance for a pet–Americans are giving up lots of other things. Some sacrifices are painful; others bring surprise benefits.

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What 3 Online Marketing Strategies Really Work

Online Marketing strategies are virtually everywhere you look. Some of them work but others do not and this all depends on what type of business your trying to market. Certain businesses and there online marketing strategies are geared towards specific things and does not apply to all online businesses. The Internet is so powerful and the web grows deeper and deeper the further you get into it. With that said lets talk about some online marketing strategies that really work.

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6 Mobile Musts for Your Online Business

Use these tips to prepare for the coming smartphone search revolution.

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Support the Earthquake Recovery Efforts in Haiti

This is a small contribution by MindMaps ZA to help the helpless in Haiti. Please follow the links to make your contribution now!

On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince. The devastation – in lives lost, property destroyed, and families displaced – is immense.

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Social media permeate the employment life cycle

Employers must address their use and misuse before, during and after an employee’s tenure.

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Marketing On The Social Web: A Few Key Ingredients

Marketing successfully on the social web, can be compared to cooking your favorite dish. If the ingredients are just not right, or are missing, you are left with a sub-par product. It’s imperative that you get the dish correct. Lack of a little salt and pepper can make or break a dish. The same can be said for social marketing, to be effective with your campaign, you can not leave out any of the key ingredients, because if you do, you’re left with a sub-par marketing campaign. Sub-par is just not acceptable on the social web. After all, marketing is selling. If you’re not doing it effectively, you can certainly bet the next person is, your competitor.

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Internet may kill traditional English spellings

London: Leading language expert David Crystal of the University of Wales, Bangor believes the internet will kill traditional spellings of English words within a few decades.

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Other 2010 Predictions (Contd)

Courtesy gambling911.com

Some interesting predictions for 2010. Click on the headline image to see more detail.

10 fool-proof predictions for the Internet in 2020

Forty years after it was invented, the Internet is straining under the weight of cyber attacks, multimedia content and new mobile applications. In response, U.S. computer scientists are re-thinking every aspect of the Internet’s architecture, from IP addresses to routing tables (see main story: 2020 Vision: Why you won’t recognize the ‘Net in 10 years) to overall Internet security. There are many views about how to fix the Internet’s architecture, but there’s widespread agreement about many aspects of the future Internet. Here’s our list of 11 surefire bets for what the Internet will look like in a decade.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World

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