Both the bloggers and the other email marketers send their emails via professional email marketing services. So what’s so specific to bloggers?
Well, some blogs send emails… “New blog post” email notifications. Or “Your comment on the post X has a new reply.”
No third party service to help your email deliverability. You’re on your own. (more…)
Several days ago I logged into my Pinterest account. Quite many messages were waiting for me in the Messages tab.
All of them were claiming that X or Y sent me a pin. Geez, everyone suddenly started to spam me?
Very unlikely. I said to myself, “There’s something fishy here, Pinterest.”
So I took a break and I pinned something to a group board that I created.
Huge surprise… I got a message that claimed that I sent a pin. It even had the option of reporting it as spam. Kind of reporting myself for the spam I didn’t send. (more…)
Placing affiliate banners on your blog is one of the most common blog monetization techniques.
Not the most or the least effective. In-between.
Since the case when (almost) no one clicked a certain banner is not very uncommon, let’s analyze together why such an unpleasant situation usually happens and see what you can do to avoid it.
Speaking about solutions, the easiest one is to remove all banners. Remove all so called distractions and you won’t need to read further. There’s a huge disadvantage though… (more…)
My Email Marketing Services Series continues with a comparison between two veterans: AWeber (founded 1998) and GetResponse (founded 1999). (more…)
Linkis is a free app that replaces the original links (like a URL shortening service) and adds additional information to any web page their users share on Twitter.
The users can add their bio, links to their social accounts and blogs, polls, and more.
Using Linkis, Sniply, or any similar service looks like a Twitter hack that will boost your Twitter marketing and the traffic to your site.
That’s not an incorrect assessment. But let’s see the other side of the coin… (more…)