The Best marketing mortgage Articles on WineHow to Use Email and SMS Marketing from the same Database and get superior results.
Do you ask for the email address of everyone you meet?
And their permission to send them your stuff on a regular basis?
If you haven't ingrained this habit yet you are missing out on heaps of $$$!
And spam issues aside, email marketing is still a killer application.
Teamed up with SMS, it is very hard to beat for the price.
Let's see how really switched on businesses use both to make a motzah.
The original email/SMS system was created around 5 years ago to service
the dance party market in Southern California. Then, ravers had to stay one step
ahead of authorities, so party notifications were very time sensitive, often being
just a couple of hours before start time.
Email and SMS was used from the one database.
Fast forward to now, and Murgent.com.au is to my knowledge still the only bundled
email/sms provider that can construct campaigns using a common (web based) database.
Here are some applications to get the juices flowing.
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Say you operate a restaurant. You have been diligently collecting names and contact
details for your VIP Club.
Tonight looks like it's going to be a bit slow. It's 3:00 pm on Tuesday afternoon.
You go to the computer and create an SMS message "Special VIP deal, tonight only,
book by 6:00 or miss out - every booking gets a free bottle of wine worth $20. Go on,
give her a surprise."
You create a list of 50 VIP's and send the message out. As long as their mobile phone is
on, they will get the note within 30 seconds of the send. It will be delivered,
because the network guarantees delivery.
By 5:00 you are booked out. Cost?
5 minutes of your time, $6.75 for 50 SMS messages, plus the wholesale cost of each
bottle of wine.
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Here is a problem looking for a solution.
Research has found that around 1 in 5 optin emails still get filtered out by nanny
state ISP's who think adults shouldn't think for themselves about what they want to
read.
How does this affect you if you have an optin database of 500 folks who really want
to read your stuff?
Statistically 100 will never see your message.
Frightening when you figure what it cost to get those names in the first place?
You have a monthly email newsletter which goes out to your whole database.
But you are worried that some of your clients don't get it, because of spam filters
on their ISP.
Most folks don't know what a whitelist is, or how to set it up.
So...
Your database is 500, and you really treasure the bond you have with your prospects
and clients.
They like you too.
When the email goes out, an SMS goes out too.
"Hi Frank, I just sent your copy by email of the Silver Bullet e-newsletter. If you
don't have it please call so we can fix your spam filter - Rick"
Hard cost for 500 SMS messages?
$67.50
It's peanuts for marketing that makes sure folks actually read at least ONE of your
marketing
pieces i.e. the SMS message.
Do you see the power this can give you?
How often do you have a special deal for selected clients?
Need to fill up numbers because you're short at a function?
There are heaps of other applications for SMS and email combined.
If you take the free trip at Murgent.com.au please tell them that I sent you.
And yeah if you become a paying client, I get a bit of cash too.
So what, you've now got a tool that gives you a very large edge which absolutley
no-one knows about.
Yet...
Life's short, so make it fun and profitable.
Rick Rakauskas
And their permission to send them your stuff on a regular basis?
If you haven't ingrained this habit yet you are missing out on heaps of $$$!
And spam issues aside, email marketing is still a killer application.
Teamed up with SMS, it is very hard to beat for the price.
Let's see how really switched on businesses use both to make a motzah.
The original email/SMS system was created around 5 years ago to service
the dance party market in Southern California. Then, ravers had to stay one step
ahead of authorities, so party notifications were very time sensitive, often being
just a couple of hours before start time.
Email and SMS was used from the one database.
Fast forward to now, and Murgent.com.au is to my knowledge still the only bundled
email/sms provider that can construct campaigns using a common (web based) database.
Here are some applications to get the juices flowing.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Say you operate a restaurant. You have been diligently collecting names and contact
details for your VIP Club.
Tonight looks like it's going to be a bit slow. It's 3:00 pm on Tuesday afternoon.
You go to the computer and create an SMS message "Special VIP deal, tonight only,
book by 6:00 or miss out - every booking gets a free bottle of wine worth $20. Go on,
give her a surprise."
You create a list of 50 VIP's and send the message out. As long as their mobile phone is
on, they will get the note within 30 seconds of the send. It will be delivered,
because the network guarantees delivery.
By 5:00 you are booked out. Cost?
5 minutes of your time, $6.75 for 50 SMS messages, plus the wholesale cost of each
bottle of wine.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Here is a problem looking for a solution.
Research has found that around 1 in 5 optin emails still get filtered out by nanny
state ISP's who think adults shouldn't think for themselves about what they want to
read.
How does this affect you if you have an optin database of 500 folks who really want
to read your stuff?
Statistically 100 will never see your message.
Frightening when you figure what it cost to get those names in the first place?
You have a monthly email newsletter which goes out to your whole database.
But you are worried that some of your clients don't get it, because of spam filters
on their ISP.
Most folks don't know what a whitelist is, or how to set it up.
So...
Your database is 500, and you really treasure the bond you have with your prospects
and clients.
They like you too.
When the email goes out, an SMS goes out too.
"Hi Frank, I just sent your copy by email of the Silver Bullet e-newsletter. If you
don't have it please call so we can fix your spam filter - Rick"
Hard cost for 500 SMS messages?
$67.50
It's peanuts for marketing that makes sure folks actually read at least ONE of your
marketing
pieces i.e. the SMS message.
Do you see the power this can give you?
How often do you have a special deal for selected clients?
Need to fill up numbers because you're short at a function?
There are heaps of other applications for SMS and email combined.
If you take the free trip at Murgent.com.au please tell them that I sent you.
And yeah if you become a paying client, I get a bit of cash too.
So what, you've now got a tool that gives you a very large edge which absolutley
no-one knows about.
Yet...
Life's short, so make it fun and profitable.
Rick Rakauskas
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rick Rakauskas is a marketer and direct response copywriter in Australia. His clients love his eclectic problem solving approach. How can a Feng Shui consultant JV with a financial planner so both get results? www.cashmagnetics.com
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Death Ring
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Customer Review: Some decent fight scenes but a story that is just urging you not to finish the movie
I am guessing this movie was made at the same time as 'Shanghai 13' or a week or two after. It has pretty much the same cast. Cameos by Chen Kuan Tai, Ti Lung, Chen Sing, and Lu Feng. The lead in the movie is Lee Chung Yat who was the kicker in 'Shanghai 13' that fights Chi Kuan-Chun and gets "a few bruises" from his claw. He is an amazing performer and this movie was worth a watch, at least for me just to see him in a starring role.
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Customer Review: The Good News -- this is almost completely new material and has not been duplicated much on his other CDs and DVDs.
I own all of Lewis Black's DVDs and CDs, and I am also a big fan of his material on The Daily Show. That said, this is definitely his best CD that he's done.
First, I will have to rebut some of the reviews here -- this is not recycled material. Yes, there are a couple of Superbowl jokes that were reused from The End of the Universe and his 2002 Comedy Central Presents special, and yes, his "civics book" joke was reused from Rules of Enragement. However, those jokes have actually been far more refined in this CD.
Also, the first 8 tracks (with the exception of Gay Marriage) deal with the Superbowl Halftime 2004, and nowhere will you find any of this on any of his other CDs or DVDs. The thing with his other CDs is that if you have all h is material, you'll see it all recycled. The White Album is like his 1998 and 2000 Comedy Central specials. The End of the Universe is like his 2002 special. Rules of Enragement is like Black on Broadway, and Carnegie Hall is like Red White and Screwed. You'll find a lot of new material on all of this, yes, but a significant chunk of the pairs I put up have similar jokes in each. Not so with Luther Burbank. This is the only CD of his that I laughed the whole way through, since I rarely ever stopped and thought, "Wait, I've heard this before." If you've seen all he's done on TV, you will barely recognize any of the material on here. That includes his "Iraq, An Idiots Delight" portion. On Rules of Enragement, he talks about it for a good amount of time. On this, he has about 17 minutes dedicated to it, and besides his "civics book" joke, you'll never hear any of this anywhere else. Funny stuff. Wait until he rips on Rumsfeld!
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This is a must-buy. If you are diving into his works and want a CD of his, this should be the first one you get.
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