Perhaps it is just a matter of semantics, but the issue has caused quite a stir here at People Search News. Below, the editor attempts to make sense of it all.
On a recent visit to my mother's house, she asked me if I knew of a Web site that had bread machine recipes. I told her to Google the term "bread machine recipes." The search returned about 8,060,000 results for "bread machine recipes," of which we chose breadworld.com as the one most worthy of a visit.
Much to my surprise, instead of clicking the link, my mother typed http://www.breadworld.com into the Google Search box.
"Mom, why don't you just type the url in the address bar?" I said.
"This is how I always do it," she said.
Then it dawned on me, there is a whole generation of people navigating the Web using only search results.
My mother does not have favorite. She regularly goes back and forth between Yahoo, MSN and Google. The quality of her search results is directly associated with the specificity of her keyword choices. Hence, I began wondering about the different search results returned for three of the most popular "people search" keyword strings.
First, my pick for the three most-popular "people search" terms are: people search, people finder and locate people. Arguably you could include all the variants of each term, locate people, find people and search people, but I opted not to, for brevity's sake.
Below, you will find each search term defined.
1. People Search: an exploratory search where thorough examination of all possible search results is necessary. This is usually a search performed on people the searcher has lost contact with or people that have concealed their whereabouts from the searcher. It is also most-likely that the person searching has never met or had any contact or second hand information about the subject for many years, but the searcher has at least one piece of accurate contact information from the past. The subject being searched has possibly married and/or changed residences since last being in contact with the searcher.
The most common type of people searches being lost loves, lost friends, ex-spouses, genealogy related searches and potential parents.
2. People Finder: to discover through experience, study or observation. This search would most likely be used by private investigators, skip tracers, or potential employers to "find out" all they can about the search subject. For instance, a potential employer could study the data provided in a background report and find the employee is either the ideal candidate or not qualified for the position. Also, an attorney, loan officer, landlord, volunteer organization or a homeowner looking for a contractor could use the information to determine the character of the subject.
Also, it is quite possible to find people by accident. Such is the case when doing genealogy searches. People often find relatives they never knew they had when doing genealogical research.
The most common searches being potential renters/tenants, job seekers, day care workers, home health care aids, business partners, nannies, long-lost relatives and contractors.
3. Locate People: to determine the location of people or persons by searching. After performing one or more of the searches above, the need may arise to find the current location of the individual searched for. The people locator search would most likely be used by private investigators, skip tracers, adopted children, ex-spouses, old classmates, family members, unclaimed property services and repossession services in order to attempt or make contact with the search subject.
This is probably the most important type of search considering once you have searched then found your subject you would most likely want to locate them.
Now, you should have a clear understanding of which search terms to use for your type of people search. Use them wisely to get the best results and best service for your people search needs.
Just as you should be specific with your search terms, you should be specific with the data you provide to the people search people finder service you choose. Never assume that any information you have is out-dated or obsolete. An address from 20 years ago may just lead you to the current location of your search subject.
People Search News
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Friday, 15 October 2010
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
How to Use an Online Email Address Finder - The Easiest Way to Find Someone Online
A lot of people are interested in learning how to find a person's email address online. This is due to the fact that many times people change their email or maybe they just don't know the email of the person they want to contact.
In order to accomplish this you need to use an online email address finder. One of the best ones you can use is the Yahoo email finder.
To use this online email address finder you need to first go to the primary Yahoo finder website. Once you get to the site you must go to the tool page. On the tool page you'll see a box that displays email search.
Enter the first and last name of the person that you are trying to find into the email search box on the tool page of the Yahoo email finder and then click search. Once you click search you will be taken to the email search results page. The results page will display the person's name and all of the email that the person has.
You will just need to pick the email of the individual that you're searching for. If you see more than one email displaying, you should try all of them until you find the individual that you're searching for. If you don't see any results then you are going to have to go back into the search box and enter their nick name, last name, middle name, or any other additional name to find them.
If the Yahoo online email address finder doesn't provide the results you need. Then you can use an email address lookup. With this online email finder you'll have a large database which you can use to find any person's email you desire.
This Email Address Lookup is the fastest and easiest way to find someone. This is by far the best Email Lookup Service out there----> Click Here.
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In order to accomplish this you need to use an online email address finder. One of the best ones you can use is the Yahoo email finder.
To use this online email address finder you need to first go to the primary Yahoo finder website. Once you get to the site you must go to the tool page. On the tool page you'll see a box that displays email search.
Enter the first and last name of the person that you are trying to find into the email search box on the tool page of the Yahoo email finder and then click search. Once you click search you will be taken to the email search results page. The results page will display the person's name and all of the email that the person has.
You will just need to pick the email of the individual that you're searching for. If you see more than one email displaying, you should try all of them until you find the individual that you're searching for. If you don't see any results then you are going to have to go back into the search box and enter their nick name, last name, middle name, or any other additional name to find them.
If the Yahoo online email address finder doesn't provide the results you need. Then you can use an email address lookup. With this online email finder you'll have a large database which you can use to find any person's email you desire.
This Email Address Lookup is the fastest and easiest way to find someone. This is by far the best Email Lookup Service out there----> Click Here.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jamie_Rhodes
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
How Your Title Can Make or Break Your Email Marketing Campaign
Email marketing is one of the BEST tools that you can use to grow your business on eBay, Amazon and beyond. Sending out newsletters, sales and promotions to your customers is one of the best ways to sell more products more often.
However, there's an important KEY to successful email marketing that most people overlook, and that is...
The TITLE of Your Email
In fact the way you title your email is SO important, the success of your email marketing campaign depends on it.
Why an Email Title is Important
In your eBay listings your 55 character listing title is the "map" that helps searchers find your listings in eBay's search engines.
With email marketing, your title serves one primary purpose...To get your email OPENED!
Because an email that's not opened will never be read. And an email that's not opened will be the target of the delete key. Therefore it's key to write an email title that will get your email opened and read.
The payoff for you? A great email title and newsletter will bring you more customer sales!
Motivating People to Open Your Emails
Most sellers tend to send out emails with fairly generic email titles. For example:
eBay Seller Email: Save money! Shop my eBay Store for great deals
New in my store
eBay: Great deals!
Check this out!
Winter Clearance Sale
And while there's nothing inherently wrong with these email titles, there's also nothing engaging about them either. They are all fairly generic email subject titles.
You certainly can intermix generic titles into your email campaign, but use them as the exception not the rule.
You might think that writing an intriguing email title requires a lot of work. Not so!
With the knowledge you're about to gain in the next section (and a little help from a tried and true writers tool )you'll be writing effective emails titles in no time!
5 Strategies for Writing Titles that Get Your Emails Opened
Next we're going to look at 5 different strategies you can use to get those emails opened!
These 5 kinds of email titles will engage your reader and inspire them to OPEN your email!
1. Target your email title to your customers interests. The more specific the better. If you're sending an email in which you want to promote your vintage lace linens, rather than using a generic email title such as "Check Out Our New Linens" create a more specific title such as "Introducing Our One of a Kind Vintage Lace Linens"
Generic title: Check Out Our New Linens
Targeted title: Introducing Our One of a Kind Vintage Lace Linens
As you can see, the 2nd title targets a very specific audience and arouses curiosity about the new, unique linens you've just brought in stock. Which brings us to our second strategy...
2. Arouse Curiosity. People are naturally curious. And we like having our curiosity peaked! An email title that peaks your reader's curiosity is likely to get opened.
For example...
The owner of a pet products store could write an email newsletter with a title of...
"The Top 3 Things Every Poodle Owner Must Possess..."
A seller who wants to promote flat irons (for your hair) in their email marketing newsletter might write...
"How to Turn Your Unruly Hair into a Sleek and Shiny Mane"
By using an element of curiosity in your email title people will want to click on your emails and see what's inside!
Note: Do NOT make your curiosity emails SPAMMY or MISLEADING. Curiosity alone with no substance will turn people off. If you are going to use an element of curiosity in your title, make sure you follow through on your promise and deliver the "goods" within the email content.
If you are promoting "The Top 3 Things Every Poodle Owner Must Possess..." - your email must follow through and share those top 3 things with your customer.
Misleading email titles are even worse. "Loose 150 lbs in 30 days" is simply untrue and will cause your readers to immediately delete your email.
3. Use Urgency. No one wants to miss the big "it". That one thing they wished they'd known about. Email titles that convey urgency will ensure that your customers at least give your email a quick glance! (Once they're reading you can grab them with your copy!)
Your email title can contain an element of scarcity.
For example:
"It ends tonight at midnight!"
"Only 4 vases left."
"20% off for the next 24 hours."
As with curiosity emails, urgency emails must follow through. If you're promoting a sale that ends at midnight, it MUST end at midnight. Using a sense of urgency in your emails but not backing it up by doing what you say you're going to do will cause your customers not to trust you.
And that will kill all chances of your prospect ever reading an email (or buying from you) again.
But if you DO have limited quantities of a product or the sale IS ending in 24 hours - writing an email title with a sense of urgency is a great way to promote it!
Note: Fostering a relationship with your customers that is built on trust is the best thing you can do to build a successful business! As the old saying goes "You must walk the talk."
4. Tell a story. We all love stories. It's part of human nature. Creating an email title that is a lead-in to a story can be very intriguing to your buyers.
For example:
"I Found These Beautiful Crystal Vases for You in Maine"
"The History Behind Our Hand Crafted Wall Clocks"
"Why 9 Out of 10 Customers Prefer Our New Steamer"
Then in your email continue on with the story that you started. Emphasize the human connection. Your customers want to buy from a person, not from a nameless, faceless eBay store or website.
5. Have fun. A little fun and humor in your email title can go along way. Have fun! Be creative.
This past holiday season I received an email from an eBay seller with a title that read...
"A Sale So Hot Even Santa Stopped to Shop!"
I opened this email immediately!
The Writer's Insider Secret Ideas for Email Titles
Now you may be thinking... "This sounds like a GREAT idea but I don't have a creative writing bone in my body."
Well the good news is that a copywriting degree is not required to create a clever email title!
You see examples of good email titles are all around you. In fact, your next email title may be as close as the magazine on your desk!
Writers have an insider secret for coming up with good ideas for email titles, emails, advertising copy, articles etc....
It's called a "swipe file".
A swipe file is a collection of tested and proven ads, sales letters, headlines etc. You'll use your swipe file as a springboard to write your own email titles.
Now you won't be copying the headlines directly, but rather taking bits and pieces of titles and repurposing them for your own specific niche email!
For example, this title used on a recent People Magazine "The Real Reason People Gain Weight" can be re-purposed for your pet products store:
"The Real Reason Your Pet Gains Weight" (This could be used to sell pet exercise products.)
"The Real Reason Your Dog Keeps Shedding" (This could be used to sell dog deshedders.)
When you come across an email title or headline you like, simply make a note of it in your swipe file.
Note: In case you are worrying that this is plagiarism, it's not!
Keeping a swipe file is a common practice used by advertising writers, authors, anyone who creates copy.
It's perfectly legal to take an existing heading and target it to YOUR market. And while you can't use the email title "Got Milk?" you can repurpose it to "Got Game?" "Got Candy?" "Got the Latest Shirts for Spring?" etc.
To help you find samples for your swipe file, simply take a look at the headlines on the covers of magazines in the grocery stores, tabloids, and newspapers. Look at the emails other companies send YOU.
When you look at these headlines with a fresh "eye" you'll see that most headlines today are variations of existing headlines.
Newsletters in Your Niche
Signing up to receive emails in from other online retailers in your niche is a great way to get some creative ideas about how to market products in your category.
For example, if you sell in the Home and Garden niche, sign up to receive the free email newsletters from stores like Smith and Hawken, Plow and Hearth etc.
I guarantee you'll get some GREAT marketing ideas!
Start Writing Better Email Titles Today
Email marketing is one of the fundamentals that you need in your marketing toolkit!
Lisa Suttora is the Founder/CEO of WhatDoISell.com, one of only 3 eBay Certified Providers in the categories of eBay education/consulting and product sourcing.
Lisa has been a featured speaker on three eBay Live! Product Sourcing Panels (2004-2007) and will return again this year to co-present on the top rated panel "How to Find the Products Buyers Want" at eBay Live! 2008 in Chicago.
She is the creator of the exclusive product sourcing strategies: The Product Sourcing Mindset™, Power of 10 Product Sourcing™ and Product Sourcing with Idea Hotspots™ which have helped thousands of eBay sellers of all levels find products to sell on eBay and find their niche in the eBay marketplace.
A noted trendologist, Lisa is the Product Trending Editor for Product Sourcing Radio.
Copyright (c) 2008 WhatDoISell.com, all rights reserved.
To reprint or distribute this article contact support@whatdoisellsupport.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Lisa_Suttora
However, there's an important KEY to successful email marketing that most people overlook, and that is...
The TITLE of Your Email
In fact the way you title your email is SO important, the success of your email marketing campaign depends on it.
Why an Email Title is Important
In your eBay listings your 55 character listing title is the "map" that helps searchers find your listings in eBay's search engines.
With email marketing, your title serves one primary purpose...To get your email OPENED!
Because an email that's not opened will never be read. And an email that's not opened will be the target of the delete key. Therefore it's key to write an email title that will get your email opened and read.
The payoff for you? A great email title and newsletter will bring you more customer sales!
Motivating People to Open Your Emails
Most sellers tend to send out emails with fairly generic email titles. For example:
eBay Seller Email: Save money! Shop my eBay Store for great deals
New in my store
eBay: Great deals!
Check this out!
Winter Clearance Sale
And while there's nothing inherently wrong with these email titles, there's also nothing engaging about them either. They are all fairly generic email subject titles.
You certainly can intermix generic titles into your email campaign, but use them as the exception not the rule.
You might think that writing an intriguing email title requires a lot of work. Not so!
With the knowledge you're about to gain in the next section (and a little help from a tried and true writers tool )you'll be writing effective emails titles in no time!
5 Strategies for Writing Titles that Get Your Emails Opened
Next we're going to look at 5 different strategies you can use to get those emails opened!
These 5 kinds of email titles will engage your reader and inspire them to OPEN your email!
1. Target your email title to your customers interests. The more specific the better. If you're sending an email in which you want to promote your vintage lace linens, rather than using a generic email title such as "Check Out Our New Linens" create a more specific title such as "Introducing Our One of a Kind Vintage Lace Linens"
Generic title: Check Out Our New Linens
Targeted title: Introducing Our One of a Kind Vintage Lace Linens
As you can see, the 2nd title targets a very specific audience and arouses curiosity about the new, unique linens you've just brought in stock. Which brings us to our second strategy...
2. Arouse Curiosity. People are naturally curious. And we like having our curiosity peaked! An email title that peaks your reader's curiosity is likely to get opened.
For example...
The owner of a pet products store could write an email newsletter with a title of...
"The Top 3 Things Every Poodle Owner Must Possess..."
A seller who wants to promote flat irons (for your hair) in their email marketing newsletter might write...
"How to Turn Your Unruly Hair into a Sleek and Shiny Mane"
By using an element of curiosity in your email title people will want to click on your emails and see what's inside!
Note: Do NOT make your curiosity emails SPAMMY or MISLEADING. Curiosity alone with no substance will turn people off. If you are going to use an element of curiosity in your title, make sure you follow through on your promise and deliver the "goods" within the email content.
If you are promoting "The Top 3 Things Every Poodle Owner Must Possess..." - your email must follow through and share those top 3 things with your customer.
Misleading email titles are even worse. "Loose 150 lbs in 30 days" is simply untrue and will cause your readers to immediately delete your email.
3. Use Urgency. No one wants to miss the big "it". That one thing they wished they'd known about. Email titles that convey urgency will ensure that your customers at least give your email a quick glance! (Once they're reading you can grab them with your copy!)
Your email title can contain an element of scarcity.
For example:
"It ends tonight at midnight!"
"Only 4 vases left."
"20% off for the next 24 hours."
As with curiosity emails, urgency emails must follow through. If you're promoting a sale that ends at midnight, it MUST end at midnight. Using a sense of urgency in your emails but not backing it up by doing what you say you're going to do will cause your customers not to trust you.
And that will kill all chances of your prospect ever reading an email (or buying from you) again.
But if you DO have limited quantities of a product or the sale IS ending in 24 hours - writing an email title with a sense of urgency is a great way to promote it!
Note: Fostering a relationship with your customers that is built on trust is the best thing you can do to build a successful business! As the old saying goes "You must walk the talk."
4. Tell a story. We all love stories. It's part of human nature. Creating an email title that is a lead-in to a story can be very intriguing to your buyers.
For example:
"I Found These Beautiful Crystal Vases for You in Maine"
"The History Behind Our Hand Crafted Wall Clocks"
"Why 9 Out of 10 Customers Prefer Our New Steamer"
Then in your email continue on with the story that you started. Emphasize the human connection. Your customers want to buy from a person, not from a nameless, faceless eBay store or website.
5. Have fun. A little fun and humor in your email title can go along way. Have fun! Be creative.
This past holiday season I received an email from an eBay seller with a title that read...
"A Sale So Hot Even Santa Stopped to Shop!"
I opened this email immediately!
The Writer's Insider Secret Ideas for Email Titles
Now you may be thinking... "This sounds like a GREAT idea but I don't have a creative writing bone in my body."
Well the good news is that a copywriting degree is not required to create a clever email title!
You see examples of good email titles are all around you. In fact, your next email title may be as close as the magazine on your desk!
Writers have an insider secret for coming up with good ideas for email titles, emails, advertising copy, articles etc....
It's called a "swipe file".
A swipe file is a collection of tested and proven ads, sales letters, headlines etc. You'll use your swipe file as a springboard to write your own email titles.
Now you won't be copying the headlines directly, but rather taking bits and pieces of titles and repurposing them for your own specific niche email!
For example, this title used on a recent People Magazine "The Real Reason People Gain Weight" can be re-purposed for your pet products store:
"The Real Reason Your Pet Gains Weight" (This could be used to sell pet exercise products.)
"The Real Reason Your Dog Keeps Shedding" (This could be used to sell dog deshedders.)
When you come across an email title or headline you like, simply make a note of it in your swipe file.
Note: In case you are worrying that this is plagiarism, it's not!
Keeping a swipe file is a common practice used by advertising writers, authors, anyone who creates copy.
It's perfectly legal to take an existing heading and target it to YOUR market. And while you can't use the email title "Got Milk?" you can repurpose it to "Got Game?" "Got Candy?" "Got the Latest Shirts for Spring?" etc.
To help you find samples for your swipe file, simply take a look at the headlines on the covers of magazines in the grocery stores, tabloids, and newspapers. Look at the emails other companies send YOU.
When you look at these headlines with a fresh "eye" you'll see that most headlines today are variations of existing headlines.
Newsletters in Your Niche
Signing up to receive emails in from other online retailers in your niche is a great way to get some creative ideas about how to market products in your category.
For example, if you sell in the Home and Garden niche, sign up to receive the free email newsletters from stores like Smith and Hawken, Plow and Hearth etc.
I guarantee you'll get some GREAT marketing ideas!
Start Writing Better Email Titles Today
Email marketing is one of the fundamentals that you need in your marketing toolkit!
Lisa Suttora is the Founder/CEO of WhatDoISell.com, one of only 3 eBay Certified Providers in the categories of eBay education/consulting and product sourcing.
Lisa has been a featured speaker on three eBay Live! Product Sourcing Panels (2004-2007) and will return again this year to co-present on the top rated panel "How to Find the Products Buyers Want" at eBay Live! 2008 in Chicago.
She is the creator of the exclusive product sourcing strategies: The Product Sourcing Mindset™, Power of 10 Product Sourcing™ and Product Sourcing with Idea Hotspots™ which have helped thousands of eBay sellers of all levels find products to sell on eBay and find their niche in the eBay marketplace.
A noted trendologist, Lisa is the Product Trending Editor for Product Sourcing Radio.
Copyright (c) 2008 WhatDoISell.com, all rights reserved.
To reprint or distribute this article contact support@whatdoisellsupport.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Lisa_Suttora
Friday, 21 May 2010
How to Use Email As a Viral Marketing Tool
The use of email as a marketing tool has been long used and abused by internet marketers around the globe. This has become such a problem that development of spam blockers and similar applications has become an industry itself. But how can you, as a legitimate (and considerate) marketer harness the power of email marketing in their business?
First things first - build up an opt-in email list and send a weekly, biweekly or monthly newsletter with useful content. The keyword here is "useful content" - no-one is interested in reading about which employees had their birthday this month, or that you've just bought new office stationery..
Use your newsletter to provide informative and useful information, such as "How to XYZ" or "What to do when XYZ happens". If the reader finds this information useful, there's a good chance they will forward it on to other prospects, who will then also visit your site and join your mailing list. Your email list of prospects then grows virally with little effort on your part.
Freebies, competitions and giveaways are always popular newsletter tactics. Always design your newsletters with the reader in mind - think along the lines of "why should they bother reading my email when they have a million other things to do". This will get you into the mind-set of the email marketer...
Please note that, by law, every email sent to your list needs to have an "unsubscribe" link or method by which the user can unsubscribe from the list. It is illegal to send any sort of bulk email without this feature.
There are two ways two create and manage an effective email list or database:
Offline - This means using your email program (Outlook, etc) to email your list. This is however very inefficient and unreliable. You will also use a lot of internet bandwidth in the process and end up getting blacklisted as a spammer in most cases (due to the difficulty of unsubscribing).
Online - This entails using an online bulk emailing service. These companies will host your database, manage unsubscribes (as required by law), and send your email newsletters on time, every time. I highly recommend going this route as it is the only viable option in the long run.
Two bulk email service providers that have proven to be very reliable are:
Aweber - The leader's in bulk emailing, with pricing options from $1 USD per month. They are very user-friendly and offer a wide range of email templates to get you started.
TouchBasePro - A South African based emailing company. Good for starting out from about R100 per month, but not a lot of customization or email templates.
If you remember to always consider your email content from the reader's point of view, and dedicate your campaigns towards useful content, you can be assured of great success using email marketing as a viral tool.
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By Derek Jansen of Free SEO
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First things first - build up an opt-in email list and send a weekly, biweekly or monthly newsletter with useful content. The keyword here is "useful content" - no-one is interested in reading about which employees had their birthday this month, or that you've just bought new office stationery..
Use your newsletter to provide informative and useful information, such as "How to XYZ" or "What to do when XYZ happens". If the reader finds this information useful, there's a good chance they will forward it on to other prospects, who will then also visit your site and join your mailing list. Your email list of prospects then grows virally with little effort on your part.
Freebies, competitions and giveaways are always popular newsletter tactics. Always design your newsletters with the reader in mind - think along the lines of "why should they bother reading my email when they have a million other things to do". This will get you into the mind-set of the email marketer...
Please note that, by law, every email sent to your list needs to have an "unsubscribe" link or method by which the user can unsubscribe from the list. It is illegal to send any sort of bulk email without this feature.
There are two ways two create and manage an effective email list or database:
Offline - This means using your email program (Outlook, etc) to email your list. This is however very inefficient and unreliable. You will also use a lot of internet bandwidth in the process and end up getting blacklisted as a spammer in most cases (due to the difficulty of unsubscribing).
Online - This entails using an online bulk emailing service. These companies will host your database, manage unsubscribes (as required by law), and send your email newsletters on time, every time. I highly recommend going this route as it is the only viable option in the long run.
Two bulk email service providers that have proven to be very reliable are:
Aweber - The leader's in bulk emailing, with pricing options from $1 USD per month. They are very user-friendly and offer a wide range of email templates to get you started.
TouchBasePro - A South African based emailing company. Good for starting out from about R100 per month, but not a lot of customization or email templates.
If you remember to always consider your email content from the reader's point of view, and dedicate your campaigns towards useful content, you can be assured of great success using email marketing as a viral tool.
Want to get your website to the top of Google? Sign up for the 8-week Free SEO Course today!
By Derek Jansen of Free SEO
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Derek_JJ
Monday, 10 May 2010
How to Find an Email Address Easily - Here Are the Powerful Ways Which Always Work
If you are wondering about how to find an email address easily, then there is a way to do it without all of the hassle. You shouldn't have to go through a complicated process just to achieve another individual's email address. Neither should you have to pay any money. But, like anything else, someone has most likely thought up a way to make money by giving out this information. Try not to fall for that. Scammers are always looking to make a quick buck. Email addresses are just like physical addresses-everyone has one, and they should be open to the public.
When you go to look up where a person lives, you never have to pay a fee, especially if you look in the right place. Some of the simplest places to look when trying to find a person's physical addresses are phone books and online whitepages. But email addresses are a completely different thing. Fortunately, everything you can think of has it's own little spot in the internet world. Email addresses are no exception. The best thing to use when you want to know how to find an email address easily is a reverse email service. Just type in the name of the individual you are inquiring about, and like magic, you will have your results.
These services are free, but there is a chance that like everything else, you might end up having to pay some sort of small fee. Hopefully, that will not be the case considering that all you are after is an email address. You may need to know that there are tons of these types of services, and some of them operate differently than others. Most only require the name of the person in which you are wanting to locate, but some others may take on a bit more of an advanced approach.
Another way on how to find an email address easily is to use an email database directory. Assuming that you have no idea who their provider is, you may have to search a number of email directories. Some of the most popular email providers are Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, and AOL. Upon registration, all individuals are required to submit their first and last names so that the providers will have a list of those who are in their database. All you have to do is locate the provider's directory, type in the name of the person you need to locate, and wait to see if an email address is found. The only problem that you may run into is receiving email addresses from those who have similar names to the person you are inquiring about. That can be very hard to avoid, especially if they have a common name like Jane Smith or John Brown.
Use these methods when wanting to know how to find an email address easily and you should have some luck. In the event that you do find several different email addresses in reference to the name you are searching for, try to do your best to match the person's name with the potential email address. Intuition can take you a long way when it comes to finding an individual. At very worst, you can always ask them if they are the person you think they are. The whole process isn't at all that complicated, and hopefully, you will achieve some positive results!
Find someone's email address is very easy today, just click here.
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When you go to look up where a person lives, you never have to pay a fee, especially if you look in the right place. Some of the simplest places to look when trying to find a person's physical addresses are phone books and online whitepages. But email addresses are a completely different thing. Fortunately, everything you can think of has it's own little spot in the internet world. Email addresses are no exception. The best thing to use when you want to know how to find an email address easily is a reverse email service. Just type in the name of the individual you are inquiring about, and like magic, you will have your results.
These services are free, but there is a chance that like everything else, you might end up having to pay some sort of small fee. Hopefully, that will not be the case considering that all you are after is an email address. You may need to know that there are tons of these types of services, and some of them operate differently than others. Most only require the name of the person in which you are wanting to locate, but some others may take on a bit more of an advanced approach.
Another way on how to find an email address easily is to use an email database directory. Assuming that you have no idea who their provider is, you may have to search a number of email directories. Some of the most popular email providers are Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, and AOL. Upon registration, all individuals are required to submit their first and last names so that the providers will have a list of those who are in their database. All you have to do is locate the provider's directory, type in the name of the person you need to locate, and wait to see if an email address is found. The only problem that you may run into is receiving email addresses from those who have similar names to the person you are inquiring about. That can be very hard to avoid, especially if they have a common name like Jane Smith or John Brown.
Use these methods when wanting to know how to find an email address easily and you should have some luck. In the event that you do find several different email addresses in reference to the name you are searching for, try to do your best to match the person's name with the potential email address. Intuition can take you a long way when it comes to finding an individual. At very worst, you can always ask them if they are the person you think they are. The whole process isn't at all that complicated, and hopefully, you will achieve some positive results!
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Thursday, 6 May 2010
Whose Email Address is This? Find Out Who Owns an Email Address Easily
The electronic mail system offers a unique approach to the way we exchange information and data. It is one of the most amazing discoveries ever witnessed by, offering both speed and reliability when it comes to communicating with one another. The electronic mail system has also come under various degrees of abuse by different people all over the world. Users now receive different kinds of e-mail from different unknown sources, with all kinds of threats and intimidation.
To know who owns an email address, a user can try different kinds of strategies, use different search engines and perhaps open a new e-mail address. Using a search engine like Google for instance does not cost anything, but a user should not rely too heavily on this method. What a search engine does when the e-mail address of a person is entered into its search bar is to dig into some forums, social network sites, etc. By the time it comes up with the result of its search, you may not be satisfied. Most reports accessed by people who use this method are not always complete because of inadequate updates.
The introduction of the email reverse lookup is worth celebrating because of the respite it has brought to a lot of people. There are normally two kinds of e-mail reverse lookup websites on the internet. The free ones normally attract more people, but users must know that they are certain risks involved in using a free one. Free email reverse lookup companies rarely have time for updates. Updates cost a lot of money, and money plays a lot of roles in the success of the email reverse lookup.
With just a little amount of money, you can get a complete report when you register with a paid service. Trying to know who owns an email address may become stressful if you fail to approach it the way it should be.
My final word for you is this; always take to instructions especially when it has to do with this kind of service.
Want to conduct an email reverse lookup to get details of the owner of the e-mail address? Visit http://onlinereverselookupservices.com/email
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To know who owns an email address, a user can try different kinds of strategies, use different search engines and perhaps open a new e-mail address. Using a search engine like Google for instance does not cost anything, but a user should not rely too heavily on this method. What a search engine does when the e-mail address of a person is entered into its search bar is to dig into some forums, social network sites, etc. By the time it comes up with the result of its search, you may not be satisfied. Most reports accessed by people who use this method are not always complete because of inadequate updates.
The introduction of the email reverse lookup is worth celebrating because of the respite it has brought to a lot of people. There are normally two kinds of e-mail reverse lookup websites on the internet. The free ones normally attract more people, but users must know that they are certain risks involved in using a free one. Free email reverse lookup companies rarely have time for updates. Updates cost a lot of money, and money plays a lot of roles in the success of the email reverse lookup.
With just a little amount of money, you can get a complete report when you register with a paid service. Trying to know who owns an email address may become stressful if you fail to approach it the way it should be.
My final word for you is this; always take to instructions especially when it has to do with this kind of service.
Want to conduct an email reverse lookup to get details of the owner of the e-mail address? Visit http://onlinereverselookupservices.com/email
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Email Etiquette: How To Send Emails People Will Read
You may remember a time before there was email...a time when communications within most organisations were more formal and followed strict lines of protocol. Email has done wonders to break down some of the communication bureaucracy and hierarchy within organisations; today virtually anyone can speak to anyone (and everyone) within an organisation with the click of a mouse - which can have both exciting and devastating implications! Email has brought with it a new informality to business communications and a new short-hand vocabulary and style of communication - but it didn't come with instructions. Overtime, a generally unspoken email code of communication has emerged. Master email etiquette, and you'll not only be on safe ground but people will enjoy reading and responding to your emails.
Your signature. Use your email program to create an email signature block that will automatically attach to all of your outgoing messages; it's a little like an email letterhead. It saves you the effort of including your contact information every time and brings a professional touch to your communications. You might simply include your name, business name, contact details and website or you might also include a sentence or two about your business, a special promotion you are running with a link to your website, or even a favourite funny or inspirational quote.
We're all different. Take care when creating email signatures and stationery to keep it simple: just because it looks good on your computer doesn't mean it'll arrive in that same format at the other end. The way your stationery will display is dependent on the email software of your receiver - what is a smart-looking email design on your screen could easily turn out looking like an incomprehensible mess at the receiving end.
Think sharp. Because email is a screen-based communication, we must write for the screen, not the page; think and write in bullet points. The days of long, wordy business memos are all but over for most communications. Keep your sentences short and to the point. Longer content might be best captured as an attachment that can be printed out and read.
Size matters. Be considerate when sending emails with attachments, especially to people outside of your organisation: not everyone will have the same file size limits and fast access that you might have and a large attachment can potentially block your receiver's email account for many minutes.
If your email account provides only a small storage capacity make sure you regularly clean out your files to ensure you have the maximum amount of space available and to avoid 'return errors' being sent.
Watch your tone. Business communications used to all share a fairly dull, formal tone of voice and an official looking layout. Email, being much more informal and conversational, allows for a casual and personal approach - but this can lead to misinterpretations - people can misread your tone of voice, especially if they don't know you. There are ways to lessen the chances of inadvertently causing offence, such as: not writing complete words or sentences in capital letters (in e-speak capital letters indicate shouting); always using a greeting ('Hi', 'Hello', 'Good morning' and 'Good afternoon' are probably more common and appropriate than 'Dear' which is still used in printed correspondence); and using emotion icons such as :o) or :o( can be friendly and help clarify your tone or mood.
Spelll chceck. Email makes each one of us an instant author - and, that's not necessarily a good thing! Always, always re-read your emails before you send them to make sure they make sense and to fix any spelling or grammatical errors. I recommend you set your email to automatically spell-check every message before it is sent. And if you need a second opinion to check for clarity, tone or correctness, ask a colleague to look over it for you. It might be inconsequential to you, but a poorly worded email that conveys the wrong tone and is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors can destroy your creditability and relationships.
Reply quickly. Because of its immediacy, people expect fast replies to emails. A response within 24-hours is probably as long as most people would consider appropriate. Your email practices will educate others about what to expect from you in email communications: if you respond quickly, people will expect that you'll always respond quickly; if you set a 24-hour benchmark, likewise people will learn what to expect from you - and of course there will always be those emails which do require your immediate attention. Whatever you choose as an appropriate email turn-around, let people know what to expect, and be consistent.
Schedule email time. Email messages popping into your inbox all day long can be an enormous distraction, particularly if your email is set to alert you every time new mail arrives. To check in on your emails and respond to them as they arrive not only distracts you from whatever tasks or projects you are working on but can rob you of an entire day, responding to other people's needs while your own are neglected. Schedule a couple or a few times each day to check and respond to emails rather than constantly looking-in on your inbox or being bounced there by your email program with every new message.
Out of office. Use your email 'Out of Office' facility if you are going to be unable to respond to emails within your usual timeframe - this might be because you are away or you might choose to use the 'Out of Office' reply to buy you some quiet time while still managing other people's expectations of when they can expect to hear from you.
Use your BCC. In your email address block, apart from the 'To' field, there are generally two others 'CC' (carbon or courtesy copy) and 'BCC' (blind carbon or courtesy copy) the names of these fields are throwbacks to a time long ago when people used typewriters and carbon paper to make copies of the documents they were creating. In email, the BCC is the field we can use to send an email to someone without the other recipients knowing that they were on the recipient list or being able to see their email address. If you are sending a bulk email, put the addresses of all of your recipients in the BCC field; it protects their privacy by not disclosing their names or addresses to each other as well as makes your email communications 'neater' - each recipient does not receive a lengthy list of all other recipients' details on their email.
Who needs to know? Email makes it so easy to include as many people as needed in a communication. The downside is that some people stop taking accountability for thinking about who needs to know what and just copy everyone in. Think about who needs to action your email and who really needs to read and be aware of it and only include those people in the recipient list. If you do have multiple people on an email distribution, list their name within the text of the email along with what is required of them and by when.
Use with caution. The ease and immediacy of email make it a communication tool to use with caution. The wrong email sent to the wrong person or people can have devastating implications. I know of one person who was fired after inadvertently sending the wrong email to a list of people and in doing so transmitted confidential information which was not only damaging to the individuals but exposed the organisation to legal action for breach of privacy; I know of others who have embarrassed themselves and others by mis-sending gossipy emails; and I know some friendships that have ended up on the rocks by sending the wrong email to the wrong person. Be careful about how you use email; once you click that 'send' button, it's gone.
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Monday, 19 April 2010
Tips to Build Your Email Address Database
WHY BUILD YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS DATABASE?
Gaining your customers' email addresses will:
Provide an additional channel for reaching your customers
Increase the ROI of your marketing investments
Significantly reduce your customer acquisition and marketing costs
Allow you to easily measure the impact of your marketing campaigns
Increase your customer participation and retention rates
With ongoing postal and telemarketing pressures impacting marketing budgets for many organizations this year, email marketing could become the "silver lining " for many marketers. But how do you create a successful email marketing campaign if you do not have a substantial email database? That question may be one of the largest Internet related challenges facing companies this year.
Research shows that the majority of organizations have email addresses for less than 10% of their postal files. So how do you level the playing field and start to add quality permission - based email addresses to your database?
Here are some tips that you can use to cost effectively build your email address database and increase your customer participation and retention rates:
START TO ASK FOR IT!
Every communication or touch point with a customer should start or end with a request for an email address. By utilizing the four points below, you should be able to add email addresses for 5% to 10% of your postal file over the course of one year.
1. Direct Mail Collection
Think about how much time and money you spent for copy and design on your last new direct mail piece. Most companies have started to ask their customers for their email address information within these mailings. This is a great step forward. However, companies need to look at one major improvement if they want to increase their email address collection rates.
To date, most requests for email address information have been pushed, shoved or jammed into whatever white space remains. It should be no surprise that the success rate has been less than stellar.
To improve on these efforts, you need to provide your members with a reason to release their email addresses to you. E-newsletters, purchase confirmations, petitions, and special discounts and offers are but a few of the benefits that will encourage your members to come on board.
2. Web Page Collection
Many companies have an email address collection function in place via the web. To improve your sign-up rates, add text below the email request box that informs your visitors of the special email benefits that they will receive (i.e. e-newsletters, purchase confirmations, delivery updates, etc.) upon registering. You can also utilize a pop-up link to inform users of these special benefits.
Finally, your email address request function should be available on your home page. Don't make your users go and look for it. Every click away from your home page reduces the chances of your users taking an action and providing you with their email address information.
3. Existing Email Database Collection
Don't forget to ask the members of your existing customer base for email addresses of their friends, family and associates. Viral marketing is a powerful tool to use and is extremely cost effective! You could ask them either to provide you with additional addresses or simply to pass on your newsletter, email specific offers, or other information to others they feel have similar interests.
4. Telemarketing Collection
Don't assume that your telemarketing agents are asking for email addresses from potential customers. Ensure that your agents have an updated script, which outlines the previously described benefits to potential customers of providing their email addresses.
The suggestions above are a great start! Yet they really should be viewed as a secondary plan for building your email database. To exponentially and expeditiously grow your email database, please read on!
EMAIL APPENDING
Utilizing an email appending service enables you to add email addresses for up to 25% of your postal file, all within 3-4 weeks.
Email Appending - is the process of adding an individual's email address to that individual's postal record in side your existing database. This is accomplished by matching the postal database against a third party, permission based database of postal and email address information.
Best Practices - Email Appending is not a prospecting tool. The DMA (Direct Marketing Association) and its interactive arm AIM (Association of Interactive Marketing) have guidelines in place that dictate that email appending only be used to append email addresses to your existing opt-in postal record house file.
The Process - Your opt-in postal file is securely transferred to an email appending provider, who will do an initial gross email address match of your file against its opt-in database of postal and email address records. Your appending provider will then send these matches a permission-based message prepared by you. All bounces and opt-out requests will be removed from the list. At that point a valid permission-based email address file of your customers will be delivered back to you.
Cost - Less than the price of a postal stamp!
IN SUMMARY
The first step of any successful email marketing effort is to build a permission-based email address list of your customers. The simplest, quickest and most cost-effective way to do this is through email appending, which will enable you to add email addresses for up to 25% of your postal file. Secondary efforts of email address collection via focused direct mail, web, viral and telemarketing practices are also important and will enable you to add email addresses for an additional 5% to 10% of your base on an annual basis.
Best of luck in building your email address database. As many companies have already learned, the ROI and cost savings to be achieved will far exceed your expectations.
Bill Kaplan CEO FreshAddress, Inc.
FreshAddress, Inc., The Email Address ExpertsTM, provides a comprehensive suite of industry leading database and email deliverability services to help companies increase their e-commerce revenues. For more information on how we can help "Build and Update" your email list, visit http://freshaddress.com/biz or email biz@freshaddress.com.
(c) 2003 FRESHADDRESS.COM
Bill Kaplan is the Chief Executive Officier of FreshAddress, Inc.
FreshAddress, Inc. is a privately held company, founded in 1999, helping business and individuals stay connected when email addresses change.
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Gaining your customers' email addresses will:
Provide an additional channel for reaching your customers
Increase the ROI of your marketing investments
Significantly reduce your customer acquisition and marketing costs
Allow you to easily measure the impact of your marketing campaigns
Increase your customer participation and retention rates
With ongoing postal and telemarketing pressures impacting marketing budgets for many organizations this year, email marketing could become the "silver lining " for many marketers. But how do you create a successful email marketing campaign if you do not have a substantial email database? That question may be one of the largest Internet related challenges facing companies this year.
Research shows that the majority of organizations have email addresses for less than 10% of their postal files. So how do you level the playing field and start to add quality permission - based email addresses to your database?
Here are some tips that you can use to cost effectively build your email address database and increase your customer participation and retention rates:
START TO ASK FOR IT!
Every communication or touch point with a customer should start or end with a request for an email address. By utilizing the four points below, you should be able to add email addresses for 5% to 10% of your postal file over the course of one year.
1. Direct Mail Collection
Think about how much time and money you spent for copy and design on your last new direct mail piece. Most companies have started to ask their customers for their email address information within these mailings. This is a great step forward. However, companies need to look at one major improvement if they want to increase their email address collection rates.
To date, most requests for email address information have been pushed, shoved or jammed into whatever white space remains. It should be no surprise that the success rate has been less than stellar.
To improve on these efforts, you need to provide your members with a reason to release their email addresses to you. E-newsletters, purchase confirmations, petitions, and special discounts and offers are but a few of the benefits that will encourage your members to come on board.
2. Web Page Collection
Many companies have an email address collection function in place via the web. To improve your sign-up rates, add text below the email request box that informs your visitors of the special email benefits that they will receive (i.e. e-newsletters, purchase confirmations, delivery updates, etc.) upon registering. You can also utilize a pop-up link to inform users of these special benefits.
Finally, your email address request function should be available on your home page. Don't make your users go and look for it. Every click away from your home page reduces the chances of your users taking an action and providing you with their email address information.
3. Existing Email Database Collection
Don't forget to ask the members of your existing customer base for email addresses of their friends, family and associates. Viral marketing is a powerful tool to use and is extremely cost effective! You could ask them either to provide you with additional addresses or simply to pass on your newsletter, email specific offers, or other information to others they feel have similar interests.
4. Telemarketing Collection
Don't assume that your telemarketing agents are asking for email addresses from potential customers. Ensure that your agents have an updated script, which outlines the previously described benefits to potential customers of providing their email addresses.
The suggestions above are a great start! Yet they really should be viewed as a secondary plan for building your email database. To exponentially and expeditiously grow your email database, please read on!
EMAIL APPENDING
Utilizing an email appending service enables you to add email addresses for up to 25% of your postal file, all within 3-4 weeks.
Email Appending - is the process of adding an individual's email address to that individual's postal record in side your existing database. This is accomplished by matching the postal database against a third party, permission based database of postal and email address information.
Best Practices - Email Appending is not a prospecting tool. The DMA (Direct Marketing Association) and its interactive arm AIM (Association of Interactive Marketing) have guidelines in place that dictate that email appending only be used to append email addresses to your existing opt-in postal record house file.
The Process - Your opt-in postal file is securely transferred to an email appending provider, who will do an initial gross email address match of your file against its opt-in database of postal and email address records. Your appending provider will then send these matches a permission-based message prepared by you. All bounces and opt-out requests will be removed from the list. At that point a valid permission-based email address file of your customers will be delivered back to you.
Cost - Less than the price of a postal stamp!
IN SUMMARY
The first step of any successful email marketing effort is to build a permission-based email address list of your customers. The simplest, quickest and most cost-effective way to do this is through email appending, which will enable you to add email addresses for up to 25% of your postal file. Secondary efforts of email address collection via focused direct mail, web, viral and telemarketing practices are also important and will enable you to add email addresses for an additional 5% to 10% of your base on an annual basis.
Best of luck in building your email address database. As many companies have already learned, the ROI and cost savings to be achieved will far exceed your expectations.
Bill Kaplan CEO FreshAddress, Inc.
FreshAddress, Inc., The Email Address ExpertsTM, provides a comprehensive suite of industry leading database and email deliverability services to help companies increase their e-commerce revenues. For more information on how we can help "Build and Update" your email list, visit http://freshaddress.com/biz or email biz@freshaddress.com.
(c) 2003 FRESHADDRESS.COM
Bill Kaplan is the Chief Executive Officier of FreshAddress, Inc.
FreshAddress, Inc. is a privately held company, founded in 1999, helping business and individuals stay connected when email addresses change.
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Sunday, 18 April 2010
Email-Marketing
Email-Marketing - The Complete Guide To Email Newsletter Marketing
Email marketing is one of the most powerful, effective ways to market your company and its products, but it's often overlooked.
Email - What is Email?
Well, unless you've been hiding for a generation, email or electronic mail, has become the #1 form of communication in modern society. According to recent estimates, the number is approaching around 60 Billion email messages per day!
Email is popular. Friends and family use it to stay in touch across long distances. Co-workers use it when it's more convenient than getting up and walking over or picking up the phone. Email is used to verify who you are (on various websites)... email is everywhere.
Knowing that email use is so prevalent it brings us to our next section - why email marketing?
Why Email Marketing?
In preparing for this article I was able to come up with 5 major reasons why a company or entity should do email marketing. These 6 reasons really ignore email marketing's statistics - low cost, high effectiveness, etc. and really just concentrate on the benefits to your business after you've implemented:
The Amazing Return On Investment
Sales & Discounts
News
Surveys
Saying in Front! (of your competition, of your clients, of vendors)
Return on Investment - According to Direct Marketing Association, email marketing generated an ROI of $51.58 for every dollar spent on it in 2006. The expected figure for 2007 is $48.56, and the prediction for 2008 is $45.65. Email marketing to in house lists outperforms all the other direct marketing like print pieces, brochures, sales pamphlets, etc. Email marketing is incredibly inexpensive to produce and replicate, but incredibly effective.
Send Information - there's always stuff going on at your business. You have updates, you have changes, you have information that your customers would appreciate having, and would appreciate knowing. Email marketing allows you to get out this information in an extremely efficient manner. Compose one email regarding a recent change at your business - target an appropriate group of clients (more to come regarding targeting) - and suddenly thousands of people you do business with every day know exactly what is going on. Sending information - the real heart of email - is probably one of the biggest (and simplest) reasons why you should be doing email marketing.
Sales & Discounts - Are you holding a special sale or offering long-time clients a special discount? Let your customers know and you could be bringing in many more times the business you are now. They say it's most effective to sell to an existing client. Email marketing is a prime way to efficiently (but personally) communicate sales, deals or discounts to your audience of potential and existing customers.
News - Communicate your good news! In business people like to know they are working with growing, prosperous companies. It rubs off! I met Colin Quinn a few years ago and contribute that awkward meeting in the Newark airport to my success today.
Just kidding, but if you have been mentioned in the paper or have had a ribbon cutting, let people know. Broadcast your good news, attain celebrity - even local celebrity, and continue to prosper.
Surveys - Your customers, vendors, employees - everyone you work with - deserve a voice. A quick email newsletter along with a survey can help you gain insight into all aspects of your business and associates.
Staying in Front - I saved the best for last. In my experience in setting up and creating email marketing, the biggest thing I would like to communicate is Staying in Front!
People only have a limited memory. If you performed a service - a great service - someone will probably tell a friend or two - or refer a business associate. But, as time goes by, as they get farther away from the date of the service, they may forget about you.
The detailing job you performed on your client's car was fantastic, but as time goes by - as situations in your client's life arise that warrant a referral (a friend of your clients buys a used car for example) - the transaction is so far away that they forget that you are available with a service that will benefit them.
Email marketing destroys this time barrier. Clients you performed services on years ago when properly informed on your latest information, sales, news, surveys, etc. are getting an inbox full of you and can't forget about you. Even if they don't read every email the constant small reminders are a great tool to help your business stay in front. Email marketing allows you to stay in front of all of those clients and vendors you worked so hard to get, but may not be working with or helping at this exact moment.
Additionally, an email newsletter helps you stay in front of your competition. I've talked with many companies recently unsatisfied with their vendors or other services they've hired out, but they can't even remember the company's name! People are busy, they will forget. But, if your client does get targeted by a competitor an email newsletter - one that has helped keep your company in your client's mind - is a great tool to retain your client.
Acquiring Email Addresses
There are a number of ways to acquire the email addresses of individuals to which you will send your email newsletter. Any amount of size will do. You can start small. We started with only about 60 or so addresses (friends, family, colleagues, clients, etc.). Your list will grow over time. But, the ONLY way in which you should acquire emails are via free methods:
Existing Associates - Tap your existing clients for emails. If you already have some kind of excel spreadsheet with all of your clients and vendors or if you are using more advanced CRM software start there. Compile your list from people you work with every day.
Networking Events - If you go to networking event ask everyone you meet if they would mine receiving your email newsletters. More often than not your list will grow incredibly fast once you start concentrating on it. Most of these suggestions involve events and people you attend and see every day.
Trade Show - Offer a free gift, guide, or consulting session to everyone who is willing to be added to your list. You're at the trade show to network and market your products or services, acquiring a real qualified email address allows you to do that for a lifetime.
Targeting - Different emails will have different audiences. A message you have for your vendors might not apply to your customers - in fact it might be imperative that you don't send that message as it will send mixed signals or tarnish relationships. That is why as you begin to acquire your list make sure to break it up. This process will vary depending on who you work with, generally you will have clients/customers, vendors, leads, friends & family, etc. As your list grows and you continue to hone in on your email marketing skills the more targeted your list is the better.
DO NOT USE PAID LISTS - Paid lists or compiling randomly found email addresses from websites throughout the net - although allowed - will lead to nothing but trouble in all but the most lucky or extreme of cases. Simply put, do not solicit to anyone that you haven't physically met or asked to a part of the newsletter - email marketing, when done right will take more time, but in the long run it will be more effective, have a higher return, and will keep you out of trouble.
Marketing to people who have not asked or given you permission can get your account banned from different services (if you are using a paid email newsletter service) destroying any hard work you put into the design or creation of your targeted lists.
Marketing to people who have not given you permission can also lead to the server where you send out the messages becoming black listed - hurting anyone else on that same server and leading to overall mail problems for your business and the other businesses on the server.
Creating Your Email Newsletter
You're ready to go, you've decided you want to do an email newsletter. You've spent sometime gathering some addresses what do you do next?
Service: - Create your email. There are a number of ways to do this. If you are on a very small budget or just starting out you can simply use your own email, outlook, hotmail, or yahoo will all work fine. Paste your contact emails, draft a short message and hit send.
Outlook users can also do what's called a mail merge - and if you've setup your email list through an excel document you can merge appropriate fields for a more personalized message.
If you're looking for something more advanced, maybe something that is designed to look like a newsletter with your logo, you can play around with the tools the above services offer or move to a complete email newsletter service.
Personally, I am a proponent of Constant Contact. We've been working with the service for years. It is very easy to use and customize and you pay per contacts - not per number of emails sent. That might not work for all companies, but if you have a 5000+ list of contacts and you send a message out twice a week, the number of emails sent quickly adds up.
If you are looking to create a more advanced look, with accurate tracking I highly recommend investing in one of these services.
Etiquette - Your email should be polite, but laid back. Speak to your audience in the 2nd person, it takes a while, but the affect is tremendous. In the end you know you're audience best - write your email for them. What works for a crazy online tee shirt company might not work for a financial advisor.
Subject Line - Make sure your subject line pertains to the body of your email but, be creative and inventive. Experiment with different ways to say what it is you've created. You need people to see your name, see your subject line, and want to click.
Design - Whether you use one of the above email newseltter services or just your plain email keep design in mind. You might not need a logo, fancy colors, or cool effects, but direct your audiences eye with bold text, bullet points, colors, etc. And make it as simple as possible. Email inboxes are getting more and more cluttered and people have little or no time to actually read. Quickly direct them to the most important points.
Content - Much like design, make your content short. Typically a paragraph works, but a few sentences is better. Time and time again in doing usability and optimization tests with clients emails that are short and simple perform the best. Additionally your email needs to include a call to action. Whether its drop dead simple - a big button asking your audience to donate - or included in the body of the text give your readers a next step. Do you want them to click, to call, etc. and whatever that goal is, make sure they can reach it quickly and simply.
Sending Email
When sending your emails there are two primary things to remember, send at the right time, and send to the right audience.
We discussed divvying your list up into different groups or lists. As you acquire the emails, break them out as best you can. That way, when sending emails you can send specific, targeted messages, to those particular groups. We've even gone so far as to create groups for certain events we've attended. That way we can send a message just to those people we've met - or perhaps a special promotion.
Timing is everything and email newsletters are no different. A message sent at 5:30 pm on a Friday will not usually be as effective as a one sent on a Wednesday at 2pm. Much like the crafting of your content, keep your audience's habits in mind. Do they check their email at 5am in the morning? Do they have busy work days involving lots of email? Overall we've found that email send in the middle of the week has last chance of getting bundled in with the end of the work week mess or the overflow that seems to pour in on Mondays. Time of day is also important. All audiences are different but if you are seeking professionals we've found mid afternoon is great. Most people have already sifted through their inbox mess and when your email pops up in the lower right hand corner of their screen it is a wonderful distraction.
Tracking Your Emails
Depending on what service you use to send your email tracking may be difficult or simple. This is another reason why we love the email newsletter services as they allow for easy, almost creepy, tracking. You can view email-over-email who clicked on what and when. As you continue to send out emails you may start to notice that a certain time works better or certain words in your subject line leads to better open rates.
As you do track your emails begin to experiment and refine. Overtime with slow tweaks you can have a highly opened email that almost everyone reads.
Legalities
Inspired by my recent trip to the Entrepreneurs Law School at FGCU I decided to throw in a little bit about the legalities surrounding email. Basically you can send email to anyone, at any address, no matter where or how you got that address as long as these basic requirements are met:
Use a non-elusive subjectline
Allow people to unsubscribe
Feature your company information (name, address, phone, etc.)
Whew... that was a lot. But, once you get started I am positive you'll be excited at the results. If you have any questions regarding email newsletters or would like to learn more please feel free to contact me [http://www.atilus.com/contact.html]!
Zachary Katkin is the founder of Naples Web Design Firm, Atilus Web Development & Internet Marketing. Zach can be contacted via the company's web site at http://www.atilus.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Zach_Katkin
Email marketing is one of the most powerful, effective ways to market your company and its products, but it's often overlooked.
Email - What is Email?
Well, unless you've been hiding for a generation, email or electronic mail, has become the #1 form of communication in modern society. According to recent estimates, the number is approaching around 60 Billion email messages per day!
Email is popular. Friends and family use it to stay in touch across long distances. Co-workers use it when it's more convenient than getting up and walking over or picking up the phone. Email is used to verify who you are (on various websites)... email is everywhere.
Knowing that email use is so prevalent it brings us to our next section - why email marketing?
Why Email Marketing?
In preparing for this article I was able to come up with 5 major reasons why a company or entity should do email marketing. These 6 reasons really ignore email marketing's statistics - low cost, high effectiveness, etc. and really just concentrate on the benefits to your business after you've implemented:
The Amazing Return On Investment
Sales & Discounts
News
Surveys
Saying in Front! (of your competition, of your clients, of vendors)
Return on Investment - According to Direct Marketing Association, email marketing generated an ROI of $51.58 for every dollar spent on it in 2006. The expected figure for 2007 is $48.56, and the prediction for 2008 is $45.65. Email marketing to in house lists outperforms all the other direct marketing like print pieces, brochures, sales pamphlets, etc. Email marketing is incredibly inexpensive to produce and replicate, but incredibly effective.
Send Information - there's always stuff going on at your business. You have updates, you have changes, you have information that your customers would appreciate having, and would appreciate knowing. Email marketing allows you to get out this information in an extremely efficient manner. Compose one email regarding a recent change at your business - target an appropriate group of clients (more to come regarding targeting) - and suddenly thousands of people you do business with every day know exactly what is going on. Sending information - the real heart of email - is probably one of the biggest (and simplest) reasons why you should be doing email marketing.
Sales & Discounts - Are you holding a special sale or offering long-time clients a special discount? Let your customers know and you could be bringing in many more times the business you are now. They say it's most effective to sell to an existing client. Email marketing is a prime way to efficiently (but personally) communicate sales, deals or discounts to your audience of potential and existing customers.
News - Communicate your good news! In business people like to know they are working with growing, prosperous companies. It rubs off! I met Colin Quinn a few years ago and contribute that awkward meeting in the Newark airport to my success today.
Just kidding, but if you have been mentioned in the paper or have had a ribbon cutting, let people know. Broadcast your good news, attain celebrity - even local celebrity, and continue to prosper.
Surveys - Your customers, vendors, employees - everyone you work with - deserve a voice. A quick email newsletter along with a survey can help you gain insight into all aspects of your business and associates.
Staying in Front - I saved the best for last. In my experience in setting up and creating email marketing, the biggest thing I would like to communicate is Staying in Front!
People only have a limited memory. If you performed a service - a great service - someone will probably tell a friend or two - or refer a business associate. But, as time goes by, as they get farther away from the date of the service, they may forget about you.
The detailing job you performed on your client's car was fantastic, but as time goes by - as situations in your client's life arise that warrant a referral (a friend of your clients buys a used car for example) - the transaction is so far away that they forget that you are available with a service that will benefit them.
Email marketing destroys this time barrier. Clients you performed services on years ago when properly informed on your latest information, sales, news, surveys, etc. are getting an inbox full of you and can't forget about you. Even if they don't read every email the constant small reminders are a great tool to help your business stay in front. Email marketing allows you to stay in front of all of those clients and vendors you worked so hard to get, but may not be working with or helping at this exact moment.
Additionally, an email newsletter helps you stay in front of your competition. I've talked with many companies recently unsatisfied with their vendors or other services they've hired out, but they can't even remember the company's name! People are busy, they will forget. But, if your client does get targeted by a competitor an email newsletter - one that has helped keep your company in your client's mind - is a great tool to retain your client.
Acquiring Email Addresses
There are a number of ways to acquire the email addresses of individuals to which you will send your email newsletter. Any amount of size will do. You can start small. We started with only about 60 or so addresses (friends, family, colleagues, clients, etc.). Your list will grow over time. But, the ONLY way in which you should acquire emails are via free methods:
Existing Associates - Tap your existing clients for emails. If you already have some kind of excel spreadsheet with all of your clients and vendors or if you are using more advanced CRM software start there. Compile your list from people you work with every day.
Networking Events - If you go to networking event ask everyone you meet if they would mine receiving your email newsletters. More often than not your list will grow incredibly fast once you start concentrating on it. Most of these suggestions involve events and people you attend and see every day.
Trade Show - Offer a free gift, guide, or consulting session to everyone who is willing to be added to your list. You're at the trade show to network and market your products or services, acquiring a real qualified email address allows you to do that for a lifetime.
Targeting - Different emails will have different audiences. A message you have for your vendors might not apply to your customers - in fact it might be imperative that you don't send that message as it will send mixed signals or tarnish relationships. That is why as you begin to acquire your list make sure to break it up. This process will vary depending on who you work with, generally you will have clients/customers, vendors, leads, friends & family, etc. As your list grows and you continue to hone in on your email marketing skills the more targeted your list is the better.
DO NOT USE PAID LISTS - Paid lists or compiling randomly found email addresses from websites throughout the net - although allowed - will lead to nothing but trouble in all but the most lucky or extreme of cases. Simply put, do not solicit to anyone that you haven't physically met or asked to a part of the newsletter - email marketing, when done right will take more time, but in the long run it will be more effective, have a higher return, and will keep you out of trouble.
Marketing to people who have not asked or given you permission can get your account banned from different services (if you are using a paid email newsletter service) destroying any hard work you put into the design or creation of your targeted lists.
Marketing to people who have not given you permission can also lead to the server where you send out the messages becoming black listed - hurting anyone else on that same server and leading to overall mail problems for your business and the other businesses on the server.
Creating Your Email Newsletter
You're ready to go, you've decided you want to do an email newsletter. You've spent sometime gathering some addresses what do you do next?
Service: - Create your email. There are a number of ways to do this. If you are on a very small budget or just starting out you can simply use your own email, outlook, hotmail, or yahoo will all work fine. Paste your contact emails, draft a short message and hit send.
Outlook users can also do what's called a mail merge - and if you've setup your email list through an excel document you can merge appropriate fields for a more personalized message.
If you're looking for something more advanced, maybe something that is designed to look like a newsletter with your logo, you can play around with the tools the above services offer or move to a complete email newsletter service.
Personally, I am a proponent of Constant Contact. We've been working with the service for years. It is very easy to use and customize and you pay per contacts - not per number of emails sent. That might not work for all companies, but if you have a 5000+ list of contacts and you send a message out twice a week, the number of emails sent quickly adds up.
If you are looking to create a more advanced look, with accurate tracking I highly recommend investing in one of these services.
Etiquette - Your email should be polite, but laid back. Speak to your audience in the 2nd person, it takes a while, but the affect is tremendous. In the end you know you're audience best - write your email for them. What works for a crazy online tee shirt company might not work for a financial advisor.
Subject Line - Make sure your subject line pertains to the body of your email but, be creative and inventive. Experiment with different ways to say what it is you've created. You need people to see your name, see your subject line, and want to click.
Design - Whether you use one of the above email newseltter services or just your plain email keep design in mind. You might not need a logo, fancy colors, or cool effects, but direct your audiences eye with bold text, bullet points, colors, etc. And make it as simple as possible. Email inboxes are getting more and more cluttered and people have little or no time to actually read. Quickly direct them to the most important points.
Content - Much like design, make your content short. Typically a paragraph works, but a few sentences is better. Time and time again in doing usability and optimization tests with clients emails that are short and simple perform the best. Additionally your email needs to include a call to action. Whether its drop dead simple - a big button asking your audience to donate - or included in the body of the text give your readers a next step. Do you want them to click, to call, etc. and whatever that goal is, make sure they can reach it quickly and simply.
Sending Email
When sending your emails there are two primary things to remember, send at the right time, and send to the right audience.
We discussed divvying your list up into different groups or lists. As you acquire the emails, break them out as best you can. That way, when sending emails you can send specific, targeted messages, to those particular groups. We've even gone so far as to create groups for certain events we've attended. That way we can send a message just to those people we've met - or perhaps a special promotion.
Timing is everything and email newsletters are no different. A message sent at 5:30 pm on a Friday will not usually be as effective as a one sent on a Wednesday at 2pm. Much like the crafting of your content, keep your audience's habits in mind. Do they check their email at 5am in the morning? Do they have busy work days involving lots of email? Overall we've found that email send in the middle of the week has last chance of getting bundled in with the end of the work week mess or the overflow that seems to pour in on Mondays. Time of day is also important. All audiences are different but if you are seeking professionals we've found mid afternoon is great. Most people have already sifted through their inbox mess and when your email pops up in the lower right hand corner of their screen it is a wonderful distraction.
Tracking Your Emails
Depending on what service you use to send your email tracking may be difficult or simple. This is another reason why we love the email newsletter services as they allow for easy, almost creepy, tracking. You can view email-over-email who clicked on what and when. As you continue to send out emails you may start to notice that a certain time works better or certain words in your subject line leads to better open rates.
As you do track your emails begin to experiment and refine. Overtime with slow tweaks you can have a highly opened email that almost everyone reads.
Legalities
Inspired by my recent trip to the Entrepreneurs Law School at FGCU I decided to throw in a little bit about the legalities surrounding email. Basically you can send email to anyone, at any address, no matter where or how you got that address as long as these basic requirements are met:
Use a non-elusive subjectline
Allow people to unsubscribe
Feature your company information (name, address, phone, etc.)
Whew... that was a lot. But, once you get started I am positive you'll be excited at the results. If you have any questions regarding email newsletters or would like to learn more please feel free to contact me [http://www.atilus.com/contact.html]!
Zachary Katkin is the founder of Naples Web Design Firm, Atilus Web Development & Internet Marketing. Zach can be contacted via the company's web site at http://www.atilus.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Zach_Katkin
Thursday, 8 April 2010
Understanding the Technology of Email
In the course of my work with people online, I often run into a
wall of confusion when I speak of the different types of email
available. People will ask help with their email accounts. I
always ask, "do you have a web mail account or a POP3 email
account?"
In my mind, it has always been a rather simple question. Yet,
the truth is that the answer is not so simple to most Internet
users. If you are scratching your head trying to figure out
just what I am talking about, you will be able to answer the
question without confusion by the time you finish reading this
article.
Real quickly, I would like to outline for you the distinctions
between the two types of email so that you can begin to
understand the differences between the two formats.
I will begin with POP3 since that is the one that is often the
most confusing and least known type.
POP3 email accounts require a piece of software called an email
reader in order to send and receive email. Common applications
that serve as email readers are: Netscape Messenger, Outlook
Express, Outlook, AOL email, Pegasys, Eudora, Juno and a few
others.
While email readers are often bundled with Internet browsers,
they are actually a separate piece of software. With a reader,
when you are ready to check your email, you start your email
software. Once it opens, click a button on your toolbar to
download your email and wait for your email to download to
your computer so that you can begin reading it.
When you are ready to create a new email to send to others, you
have the options of Reply, Forward, or New Message. Which ever
method you use, you must click the correct button inside your
software to create the new message.
Advantages of POP3 email:
- You can read your mail without being logged onto the Internet.
- You may create new messages to send to others without being
logged onto the Internet.
- All messages are stored on your hard drive on your own
computer.
- There are often no size limits on the email you send or
receive.
- There is not a maximum size on your mailbox, except as
determined by the size of your hard drive.
- There is no advertising when you read your email unless you
are using an Adware email reader like Eudora.
- Opening attachments is a quick and painless process.
Disadvantages of POP3 email:
- Opening attachments is a quick and painless process, unless
the attachment has a virus payload in it.
- If you have JavaScript enabled in your email reader, you might
be target of rogue JavaScript embedded in an email.
- All messages are stored on your system, and privacy disappears
when someone sits down at your machine. Even if your email
reader is password protected, it is often possible for someone
who knows what they are doing to read your email by using
another application to open your mail folders.
- All messages are stored on your hard drive eating up what is
sometimes very valuable space.
- Email folders can become corrupted and sometimes lost forever.
To get a much more detailed view of exactly how POP3 email
works, there are actually two different servers running on
a server machine. One is called the SMTP Server, where SMTP
stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The SMTP server
handles outgoing mail. The other is a POP3 Server, where POP
stands for Post Office Protocol. The POP3 server handles
incoming mail. The following link provides a look at exactly
how POP3 email works in detail:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/email.htm/printable
Web-based email is the type that people are most familiar with.
Whereas POP3 email requires an email reader, web mail only
requires a browser like Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera,
NeoPlanet or Enigma.
Common brands of web-based email include: Yahoo!, Hotmail,
AltaVista, Lycos, USA, Netscape.net and thousands of others.
The Advantages of web-based email includes:
- You only need a browser to check your email from any computer
on the planet.
- Your email is 100% secure from folks browsing your computer,
unless the person acquires your password.
- Email is stored on someone else's server.
- You do not have to wait for your email to download.
The Disadvantages of web-based email include:
- Most web-based email accounts have a size limit.
- Some accounts have a limit to the size of an individual email.
- Emails of more than 25kb are often changed into attachments.
- Getting an attachment out of one of these emails is sometimes
very difficult.
- Most of these accounts have spam filters that send requested
ezines into the spam folder.
- Nearly all of these accounts have lots of advertising while
you are reading your mail.
- You must be online to view your email.
For years, your only choice has been POP3 or web-based email. In
this last couple of years, a new type of email reader application
has come onto the scene. This type of application is an email
retrieval software which allows you to check your mail on both
POP3 and web-based email accounts. This software provides you
most of the functionality of POP3 email reader software, but it
permits you to check both types of email accounts at the same
time.
There are several different programs available in this genre.
Among those that are available, the best I have found is an
application called ePrompter at: http://eprompter.com/
ePrompter will permit you to check up to 8 different email
accounts at a time, both POP3 accounts and most web-based email
accounts. As with most email readers and browsers, ePrompter is
a Free application.
Just like a Dummy book, this article serves only as an
introduction to the different types of email available on
the net. The "How Stuff Works" site does a very good job at
describing how POP3 email works. To get a complete grasp of
how email works, please take a look at the "How Email Works"
tutorial at: http://www.howstuffworks.com/email.htm/printable
Copyright Bill Platt - All Rights Reserved
Bill Platt is the owner of http://www.LinksAndTraffic.com
When you are tired of the struggle of the link building process, it might be time to consider our "Links And Traffic" services.
When you are ready to employ more Natural Linking Strategies in increasing your link popularity, "Links And Traffic" can help.
When you are ready for your links to actually generate click-through traffic, we are here.
This is not a link rental system or a reciprocal linking scam. We Guarantee our results.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Bill_Platt
wall of confusion when I speak of the different types of email
available. People will ask help with their email accounts. I
always ask, "do you have a web mail account or a POP3 email
account?"
In my mind, it has always been a rather simple question. Yet,
the truth is that the answer is not so simple to most Internet
users. If you are scratching your head trying to figure out
just what I am talking about, you will be able to answer the
question without confusion by the time you finish reading this
article.
Real quickly, I would like to outline for you the distinctions
between the two types of email so that you can begin to
understand the differences between the two formats.
I will begin with POP3 since that is the one that is often the
most confusing and least known type.
POP3 email accounts require a piece of software called an email
reader in order to send and receive email. Common applications
that serve as email readers are: Netscape Messenger, Outlook
Express, Outlook, AOL email, Pegasys, Eudora, Juno and a few
others.
While email readers are often bundled with Internet browsers,
they are actually a separate piece of software. With a reader,
when you are ready to check your email, you start your email
software. Once it opens, click a button on your toolbar to
download your email and wait for your email to download to
your computer so that you can begin reading it.
When you are ready to create a new email to send to others, you
have the options of Reply, Forward, or New Message. Which ever
method you use, you must click the correct button inside your
software to create the new message.
Advantages of POP3 email:
- You can read your mail without being logged onto the Internet.
- You may create new messages to send to others without being
logged onto the Internet.
- All messages are stored on your hard drive on your own
computer.
- There are often no size limits on the email you send or
receive.
- There is not a maximum size on your mailbox, except as
determined by the size of your hard drive.
- There is no advertising when you read your email unless you
are using an Adware email reader like Eudora.
- Opening attachments is a quick and painless process.
Disadvantages of POP3 email:
- Opening attachments is a quick and painless process, unless
the attachment has a virus payload in it.
- If you have JavaScript enabled in your email reader, you might
be target of rogue JavaScript embedded in an email.
- All messages are stored on your system, and privacy disappears
when someone sits down at your machine. Even if your email
reader is password protected, it is often possible for someone
who knows what they are doing to read your email by using
another application to open your mail folders.
- All messages are stored on your hard drive eating up what is
sometimes very valuable space.
- Email folders can become corrupted and sometimes lost forever.
To get a much more detailed view of exactly how POP3 email
works, there are actually two different servers running on
a server machine. One is called the SMTP Server, where SMTP
stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The SMTP server
handles outgoing mail. The other is a POP3 Server, where POP
stands for Post Office Protocol. The POP3 server handles
incoming mail. The following link provides a look at exactly
how POP3 email works in detail:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/email.htm/printable
Web-based email is the type that people are most familiar with.
Whereas POP3 email requires an email reader, web mail only
requires a browser like Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera,
NeoPlanet or Enigma.
Common brands of web-based email include: Yahoo!, Hotmail,
AltaVista, Lycos, USA, Netscape.net and thousands of others.
The Advantages of web-based email includes:
- You only need a browser to check your email from any computer
on the planet.
- Your email is 100% secure from folks browsing your computer,
unless the person acquires your password.
- Email is stored on someone else's server.
- You do not have to wait for your email to download.
The Disadvantages of web-based email include:
- Most web-based email accounts have a size limit.
- Some accounts have a limit to the size of an individual email.
- Emails of more than 25kb are often changed into attachments.
- Getting an attachment out of one of these emails is sometimes
very difficult.
- Most of these accounts have spam filters that send requested
ezines into the spam folder.
- Nearly all of these accounts have lots of advertising while
you are reading your mail.
- You must be online to view your email.
For years, your only choice has been POP3 or web-based email. In
this last couple of years, a new type of email reader application
has come onto the scene. This type of application is an email
retrieval software which allows you to check your mail on both
POP3 and web-based email accounts. This software provides you
most of the functionality of POP3 email reader software, but it
permits you to check both types of email accounts at the same
time.
There are several different programs available in this genre.
Among those that are available, the best I have found is an
application called ePrompter at: http://eprompter.com/
ePrompter will permit you to check up to 8 different email
accounts at a time, both POP3 accounts and most web-based email
accounts. As with most email readers and browsers, ePrompter is
a Free application.
Just like a Dummy book, this article serves only as an
introduction to the different types of email available on
the net. The "How Stuff Works" site does a very good job at
describing how POP3 email works. To get a complete grasp of
how email works, please take a look at the "How Email Works"
tutorial at: http://www.howstuffworks.com/email.htm/printable
Copyright Bill Platt - All Rights Reserved
Bill Platt is the owner of http://www.LinksAndTraffic.com
When you are tired of the struggle of the link building process, it might be time to consider our "Links And Traffic" services.
When you are ready to employ more Natural Linking Strategies in increasing your link popularity, "Links And Traffic" can help.
When you are ready for your links to actually generate click-through traffic, we are here.
This is not a link rental system or a reciprocal linking scam. We Guarantee our results.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Bill_Platt
Monday, 22 March 2010
Locating People by Email Address
One of the most common ways of communicating over the net is the use of emails. It is only natural that there should be services that are able to locate people based on their email addresses. Read about what this search involves from the following article.
If you are looking for ways of locating people by email address then you will get some answers from the following paragraphs. There are various ways that an email address can be used to locate its owner. One of the commonest ways is to use the information that is contained in the header information of the email address. The header contains information about the sender, the date, time, subject and IP address of the sender.
This would be one way of locating people by email address. There are services that you will find that are able to trace IP addresses and any other information that is contained in the header of an email. The other option would be to use places that are able to carry out reverse email searches. These are places that are able to identify the owner of a particular email address. Yahoo has an email people search service; you can check it out to see if you can carry out reverse email searches from it.
Besides Yahoo, there are a whole lot of other locators on the net that are capable of carrying out both forward and reverse searches for email addresses. You can look up some of these places and use to try and find the person you want. Like I said there are so many of these places you should not have any trouble finding a place that you can use for locating people by email address
You May find this very useful: Prison People Finder even if you are looking for people by email.
Alternatively See: Free People Information
Popular site related to this topic: FindWhoo.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dumit_Faccu
If you are looking for ways of locating people by email address then you will get some answers from the following paragraphs. There are various ways that an email address can be used to locate its owner. One of the commonest ways is to use the information that is contained in the header information of the email address. The header contains information about the sender, the date, time, subject and IP address of the sender.
This would be one way of locating people by email address. There are services that you will find that are able to trace IP addresses and any other information that is contained in the header of an email. The other option would be to use places that are able to carry out reverse email searches. These are places that are able to identify the owner of a particular email address. Yahoo has an email people search service; you can check it out to see if you can carry out reverse email searches from it.
Besides Yahoo, there are a whole lot of other locators on the net that are capable of carrying out both forward and reverse searches for email addresses. You can look up some of these places and use to try and find the person you want. Like I said there are so many of these places you should not have any trouble finding a place that you can use for locating people by email address
You May find this very useful: Prison People Finder even if you are looking for people by email.
Alternatively See: Free People Information
Popular site related to this topic: FindWhoo.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dumit_Faccu
Friday, 19 March 2010
Reverse Email Address Lookup
Reverse Email Address Lookup - Get Detailed Information on Unknown Email Senders
Reverse email address lookup is an efficient means through which a person can get useful and detailed information to determine the identity of an email account holder. Just by providing the email address of a person, you can find out all you want to know about him.
If you are one of those who frequently complain of receiving e-mails from people you do not know or whose identity is kind of dubious. If you have a desire to establish contact with the person, but you do not know the means through which you can do it, then this service is for you. Have you been receiving e-mails from persons who claim to be your friend? This service can help you get in-touch with old friends or schoolmates by verifying information on them.
The email reverse lookup is also useful if you need to be on the lookout for a loved one who may have been missing for quite some time. In this situation, you can use the email reverse lookup to determine the location of the person and put an end to your curiosity.
E-mail reverse lookup can be used in cases of bounced e-mail account; this enables you retrieve additional contact information and make sure that it is conveyed to the right recipient.
The comfort and convenience of finding and obtaining information through this service requires a reasonably small amount of money. The service rendered not only saves time, but also saves a lot of effort when looking for information on your own.
Whatever your reason for using this service, one thing is certain, the service does not require much effort, it is convenient, reliable, affordable, and fast. Furthermore, information in its database is frequently updated to ensure that users are provided with information that will aid their quest to find whoever they want to find.
Want to trace an e-mail address to track down the owner easily? CLICK HERE!
For more useful tips and reliable e-mail look up services, visit http://reverseemaillookupservices.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=James_Cahn
Reverse email address lookup is an efficient means through which a person can get useful and detailed information to determine the identity of an email account holder. Just by providing the email address of a person, you can find out all you want to know about him.
If you are one of those who frequently complain of receiving e-mails from people you do not know or whose identity is kind of dubious. If you have a desire to establish contact with the person, but you do not know the means through which you can do it, then this service is for you. Have you been receiving e-mails from persons who claim to be your friend? This service can help you get in-touch with old friends or schoolmates by verifying information on them.
The email reverse lookup is also useful if you need to be on the lookout for a loved one who may have been missing for quite some time. In this situation, you can use the email reverse lookup to determine the location of the person and put an end to your curiosity.
E-mail reverse lookup can be used in cases of bounced e-mail account; this enables you retrieve additional contact information and make sure that it is conveyed to the right recipient.
The comfort and convenience of finding and obtaining information through this service requires a reasonably small amount of money. The service rendered not only saves time, but also saves a lot of effort when looking for information on your own.
Whatever your reason for using this service, one thing is certain, the service does not require much effort, it is convenient, reliable, affordable, and fast. Furthermore, information in its database is frequently updated to ensure that users are provided with information that will aid their quest to find whoever they want to find.
Want to trace an e-mail address to track down the owner easily? CLICK HERE!
For more useful tips and reliable e-mail look up services, visit http://reverseemaillookupservices.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=James_Cahn
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Finding Email Addresses
If you are sure about the operation and composition of email addresses, you are therefore ready and better placed in the aspect of finding email addresses of your friends or coworkers. It is important to know about the username, normally referred to as ID and the domain usually estranged by @. You must understand that domains can help you uniquely identify any organization that has email addresses as easy as possible.
A lot of people are always frustrated when they fail to locate emails addresses of their friends simply because there is no straightforward way they use. Lack of a master or general list of email accounts across the world makes email address search an uphill task for most of them. So that a master list or record of email addresses exist in the directory, those companies offering email service must ensure they remit all the information details to a central master file. It may not look easy either for email service providers; they will be expected to seek the service of a recognized body or organization to operate this service.
Even if an international company or organization is established to offer this service, the problem of finding email addresses will be over; you will be required to go an extra mile and try one of the following techniques;
Try using the messages you received preciously
It is possible to locate an email address of someone had initially exchanged messages. You will realize that the message bears the email account. Look at "From", you will definitely spot the email address and the name of the corresponding person. You may at times find some angled brackets such as () attached on the email addresses, simply overlook them; they only act as a frame to the email account and nothing more.
Try asking people
The easiest way you can use to help you find email address of someone is simply ask them. They are the best and automatic key to help you unravel the mystery behind the location of an email address. Anyway, this is only possible if you know the person of the corresponding email address.
Access the directories
Nowadays, we have directories that keep records of email addresses of individuals and organizations, but one handicap about them is that they are very few. These directories help find email accounts in c several ways; they snoop in internet or web pages or even try to look at Usenet so that they can locate the given email address. People can freely submit their email addresses to directories if they want their friends to locate them easily.
Searching the internet or web
By searching the web using the person's name it can also help you in finding email addresses of your friends. By typing or entering the name say Simon peter in a particular search engine, names corresponding to your s will surface. You can definitely pick on you're the one you are interested in. an email address might be alongside the name and if not, you'll find a lead to the organization he/ or she works for. As a take away for you; you can also use guess work theory to find someone's email account.
Are you ready to learn on finding email addresses today? Visit http://www.FindEmailAddressFast.com/ for more information!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=C_G_Finley
A lot of people are always frustrated when they fail to locate emails addresses of their friends simply because there is no straightforward way they use. Lack of a master or general list of email accounts across the world makes email address search an uphill task for most of them. So that a master list or record of email addresses exist in the directory, those companies offering email service must ensure they remit all the information details to a central master file. It may not look easy either for email service providers; they will be expected to seek the service of a recognized body or organization to operate this service.
Even if an international company or organization is established to offer this service, the problem of finding email addresses will be over; you will be required to go an extra mile and try one of the following techniques;
Try using the messages you received preciously
It is possible to locate an email address of someone had initially exchanged messages. You will realize that the message bears the email account. Look at "From", you will definitely spot the email address and the name of the corresponding person. You may at times find some angled brackets such as () attached on the email addresses, simply overlook them; they only act as a frame to the email account and nothing more.
Try asking people
The easiest way you can use to help you find email address of someone is simply ask them. They are the best and automatic key to help you unravel the mystery behind the location of an email address. Anyway, this is only possible if you know the person of the corresponding email address.
Access the directories
Nowadays, we have directories that keep records of email addresses of individuals and organizations, but one handicap about them is that they are very few. These directories help find email accounts in c several ways; they snoop in internet or web pages or even try to look at Usenet so that they can locate the given email address. People can freely submit their email addresses to directories if they want their friends to locate them easily.
Searching the internet or web
By searching the web using the person's name it can also help you in finding email addresses of your friends. By typing or entering the name say Simon peter in a particular search engine, names corresponding to your s will surface. You can definitely pick on you're the one you are interested in. an email address might be alongside the name and if not, you'll find a lead to the organization he/ or she works for. As a take away for you; you can also use guess work theory to find someone's email account.
Are you ready to learn on finding email addresses today? Visit http://www.FindEmailAddressFast.com/ for more information!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=C_G_Finley
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Is it Possible to Find Out Who Owns a Certain Email Address?
If you're like most people, every now and then an email address that you don't recognize appears in your inbox. Now obviously there's a lot of spam out there, but sometimes there's an email that you don't think is junk yet you're left wondering who it's from. Today we'll go over how using a reverse email search can help you get that information.
Since this is such a common problem online, certain companies have stepped up to the plate to offer a solution. These companies have built up huge databases that contain information on email addresses and the people that own them.
The goal is to provide you with full details about who owns any email you're curious about. You enter the email address and the results are instantly displayed on the screen. Depending on the information that's in the database, you can find out the owner's full name, address and even background information.
It's impressive to see all the information you can uncover.
These companies have to purchase various public records and continuously maintain and update the databases, so they do charge for running this type of search. It's not expensive though and the better companies will offer a membership option which charges you a one-time fee for unlimited searches.
You can also see if you can find the same information for free by simply entering the email address into Google. Sometimes you'll find the info you're looking for if the email has been listed in a profile or classified ad online. It's not always reliable, but worth a shot.
Using a reverse email lookup is a great way to get information on the owner of any email address you're curious about.
Running a reverse email lookup isn't complicated - you just type in the email address and you'll get the details displayed on your screen. Click here to try a free sample search to see exactly how this works!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Grant_Dougan
Since this is such a common problem online, certain companies have stepped up to the plate to offer a solution. These companies have built up huge databases that contain information on email addresses and the people that own them.
The goal is to provide you with full details about who owns any email you're curious about. You enter the email address and the results are instantly displayed on the screen. Depending on the information that's in the database, you can find out the owner's full name, address and even background information.
It's impressive to see all the information you can uncover.
These companies have to purchase various public records and continuously maintain and update the databases, so they do charge for running this type of search. It's not expensive though and the better companies will offer a membership option which charges you a one-time fee for unlimited searches.
You can also see if you can find the same information for free by simply entering the email address into Google. Sometimes you'll find the info you're looking for if the email has been listed in a profile or classified ad online. It's not always reliable, but worth a shot.
Using a reverse email lookup is a great way to get information on the owner of any email address you're curious about.
Running a reverse email lookup isn't complicated - you just type in the email address and you'll get the details displayed on your screen. Click here to try a free sample search to see exactly how this works!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Grant_Dougan
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Reverse Email Lookup
Gone are the days when all hope of finding a relative or friend is lost just by the loss of some vital information on the person e.g. the home address or phone number. As long as you still remember the name of such person, then you can get a load of information on him or her.
There are a lot of options of finding people that are available on the internet. This includes search engines, social network sites, business network sites, reverse email lookup and newsgroups. All these are effective but the most effective and reliable is the reverse email lookup which helps to search out and compile available information found on and off the internet on people.
The service provided by the reverse email search can be appreciated the more if one considers the level of reliability of information gotten from the use of the other options listed above. Knowing that people might want to search out information on them, members of the network and group sites listed above may not give up full and true details on themselves. Some give nicknames, initials or old or fake addresses. Search engines will only give information on people that are posted on public forum. Moreover, search engines prompt for names as well as additional information (which may not be available to you) on the person you are searching for.
The providers of reverse email lookup acquire their information from various sources both on and off the internet. Most of the time, they pay to get there information from reliable sources. Details provided by this lookup may include names, phone numbers, home and office address, criminal records, licenses, marriage records, birth records etc. some sites offer this service for free but others require a small subscription fee. But you can bet that the paid service will give you an up-to-date and a more dependable result.
The reverse email lookup usually give two options- either by name or email address. Since you may not forget the name of your former friend or relative, you can use the name search but you should be ready to sort through a lot of people bearing the same name with whoever you are looking for. Using the e-mail search option will help narrow down your result because it is hard to find two people having the same e-mail address.
Want to trace an e-mail to get name, address and phone number of sender? CLICK HERE
For useful tips and reliable look up options, visit http://emailaddresslookup.info
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=O_Sean_Thompson
There are a lot of options of finding people that are available on the internet. This includes search engines, social network sites, business network sites, reverse email lookup and newsgroups. All these are effective but the most effective and reliable is the reverse email lookup which helps to search out and compile available information found on and off the internet on people.
The service provided by the reverse email search can be appreciated the more if one considers the level of reliability of information gotten from the use of the other options listed above. Knowing that people might want to search out information on them, members of the network and group sites listed above may not give up full and true details on themselves. Some give nicknames, initials or old or fake addresses. Search engines will only give information on people that are posted on public forum. Moreover, search engines prompt for names as well as additional information (which may not be available to you) on the person you are searching for.
The providers of reverse email lookup acquire their information from various sources both on and off the internet. Most of the time, they pay to get there information from reliable sources. Details provided by this lookup may include names, phone numbers, home and office address, criminal records, licenses, marriage records, birth records etc. some sites offer this service for free but others require a small subscription fee. But you can bet that the paid service will give you an up-to-date and a more dependable result.
The reverse email lookup usually give two options- either by name or email address. Since you may not forget the name of your former friend or relative, you can use the name search but you should be ready to sort through a lot of people bearing the same name with whoever you are looking for. Using the e-mail search option will help narrow down your result because it is hard to find two people having the same e-mail address.
Want to trace an e-mail to get name, address and phone number of sender? CLICK HERE
For useful tips and reliable look up options, visit http://emailaddresslookup.info
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=O_Sean_Thompson
Friday, 29 January 2010
How to Find Email Addresses by Using a Unique Search Tactic
If you have ever tried to find someones' email address you will know that it's not as easy as it may seem. Maybe you can't remember or maybe the email address has changed.
The worst part about this experience is that you may not even have a lot of information on the person whose email you're trying to locate. If you want to find an email by address there are a couple of things you can do to find what you're looking for fast.
One thing you can do to find an email by address is through using a discussion system known as Usenet. Usenet allows readers to read and post public messages on a number of categories. it was developed by Tom Triscott and Jim Ellison in 1980.
Luckily for you, you can do more with Usenet than read and post public messages. Most people don't know you can use Usenet to find a person's email by using their address.
Or if the person you're looking for has a favorite subject they like to discuss, there is a chance that they might have posted in a relevant news group. To search for an email using Usenet newsgroups you can try searching for their name or address first. You can also use this search tactic by looking into the subjects you know they like to talk about.
If you locate the person you're looking for then there is a chance that you will find their email address as well. However, most people don't use their primary email address so they can avoid spam.
If this search tactic fails and you have tried other methods to find an email by address there is one last thing you can do. An almost 100% guaranteed way to find the email address you're looking for is to perform a email reverse search.
This search method was designed for this purpose in mind. You simply type in any information you know such as their address, and within a matter of minutes it will return relevant, and updated contact information for the person you're looking for, such as their email. Using this search method is the fastest way to find an email by address.
For the fastest and easiest way to find someone Email Reverse Search. This is by far the best Reverse Email Search Service out there----> Click Here
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jamie_Rhodes
If you want to conduct an email address look up over the internet you'll be happy to know there are many ways to do it. This article shows you two different ways of looking up an email address online for free.
1. Use The Search Engines For Email Address Look Up
Many people post their email address on various websites. You'll find email addresses on just about every type of site from classified websites to personal home pages and blogs. If the email you're looking for is posted on a website, then you're in luck. Just go to any of the major search engines and search for the email address using the search engine's search facility. If you get weird results try putting quotes around the email addresses so that you can get an exact match. For example, instead of searching for john2323@jon..com, search for "john2323@jon..com". This will ensure that only results that have that exact email address will be returned.
Try different search engines so that you can increase the likelihood of finding a match. You can search using Google.com, MSN.com, Yahoo.com or Ask.com. Some pages that are indexed by certain search engines may not be indexed by others so it's always a good idea to try your search at various search engines.
If you still can't find anything, try searching only for the first part of the email address. Some websites hide part of the email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting email addresses posted on their sites. So instead of searching for "john2323@jon..com", you'd search only for john2323@ or john2323.
2. Use The Email Provider's Websites For Email Address Look Up.
Some email providers allow users to create profiles. If the email address belongs to one of these providers, you can go to their website and try to find some information about the owner of the email address you're researching. For example, Yahoo allows their user's to participate in Yahoo groups and post their profile for other members to see. Most people will normally keep the first part of their Yahoo email as their Yahoo ID. So you can research this ID and see if you can find a profile on other Yahoo websites. Other email providers such as AOL and Hotmail (MSN) use a similar system of ID's/Usernames/Screen names and profiles.
These methods can be time consuming particularly if you can't find an email address posted on a website. If the email provider has no system of profiles, you may not be able to use the second method either. An alternative method would be to use a reverse lookup directory. These contain millions of public records that you can access online. All you need to do is enter the email address in the search box provided and the system searches the directory database for a match. When a match is found the information is displayed for you to see. The information usually includes the name and address of the email owner. There are lots of reverse lookup directories online and you can find them by doing a search on any major search engine.
Do You Need to Look Up an Email Address Online? Click here for a comprehensive list of websites where you can lookup any email address and find out who it belongs to. You can also search by name and find people's email addresses. Visit the Reverse Search and Look Up Directory website for more tips and advice on how to find information online.
Copyright © Sylvia Richards.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sylvia_Richards
The worst part about this experience is that you may not even have a lot of information on the person whose email you're trying to locate. If you want to find an email by address there are a couple of things you can do to find what you're looking for fast.
One thing you can do to find an email by address is through using a discussion system known as Usenet. Usenet allows readers to read and post public messages on a number of categories. it was developed by Tom Triscott and Jim Ellison in 1980.
Luckily for you, you can do more with Usenet than read and post public messages. Most people don't know you can use Usenet to find a person's email by using their address.
Or if the person you're looking for has a favorite subject they like to discuss, there is a chance that they might have posted in a relevant news group. To search for an email using Usenet newsgroups you can try searching for their name or address first. You can also use this search tactic by looking into the subjects you know they like to talk about.
If you locate the person you're looking for then there is a chance that you will find their email address as well. However, most people don't use their primary email address so they can avoid spam.
If this search tactic fails and you have tried other methods to find an email by address there is one last thing you can do. An almost 100% guaranteed way to find the email address you're looking for is to perform a email reverse search.
This search method was designed for this purpose in mind. You simply type in any information you know such as their address, and within a matter of minutes it will return relevant, and updated contact information for the person you're looking for, such as their email. Using this search method is the fastest way to find an email by address.
For the fastest and easiest way to find someone Email Reverse Search. This is by far the best Reverse Email Search Service out there----> Click Here
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jamie_Rhodes
If you want to conduct an email address look up over the internet you'll be happy to know there are many ways to do it. This article shows you two different ways of looking up an email address online for free.
1. Use The Search Engines For Email Address Look Up
Many people post their email address on various websites. You'll find email addresses on just about every type of site from classified websites to personal home pages and blogs. If the email you're looking for is posted on a website, then you're in luck. Just go to any of the major search engines and search for the email address using the search engine's search facility. If you get weird results try putting quotes around the email addresses so that you can get an exact match. For example, instead of searching for john2323@jon..com, search for "john2323@jon..com". This will ensure that only results that have that exact email address will be returned.
Try different search engines so that you can increase the likelihood of finding a match. You can search using Google.com, MSN.com, Yahoo.com or Ask.com. Some pages that are indexed by certain search engines may not be indexed by others so it's always a good idea to try your search at various search engines.
If you still can't find anything, try searching only for the first part of the email address. Some websites hide part of the email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting email addresses posted on their sites. So instead of searching for "john2323@jon..com", you'd search only for john2323@ or john2323.
2. Use The Email Provider's Websites For Email Address Look Up.
Some email providers allow users to create profiles. If the email address belongs to one of these providers, you can go to their website and try to find some information about the owner of the email address you're researching. For example, Yahoo allows their user's to participate in Yahoo groups and post their profile for other members to see. Most people will normally keep the first part of their Yahoo email as their Yahoo ID. So you can research this ID and see if you can find a profile on other Yahoo websites. Other email providers such as AOL and Hotmail (MSN) use a similar system of ID's/Usernames/Screen names and profiles.
These methods can be time consuming particularly if you can't find an email address posted on a website. If the email provider has no system of profiles, you may not be able to use the second method either. An alternative method would be to use a reverse lookup directory. These contain millions of public records that you can access online. All you need to do is enter the email address in the search box provided and the system searches the directory database for a match. When a match is found the information is displayed for you to see. The information usually includes the name and address of the email owner. There are lots of reverse lookup directories online and you can find them by doing a search on any major search engine.
Do You Need to Look Up an Email Address Online? Click here for a comprehensive list of websites where you can lookup any email address and find out who it belongs to. You can also search by name and find people's email addresses. Visit the Reverse Search and Look Up Directory website for more tips and advice on how to find information online.
Copyright © Sylvia Richards.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sylvia_Richards
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