As an interesting side note, I know I am a little blog in a sea of a billion other blogs out here in the world wide wilderness of the internet, so why shortly after I posted my article about evites did I suddenly get more traffic?

Is it because I optimize for search engines? Ha! My specialty is Website Design providing, NOT spending endless amounts of time chasing after the big-dog search engines begging them, tricking and bribing them to be listed. Take a look at that blog and tell...

Kristine Cherry

First off, you might be asking some serious questions like these:

1. What are online newsletters, or eNewsletters as they are commonly called?

2. How are they done and what is their purpose?

3. How do they get me more customers, leads and/or sales?

4. Why should I go with a hosting company for the email lists I will be sending them to?

Let’s address these questions before going further. I promise you these answers will be...

Kristine Cherry

I did a cost analysis for a client last year when they were shopping around for newsletter hosting sites. They had heard about Constant Contact and currently had Net Atlantic and asked me to do a comparison. Here are the results of that analysis:

Pricing (the thing everyone wants to know first) -

1. An option to build your own templates and include surveys with a “survey wizard” are already included in the price for Net Atlantic, BUT there is an additional charge for...

Kristine Cherry

Kristine Cherry

When posting to forums, learn which symbols mean a topic is “hot”, i.e. one that is viewed and commented on A LOT. It might be a picture of a piece of paper on fire, or even the word “HOT” to the left of the title of the post. Commenting on these topics will get your posts seen more often than posting anywhere else in that forum.

Another tip…some forums (like one I discovered tonight), actually tell you how many people are viewing that topic RIGHT NOW. Go there - post, comment, participate....

Kristine Cherry