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SEPTEMBER 5, 2006

Chris shares his knowledge and thoughts on email-related topics such as database marketing, list building, and *spam*. It also appears that we have similar tastes in reading (though I spent my 4th of July weekend expanding my kids' treehouse).

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 17, 2006

It avoids the problems of automated linking solutions that don't generated links from relevant sites and (mostly) avoids spam by providing your site information only to those with related content. This is a free service that allows you to contact the Webmasters at other sites with content similar to yours and exchange links.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Sure, you'll pick mostly spam bots and low-activity accounts, but you're bound to catch a few suckers in there as well! They randomly follow a whole bunch of the people, then as soon as those folks follow you back, the tools automatically unfollow them and start over with a new group. Finally, there are your tweets themselves.

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AUGUST 14, 2006

With even the most carefully-worded search terms result in thousands of hits, PPC costs are rising, and new laws and spam filters have reduced the impact of email marketing, catalogs remain a powerful marketing tool.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

is another great way to really annoy a blogger, assure that all of your future messages are viewed as spam, and you get no coverage. Sending a follow-up note saying "Hey, I wrote to you about this a week ago, why haven't you written about it yet?" Note that this is not to be confused, however, with polite, periodic follow up.

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OCTOBER 27, 2008

Who's In Your Audience or Community? by Search Marketing Gurus Contending that "An online marketing strategy includes SEO, PPC, Social Media and even Word of Mouth.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Users receive an email notification whenever a new member follows their updates; simultaneously adding dozens or more followers looks like spamming to the Twitter community." Twitter Tools Similar in concept to Facebook applications —but different—Twitter has spawned an industry in clever little tools.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 10, 2009

Messages that start with "Dear Webmaster" (even when the site administrator's name is easy to find), request links to unrelated sites, state that they are "not spam!" Automating the link acquisition process , on the other hand, is a worst practice. and are sent from a free email account are automated, worthless junk.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

And then you email them with something interesting that they are likely to write about rather than spamming them with unsolicited press releases.” Taking your message directly to your prospects through thought-leadership news releases is a more productive approach to the media as well. It teaches you precisely what interests them.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 14, 2008

Use Plain Old Snail Mail With email burnout increasing and ever-tightening spam filters in place to keep out anything that smacks remotely of marketing, email promotion is becoming less effective. Although physical mail obviously costs more, it can help your offer stand out.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Quit using Email to train your leads to ignore you by Marketing Interactions Marketing strategist and blogger Ardath Albee lays out a detailed, step-by-step guide to creating an effective email marketing campaign, as opposed to the spam-like programs too often created even by marketing pros who should know better.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia (among the worst nofollow offenders ), "The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. But today, Akismet solves the link spam problem on blogs. Blog readers and bloggers were well aware of the immense problem. If you're trying to promote your own content, it won't work.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

80% of marketers say that email is the strongest performing media buy and that it has a higher ROI than search"), her mother's resistance to using the Internet (I can totally relate; my mother is the same way), the most important elements of the CAN-SPAM law, and a few helpful tips for improving email marketing success (e.g.,

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

5 Social Media Mistakes To Avoid by ZoopMedia In another post on the theme of social media mistakes to avoid, Justin Wright offers up five surefire ways to fail, such as spamming the networks with only your own content and not taking full advantage of the messaging and SEO potential of social media profiles.

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