email-marketing
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Another Free Alternative to Mailchimp
As a follow-up to my post yesterday where I listed two reasons why Mailchimp deletes your account without warning, I thought I would mention one more free alternative to Mailchimp that I’ve used for a couple of projects in the past. I like services and solutions where you get to own your data. This alternative…
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Mailchimp is Free, But They’ll Delete your Account
Yes, this is not clickbait. Mailchimp has made a name for itself by offering a basic free email marketing system where you can start an email list. However, you’ll find some problems with Mailchimp that could make you think twice before jumping in for that sweet sweet free account. Deleted for affiliate links First, they…
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Get Rid of Dead Weight from Your Email List
I noticed in my Aweber account, people that have unsubscribed over the time still remain in my account. Every email list service I have used behaves this way. If someone unsubscribes, they are just marked as unsubscribed or inactive, but they remain in the account. These “dead” subscribers can affect your cost. Aweber charges you…
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Email Marketing: Sure Fire Way to Annoy and Alienate People
This idea comes up every few months in one group or another. Let’s ask unsubscribers why they unsubscribed. Actually… let’s not. Emailing unsubscribers is nothing new, email marketers have been doing this for over a decade but there’s always some newbie that thinks they just discovered the biggest secret in the planet and start sharing…
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Want to Monetize Your Blog? Don’t Use Jetpack Subscriptions
If you want to kill your chances of taking your blog to a profitable place, then read on. This will show you how you can do just that. Clearly, I’m being sarcastic. But I do want to make a case for why you don’t want to use Jetpack to manage your blog’s subscriptions. You don’t…
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Which Should You Use? Single Opt-in vs Double Opt-in
If you’re building an email list for your business, this is one of the first decisions you need to make early on. Should you use the single opt-in or double opt-in method to collect email addresses? This is a topic that is highly debatable and you’ll find proponents of both methods. Each one has its…
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This Is What I Recommend for Pop Ups and Optins
Ever see those lightbox optin boxes that appear on websites nowadays? You may call them “pop ups.” But they’re really called lightbox pop-ups because most of the page becomes darker while the box appears brighter. For this post and in general, we can call them pop-ups or lightboxes interchangeably. These pop-ups are created using various…
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Grammarly Makes Me a Better Blogger, Let Me Tell You Why
As a techie and as a blogger, I’m always trying out new tools. The ones I recommend to you are the ones that make the cut. I try out new stuff every day, and most of it doesn’t deserve your attention, so I don’t even bother telling you about it. That’s why I do it…
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Interview with Syed Balkhi. On Business and Success.
Today, I want to share with you an interview I did with Syed Balkhi from Optinmonster. Syed is a good friend, but more than that he is the epitome of the American dream. Proof that the American dream is alive and well. An immigrant from Pakistan, he began his entrepreneurial career at the young age…