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One thing new email marketers don’t think about is that sending emails which have the potential of being spam, even if they’re not, will ruin your email marketing campaigns. Internet service providers, as well as big email platforms, are on a constant watch for email spam and will do anything in order to stop it. After all, spam takes up server resources and bandwidth and creates unhappy customers. Because of this, email platforms and Internet service providers will literally block messages sent by someone they deem to be a spammer.

If you want your customers to receive your newsletter, make sure that you follow these tips to ensure that your emails aren’t mistaken for spam.

Consistently Use Opt-In

If you aren’t familiar with the terms “opt-in” vs. “opt-out,” “opt-in” email marketing is takes place when you ask people to sign-up for your newsletter, and then customers make the decision whether to say “yes” or “no.” “Opt-out” email marketing is where you capture people’s email addresses and then automatically include them in your email list.

Now, which type of email marketing would you guess leads to great results?

If you guessed “opt-in,” you’re correct! People who willingly subscribe to your newsletter already understand its value and will be more responsive readers. Check out this Vertical Response review for software which can help you run a great opt-in campaign.

Have you even been forced into an email newsletter subscription? If so, then you know how annoying it is to receive emails that you don’t read, and didn’t even ask for. If you do this to your customers, they will come to view your brand as annoying, and certainly won’t be responsive to your newsletter. In this case, although your list may be bigger, your ROI will be very low as you pay to send emails to people who don’t even want to get them. Plus, when people get an email they don’t like or think is spammy, they will alert their email provider and you will be blacklisted in no time. Long story short: always utilize “opt-in” email marketing.

Submit Relevant Newsletter Updates

Almost as bad as “opt-out” email marketing is promising your readers one thing, and then giving them another. If you tell your subscribers that your newsletter will have the latest industry news or special discounts, and all you deliver is your company’s latest news, your customers will be annoyed and will unsubscribe. You need to ensure that what you claim is in your newsletter actually is there. Moreover, make sure that the first few emails you send are exactly what is promised by utilizing an auto-responder series for new readers. For great auto-responder software, check out these email marketing reviews. After you have proven your newsletter, you can begin to include promotional materials. If you have indeed delivered on your promise, your customers will be happy to convert when you send along the occasional promotion.

Make Sure That It’s Quick To Unsubscribe

Here’s an email marketing truth: all readers will eventually unsubscribe. Make it easy on your customers and be sure to include an “un-subscribe” link in your emails, preferable in the footer. Many email marketing companies, in order to ensure quality, will actually require that you do this in order to maintain compliance with spam laws and best practices. Even if your subscriber has enjoyed your email newsletter, if there is no easy way to remove themselves from your list, they will simply hit the “spam” button, alerting their email provider that your messages could possibly be spam. Now, obviously your emails are not, but sometimes it’s just easier to hit the “spam” button then to go through the trouble of manually unsubscribing on your website.

Follow these three rules, and you will be way ahead of most email marketers. If you do the above, then you will notice an increase in email deliverability and much happier customers. Remember: happy customers lead to more sales.

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What are you doing right now? You’re looking at the Internet! You and millions of other individuals are using the World Wide Web for information, entertainment, and communication.

Ever since the introduction of the Web in 1991, it has grown at a phenomenal pace, both in terms of number of users and money invested. And where there’s eyeballs and money, there’s advertising. Advertising on the Internet is a major revenue stream for most of your favorite websites, and this article will trace how it evolved from early efforts to modern multimedia marvels.

The early days of Internet access were dominated by service providers. Subscription services like AOL and Prodigy worked as a gateway to the larger World Wide Web, charging users a fee for access. Slowly, those providers began to leverage their traffic to feature sponsors as well. Unfortunately, because the modems of the era were painfully slow (even the 56KBPS modem wasn’t common back then), ads were pretty ineffective and even simple graphics took forever to load. But the advent of faster modems improved the potential of advertising on the Internet, with more data being pushed to home computers than ever before.

In the late 1990s came the dot-com boom. All of a sudden, Internet access became ubiquitous. Everybody and their mother was hopping online, and services like WebTV made it easy to surf the information superhighway. That period was the dawning of the online super-retailers like Amazon.com, who demonstrated that you could turn a profit by eliminating the infrastructure of a brick and mortar store and running a virtual storefront instead.

Content was also booming in this period, with groundbreaking Web magazines like Word.com and Slate.com producing cutting-edge content that pushed the envelope of what the Internet was capable of. Advertising on the Internet boomed with the introduction of the animated GIF image – now banners and spot ads could move and grab eyeballs from elsewhere on the page.

And after the boom, of course, came the bust. The revenue models for most of these sites was about as flimsy as toilet paper, and when confidence on Wall Street dropped, the vast majority of them went under. The lucky ones sold their equity to other investors and got out with a wad of cash, but more were left holding the bag. After a period of hibernation after September 11th, advertising on the Internet came back with a vengeance as rich media applications brought television-like experience to the computer, and sites like Hulu and YouTube are riding the wave.

What’s next for Web advertising? It’s not for me to predict, but with technology and avarice both speeding forward at a full clip, I’m sure we’ll see for ourselves soon enough.

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