Email Icons

I have been reading a number of blogs lately and I noticed there is an ongoing trend with email icons.

You can generate interesting looking Email icons at Generate Email Icons.

Email icon from Yahoo

Email icon from Gmail

Email icon from MSN

Email icon from Hotmail

Tags: Email Marketing, generate icons

Great Successful Marketing: No Thinking Required

Great Successful Marketing: No Thinking Required! by Josef Katz

An extract from that article that says:

Let’s face it. People are lazy.

If given the choice between thinking through a problem and watching TV, most people would opt for the TV. There is nothing wrong with some down time and this is not a judgment about you or your customers. We are all lazy by nature. Add to this how busy people are these days and you have a tough challenge if you want people to listen and act upon your marketing.

To create successful marketing, you need to think about your target customer and their mental state. What is going to make them take action? All good marketing has a call to action. What do you want your customers to do? Don’t make them guess. Your customers are not mind readers. Tell them what they should do. If you don’t, they will likely do nothing at all or move on to the next task at hand. But if you tell them what you want them to do and make it easy for them to do so, a percentage of them will follow your directions.

Here are a couple of tips for you to think about when putting together your marketing messages:

* Use active words
Internet marketing terms means Good Copywriting

* Repeat your directions/call to action
Internet marketing terms means using Email Marketing and tools like autoresponder

* Make sure it is easy to follow the directions
Internet marketing term means give your subscribers easy to follow step by step instructions on what action you want them to take

* Create a sense of urgency
Internet marketing term means give your subscribers some special offers now and then and give them a time limit to act like now

Tags: copywriting, Email Marketing, Internet Marketing, successful marketing, target customer