Archive for November, 2009

Writing Effective Email Marketing Copy

Monday, November 30th, 2009
Writing Email Marketing Copy

Writing Email Marketing Copy

Writing effective email marketing copy can be tricky; grammatical errors, misspellings, the wrong tone and more can derail your e-mail campaign before it has a chance to get off the ground. We’ve put together the following guidelines to help you write successful email marketing copy:

The Subject is the headline

The subject line is the first thing a reader will see of your email, so it needs to communicate your email’s message precisely and grab your audience’s attention. It’s marketing copy, you need to make sure it’s compelling and encourages readers to open your email – if there is an offer include the offer

Remember, don’t use repetition of punctuation while writing email marketing copy (eg. ‘!!!!’) or words like ‘FREE’ in your subject line, these are red flags for SPAM filters.

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Bing Twitter - Real Time Search

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

We recently told you about the Bing and Yahoo! search engine deal, which means that Yahoo! search will be powered by Bing. Since then, Microsoft has been making deals with more companies to bring users more search services.

Real Time Search

The term “real time search” can have different interpretations. To most, it means searching through content which is literally published in real time. Twitter is an example of a real time publishing platform. It takes seconds to post a Tweet on Twitter. You can then search for phrases via Twitter’s inbuilt search engine and receive results which were published moments or seconds earlier. Search engines, including Google, admit that real time search isn’t their strongest point. With the popularity rise of websites like Twitter, search engines recognize that they need to create real time search features in order to be able to keep up with the freshest, newest content which is published on the web.

Bing Twitter

Twitter is known to be a potentially great marketing tool for businesses of virtually any industry. Businesses can use Twitter to drive traffic and leads to their websites, as well as to connect with their customers and target audience. Now, Microsoft has made a deal with Twitter which may mean that investing in a Twitter marketing campaign is even more beneficial to businesses.

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