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You Do Have A List, Don't You? An email house list is your key to success on the internet. If you DO NOT have a house list, you need to start one TODAY! It's a simple as saving email addresses from anyone who emails you about your business. What do you do with the list? Mail to it every week or two with some information about your products/services. Offer FREE information about your wares. Educate people with helpful information and they will look forward to receiving your messages. This relationship will lead to income! You've undoubtedly seen plenty of reasons WHY you should have a house list. This tip is designed to help you with how to MANAGE your list. The beauty of an email house list is that it takes very little time to manage. Even if you decide to do all of the management tasks yourself, you can do it in a few hours per week. Many list owners prefer to utilize programs like "listserv" and "majordomo" to manage their lists. I've tried a few different list management programs but still prefer doing it myself. I like to review every request personally because I sfeel that it makes it easier on members of my list. Here are the 3 key tools you need to effectively manage an email list: 1. A MARKETING FRIENDLY ISP. Before you sign up with a new ISP, ask them if they allow you to mail to multiple recipients BEFORE you join. Some ISP's are now blocking transmissions of more than 10 - 25 messages as they try to prevent spamming from their accounts. (What they don't realize is that not ALL group messages are spam!) Also make sure your provider offers compatibility with third part email programs that help with list management. (See number two below.) 2. AN EXCELLENT EMAIL PROGRAM such as Eudora Pro by Qualcomm .With a good email program you can easily send your email messages to multiple recipients. With Eudora, you simply paste a list of email addresses into the Nickname section of the program and click the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) button. Your message will go to every recipient on the list. Eudora Pro also lets you filter your incoming messages. This is very helpful when managing lists. You can filter every incoming message containing an "unsubscribe" header into a separate mailbox and remove these addresses before each mailing. Similarly, you can filter all new inquiries into an "add to list" mailbox. See how simple this can be? 3. A GOOD MAILING LIST TOOL such as MailLoop .This is a big time saver. You can download the demo version of this program for free. Although it's designed as a bulk email program, it's great for managing email lists. With this program you can filter email addresses out of text files containing tons of info. This is great if you are an MLM'er and receive downline reports containing lots of information. You simply click "create email list" and all the email addresses are extracted to a separate text file! Some other awesome features include list statistics, list splitting, duplicate address elimination, combining lists, and subtracting one list from another (great for unsubscribe requests). With these three tools at your side, managing an email list is a piece of cake. If you're serious about online profits, you'll start your list today! * This online marketing tip furnished by JDD Publishing, Home of
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