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Pro Blogging Using Humorous E-Mails
I say pro blogging because whenever you are blogging it is usually for some kind of profit, or monetary return in some way from your blog. What I am about to reveal here takes a twist from the scientific way of doing things. A study by Sharpe Partners, an interactive marketing agency, revealed that 89% of adult Internet users in America share content with others via e-mail, which is excellent news for those companies who use self-propelling word-of-mouse e-mail techniques to sell their products.
The study generated some interesting results regarding the type of content that is most often forwarded, as well. The most popular content is humorous material.
The second most popular category is news, followed by healthcare and medical information, religious and spiritual material, games, business and personal finance information and sports/hobbies… in that order. So it is easy to see that humor is the best content for your viral e-mail campaign.
Cartoons, jokes and funny video clips are among the things that can be added to an e-mail to insure that it will go viral. People will want to pass along something that makes them laugh.
They are a lot more likely to hit the forward button and send your email to their friends and relatives if it is an “advertainment” rather than an advertisement.
Not long ago, about 35 million people got an e-mail containing a picture taken in Disneyland. It took a minute to see it but there was Donald Duck lying prone in front of the famous Cinderella Castle. The title of the picture was “Bird Flu has hit Disneyland”. It was a viral e-mail advertising Disneyland and used the edgy strategy of making light of what’s serious… and it works.
I’d guess that most people who own a computer have seen that picture… and thus the advertisement for Disneyland. The bird flu epidemic is newsworthy and has the potential to attract an enormous amount of attention to any brand that might, for whatever reason, associate itself with it.
Remember that people are much more likely to share a joke or a funny picture than anything else so you would be well advised to include humor in your e-mail campaign. If you truly want to be entertained then let me rummage through my picture pile and come up a picture of myself from the day.
After diggin deep I came up with this picture of myself when I was about 10 years old; now that is what I call humorous . . . but seriously this is just a funny picture I found, and is not me at all . . . Really! it isn’t me.
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Blog marketing is something that has really peaked an interest in the online world. Many people across the interent are blogging, and have blogs. A blog is also known as a web log. But you will hear the term blog more often than the term web log. It basically is just an online journal that you can use and publish for the world to read. Whether you choose to write about personal things, or business. Maybe you want to use it to promote products or services. The way you use your blog is totally up to you. However, you should be aware of the scams that are out there, and what to avoid while you are trying to market your blog.
Blog marketing or really any kind of marketing has scams. Just like everything else you are going to come around. There is always someone that is wanting to scam someone else and take money from the ones that do not know better. So what can you do to protect yourself? The best way to protect yourself from blog marketing scams is to become familiar with them, and know what they are. While this can also be hard to do because the scams change as much as you change your clothes, just stay on top of them, and know what to be looking out for.
Many times when a blog marketing scam surfaces, you will find that someone is going to write about it. They are going to try and warn others before they can fall into it. So, just make sure that you read and know what you are getting into. Do your research when you are marketing your blog. Ask others if they have heard about something that you are interested in doing. Chances are, if you are wanting to pay for some marketing of your blog, that you will find someone else that has used every company out there. Get feedback from your fellow marketers for the best results. Ask them if they have recommendations, or know of places that are legitimate.
If you have been scammed, chances are there is not much that you can do other than get the word out about it. However, just remember, if you have paid someone through something like paypal that protects you, then you have a time limit to get your money back and freeze the scammers account. But, that does not always work. Most of the time the scammers are all ready aware of things like that, and they work fast to move to not be caught. If that is the case, you really can not do much else about it other than alert the proper authorities and count your losses.
While there are many that will scam you with blog marketing, there are also many that will not. There are just so many legitimate resources that you are going to find that you can use and trust. The best thing to do if you are new to the blog marketing world is to ask around and find out who is the best for the marketing that you are trying to do. Doing so will often keep you from falling into a scam, and throwing your hard earned money away.
Unfortunately, you are going to come across those that have no regrets what so ever about scamming others. The only thing that you can do is your research at times to make sure that you are using a service or person that you can trust. Ask for references, and make sure that you will be getting the best that you can afford. You will not regret it in the long run, and it will pay off to check someone or a service out before you go and invest your hard earned cash. Actually contact the services or person’s references to make sure that they are who they say, and that they can deliver what it is that you are looking for. It only takes time.
About The Author:
My name is Simon and I am a Blogger. My purpose with this blog is to inform the internet marketing community and those unaware, that you can make money doing a great number of things on the internet. I want to educate you to some degree as what to do and what is available to do it with. I ask that If you do read an article, that you would take a moment and comment saying good job, alright! or that it just sucked. Let me know, for it is important. Most of all, if you do enjoy my articles, please subscribe to my articles through the RSS feed by clicking on the RSS button on the blog page. Thank You for visiting and, Good Day!
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I don’t Send Attachments – Our Fight against SPAM
How prevalent is Spam? According to Scott McAdams, OMA Public Affairs and Communications Department (www.oma.org):
“Studies show unsolicited or “junk” e-mail, known as spam, accounts for roughly half of all e-mail messages received. Although once regarded as little more than a nuisance, the prevalence of spam has increased to the point where many users have begun to express a general lack of confidence in the effectiveness of e-mail transmissions, and increased concern over the spread of computer viruses via unsolicited messages.”
In 2003, President Bush signed the “Can Spam” bill, in December of 2003 which is the first national standards around bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail. The bill, approved by the Senate by a vote of 97 to 0, prohibits senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail from using false return addresses to disguise their identity (spoofing) and the use of dictionaries to generate such mailers. In addition, it prohibits the use of misleading subject lines and requires that emails include and opt-out mechanism. The legislation also prohibits senders from harvesting addresses off Web sites. Violations constitute a misdemeanor crime subject to up to one year in jail.
One major point that needs to be discussed about this: spam is now coming from other countries in ever-greater numbers. These emails are harder to fight, because they come from outside our country’s laws and regulations. Because the Internet opens borders and thinks globally, these laws are fine and good, but do not stop the problem.
So what do you do about this? Her are the top 5 Rules to do to protect from spam.
Number 1: Do what you can to avoid having your email address out on the net.
There are products called “spam spiders” that search the Internet for email addresses to send email to.
A couple suggestions for you: a) use form emails, which can hide addresses or also b) use addresses like sales@company.com instead of your full address to help battle the problem. c) There are also programs that encode your email, like jsGuard, which encodes your email address on web pages so that while spam spiders find it difficult or impossible to read your email address.
Number 2: Get spam blocking software. There are many programs out there for this. (Go to www.cloudmark.com or www.mailwasher.net for example). You may also buy a professional version. Whatever you do, get the software. It will save you time. The software is not foolproof, but they really do help. You usually have to do some manual set up to block certain types of email.
Number 3: Use the multiple email address approach.
There are a lot of free email addresses to be had. If you must subscribe to newsletters, then have a “back-up” email address. It would be like giving your sell phone number to your best friends and the business number to everyone else.
Number 4: Attachments from people you don’t know are BAD, BAD, BAD.
A common problem with spam is that they have attachments and attachments can have viruses. Corporations often have filters that don’t let such things pass to you. Personal email is far more “open country” for spamers. General rule of thumb: if you do not know who is sending you something, DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT. Secondly, look for services that offer filtering. Firewall vendors offer this type of service as well.
Number 5: Email services now have “bulk-mail” baskets. If what you use currently does not support this, think about moving to a new vender. The concept is simple. If you know someone, they can send you emails. If you don’t know them, put them in the bulk email pile and then “choose” to allow them into your circle. Spam Blocking software has this concept as well, but having extra layers seems critical these days, so it is worth looking into.
ABOUT the AUTHOR: Simon has passion for those who abuse the good nature of the internet community. He is pleased to present these concepts and ideas in battling that which irritates us. If you like email simon direct at simon@probloggeek.com with your thoughts and ideas. Simon just enjoys blogging and looks to you for new ideas and requests.
I Bought A New Car and Survived!
Nobody got bloody, bruised or banged up in this auto buying excursion to Johnson Auto Plaza in Brighton Colorado on SH 85. This went so well that I had to tell it to the world in my blog. The government CARS $4,500.00 definitely got me inspired to go out and get a new car and with Dodges $4,500.00 I definitely had to go to a Dodge dealer which was Johnson Auto Plaza. My experiences with Dodge goes back to 2000 when I bought A Durango SLT brand new. My sales Rep, Dick Wollert was truly a seasoned pro in making the experience good. I am not boasting carelessly, for those who follow me know that I do know blow smoke in my blogs and truly have passion for which I write about. But I do have a little favor to ask of all of you; when you go to Johnson Auto Plaza for your next motor vehicle purchase that you mention Simon LaLonde and his article on Johnson Auto Plaza is what brought you to them. I know your experience will be as good as mine if not better, “. . . they guarantee it!”
Everyone Wants to Get Rich
This has to be true because everywhere you look you see some kind of advertisement shouting about the riches that can be made at doing this or that. Then there is Simon the Blogger Geek, who has to admit, I have responded to a great number of them and the great thing resulting from almost all of them is I have more that I can blog about using my experiences from them. Out of the many things I have tried I have found one thing that really does work. It isn’t a MLM or stuffing letters at home. What I am talking about is an Investment club I have joined. With the investment club I have had the pleasure to experience a larger return on my money than I ever thought imaginable, especially in these hard economic times. Now I am not talking about returns of 500 or 600% on my money. No, what I am talking about is a consistent overall average of 17% (It isn’t and wasn’t with Bernie Madoff) annualized return. Going off into left field here but many of you are not aware of how I love to go on and on about this and that, telling stories, spinning yarns and fables. You soon will know and look forward to these instances because they are amusing and entertaining. Kinda like the time in 1982 in Salina Kansas when I was standing on top of a garbage truck to change a light bulb in the garage I was working in (rebuilding the engine of the garbage truck) (QUICK NOTE: Whenever working on a garbage truck in a confined space for whatever reason, be sure it has been emptied) moving forward about the light bulb, here I was standing on top of this garbage truck to change a light bulb when someone walked into the garage hollering for me when I spun around breaking the bulb with my elbow, not a whole lot wrong with that other than the power to the light bulb was on and when I broke the light bulb, the electricity grabbed ahold of me (and I ain’t puny by no means 210 pounds to be exact) shaking me as a 5 year shakes his piggy bank to get enough money to buy a Popsicle, and it was not letting me go. So here I am being shook by the surging current of the electric (and yes before you ask, I did wet myself which didn’t help matters) until I no longer had the ability to stand any longer. YES! That is what saved me from being electrocuted (fried like a criminal on judgment day) dropping from the top of the garbage truck to the ground; you can bet that hurt but I didn’t know because I was unconscious. I later woke up all busted up and broken in the hospital, that’s when you really knew that it hurt. Anyhow, that is why I act the way I do to this very day. Of course you ask and just how is it that I act? My response to that is for you to hang around here for awhile and follow my tales and fables and you will see. If you think that the story I have just told is absolutely gut splitting and probably the best I got, I beg to differ, that is just the beginning, like the time I was a truck driver and in the dead of the early morning, on my flat bed trailer was dancing . . . . I can’t go on with that tale because I really want to have a blog that is appropriate for any one but that truck driver story is a DOOZIE! By now you are most likely asking yourself “What does all of that really have to do with wanting to Get Rich”? Well I want to get rich and after a fall like that I bet you would too! Not really, the gist was that by joining the investment club and the opportunities were a great way in to begin the journey, my journey to riches. The importance of this goes back to the year 1999 when the stock market went crazy and many dot comm.’s ceased to exist. Problem was I lost everything I had, all hope in my retirement funds gone up in smoke, all gone . . . Just this month (2009-07) with the returns from my latest investments, I am now even, I have earned to this day every penny I lost in the dot com dive. One of the keys was when I rolled over my abandoned 401k to a self directed IRA and invested it and continuing to re-invest it. The best news is that before the year 2009 is over, I will be in a growth mode to where I will have a retirement fund, which I will desperately need because I am no longer a spring chicken. I’ll have you know being 53 years young (not only do I like to blog but I love to play which bears witness to my being a serious contender in winning as the boy with the most toys notoriety; just ask my wife) and possibly having my retirement funded. That pretty much is what it is all about. I want to be rich and possibly I will find the magic to do so as I continue to muddle my way through this perplexing mystery which I liken to being in a long dark tunnel, so as long as I keep moving, I eventually find the light growing and glowing brighter as I got closer to gathering the riches I sought.
About the Author: Simon LaLonde is just your average blogger. What Simon brings to blogging is his unusual sense of humor and satire, not that he really wants that type of notoriety, it is dominant characteristic of his writing, a style that led to his demise in College 101 English composition but led him to recognition as contributing columnist later while part of the School Editorial staff, how about that for ironic! (Never got the failing grade erased from record either.) More than anything Simon LOVES BLOGGING! And enjoys sharing this with you.