You’ve got an option form on your website, that’s a great first step. But what follows is even more important- the Welcome Email. Your Welcome Email should be sent to your subscriber right way. This will be set up in within your email list provider. At minimum you should send 1 welcome email. You could…
Let’s take a moment and discuss your email signature. According to Radicati.com, a Technology Market Research Firm, over 205 billion emails are sent and received each day. That’s a lotta email! An often over looked part of your email is your signature. How long should it be? How short should it be? What should it include?…
For the most part, I love my Google Products. Gmail is one of my favorite email providers. Did you know you can use Gmail to handle your domain email? You can have it land right in your Gmail inbox and reply using your domain email as well. All of instanticity.com email goes through my gmail…
In case you missed it, Google has removed the free version of Google Apps for small businesses. I am a big lover of Google Apps so I’m a bit sad about this, but I’m glad I got it implemented for a few of my sites when I did. Without this little tip I found, you…
Thanks Michelle! I never would have thought of this little issue. The links and/or words used in your sig line might be sending your emails straight to the recipient’s spam box or not received at all. Link shortners, like bit.ly for instance, could be seen as bad and away your email goes. Even using certain wording like…
Sometimes you want to register on a website, but you hesitate thinking you’ll end up getting tons of spam mail. Gmail makes it easy for you register at websites and never see an email from them or from anyone to which they may sell your email address. It takes just a little creativity on your…
This may be old news to some, but it was new news to me. I had a customer service person tell me that someone had an email address very similar to mine, only theirs was all caps and that I should take my complaint to Gmail and ask them why they allow this. (Someone was…
If you own a website, then you probably have contact information on your website. That’s great! It’s wonderful when your website visitors can contact you with questions or issues they may have about your company, products, service or site. But you, as a site owner, need to go one step further and check that email!…
One feature that Gmail is lacking is the ability to send an email to multiple addresses for a single contact when using groups. Say you have a soccer team, each child has two parents with seperate email addresses. You put the child’s name in your contact list, add each parent’s email address, then create a…