List Building

List Building

by Hanif Somani - http://www.simplymakingmoneyonline.net/list-building/

List Building List Building is concerned with creating a list of emails for the purpose of marketing products or services to recipients on that list. There is an old adage “…the money is in the list” that still holds true despite the explosion of Social Media that brought with it new and instantaneous ways of communicating with followers. So why the power and popularity of email marketing? What is it about emails that make them so powerful a marketing tool? To begin with, this form of communication is the oldest in the current arsenal of broadcasting tools that is open to anyone – having mirrored its explosive growth with that of the Personal Computers (PCs). In the early days, it was only through a networked PC that an email could be composed and sent, a task easily accomplished these days on a smartphone. Furthermore, emails today are a multimedia experience that are easily composed and received on any networked device through a myriad of desktop applications and apps and even webpages. Users can set up multiple email accounts easily and quickly and hold thousands of emails which don’t need to be held on their device, taking up valuable disk space, but on a secure external server or more commonly these days, the cloud.

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Still Going Strong

The increasing and consistent popularity of emails as a marketing tool compared with other forms of communication is probably due to the following positive factors: very popular in all communities – including the business communities; cheap – very cost effective form of communication especially compared with a traditional letter or a fax; instinctive communication tool symbolized with a virtual envelope – that feels like a very efficient replacement to the traditional paper and envelope; highly customizable writing format that has many tricks to emphasize points you wish to convey – in fact you can even expand communication by enclosing attachments; discreet – you can have just a one-to-one communication with someone; group – you can choose to involve a more than one person in your communications; direct – instantaneous delivery; thoughtful – although you receive emails instantaneously, you do not have to respond straightaway, which allows you to compose a more measured response; spam controls – advanced anti-spam measures that you can switch on any time you wished to catch unwanted mail; other useful features – carbon copy, blind copy etc.

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List Building

by Hanif Somani - http://www.simplymakingmoneyonline.net/list-building/

Very Familiar Daily Ritual

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As you can see (and know), an email is a versatile, familiar and sophisticated tool for communication. Since the email has been adopted wholeheartedly by the business communities and also increasingly by government departments throughout the world as a cheap, secure and instant way to communicate with their customers and stakeholders, the email arriving in your inbox usually demands a more serious attention from you than a mobile text for instance- people tend to take their time reading sifting through and reading their emails.This seriousness and attention afforded to emails is another reason why emails are a great and effective communication medium for marketing purposes.

List Building And The Spamhaus Project

The Internet Traffic Policeman

The all singing, all dancing email format is also known as MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). Exactly because an email is cheap and easy to set up, it’s power can also be abused by spammers and hackers who have been known to spread potentially dangerous malware quickly around the internet. Since it is also highly standardized (especially the Headers section of an email), it provides a great opportunity for authorities to curb greatly (although they cannot eliminate it completely) the problem of spam mail. The same standardization also provides a plethora of ways to manage mailing list emails. The definition of a spam email is simply the sending of unsolicited email in bulk to recipients which usually carries some sort of an offer and possibly unsuspecting malware. Due to the very low cost of entry in setting up a mailing list server and of sending emails, thousands of spammers are likely to be active at any one time around the world. The Spamhaus Project is a private organisation that was established specifically to track the internet’s spam senders and spam services and to compile real-time anti-spam protection for the internet networks. As a de facto policeman of the internet traffic, it takes matters further by informing local law enforcement authorities about spammers in their jurisdiction.

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List Building

by Hanif Somani - http://www.simplymakingmoneyonline.net/list-building/

According to the Spamhaus website, it currently protects around 1.77 billion mailboxes against 80 billion spam emails and this figure is undoubtedly rising as more and more countries hit the internet super highway.

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The Ins And Outs Of Email Marketing

The email way of communicating with the world is certainly on a march to maturity – long gone are the days of mass spam emails in your inbox – remember those Viagra emails? Have you seen any lately? The authorities are certainly taking the issue of email spam seriously and with the inexorable advances in technology, organisations such as The Spamhaus project are getting better and better at detecting and eliminating it. So before you set up a List Building campaign, it would be wise to consult The Spamhaus Project to find out exactly what is and isn’t allowed i.e. the best practice guide, of bulk email marketing. The Spamhaus Project rightly realises the power of legitimate bulk email marketing campaigns which not only benefits the sender but also the reciver and is an important part, these days, of driving internet sales and therefore ever bigger part of the economy of increasing number of countries. The table below summarises what the thoughts of The Spamhaus Project are on the matter of spam emails.

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Mailing Lists -vs-Spam Lists Mailing List Spam List Variously known as Confirmed Opt-In (COI) or Verified This is known as an Opt-Out or Unconfirmed Opt-In in Opt-In or Double Opt-In, this is the only way to proceed which the recipients are placed on a list without their with bulk emailing without getting into trouble with permission but are subsequently given the opportunity to spamming issues. With this system, the recipient opt-out in following emails. This list is called a dirty confirms his/her intention to be on the mailing list. It also mailing list. This practice is spamming. confirms a legitimate email address for that recipient.

There is also a third way of sending bulk email called Permission Pass. Here, the owner of the list sends out bulk email to recipients inviting them to confirm their intention to remain on the list. This should lead to a much “cleaner” but invariably smaller list at the end of the exercise. Permission Pass should not be used with a third party or a bought list even if it is advertised as an opt-in list.

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List Building

by Hanif Somani - http://www.simplymakingmoneyonline.net/list-building/

Professional‌And Free!

List Building can be accomplished using using professional mailing list service such as the popular Aweber, Mailchimp and iContact amongst others which charge a monthly fee. There are however free and often excellent alternatives such as Mailman. In fact Mailman, what I used in my website here, has been mentioned by The Spamhaus Project, as a professional mailing list server that supports COI. Mailman runs on a Linux distro and in my case on CentOS – if you need instructions on how to set up Mailman, please register on my mailing list and I will send you detailed instructions.

If you have any questions or need help with your List Building campaign, please do not hesitate to leave a comment below.

To your success Hanif Somani, Ph.D. // // ]]>

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