This is a guest post by Michael Cusden from SimplyCast.com
Strangely enough, sometimes the best way to see whether your email marketing campaign is doing well or not is to do some internal testing. Just for a moment, you can disregard what your metrics and analytics tell you and put the changes you want to make out to your subscribers directly.
But, first, let’s figure out how to set up testing so that it provides you with honest-to-goodness results.
- Pull 100 random email addresses from your list
- Divide them into two separate groups
- Only test one change at a time
- Set one group as the control (what you’re already doing) and the other as the change
- Monitor the results
- Request feedback through directed surveys about which your subscribers prefer
We’re going to look at 4 of the most common places that marketers like to update in their emails and walk you through how to do it.
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This is a guest post by Susie Brown from FastUpFront.com.
Who is it that decides who will be the most popular bloggers and who will be left banging their head against the keyboard?
You might think that it is the “people,” or you might even think that Google and the other search engines are the ones who decide who the most popular bloggers will be. Although the search engines and the people do hold a lot of influence, most bloggers who have worked their way up to the Rockstar level got there in a way that might come as a surprise.
Most great bloggers got appointed to their positions of fame by other bloggers, namely the inner circle of bloggers for that niche.
Now, I know that you may not be interested in returning to the high-school social scene where everything was about being more popular. The pursuit of being popular and accepted by “the group” mandated all types of conformities.
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This is a guest post by Karol K from Online Business Design blog.
A couple of months ago I wrote a post on how to kill writer’s block. Of course, it’s much easier said than done, so I figured that another follow-up post is in place here.
Last time the main 3 ways of fighting writer’s block was to:
- have a bank of ideas,
- relaxation and exercise,
- fixed schedule.
If you want to find out what the basic principles behind each are I invite you to visit the original post that’s been published here on SmartBloggerz – 3 Easily Applicable Ideas to Not Only Fight, but KILL Writer’s Block.
What I want to do today is focus a bit on the first item on the list – the bank of ideas.
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This is a guest post by Jimmy from Auto News.
It’s quite an easy task for everybody to create a Facebook page, also known as fan page. Most of the people are creating it to promote their business via Facebook.
When you are getting involved to attract more people to your business via Facebook, it will seem to be an easy job like its making. Everybody cannot convince the people easily for getting likes, it’s simply like an art to make the current members engaged and thereby attracting more from their connections.
There are already millions of page owners who are craving for fans or people to like their pages. Sometimes many of you think that those who are getting a huge number of fans in a small amount of time are with the fake accounts; it will not be true in all cases. They are definitely following some strategies to increase the count.
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This is a guest post by Tom Mcloughlin who offers link building services with The WebMarketing Group.
Links are the fuel of SEO success so if you want to get good traffic from search engines to your blog then you need to get great links.
We all know about the fantastic value offered by guest posting, but what other ‘white hat’ ways can you get more links pointing to your blog?
The 3 ideas below will set you up for great results from your link building efforts and start the traffic flooding to your blog from search engines!
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