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Online Wine Shop Curious Wines caught my attention today by showing how they promote their products through partnerships in off line world.

This is such a great idea.
Where do your customers start to think about your product and are you there?

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Aweber.com helps you in creating lasting customer relations though effective Email newsletters, Autoresponders, RSS to email and other email marketing tools.

Sending your Toddle newsletter through Aweber.com is fairly easy. Below I will explain all the steps invloved in the process.

• First, sign up with Awebber.com or log in to your existing account.

• Once logged in, click on Messages, then Broadcast and then on Create Broadcast Message button.

• Now, go to the HTML version of your Toddle newsletter. You can find the link in Advanced Sending Options in Toddle. Right click on the newsletter and view page source. Copy all of the code.

• Choose Basic Plain template in Templates. Enter your email Subject, and paste your HTML code in the text area for HTML message under Source tab.

• You can preview what your newsletter looks like in the Preview tab.

• Scroll down. You will find an area for text version of the newsletter. You will find the text link in Advanced Sending Options in Toddle. Copy all that text and paste it in Plain Text Message.

• Scroll down and enter additional information required for sending your newsletter. e.g. sending schedule, who to send to and so on. Then click on Save Broadcast Message. Your message will be sent immediately or saved for later according to the schedule options you chose.

• This is all there is to sending your Toddle newsletter through Aweber.com.

I picked up this great idea over at Ann Donnellys Online Marketing and SEO blog.

Dutch Link Strategist Peter van der Graaf, who had set up a PR ’stunt’ just prior to the last World Cup. A client had wanted to bring more soccer related traffic into his site prior to the World Cup. The online marketing company set up a ‘demonstration’, outside the Dutch soccer team’s training camp, by women protesting the amount of time their men spend watching soccer – calling for the cancellation of the World Cup. A Brazilian news agency picked up on the story and it started getting mentioned on web sites across the world, eventually getting a spot on the CNN site — and that online marketing company had one very happy client. So this shows us that a bit of creativity can take you a long way.

Minute Marketing – Quick, Simple marketing tips, stories and ideas that you can start in 1 minute. It’s not all about email!

Blue Sky Factory is an industry-leading email service provider and provides both full service and self service email marketing solutions to a global client base. Their leading web based platform, Publicaster offers enhanced deliverability solutions, detailed and customized reporting and analytics, and an easy to use intuitive user interface. Learn how to send your Toddle Newsletter through Blue Sky Factory’s Publicaster below.

• Go to www.blueskyfactory.com and sign-up. Log-in if you have an existing account.



• Once you have logged-in, click on Campaign Manager located on the Dashboard.



• You shall now enter the required information in the form. Click New Email when done.



• For the template, upload the content of your Toddle Newsletter by entering its HTML version URL. This can be found inside the Advanced sending options box at toddle.com.




• You shall now see the HTML version of your Toddle Newsletter.



• For the Text version, click View Plain Text. Open the Plain Text version URL that is also found in the Advanced sending options and copy the entire text into the editor.



• Click on Save.



• There you go, your Toddle Newsletter has been successfully imported and sent using Blue Sky Factory!

When you are sending an email newsletter to many people you really do not want everyone to see each others email address.
By default email clients display a TO: field and a Cc: field where you can add your email addresses. But there is also a Bcc: option where everyone will get an email addressed to just them and no other email addresses are visible to them.

Bcc is shorthand for blind carbon copy. If the Bcc box isn’t visible when you create a new message, you can add it.
In Outlook to view the Bcc address box:

1. In Outlook, on the Actions menu, click New Mail Message.
2. Do one of the following:

• If you are using Word as your e-mail editor, on the toolbar, click the drop-down arrow to the right of the Options button, and click Bcc.
• If you are not using Word as your e-mail editor, on the View menu, click Bcc Field.

All new e-mail messages now display the Bcc address box.

Other email clients should be pretty similar or have a Bcc button placed somewhere around the To: field.

Pizza places and other takeaway and delivery services all have to pay for their boxes and bags. Why not offer to chip in for the cost in return for printing a coupon or flier on the box. Pizza place wins, you win.

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From the ever brilliant Onion. Probably not safe for work.

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If you are forwarding your newsletter with Gmail you might not see the HTML(designed) version. This is how you fix it.

In the edit box in Gmail make sure you have “rich text” set before you hit the forward button.
If you choose to forward and you don’t have it set, then click the link to use “rich text”, discard the draft you’re looking at, then choose “forward” again.