An Effective Press Release Strategy

Foreword By Mike Alexander
The basic simplicity and effectiveness of press release marketing is given a brief airing in this piece by Brock Hamilton. If you haven’t yet tried this particular marketing method, rest assured it works well for newsletter promotions. It is always best to ease yourself into a new strategy such as this in order to [...]

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Critical Steps for Success with Email Marketing

Foreword By Mike Alexander
The following piece by Arthur Rewob covers email marketing for newbies or established marketers, who want to move into this area or improve their email results. It is included here because it is a well thought-out treatise on four of the most important steps that need to be taken. I hope you [...]

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Targeted Email Marketing (2)

Recap
In Part (1) of this article we looked at targeted email marketing, first from the point of choosing an electronic newsletter (or ezine) over a transparently false ‘personal letter’ (unless, that is, you have a particular talent for creating them), and next we looked at what we need to know in order to ensure that our [...]

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Targeted Email Marketing (1)

What Is Targeted Email Marketing?
Put as simply as possible, targeted marketing means directing your promotional efforts at a specific group of potential prospects. In general, the easier it is to define the group concerned, the easier it will be to match their needs and wants with suitable products or services, as well as other things [...]

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Selling Through Solo Self-Promotion

The Competitive Advantage
If you are an independent sales agent or consultant, or a tradesman who works for himself, a regular newsletter is one of the best ways there is to promote your business. The better and more effective your business newsletter, the more your standing will grow as an expert in your field, the more [...]

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The Power Of Newsletter Marketing (2)

Using Events And Good Causes
In Part 1 of this article [The Power Of Newsletter Marketing (1)] we looked at the use of newsletters in their main PR role for small businesses in general terms, with an emphasis on local events. Before pressing on, let us review the reasoning behind PR and why it is so [...]

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The Power Of Newsletter Marketing (1)

Where PR Newsletters Fit In The Mix
To properly utilize the power of newsletter marketing, it is first necessary to understand the meaning and uses of Public Relations, since most definitions of each are interchangeable between the two. In other words, you need to think of newsletters in this context as the ‘communication arm’ of a [...]

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Newsletters As Promotional Tools

Business Communication
Big business, small business, non-profit business and the self-employed, could all improve their communications by running one or several business newsletters. There are so many options too. Promotional newsletters, employee newsletters, customer newsletters… the list of possibilities is practically endless.
Weighing Up The Pros And Cons
To get to the point where an owner or manager [...]

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