7 benefits of email marketing?

Most recent survey shows the following statistics of Email Marketing Around the world.

1. Email Is Popular

Email is consistently rated as the most popular and most used application on the internet. Indeed, some people only use email and do not browse the internet at all!

Email is the preferred primary means of business communication (ahead of telephone and postal mail).

42% of business users check their business email while on holiday.
53% of business users check their email six or more times during the working day.
34% of internet users check their email continuously throughout the day.
96% of internet users' main reason for being online is email.

There are over 450 million email boxes worldwide, with the number rapidly increasing.

Email marketing will become a $9.4 billion business by 2006.
(Source: Forrester Research, and Jupiter Communications)

2. Save Time and Money

No printing, no postage, no mail house charges.

Traditional direct mail costs between £1 and £3 per recipient and can take over a month to complete. With email, the cost can be reduced to pennies per recipient and completed in hours.

It takes far less time to create and send an email compared to a traditional direct mail campaign.

Overall, the return on investment of opt-in email is 40 times greater than direct mail.

3. Increased Sales

It's not unusual for email campaigns to get 5%-15% response rates.

The response rate of opt-in email is 50 times greater than banner ads and 5 times greater than direct mail.

4. Instant Results

Minutes after sending out your email campaign you can start seeing responses and orders. And you can time your campaigns to arrive on the best day of the week or month for maximum response.

Instead of waiting weeks for responses and test results, you'll have them in hours.

80% of responses to an email campaign will occur within 3 days (traditional direct mail takes weeks).

5. Measurable Results

Email campaigns are fully trackable, with up to the minute statistics. You can easily test which message generates the best response and alter your campaign accordingly.

6. Quick To Create

You could knock out an email in an hour or two as opposed to weeks in the "offline" world.

In addition, you can even make money from your newsletter itself by selling ad space or by using a paid subscription model. See "Making Money From Your Newsletter" later.

7. Personalisation and Targeting

Email allows your message to be personalised. Instead of "Dear Customer" you can address the recipient as "Dear Rachel" and send offers targeted to their preferences.

Finally most Internet Marketers and fortune 500 companies are begining to look at different ways of creating a email marketing and campaign budget because they believe its one of the media that still keep that personal touch with clients apart from social networking sites like facebook

How do you erase the Iphone Virus called 'Worm'?

With the recent Iphone Virus widespread This is the first iPhone virus that we're aware of and If successfully unleashed, it would be a major blow to Apple, but you can protect your self now before you loss your Iphone

You Can fix it by taking it to At&t right away and show them all the texts the Iphone Virus normally send. Im sure their aware of the virus so by reporting it to them it will justify that u didnt really rack up all those messages yourself and they should be able to put an end to it by maybe wiping the phone clean and restarting it.

One of the ways you can protect your iphone from contacting this Iphone Virus text messages and hackers is by not trusting any of those pop-up ads saying that you've won a free iPhone or a free iPod and stuff like that. It all seems like a really big scam to me. They ask for you personal information...and who knows what they'll do with your info. So watch out and be careful.

Secondly

iPhone's run OS X 10.5.

It's the 100% opposite of windows. Mac's hardly get virus's and neither does the phone.

Your safe. If the phone is not out in your area, but you have a GSM carrier buy an unlocked unit. Or look for an iClone Phone. Search CECT P168+

Microsoft, Yahoo team up to ding Google with Bing

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. has finally roped Yahoo Inc. into an Internet search partnership, capping a convoluted pursuit that dragged on for years and setting the stage for them to make a joint assault against the dominance of Google Inc.

The 10-year deal announced Wednesday gives Microsoft access to the Internet's second-largest search engine audience, beefing up the software maker's arsenal as it tries to better confront Google, which is by far the leader in online search and advertising.

Microsoft didn't have to give Yahoo an upfront payment to make it happen, as many Yahoo investors had been counting on ever since Microsoft dangled $1 billion last summer in an attempt to forge a search partnership then.

Google tried to stop Yahoo from falling into Microsoft's camp. Last year it formed its own proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo, only to be forced to retreat from that alliance after U.S. antitrust officials threatened to sue.

Now the extended reach Microsoft is gaining will let it introduce its recently upgraded search engine, called Bing, to more people. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker believes Bing is just as good, if not better, than Google's search engine. Taking over search responsibilities on Yahoo's popular site gives Microsoft a better chance to convert Web surfers who had been using Google by force of habit.

"Microsoft and Yahoo know there's so much more that search could be," said Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer. "This agreement gives us the scale and resources to create the future of search."

Even with Yahoo's help, Microsoft has its work cut out.

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TwitViewer.net Is A Scam, Stay Away To Keep Your Password Safe

With the on going swagger of "Want to know who visits your Twitter profile? Sounds potentially interesting, and it’s the premise of TwitViewer.net, a site that is being shared by thousands of Twitter users this afternoon with the message “Want to know whos stalking you on Twitter?”

Unfortunately, it appears that TwitViewer may be a phishing scam, or at the least, is probably not doing what it promises. Upon entering your credentials, it does show you a list of users that supposedly visited your profile – but it seems likely this is simply fake, as a dummy account we created just to test the app showed 200 recent visitors seconds after registering. The app also automatically tweets out the “want to know whos stalking you?” message (and yes, the message itself is spelled wrong).

We currently don’t know if your password is in danger but both we and Twitter suggest that you change your password immediately, if you entered it on the TwitViewer.net website.

Also the website automatically tweets “want to know whos stalking you?” when you enter your username and password without even asking for your permission.

We strongly recommend to stay away from this website !