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Are your email messages being blocked by spam filters?

Date: 7th September 2008
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A great reminder from Nigel Temple’s Marketing Mentor newsletter today, regarding testing your newsletters and list emails to see if they’ll make it past a spam filter:

Are your email messages being blocked by spam filters?

Posted: 04 Sep 2008 01:24 AM CDT

A key marketing principle is simply to ‘keep in touch’. One way of doing this is via email marketing. If you use this approach, I am sure that you don’t blast messages out to strangers (because that’s spam, isn’t it?).

Google image fun

Date: 29th August 2008
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Want to help Google improve on Google Image Search and have fun at the same time? Google Image Labeler is here for little fun for you and loads of new image labels for Google database.This whole activity is to improve the quality of Google’s image search results, while you have fun playing a ’sort of game’ with other online users. No need to login or sign up – you can start playing the game as guest.

After you hit the ’start labelling’ button, you will be given an online partner. Now you and your partner will see same images. You need to provide as many labels for the displayed images. You will receive points when your label matches your partner’s label.

Google Adwords – Free Google Adwords ebook

Date: 22nd July 2008
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Admin posts, Bonus Tips, Cool Tools, Freebies, Google

 Adwords free ebook cover

We know from our overflowing inbox that lots of you have questions about Google Adwords.

It seems so easy – sign up, post some ads, get traffic, make money.

But as everyone who has tried it soon finds out, there’s more to it than that!

This FREE e-book will help you through the process of setting up and making money from your Google Adwords account – download it now with our compliments :)

See below for a full chapter list:

  • “Are You Prepared To Profit From Instant Web Traffic?”………………………….4
  • “10 Minutes To Instant Web Traffic”…………………………………………………..10

GetClicky – a God among webstats providers


For a long time I used Google Analytics to provide webstats for me and for my clients – and it worked. Great stats, pretty graphs, nice figures – everything I needed.The problem I had was that I couldn’t get real time stats – I had to wait until the next day, by which time in some cases it was too late to react to surges in traffic.

I needed something that showed me what my visitors were doing and where they were coming from NOW, not yesterday!

And then I found GetClicky.

Prepopulating a Tweet message?

Date: 14th July 2008
Comments: 5 Related Categories: Cool Tools, twitter

Want to get your message out via Twitter? Why not help your followers by pre-populating their Tweet message in the following way:

To create your own pre-populated tweet link just format a link as follows:

http://twitter.com/home?status=Putyourmessagehere

Like this – tell people about 299 Steps to Website Heaven being FREE for one day by clicking this Twitter link