Archive for the ‘Web Advertising’ Category

Constant Contact acts as a list manager for 3 major purposes:

• Sending email to recipients
• Conducting surveys
• Marketing events managed via email

They charge based on the number of unique email addresses they store for you, and you can send unlimited emails to those users. They handle unsubscribes and provide code to enable you to encourage website visitors to signup through your website.

For list management, you can add recipients manually or by uploading organized lists of email address with or without other contact info using a spreadsheet (CSV).

They’re support is pretty strong, if occasionally heavy handed. To maintain their high degree of successfully inboxing your emails, they will suspend accounts that have high numbers of spam reports (if a recipient marks your message as spam) as this affects the reputation of their email servers.

For email marketing, they provide a number of email and newsletter templates that can be managed pretty easily. Usually when we send a new email, we’ll copy the previous one, modify the text or HTML and then send. Sometimes it is to a new list, i.e. followup for new customers only, or it might be sent to all lists and all recipients. Some customers highly segment their lists, others just have a few major groupings.

We generally administer the accounts but clients can certainly use it themselves. The dashboard is entirely web based and their phone support is available during business hours.

They offer a free trial for 60 days, after which their pricing is as follows (as of 9/17/11)

Constant Contact Pricing Matrix

Email addresses Monthly
0-500                                     $15
501-2,500                            $30
2,501-5,000                        $50
5,001-10,000                     $75
10,001-25,000                  $150
25,000+                               Call for pricing

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Providing small businesses the opportunity to quickly ramp up their advertising spending, that’s Google’s latest venture.

The Adwords Mastercard overview:

• Launched & available as a “beta test” and were sent out Wednesday July 20, 2011 to select customers
• Available should favor small and medium-sized business, but might be wider
• Fairly Low 8.99 ongoing (not introductory) annual percentage rate
• Issued by: issued by the World Financial Capital Bank
• Attractive Credit Line, yet to be announced but likely based on adwords spend
• No Annual Fee

Would you consider this for your business? Would you promote a new product or product line with it just to try it out? Need a new website to advertise? Call in the Pros!

I got curious about this in a discussion about a project and tried using their help. After wasting a few minutes trying to get a specific answer from their automated chat system, and after reviewing their help documentation, I gave them a call.

I was told that I’d have to speak to someone else, and that the policy people would have to answer this.

By being logged in, and then choosing “my listing was removed”, and initiating a chat, I’d get around their automated chat and be in touch with their listing policy people.

I did as instructed and got on a chat with nancy.

So no live animals. I figured I’d ask the next question that would be pertinent to the project.

So there you go, you can get (animals) laid on eBay!

In 2010, we started optimizing our client’s Google places locations, or claiming them if they were the automated ones with little customization.

One such page was one for Eagle Rivet, one of our ct web design clients. One of the phrases we built in was ct roof snow removal, and they couldn’t be happier with the seasonal jobs they’ve gotten to pick up as a result!

Don’t over look this for your business! Here’s why:

• The top Google places results are shown at the top or above natural results
• Google Places provide functionality like reviews that can help you sell customers before they call
• Google places doesn’t require a website!

Marketing Locked in Ice? Break out!

Starting the new year icebound and in need of something to break you out? Call 3PRIME and we’ll discover how swiftly the right keywords can cast warm sunshine on your business horizons!

This week, we announce one of our most recent projects, County Soda of South Florida, manufacturer and distributor of quality sodas, juices, gases and other beverages!

We use SEO focused press releases to build links for our customers, some as the situation demands and others on a regular bi-weekly or monthly basis.

Here are 3 recent examples:

1) Paris Food Markets Iphone App

2) Floormall implements customer friendly features

3) A shelter for your vintage car

Those are for 3 different customers, and while what we do for each business is different, our SEO press releases usually include:

• You provide us with the major points of your upcoming news release.
• We’ll write a release that describes your news in appropriate terms and offers the necessary keyword text for the links we’ll be adding.
• We’ll send this to you to edit.
• Once we get it back we’ll tweak as necessary and perform a submission.
• We code in up to 3 links to your website with the link text that we are targeting for you.
• The submission pushed the SEO PR out to about 85 websites.
• Usually about 30 pick it up and about half of those publish the 3 links we put in the release
• We’ll send you a report about 3 business days after we submit with the URLs of all sites that picked it up.

Our service uses a wide submission for sites that are all press release focused and offer the opportunity to submit links in the release.

Call 203-789-8229 to see if this is a good fit for your SEO today!

Here is an email I see at least once per quarter, usually forward from a client. The full email is below, but the story starts that a company in Asia is seeking to register a domain with the same name as theirs.
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What does this latest Google endeavor mean for websites? As usual, each situation will be different.

If only we all had $25 million for a slick advertising campaign!

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