Email Marketing Forum

How to profit from a domain name
Domain names are great to own, though you do have to pay the annual renewal fee. The cost to own or rather control a domain name is around $10.00 a year.

What type of domain name to buy?
When you select a domain name it is important that the domain name is a .com known in the domain name industry as a (TLD) Top Level Domain.

Buy a domain name on your favorite topic
What we feel is even more important is to buy a name that has meaning for example our article is about EmailMarketingForum.com and while we are a large holder of domain names our expertise at Viper Logic is in the email message delivery business for businesses, nonprofit and membership groups and the products name is Viper Mailer an email-marketing service provider or (ESP).

Developing EmailMarketingForum.com
Since we are the authority on the subject of e-Communications known as email-marketing this domain name makes great sense to develop because we understand and operate an email marketing service.

See one of our currently operating forum named Desert Forum for a clearer understanding of what a forum is.

Building our forum
This domain name is about and includes the keywords Email and Marketing and Forum and because forums are popular, this site will become a forum on the subject of email marketing.

My name is Logic
Creating a logo or brand for our new forum
Next because this is a forum we are able to purchase a forum software (free to under $100.00 dollars) already to go, but once you buy this forum software you will need to start by creating a logo a brand if you will to represent this new forum web site. In our case at Viper Logic all of our products and services including this article site you are on utilize our corporate mascot Logic the yellow avatar with cool hair, shoes and glasses.

Next we are going to need to know how many categories our forum is going to have and what subject titles (places that site forum visitors can post topics under) the forum will be offering.

The categories are easier to create when you are the expert on the topic that your forum is about. We have come up with a list of the categories for the EmailMarketingForum.com forum site.

Email Marketing News
New Member Introductions
Forum Community Policies
Forum Feedback and Suggestions
Talk to Logic
General Marketing Chat
Email Marketing Help
Email Marketing Questions
Email Marketing Success Stories
Small Business Marketing Help
Online Marketing
Viper Mailer

Finally under each Category Title there should be a short description of what each category offers the site visitor before they click on the category that takes the visitor into each forum thread.

Here is an example of what one of our email marketing forum descriptions would look like.

Email Marketing Help
A place to ask email marketing questions and to learn what questions other businesses are asking.

Logic’s thoughts on a focused topic forum
Forums in general are on a focused topic similar to the Email Marketing Forum is on the topic of online marketing and email marketing. There are forums on literally every topic you can think of like cars, sports, machine tools, movies even the deserts of the world.

Benefits of creating a forum over a web site
What makes a forum great is that they are rich in the all important content any web site needs to be indexed by the search engines and that content needs to be on topic that your web site or forum is about.

As mentioned earlier you can just purchase a forum software upload it to the Internet through a hosting company and begin adding your logo, categories and descriptions and away the site goes.

Forums are great because the content changes everyday, these daily entries are very important as too how often your site is indexed by the search engines.

The even best news is the power a forum has for any busy person is that the content is added by member of your forum releasing the forum owner from having to take time to write the content. 

Economic advice that makes sense

Sticking and perfecting what you know best
Hello Logic Talk readers.
How many times have we all read an article about people who got taken in a great business deal?

What are you best at?
Below are some examples of what Logic is talking about but more importantly, have you ever really sat down and looked into your career and asked yourself this simple question that is actually not simple at all.

We mean best at, not wishing I was in life, this or that
Logic is not talking about what you wish you were in your career like a movie star or Fortune 500 Business founder but what you are working at or studying to be, what you are willing to do to be the absolute best at, better then anyone in that area of expertise is currently?

Are you the best at one of these or something similar?
Do you know how to repair a car?
Maybe you are a nurse or a coffee shop worker?
These jobs are what pay you they are more then likely things you are good at but unless you are great at them experienced and have a true PASSION for then even these are not things you should invest in.

Are you the best at something?
It does not always mean it is what you are the doing for a living today
We each have something we are experienced in, so our advice today is simple, and it is focused on being the best at a single function in life, though it is possible to be good at other things in our daily lives, more then likely we each make our living doing what it is we are best at, or we would like to be anyways otherwise you should for starters, change careers, pursue what you have a PASSION for, or you can never invest in the types of businesses you are stuck in or get by working in.

A few ways to not get conned out of your money
Number one rule
To start with let Logic remind our readers that if something comes along and that something comes along at some point in each of our lives, if something sounds too good to be true, then most likely it is.

Number 1
Con prevention
If you are asked to invest into something that is not something you understand, could run on your own without the person asking you to invest money in, and if at all possible this type of investment or business is something you are good or an expert at, do not do it.

Number 2
Con prevention
If you are asked by a person you do not have any prior long-term business relationships with, do not do it.

Number 3
Con prevention
If a relative asks you to invest, stay clear unless you clearly see your investment being the best and somewhat predetermined outcome, because these relative investments can tear a family into pieces, so do not do it unless you can A afford it, B see the successful bright light at the end of the tunnel.

Number 4
Con prevention
Here is a hot one in a time when we humans are living in a right now result and gratification society. The you must make a decision to invest or fund with us right now, in the next day or two you are going to be too late. these are one of the hottest con person tactics there is time pressure. 

Logic & Catnip have seen it all
Actually that is a false statement
We nor anyone person has yet to have seen all of the business ventures and investment opportunities there are out in the business world. No one ever really has seen them all, not even in our nearing 17 years of operating Viper Logic together.

Open minded investors
At Viper Logic we are a software engineer and development company FOCUSED on and experts in low-level software code development.

We have a performance based product that we offer as a service named Viper Mailer an email-marketing-service for businesses, nonprofits and membership groups because this is what we are GREAT at per our customer base not our ego, ego’s are something when dealing with Viper Logic we all must leave at the door if anything is to become of your investment idea.

Secret about the Viper Logic investment strategy
We are what are known as a 50/50 investor from the financial point of view.
Realizing that many new start ups do not have their 50% in funding then there is this shared or equaled through experience and time investment but the ratio stays for the most part through out our investing into small start ups with the 50/50 rule applied.

While we are comfortable we are not rich, rich to the point that an investment into a start up in our case must be something we can get involved in while leaving the ideas and the creators the freedom to explore the avenues but only to the point of not allowing the start up our the investment to fail, other then this we are easy to work with and level headed people that were that start up almost 17 years ago this May.

Future scam exposures still to come
We do not believe that even the higher profile investment scams that make the news are the largest that are going to come to light especially during a tough economic time that has came and has appeared to have passed. There is something Larger coming that most people are unaware of scheduled to hit in later 2010 to sometime in the first half of 2011 that will have larger fallout effecting nearly all of us, so watch out for making bottom investments, the bottom is far from here today.

How to save my failing business

Save any business from failure starting today
Hello Logic readers, if you are looking for a miracle you can stop reading those do not exist.

Simple way to save your failing business
What does exist for any business that refuses to give up is to do a little, and I mean a little work and extra effort in an intelligent way.

There is a simple way to stop the business you are running from bleeding through a slow death

Not only will your sales stabilize, you can begin your road to full business recovery and even begin growing your customer base and sales immediately.

Times have changed, change with Logic
Look friends the way people buy things has in our opinion changes forever, this is fine you can change with the times, it is easy to do and it is GREAT for business trust me.

Gone are those days when people just flack to your place of business, buy everything you are selling without even worrying about the price of the items.

The new economy is what Logic is here to share, to help you though in any way I can, lets get started shall we?

We know how to build on your number of customer
We are going to show you step-by-step how to begin adding customers through seeking their basic contact information.

All we are after in this first part of our lesson is their first and last name including their email address.

Not asking for too much are we?

If you ask people correctly they will give to you their heavily guarded email address, but you must follow our instructions coming up below.

Learn the lowest cost way to save a failing business
Pick up the phone, no wait before you think we are turning you into a telemarketer get real, which is a dead practice that will never get results. It will however get you disliked in a hurry though.

We are going to suggest calling using your local phone book
First before we begin calling people we do not yet know, there are a few things that we need to have prepared in advance.

We want you or your staff members to be very organized and we want you and your staff working from the same page to seal the deal here.

Our goal is to save your business and grow the number of customers you currently have.

Getting started with a plan of attack
Let’s build our playbook assuming you are selling products that are for consumers, if you are selling a product for businesses or a service for consumers or businesses then adjust your play book to best serve your plan of attack.

Write a script that you our your staff is going to follow during the telephone call

How to build your customer list
Select the phone book (we found an actual use for those books that we still all receive) that best serves your business (local white or yellow pages) because we are starting right where your business is located to make this a safe and affordable sales plan.

We are not selling anything during this whole customer building process, we do not want you to panic though, we will show you later what we are up to, and yes we will get you those much needed sales. We promise.

Let’s open that phone book shall we
Select the consumers or white pages section for your county or region. These names with phone numbers are your new customers, so now let’s get a script ready for your callers to read from and remember we are not selling anything yet.

This is going to work for several reasons compared to telemarketing that is the ultimate in cold calling and our way works the best

Here are the script basics
Line 1
Hello my name is Your Name.
Notice we gave no business name, this is on purpose.

Line 2
We are not selling anything we are only wanted to meet our local neighbors.

Line 3
We are local business, located in (my city) and we have been in business since xxxx and wanted to introduce ourselves to our local neighbors.

Line 4
First allow me to thank you for taking a neighborly call.

Line 5
Have you ever heard of, or have you ever been into our Business Name?

Line 6
Do you know we are located at Our Address and we sell My Products.

Line 7
May we stay in touch by trading email addresses?

Line 8
May we confirm your name so we address you correctly in our email.

Line 9
Thank you for taking time getting to know each other, we will send you an email so you have my name and business in your email inbox.

End call

Learn more about building email contacts
We have an entire library devoted to the Best Email-Marketing Practices
Here is a great place to begin to understand the power of email campaign building, because as you might not be aware you cannot buy a list of email contacts and use them in an email marketing service like Viper Mailer, but we have in our email-marketng library a series of how to build your first list of legal Opt-In email contacts so you can get started quickly.

Business anti-failure now begins
When you gather these local county residents names and their email addresses we are going to store them on your computer in an Excel type of file format for easy uploading to your email-marketing service account later.
Collect these contacts until you have around 200 contacts.
However long this gathering process takes you is up to you or your staffs allocated time spent collecting these valuable names and email addresses.

Why not just buy a list of email addresses and the names that go with them off of the Internet?
It is illegal to buy lists for the purpose of utilizing the email contact portion since you must have an Opt-In list of email contacts to make contact with others visa email otherwise you are a SPAMMER.

What to do with a list of potential customers
We are going to open an email-marketing account and train you on how to build an offer that will yield you results.

Next we are going to show you how to grow your list of contacts over the months through our trusted source customer growth process at Viper Mailer an email-marketing-service that grows business sales quickly.

Let’s get started building your first email-campaign
So you are aware applying email-marketing to your marketing plan is the lowest cost highest rate (ROI) Return on Investment any business, nonprofit or membership group can utilize today.

Reminder about quality offerings
Email-marketing is quick, easy and great to save and grow a business but this easy to do service comes with an important understanding about sending email messages and here it is.

Sending Frequency
What is this frequency thing Logic?
It is simple while email-campaigns are effective, if over used they can be the death of any business?

How often to send email offers out
We suggest, in fact we encourage that you only send a single message per month for starters, think about this, we all receive emails all of the time right, and we all know about those blue pill offers we receive like all of the time, and please do not get a thought in your head that well my potential customers are waiting for my great email message, that would be a fantasy and it is lying to yourself, trust Logic.

Over time you can build recipient trust, but only over time
The message you create must hit the nail on the head so the saying goes, you really only have a single chance at this until the next month comes along anyways, not that you cannot send more then one message per month through Viper Mailer, you can even our smallest account size allows a sender to send out up to 10 messages a month for the one time a month fee of $24.00 per month for 1000 contacts.

Here is the pricing for email-marketing-service accounts and account sizes

Note
The up to 10 sending times a month in the Viper Mailer system was not designed to send to the same list over and over in a monthly period, it was created for multiple group sending from a single account on a once to twice per month basis.

Signing up for an email-marketing account
Ok my struggling business owner and new friend
It is time for you to invest no money, this is FREE, but rather this is going to require (at first) a little more of your stretched time by opening an email-campaign sending service account at Viper Mailer Email-Marketing-campaign builder service, but this is the lowest cost and easiest way known to save a failing business or the growth of any business. 

Here are the basics of what our email marketing service is going to provide for you.
A place to upload store and manage your contacts
A place to select and build from one of our colorful professional templates, it is easy, you just feel in the blanks like your business name, hours, phone, active website link, email address, pictures and your logo (if you have one)
Select the color for your template that best shares your brand, a color you will be sticking with throughout the email-campaign
Preset your message send time and day in advance, this will keep your deliveries consistent and aid ion getting recipients to know who and what you are all about, or simply send it when ready

Below we share what to put into your message
This is the most important part of your campaign, what you are going to say, share and offer in your very first email-campaign.

Additional Viper Mailer tracking and growth features include:
The service removes duplicated contacts, it spell checks, it tracks your campaigns like who and how many people opened them and if you have a website and your message has a link built into it, how many recipients clicked on the link to see your website or details about your offer you left out of the email message to keep it short and effective.
Instant recipient Opt-Out and recipient Forwarding built into each message keeping you a Spam Free sender.

Now it is time to save the uncompleted message, you are nearly ready to go, we just want to share some very important items about the content and eye catchers before you begin sending out your email-messages.

Let’s build an awareness email-message
Before we get started building our message
I would like you to look into the future of your email efforts and think of this first email-message as the start of a campaign.

There is a big difference between sending out an email-blast and building an email campaign for the future growth beyond just solving your failing business issue right now.

Email-Blasts are considered a one time hit it big and capture a sale or two, we at Viper Mailer consider this spam.
Email-Campaigns are a planned long-term customer building, branding and loyalty way of communicating.

Addtional references
Learn more about email marketing in 6 easy steps

How to build an Email-Marketing-Campaign
While you and your business are in need for immediate results, sales we still need you to stay focused on 3, 6, 9, 12 months out from now, because yes your first campaign will bring you sales, if built correctly but over the months however we have even bigger plans for your business in the area beyond survival and into the area of growth.

Steady controllable growth, which will have you never looking back at those days you thought your business was going to end up a failure

Best email-campaign planning
This friend is easy for you, no one knows your business better then you do and the best way to plan is to print out a blank 12 month calendar.

Selecting the day of the month
Figure out which day of the month is best for your business to send out your message, place a small written detail of what you want each message on that day of the month to have in it.

How to begin making email contact with new persons
We need to get you started for the first month or two with a reintroduction and maybe a meet and greet then you can begin your campaign, at the same time you are reminding your local residents, neighbors and future customers of who and what your all about.

People have short memories but time can get these people buying from you, even promoting you and sharing your offers by forwarding their monthly email messages from you to their friends, but give this time.

Plotting your email campaign course
The details you write down will help you plan, prevent duplicating the same offer (boring your members) and will help you build a campaign that is exciting to your recipients, keeping them in suspense, maybe even having your contacts waiting and anticipating its arrival each month.

Think of things like holiday ideas and holiday specials for like summer or winter perhaps a fall special, whatever fits the annual cycle for your business, write them into your 12 month calendar.

Timing your email messages to the four seasons helps
The team at Viper Mailer has found that messages tied to the four seasons like a Fall Season offer featuring tips about preparing for the Fall Season make great messages and reminders. These types of messages show how your emails are great reminders and you are essentially helping your contacts be on top of the seasons. 

Email-Campaign sending success note
Later on you should even select what time of the day you are going to send out your messages as there is no better way to get results from any marketing effort then to be predictable and reliable as the go to source for the product you are offering, it all starts with being consistent. 

What to put into your first email-message
Remember even though you have called and had a verbal contact with these people and they have Opted-In (allowed) to allow you to send them an email once in the while, we do not want to just place an offer right in front of them and right out the door in your first email message.

Additional references
Building a winning email Subject Line

Start light build trust
Think back to your phone call when you first made contact with your local neighbors through that phone book, apply the Logic way of marketing, it goes like this:

Crawl
Reintroduce yourself and if you just stick to a short and clean (non promotional) message it would be fine in about 2 weeks to send out a stronger message say inviting them to stop by meet our staff enjoy some cookies and drinks with us.

Walk
The next month on your calendar you might like to begin sharing insider information about a new line of products, a special artist or designer visit that you feel your contacts might enjoy being an exclusive part of, people need to feel important.

Run
It is time to begin making money, growing your list of contacts growing your sales and here is how to do this month in and month out, and so you are aware, time and time again this method has proven to withstand the test of time. 

Are you ready?

Business owners are creative people
You are a business operator a creator of ingenuity, as mentioned early, no one knows your business better then you do, so turn on your thinking cap and create hyper and viral active things to be placed in your messages.

Start a one per month message featuring a tips and techniques section related to and around the business you are in.

Educate, share informative information maybe little known details about something you feel your contacts would literally die to be first to know about, and excited enough to share with others by forwarding your email to their friends and coworkers.

Start a loyalty plan where your customers can belong to a club where these people can share and learn form each other, the sky is the limit, and always follow the money no matter what approach you take the interactive part of your business in.

Keep your messages short
Use a link to additional information on your website, if you have a lot to say to your contacts in your email-messages because people do not care to read a lot of content, email is to inform not to create books.

Additional reference
How to build a short effective email message

Let pictures help tell part of the story
Use images in your messages that are on the topic you are sharing, pictures help say a whole lot more then writing things all out and people like to see pictures, illustrations animations whatever, you get it.

It is time to add your content
Now that you have been reading this article, learning how to woo your list of contacts enough, so they will take the action you are requesting, it is time to return to your Viper Mailer email-marketing account.

That is where you have uploaded your list of contacts, selected your template, selected your branding color, and added your contact information and logo.

Now add your creative short content and prepare your first message to go out, begin saving, then building your business into the size and power you imagined when you first started the business in the first place.

Belial 2010 our new decade prediction

Greed is the route of all evil today
While god’s book might teach money is the route of all evil, nothing could be farther from the truth.

Belial is actually wicked and worthless
How many of us read the news on the Internet about greedy people?
How many of us know of a family member that turned greedy when the opportunity arose?

Belial means greed, greedy, evil a sort of devil in human form

Muslim culture agrees with our article
Muslin culture sees the Belial as a demon that feasts on the poor and feeds the rich.

There are plenty of evil and wicked persons in our daily lives but this is not an excuse to join the greed movement

Globally we see our own government officials steeling from the poor to aid their rich friends

We see business operators taking all they can for self at the cost of future generations

We all know of or about a greedy person a Belial person
There is no reason to continue writing about this government or this fund manager or your relative or someone you are in business with that is or has become a Belial.

Logic felt it best to look into this new decade and not attempt to predict what could be or what might be but rather to share what you and I can do to make sure this decade does not follow the decades of the past.

Stay positive and you and our future generations shall prevail as one single unit united

What will a Belial person cost human kind?
The outcome looks dark to Logic, we see a future, one would not want to have, then raise children in (if you loved them) as the future through control, rules and power struggles paints a picture with only dark colors on the canvas of the artists behind this massive land grab mentality for self at the expense of whoever gets in the Belial’s way.

How can this decade steer clear of the last decades Belial?
It all starts with an individual, you one person conveying to the next that it is far greater to be an inspiration to others then to work at getting all you can out of those around you, build upon the strengths of your fellow friends, be loyal, be educating and be there for those friends in times of good as well as times of bad.

Follow Logic to a better future
These thoughts and suggested directions are what Logic feels are the best ways to build back our lost trust in our fellow man and woman.

It is our duty to see these changes through
You and I, we can and in fact we must accomplish this important task or we are as a society destines to see failures, failures we have never seen in all of man kinds, time on this great Earth.

Logic thoughts
We did not select to discuss details about employment, governments businesses, trends and people activities, mainly because we pointed those out over the 2008 and 2009 years on this very article site (You Search) leading to the New Decade. This New Decade and the first year being 2010 we will see things coming later in the year and into 2011 we have never seen, yes Logic knows what Logic is talking about since being a hobbyist economist since 1983 and being fully aware of where in America’s case the money shuffled to hold off the worlds Greatest Depression temporarily that any human has ever seen, like a ponzi scheme the floor is going to fall out but more then likely after the current President is far removed from the office in 2012.