Building an Email Contact List in Two Days

Learn how to get a jump start into email marketing
Once in a great while we are amazed at the tactics a client will utilize to jump start the collecting and building as of an Email Marketing contact list and we cannot wait to share how creative this client was at gathering 1000 contacts legally as opt-in clients.

How to build a solid email contact list legally
We are Viper Mailer an email marketing software service provider and we have an extensive email marketing Education Center here Email list building tools where we offer the usual ways to gather peoples first, last names and email addresses and how to keep the list legal by having the persons fill out an online form or in person card and mark a box that explains they agree to accept relevant offers from time to time (usually on a monthly bases) from the company or organization they are filling out the form for.

We generally have all of the email contact gathering methods covering the ways you can achieve collecting names but once in the while we learn of yet another creative way to gather data on people.

Please meet our Swap-meet client
We have a newer client who has been with us a few months and has taught us another way to gather data on people and has built his list up by over 1000 new fresh contacts in under two days by simply talking to a swapmeet organizer. We will share just how our client went from a few hundred contacts on a Friday to over 1200 in his account by a Tuesday afternoon. He also gained a new friend and associate with the swapmeet organizer and they continue to work on this dual promotion tactic on a monthly bases.

This client specializes in romantic lingerie and sells his products from his store front in a city in Los Angeles County where he had collected the two hundred email contacts from the foot traffic his store receives then he started utilizing our email marketing service but he wanted to move faster so he came up with the swapmeet idea.

To convince the swapmeet organizer to allow him to place and operate fill out forms and drop in boxes at the two entrances of the swapmeet he offered to give away two romantic weekend trips for two to Palm Springs, California including a romantic dinner for two during the winners stay.

The swapmeet organizer liked the lingerie products of course but he really liked that he had a couple of free prizes to offer to his swapmeet going audience and he realized this would look good and be helpful to getting these swapmeet goers coming back more often for a chance to win a romantic getaway and dinner that would lead to the swapmeet goers retuning more frequenting a real plus for the swapmeet vendors causing a real win win for the swapmeet organizer.

This chain of events has Logic thinking
What else will our clients be sharing with us because this contact gathering tactic caught us by surprise and has us trying to think of other ways our Viper Mailer email marketing product can help others get a jump on growing their sells and business. If you would like to see what all of the fuss is all about go ahead and give Viper Mailer a FREE fully functional try Email Marketing

When will I understand I get what I pay for

Looking inside of forums membership
Logic belongs to over 40 FREE online forums for web masters, marketing and domain names and after spending a portion of the day building our back links (back-links are an active keyword or words link that take the visitor via the blue underlined link to the URL Internet site you represent) through the signature in each topic I add or each post I make on forums. I have come to the realization that you get what you pay for which for most all forums is “0” dollars. As and active member I read and learn as well as to reply to topics where I can be of some benefit to the person asking various questions.

Reflecting back signature links might bring a little strength to our email marketing software product however what Logic could do is just buy a high ranking Internet profile site offering advertising space at a fixed price on a monthly bases and wipe out all of the time and efforts for building a solid signature linking system. Signature links are a small part of the complex SEO/SEM (Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing) process.

It takes a lot of time and great effort from my normal work to add to topics on forums and agian with a forum like with a free anything for example like some free blog services you are never in control of your future and the operators offering these free services to you and I basically put us at the Mercy of the operators.

SEO/SEM defined
We want to answer what an SEO/SEM effort does for your online site irregardless to whether it is a traditional web site, blog, social network, proxy or photo/video storage and share site you will need to apply these tactics provided through the understanding of SEO/SEM to achieve some level of online success because the key ingredient to people finding your site starts with the search engines visitor and with the best keyword or words these visitors type into the search box to find your site.

Example we apply SEO/SEM tactics to our email marketing service web site Viper Mailer under the the keywords “Email Marketing” so when a search engine visitor does a search looking for email marketing types in these key words and our site Vipermailer.com would arrive on the first page and with a lot of work the top of the page.

Who participates on forums
When you join a free forum like the two non technical ones we operate here Palm Springs Discussion and here California Beach Discussion in order to participate and not just be a forum reader you need to first become a member by signing up selecting a handle like mine is Logic on all forums then you can even upload a picture or an avatar like Logic is an avatar then proceed to read, learn and post questions in the available topics.

How you decide what type of forum you are interested in like Catnip is a vintage watch repair and watch collector all as a hobby for him from his regular job of being the (CTO) Chief Technology Officer here at Viper Logic. You might not be aware that their is a topic for anything you can imagine like our two above where one forum is for those that love the beach and the other is for those that love the California Desert so people that like either of these two forums can meet, share, hook up with others that share these same interests.

If you are not a member of a forum today you will find forums to be fun and informative. Being an operator of a few forums and members of 40 forums is a great way to be involved in the topics that interest us all.

Why professional forums should be a paid service
We have been active members of forums since 2006 and have to share what we have learned about forums with you and why we discovered why the forums for professional forums like web site forums or watch maker forums need to have a fee to allow you to participate in them.

We are actually members of a great domain name forum where we are paid member here Domain Name Forum and the first thing you realize is that the forum is more serious and secondly you see that the types of people are on topic and the level of questions and answers to topic posts are of a higher caliber.

All forums should not be paid as you might have noticed above we only mention professional forums related to business and industries like watch makers, auto mechanics, domain names, web masters and marketing to mention a few and there are many more that are for people looking for connections or help with a pro profit business however a forum should always be free for tourism, medical, non profits, how to garden and there are many more like our two forums and for most forums this should hold true.

Why are people running forums for FREE
Nothing is free in life and I hope I finally learned my lesson because forum operators run their forums providing a service for you and I to connect and to share our common interests however they are not independently wealthy persons trying to be nice they are actually either offering the other services or products they own, they can build up a large amount of members and sell the forum easily for millions of dollars or they are running those not to successful (In My Opinion) PPC (Pay Per Click) advertisements that generate a modest amount of income for the forum operator.

We have nothing against the reasons to have a forum at all they are great for making friends and Logic remembers first joining them however they can only get you and I so far so clearly they are no longer of any use to us and the new available time would be better spent doing something else.

Logic is giving up on most non paid forums
Forums are a great place to discuss things of interest in and organized format as most forums are great at offering and there are rules, lots of rules and site moderators that are policing the sites for the operators protecting all members from time to time warning or banning people that violate some of the rules and Logic will be the first to share we have had to ban users once in the while for a period of time because they offended another member or they posted a non relevant reply to a topic or they placed an advertisement for something or another on one of the two forums we operate.

So you can see rules are a great thing and even if you are a member of a paid forum and we can share that the operators are policing the forum as moderators but they are just not needed as often especially in the area of posting to just be posting and in the area of spamming the forum which is the same as posting an advertisement.

Logic is tired of the same 10 or 20 questions being posted on the 40+ technical, domain name and marketing forums everyday all because these people those free members are eager to post a topic more then to read what is already posted and posted and posted about the same topic. The quality of the type of Quote Webmasters has truly came down due to the what easily appears to be a great way to make a couple of dollars.

Time is very important and time is money if we as humans are worth anything at all we need to realize the most precious commodity we are all given, though not equally is the gift of time. So spend it wisely like Logic is now going to do by firing these free time consuming professional forums.

Single Word Domain Names

Does one word really provide enough description
We do not know about you but we think wow it would be really great to have a one word domain name because we all see how much names like Sex.com, Pizza.com and even locations like Bellvue.com sell for large figures like quoted in the DNJournal here Domain Name Sales Figures in resent weeks from 100.000.00 to 10 million dollars allows us all to dream a little. We only wish we had single word names so we could sell them in most cases and more then likely not to develop them for an actual use.

What is a single word domain name
Because Viper Logic holds a variety of domain names and through our knowledge base at Domain name portfolio we define a single word domain name beyond the obvious names like the three we listed above as names like Palm, ECommerce.com, and RealEstate.com also as single word domain names because you are building a location like the city of Palm Springs takes these two words tied together to build a city web site.

One word names that require a two word explanation
When looking at Palm Springs as two words you could say be the owner of Palm.com and Springs.com and the Palm.com could be for the palm operating system and the springs.com could be a spring manufacturer.

These are the actual single words that make up Palm Springs. Palm Springs is a two word domain name but it is actually on the Internet a single name. Niether one of the words palm or springs will get you results for Palm Springs so this leads us to the two words can actually be a one word name in Internet terms. Next in this case Palm Springs has two cities one in Florida and one in California so this is what we call a nondescriptive domain name.

We feel that the best name for each in the future is PalmSpringsCalifornia.com and PalmSpringsFlorida.com but without the state attached the more popular city prevails being the one in California which is where the web site PalmSprings.com’s content was built featuring. You might like to see PalmSprings.com here Palm Springs, California it is owned by a couple of really nice guys and friends of Logic because Logic is based in Palm Springs, California.

Some Domain Name words work better then others online
We believe the future of the Internet search engines while today they are all about relevant content could see the future of targeted domain names with relevant content of course as the best (SERP) Search Engine Results Page which is when a search engine visitor searches for anything by typing what they are looking for into the search box of their favorite search engine.

A great example is lets say a person is going to the beach and they want to know about that beach and the weather they would type in the search box Laguna Beach Weather and in this case the return results would offer them LagunaBeachWeather.com see it here Laguna Beach Weather as the top return result because that content matches the domain name the search engines know it is the best return results or keyword query it can deliver.

Domain Name Investing and in the future
Domain names are clearly here to stay and we believe that the .com is the leader today and will be tomorrow however what we are not sure about is what value these names are going to have looking forward. We know that when offering to send someone to your site on the Internet it is better to have a .com and that the name is very short and short is generally great for single word domain name owners as well as having a name that is memorable and does not require spelling it out.

One word domain name downside
Owning a single word domain name generally is not a real good branding opportunity because lets say you own the domain name Bank.com it really does not say who you are and it clearly does not say what type of bank you are.

Two word domain names that sell well
As of this week we read that DomainRegistration.com sold for 376.000.00 dollars showing us that targeting names are doing really well. A targeting domain name is usually a two word domain name that is more focused or defined to the search engines query return results.

This is really the best news for people like us at Viper Logic where we own so many two keyword combinations that have taken us and other years to accumulate and we believe that the future of two word domain names is going to be a high demand area for domain name investors

To truly understand why some domain names are worth more then others we will explain the name DNJournal.com reported the sell of and when we look at the name it immediately explains that it is for a domain name seller because the starting keyword is Domain then we see that the second keyword is Registration explaining precisely what the domain name selling company does they allow registration of domain names.

Our thoughts about DomainRegistration.com
What is truly amazing is the business model of being a domain name registrar operator is over built meaning in our opinion everybody in the web site hosting business like we are one of at ViperGate.com offer the ability to buy domain names on the hosting site. We sell names to our clients from ViperGate.com to mostly our hosting clients rarely do we just get visitors to our site to come and buy domain names because most domain name buyers buy from their host provider.

The only exception to this rule is the power buyers like ViperNames.com is one of use their own buying tools like ViperGate.com is a domain name registrar.

Discovering Cities in California Series - Bakersfield

Welcome to Bakersfield, California
The city is located in Region 7.
The County is Kern, California.
The city has just under 329,000 residents living in 113.1 square miles of area and the city has 1.3 square miles of water area.
The city was incorporated in January 1898.
The city is located in Southern California.

Some Interesting facts about Bakersfield, California.
Bakersfield is at the southern beginning of the Central Valley our region 7 located along the State Route 99 for California and the area is a very large populated area for the region which is predominantly a bedroom community. This area is also well known for its very rich minerals being of course oil and a unique feature is a group of the people habituating the area Basque people (name derives from the Medieval French) the largest percentage of Basque people living outside of the Pyrenees Mountains and what are Basque people and where are these mountains? These great people come from Spain, France and Andorra.

Dryer’s Ice Cream Factory
Lets not forget that Bakersfield, California is home to one of America’s favorite dessert Ice Cream from Dreyer’s and they make the ice cream we all enjoy here in fact this picture is the company’s chief taster what a job tasting ice cream for a living wow.

Bakersfield is 100 miles north of California’s largest population city of Los Angeles, California and has its own airport the Meadows Field you can visit the airport here Bakersfield, California Airport and if you are interested and you love carrots then Bakersfield would be your favorite place because they are home to the largest carrot producing operations known in the world.

Things to do in and around Bakersfield, California.
This is a great populated city to stay in then each day you can venture out to see agriculture and oil field history other then that there really is not much to offer. from Bakersfield you can visit lakes and rivers near by for fishing rafting and kayaking.

Official City of Bakersfield, California web sites.
City of Bakersfield City of Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield Visitor and Convention Bureau Bakersfield Visitor Information Center

Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce Bakersfield, California Chamber of Commerce

WeatherBakersfield.com