Social Media Examiner | Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What | Topic Replies http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/feed/ Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What - Forum Topic in the Group Small Business Sat, 25 May 2013 13:29:04 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.5 en http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-21<![CDATA[Rob Peck replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-21 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:15:36 +0000 Rob Peck replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business Are people generally just sending one email leading to the website home page, or what is the funnel here? 
Not trying to plug at all, but I love the offering we have been doing lately (b2c) with the friends […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-21<![CDATA[Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-21 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:26:51 +0000 Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business Thanks for the info everyone! It really helps and confirms what I already knew.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-21<![CDATA[Jim Palmer replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-21 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:43:02 +0000 Jim Palmer replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business Late last year I was offered an opportunity by a contact to buy-in a 1/8 share of a 
list of 100,000. While the price was mouth-watering-ly appealing, I passed.
The list turned out to be way unfiltered and time […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-21<![CDATA[Diane Aull replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-21 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:33:05 +0000 Diane Aull replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business Against my recommendation, someone else at my company sent out a series of email blasts promoting our company. I had to devote time I didn't have to spare, to create a custom landing page to greet all the hordes […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-20<![CDATA[Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-20 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:35:19 +0000 Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business @robpeck  Thanks for the info ... I'll check them out!

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-20<![CDATA[Rob Peck replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-20 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:45:43 +0000 Rob Peck replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business Plugging a friend here, but the only email marketer/data broker folks that I trust are http://www.dvmail.com/. Have collaborated with them a dozen or so times and have seen good data and happy clients. Lists have […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19<![CDATA[Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:20:38 +0000 Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business @amyhallbiz
They were both the same size 100k and yeah, it was awful.  I explained the benefits of build the list organically and we're just over 20,000 subscribers (all organic) now after 6 months.  Not too […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19<![CDATA[Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:29:18 +0000 Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business @iamconsulting Thanks for sharing this info. You would happen to know how large the lists were that were sent from? Wow that's a crazy click through rate 2/10th of 1 percent. Doesn't sound like it's really worth the cost.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19<![CDATA[Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:56:03 +0000 Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business Hi @amyhallbiz
I don't have exact numbers as it's been a few months but I do remember the results were dismal.  I believe there were less than 500 clicks received from the blast and the majority of the traffic […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19<![CDATA[Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:29:23 +0000 Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business @iamconsulting Hi Nicole, I need info on how a "sponsored blast" has worked for people.I worked for a gentleman that had a list of 100,000 who sent out "sponsored blasts" once a month as a part of his revenue […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19<![CDATA[Mark Oetjens replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:37:26 +0000 Mark Oetjens replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business For my last SF novel I purchased an email list for independent bookstores, joined Constant Contact for one month and sent out a blast. I did not get a single response and only a handful even opened the blast. […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic//#post-<![CDATA[Debbie Hemley replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic//#post- Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:50:45 +0000 Debbie Hemley replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business Interesting discussion and very apropos--I've been asked to write a blog post about "sponsored emails" (having someone send an email to their list on your behalf), results, etc.I came across an article from a […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic//#post-<![CDATA[Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic//#post- Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:52:24 +0000 Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business Hi @amyhallbiz Purchased lists can be extremely difficult to work with due to spam regulations and most email marketing companies won't even touch them.
  I do know of one company that works with purchased lists […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19<![CDATA[Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:02:19 +0000 Amy Hall - WordPress Assistant & MailChimp Expert replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business I have a client that wanted to purchase an email list of 100,000 to email to. I told him that it would be better if he had the owner of the list send out an email introducing him and recommending him, rather than […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19<![CDATA[Trudy Phillips replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:45:15 +0000 Trudy Phillips replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business One of my nonprofit clients has a PR contractor who does this for them. I think he used MailChimp. He does a twice monthly  newsletter and send it. @deairby @amyhallbiz

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19<![CDATA[Dea Irby replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/has-anyone-paid-for-an-email-blast-to-be-sent-out-abou-your-business-what/#post-19 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:09:28 +0000 Dea Irby replied to the forum topic Has anyone paid for an email blast to be sent out abou your business? What in the club Small Business not sure anyone saw this question.. I haven't done that, maybe there is someone who has... (commenting on this will bring it back up to the top) @amyhallbiz

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