Email Marketing Video Tutorial: How to Use Constant Contact

This series of email marketing video tutorials is created for the benefits for those of you who are new to using Constant Contact.

Many of our new customers have feedback that it is kind of overwhelming when first started using Constant Contact. It could be due to the rich features available inside the Constant Contact email marketing system. Many new users were lost at where and how to start.

Top Email Marketing Mistakes You Might Have Made (Part 1)

Email Marketing is an excellent tool to connect, promote and update with your customers. You might be using it frequently to communicate with your customers but are you doing it correctly? Email Marketing can make or break your sales and brand depending on how you use it. Below are top 10 email marketing mistakes that are commonly made by business, are you one of them?

How to add Your Avatar Photo when Commenting on Blog?

Have you ever wondered how could you add your own photo or representative image to a blog, forum or other social media sites while you are commenting? If you want to establish a relationship and trust with other bloggers or readers, it is good to show your face to them so that they can identify with you. This photo or image will become your avatar and once you have it set up, it will appear everywhere when you post a comment.

Constant Contact Newsletter Subscription Plugin For WordPress Blog

If you are thinking of adding a newsletter subscription box to your wordpress blog but do not want the hassle of copying the code from Constant Contact to WordPress individually, here is a quick way to do it.  However, please note that this plugin only work for blog installed in the root directory, if your blog is installed in sub-directory like www.yourdomain.com/blog, it will not work unfortunately.

How to Verify WordPress.com Blog with Google Webmaster Tools?

It may seem difficult to get your wordpress.com blog (not wordpress.org blog) verify by Google webmaster tools when you are not allowed any FTP access to wordpress.com. There used to be a way to work around it by creating a new page and pasting the verification filename given by Google webmaster tools into it but it no longer work now. There is another quick and easy method you can try, please follow the steps as below.

Essential Project Manager Toolkit

If you are the project manager, the following scenario should be familiar to you.

  1. Limited resources, time and budget but you are asked to achieve the star and moon at an unreasonable deadline.
  2. Project scope creep – unexpected changes to the project requirement and scope.
  3. Ineffective communication within the project team and between customers.
  4. Your office culture of resistance to change hinders the adoption of complex project management skills and software.
  5. Office politics is the least thing you expect but it happen; your project team is not operative and giving you more headaches.
  6. Your boss is not supportive and expects you to solve all the problems, in short you have no one else to turn to.

What is the fastest way to write a marketing plan?

As an experienced marketer, we know that writing a realistic, credible and accurate marketing plan takes time and effort. A decent one could easily take up a month or more to finish. At the start of writing a marketing plan, you could be overwhelmed by the amount of information or lack of information. This is especially so if you are writing the marketing plan for the first time or starting from scratch.

How to Send Large Files?

Nowadays, files are getting bigger and bigger, some times a simple video or audio clips, PDF or graphic file can easily take up about 10MB of space. It could be frustrating when you need to send over such huge files to your recipient as it could take ages to send over, it could be even annoying when some email services do not allow large files to be sent. Similarly, it could be a nightmare to receive large file as an attachment via email. It could clog up the downloading of emails where a few seconds process could turn into long-waiting process especially when you have urgent email to check.