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Free Tradeshow Guide
This FREE guide is packed with tips to make your marketing events a success, such as how to draw the right crowd, select the right giveaways, develop an event strategy, gather solid leads, avoid deadly mistakes, and much more. It's available as a FREE download and there is no obligation of any kind. Get your copy here >>
Links to Useful Services
Below is our list of recommended services. We use each one of these and find them very useful and cost effective (some are even free). For some we have become resellers, so if you decide to try them and register through our link you'll get extra support from our staff, should you need it.
Registering your domain name is very simple and inexpensive, the cost runs at about $12 per year. If you already own one it's a good idea to registering the same name with different endings to avoid some else to have your same name, for example if your ending is .com, someone could have the same domain with a .net ending.
The first step is to check it's availability, you can do thet here:
• Email Marketing System
This is my preferred email marketing service because it offers the best value in the market, since all the bells and whistles are included in the price. In addition to what other services offer (a ton templates, segmenting your contacts, track openings and clicks), it also allows you to set up separate data capture boxes for your website for separate promotions, each with it’s own set of unlimited number of auto-responders. It has been around for a long time, it's very affordable and they offer a one month trial for $1. Check it out here >>
• Send Out Cards
This is a great cost effective promotional tool that allows you to set up an automated system to send personalized greeting cards. It allows you to send a full color high quality card to someone, very much the same way you send an email. You can send just one card or set up a campaign with a series of cards to be sent at set intervals. They offer a big selection to choose from and you can also upload your own. They also offer gift cards and brownies that can be sent through the service. It's a multilevel type company but you can subscribe as an end user only, without becoming a distributor. See how it works here >>
• Short run postcard mailings
This is a great service to do small postcard mailings, you can do as few as 1, for about $1. They offer 2 sizes: 4” x 6” and 5.5” x 8.5”. Once you create an account, you upload your contacts from your address book, upload your card design, and that’s that. They have plenty of stock pictures to use and the mailing side of the card can only be printed in black without much personalization, yet enough to make it an excellent option. Check it out here >>
• Blog Platforms
There are several very popular and user-friendly blog sites, where to set a business blog free of charge, with many features and widgets. Our favorites are Blogger, the easiest to set up and use, and Wordpress, my personal favorite, which has a very large and active user community, is very SEO friendly helping increase your visibility and has great traffic reporting tools. Take a look at our Wordpress blog here.