Integrating Email With Social Media

May 11, 2010category | Promote

Email Marketing

Ok, so now its May and your starting to think about your marketing plan for 2010. Your not the first business to wait. So, what type of marketing should you be doing. There are several avenues to take, but one of the least expensive and highly trackable is email marketing. According to eMarketer, 2010 is going to be a good year for email marketing. A December survey revealed that 69% of respondents plan to increase spending on email marketing efforts – more than any other marketing strategy.

Email Marketing Solutions

One of our favorite tools for email marketing is MailChimp. Email marketing is an effective tool to reach your existing client base and business partners. MailChimp offers a complete email marketing solution for you. Some of the features they have are:

  • Build and Manage Your List
  • Design HTML Email Campaigns
  • Unsubscribes and invalid email addresses are removed automatically
  • Email Campaign Tracking
  • RSS-to-Email
  • and many more. (view complete list)

What about the Social Part

MailChimp easily integrates with social media giants like Saleforces, Flowtown, Wordpress, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, StumbleUpon, and Delicious. These are just some of the companies that MailChimp’s email marketing software integrates with, they also have many others companies that have plugins or other extras.

There is a nice video from the guys over at MailChimp that describes some of the social media features for your email marketing campaign.

Get Started

The best time to get started with your social marketing is now. By using tools like MailChimp, you can be reaching all of your clients and all of their friends (potential clients) with a few clicks of the mouse. Reaching your clients has never been easier or more powerful than combining your email marketing and your social media marketing. Looking for a custom designed email template, give us a call. We can also take care of all the marketing and setup for you.

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2 Responses to “Integrating Email With Social Media”

  1. best bulk mailer Says:
    May 17th, 2010 at 1:20 pm

    Sweet, I was searching for something along the lines of this. What would you say would be the most effective way of marketing online (apart from) emailing, because that’s a given.

  2. Woodrow Gungor Says:
    May 25th, 2010 at 2:37 am

    Hi, I came across this site from Twitter and just wanted to take some time to say thank you for your marketing hints.

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