Learning is a lifelong process and that is never more true than in online marketing! With that in mind, here are a few things I picked up today that may also be useful to you…
Email Marketing
- Avoid using a free email account address as your reply email for your email autoresponder messages or campaigns. Use your own domain name email rather than eg a gmail address. It improves deliverability.
- If you don’t have a website, spend $10 and buy a domain name just for using as an email server for your email marketing. I recommend and use NameCheap.
- When you are about to buy a new domain name, especially if you are buying a previously used domain, check if it has any issues with being blacklisted as a spamming email domain.
- Useful sites for checking domains
- http://mxtoolbox.com/
- http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#
- http://www.dnsbl.info/dnsbl-database-check.php
Ebook Covers
- Design your front cover, back cover and spine then upload the image and convert it to a 3D eBook cover image for free
- http://melaniedayauthor.com/eCoverAuthority/
- http://3d-pack.com/
- http://www.myecovermaker.com/ecover-design
Site SEO
- Stats are not my thing despite getting a Distinction in the subject at Uni. Still, we need to know how we’re performing. Today I found a quick site analysis tool of interest. Nice to see my Alexa rank has improved recently 🙂
- http://alexa.com
- http://siteexplorer.info/
It’s been a mildly productive day but as I was taking the day off, I thought I’d catch up on emails and learning. Now, it’s off to the Grand Final. Go the Rabbitohs!
Thanks for reminding me about those free ebook tools. I have used one but the first one is new to me. Thanks 🙂
Pleasure 🙂
Thank you for the ebook cover resources. It was perfect timing for sure.
Glad it helped 🙂
Great use of your “day off” Mel. Learning something new will never be a waste of time, especially when you get to share it with us. I agree with getting your own email with your domain name. It’s not just for success of emails going through, but it makes you look more professional.
A lot of people use a gmail type account as their autoresponder reply email address – using the domain one is less likely to trigger spam filters. Glad the tips are useful.
I hope you enjoyed your day “off” Mel!
Great tips – particularly checking domains. These days you can’t be too carefull!
Enjoyed it so much, it’s hard to get back on track!! Thanks Jan 🙂
Great tools. I didn’t know about the domain being blacklisted.
Yep, me neither – thought it was worth passing on.
Great tips Mel! Thanks for sharing.
Pleasure.
I wasn’t aware that you could use free online services to create 3D covers. I must check these places out since I create 3D covers in Photoshop, most of the time.
Might to be nice to have an online resource too! Thanks for sharing them, Mel!
🙂
Thoroughly enjoyed these concise and useful tips!!!!!! Thank you 🙂
Glad you liked the economic style! It’s a public holiday here so I thought a quick post was ok 🙂
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