Hi,

I have found some useful links about direct e-marketing - this is sending information about your company in an electronic format (hence saving trees - and money!!) - all the links I have linked here are free!!

I will be posting a blog about this today - of course I will put something like p.s. let Office Butterfly take the hassle from you and let us create your e-marketing letter or your own e-newsletter! ...

http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/eli...lid=1375931407 - this is a free mailing list feature
also, try using www.toddle.ie, this is totally free newsletter template that you can create online, which sends the completed e-newsletter to your inbox.

if you use officelive (which i know a lot of people here do, incl. me!), just to let you know that you can only send 100 e-mails a time (or a day, i think...!!!); so even if you just send your direct mail to 25 people a day then that's sufficient

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Julia Neal ...because we ♥ admin!
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Thanks, Julia! Looks useful

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Lily Chambers, The Virtual Office Goddess, LLC
Author "How to Do Your Own Small Business Bookkeeping"

that's okay - i'm currently creating my first direct e-mail i hope it goes well!!

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Julia Neal ...because we ♥ admin!
http://julianeal.wordpress.com

Sounds like a good plan - keep us posted on what kind of results you get!

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will do!! I had an e-mail from toddle.ie about the service - saying thanks for the mentions (it's free) and that I have got 5 credits to my account with means I get some paid designs to play around with so it's all good

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Julia Neal ...because we ♥ admin!
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I found this article about building better E-mail marketing campaigns

http://www.acxede.net/building_bette...ting_campaigns

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Dawn Riley
A Virtual Assistant in Paradise
Our business is about making yours better

wow - thanks for that! I am going to do another e-mail campaign on Tuesday, that will come in handy.

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Julia Neal ...because we ♥ admin!
http://julianeal.wordpress.com

Thanks Julia. This was exactly what I was looking for.

Julia,

I started using Toodle, but I'm having difficulty editing the existing text in the sample. Have you had any problems?

I haven't had any problems with Toddle at all. I find it a really easy, professional online tool to use. What area are you having trouble editing?

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Julia Neal ...because we ♥ admin!
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