Thursday, June 3, 2010

GetResponse Introduces a New Wordpress Plugin

GetResponse, an email marketing software service recently introduced a Wordpress plugin that will let you easily put up a sign-up form on your Wordpress based website or blog. It’s compatible with WordPress 2 .8.6 or higher blog version.

If you are using Wordpress, then you will know how easy it is to download and activate plugins. They just make your life a little more easier. Instead of copying and pasting code for the sign-up form, you can simply install this plugin and within minutes have your sign-up form displayed on your website. You can dowload the plugin here:

http://blog.getresponse.com/getresponse-wordpress-plugin.html

Installation instructions:

1. Extract all files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to wigets and configure you plugin!

This proves yet again how innovative GetResponse is. Have fun!
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

A Single Tool to Access Social Media Apps

If you do email marketing, you would know the importance of social media and most likely you are already using it to your advantage. However, the painful part of marketing is that it takes too much time managing all of the online applications.
You daily list of tasks most likely includes (in addition to actually running other aspects of your business):
  • Managing your email campaigns
  • Writing your email newsletters
  • Monitoring your email marketing software account
  • Monitoring your Twitter account and send tweets
  • Monitoring your Facebook and Myspace accounts
  • Monitoring your LinkedIn account
If you are a small business owner, so much workload is going to take the toll on your health and eventually on your business.
ConstantContact recently introduced NutshellMail—an online application that helps you monitor four major social media applications: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn.
You can sign up for free and can immediately associate your social media accounts with NutshellMail and it starts to send you any updates that you receive at your social media accounts. It will email you a summary of new messages. You can even decide at what time of the day you want to receive the emails.
The tool makes you life a little easier. And if you are still drowning in work, consider hiring a consultant to make you life more easier.