| Interactive Survey Please let us know if you’d like… …MarketVolt to store sent versions of your mailings online. As we plan enhancements for MarketVolt, we will ask your opinion to guide our plans. We’re thinking about adding functionality that would make it easy for you to save a copy of any email you send. This may include allowing you to: Create links (for your web site or other places) that point to online versions of your mailings that we host for you. Publish a copy of any mailing on your own web site. Allow readers to tag specific mailings on social media (i.e. “like” this mailing on Facebook or share on twitter). Please click here to vote yes or no on this functionality and to offer suggestions on this or other enhancements you’d like to see. Why should you vote? If you want this functionality, your “yes” vote and suggestions will help to convince us that we should push ahead with this idea. If you don’t want this functionality, your “no” vote and suggestions for other enhancements will help redirect the development agenda.  |
| Marketing Tips List-Building is Easier than You May Think. Here Are Some Tips…  Your most valuable asset is not your inventory, employees, or intellectual property; it’s your list—the herd of people with whom you can communicate regularly to sell your products and services.We have a several articles on our blog that can help you with this. Here are two we recommend: An oldie but goodie from 2009 includes a includes a list-building checklist. If you answer, “no” to any of the questions, you’re missing list-building opportunities that could drive your business forward.Tips to make your web site a list-building machine. We just published this one this week. It includes four things you must do to collect email addresses on your web site.Here’s a link to all of our articles about list-building. |
| Formatting Tips Wrap text around your images Image placement and text wrapping can go a long way in making your emails look professional. Here’s a smart tip to add a little white space around your image so that your text doesn’t bump up against the image.  When selecting the image, be sure to select the alignment. Once your image is inserted, click on the image, then click the image properties button  found in the lower editing portion of the screen.To add white space around the image, enter numbers in the margin area. By entering the same number for the top and bottom, and left and right, you’ll ensure Outlook 2007/10 and other email clients adds the space you want. The example at the right has 5 pixels of white space surrounding the image. |
| Recent Changes See Who Opted Out A common question received by the support team is, “How can I tell who opted out of my mailing?” That answer is now easier to find on the statistics screen. In addition to seeing the number of recipients that clicked the opt out link, you can also filter the delivery grid to see their email addresses. Simply click the >> in the details column, then filter the list by opted out. You can then easily assign a characteristic, download or export to a spreadsheet.  |
| Coming Soon… More Control Over Your Sign Up Page Our included email signup pages have been pretty boring – a banner, some plain text and a button. Ho Hum. Soon, we’ll be adding more editing functions so you can add some sparkle and additional branding to your sign up pages. Check out our sign up page. |
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