subject:Request for Article Exchange

I handle article exchange program for my client http://www.emai...e-resource.com/
As an ongoing process to increase the link popularity of my sites, I am looking for some good high quality article exchange with my client’s site.
I recently came across your site through search and found it beneficial and informative for our site’s visitors. I would like to offer you a content article exchange with my site.
We’d be happy to list your article on our site and link to your in the email marketing software section of the site in exchange for including the article in your newsletter. I look forward to receiving your article.
We hope that our content can serve as a valuable resource to your site visitors and we look forward to hearing from you.
A positive response from you on this would be highly appreciated.
Please send me your email ID for contacting you.
Many thanks and regards

Imtiyaz khan
Mailto: imtiyaz@webpopularity.org
Direct Marketing Executive

Drive thru to the IT Blogwatch window, in which Yahoo Tech pops up. Not to mention how to build your own mobile drive-in movie theater…
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SalesGenius brings the rep additional insight into the actions a prospect takes, and the proxy-based technology is ideal for sales reps because they are not technical and cannot implement Javascript on their web site. Here’s an example of how SalesGenius provides a win-win:

Just Friday, Genius received a note from one of their customers, a sales person, who saw that a prospect visited their site each month and spent over 10 minutes there every month after receiving a newsletter. The sales person contacted the prospect who said he was glad to be called as he reads the newsletter every month, visits the site, but can’t figure out exactly how the product would be useful for his company. The sales rep walked him through potential uses and a sale was made. Our customer said, “I would have never called this company and they would have never called me… but Genius gave me the information I needed to make the call.”

Products in development by Genius address some of the other issues mentioned in this thread (anonymous and return visitors, more “marketing” type of communications, etc.) and will be announced later.

“Most companies doing email marketing have already subscribed to another product (e.g. campaigner, quivamail, constant contact.) Migrating from their current product to SalesGenius is going to be a pain as, far as i can see, SG ony imports a CSV of customer contact details – no prior reporting history. So all your marketing reports will be in two chunks – pre- and post-SG switchover. Ick.”

It’s a nice add-on product, but not nearly enough integration with other tools I’m using.

How long before people will learn to take a url http://www.domain.rsvp1.com and just kill out the rsvp1? Not long I don’t think – which would pretty much nullify the usefullness of this product altogether. You think WebSideStory and the like have issues with cookie deletion effecting accuracy of reporting data? Once the public realizes what’s going on with URL/proxy tracking the validity of tools that track this way will plummet – IMHO.

This product looks like great demoware and that’s about that.

Why? Because it’s trying to pitch as marketing product (web analytics with email) as a sales product (without any relationship handling).

I actually like the idea from a marketing angle, but don’t kid yourself. This isn’t a sales product.

Most importantly, it’s only telling salespeople about the results of outgoing email marketing, not overall site visitor actions.

Most companies doing email marketing have already subscribed to another product (e.g. campaigner, quivamail, constant contact.) Migrating from their current product to SalesGenius is going to be a pain as, far as i can see, SG ony imports a CSV of customer contact details – no prior reporting history. So all your marketing reports will be in two chunks – pre- and post-SG switchover. Ick.

I think Rafe way overstates how much insight SG gives the salesperson into the prospect’s behaviour. I wish every click in a user’s path translated into intended action that had a purpose, but any usability tester will tell you that a X% of clicks are “oops, i clicked on the wrong link,” “does this ‘more info’ link tell me about international orders or not?” “I don’t want one of these, but let me see what colours it comes in,” and “hey, that’s a pretty button, I wonder what it does?” from the user.

SG’s reporting gives you a lot of detail on the clicktrail of each email recipient, but it doesn’t appear to offer reporting roll-ups along the lines of “show me which click paths were the most popular off this email” or “where did most recipients go after they landed on this page?” – you can only follow the actions of individual users, which may not be as insightful as you’d wish.

Privacy concerns? OK, your entire click trail might be visible, but guess what: it could as easily be tracked via cookie dropped on you when you visit a landing page – this does not require SalesGenius to do.

In fact, if I was a marketer, I’d prefer to track user behaviour via cookie rather than proxied URL. That way I can aggregate behaviour from all visitors to my site, not just those who’ve received an email from my salesfolks.

Finally, if I’ve invested in a website, I’m doing email marketing to push customers to it, and the website’s not generating sales without follow-up from a salesteam, I have a website problem!

One of the comments above says “but is this service evil”. I have to say that if you are doing legit marketing it actually helps you stop annoying people with email they don’t want. If you don’t know that people aren’t interested in what you are saying, you probably will carry on annoying them. This is a basic principle of marketing as it allows you to target the correct message at the correct people, making your marketing more effective.