Friday, June 7, 2013
How to Find Legitimate Paid Online Survey Sites
By Amit Kothiyaal
There are plenty of reasons why you must be reading this article right now, and one of the most popular is that you intend to pursue paid surveys the right way the first time around - or the second, or the third. It really doesn't matter how many attempts you have made before. What counts is you are taking the necessary steps to succeed in this little money-making endeavor of yours.
If you are just about to sign up for a survey panel, then you should continue reading. Paid surveys, as you already know, happen in the worldwide web. As the years passed and computing technologies advanced, so did the methods of scammers and other cyber criminals. If you fall into the arms of a fake survey panel, the immediate consequences will be loss of money and waste of time and energy. This bad experience will urge to give up on this venture altogether. We cannot stop you from making that decision, but we can tell you that authentic paid online survey sites exist. All you really need are the right steps and to follow through them faithfully.
Heed these warnings
The first thing you need to do is to ease your search by eliminating the clutters of fake panels. How do you identify them? Here are the road signs you should keep an eye on:
1. They make the best promises - These survey sites hire the writers who graduated valedictorians in high schools named 'Elegant Words for the Discreet Liar' and 'We Make Promises - You Fall for Them'. Everything they say are too ideal - a tad bit too close to dream come true for them to be authentic. We are not saying that the real panels are the ones that make no promises altogether. There is a difference between good and too much.
Remember that paid surveys are not part time jobs. Answering surveys and polls will not gain you a fortune, so retreat when a panel assures you that you can.
2. They are slower than sloths - it's either that, or they cease to exist whenever you send them an inquiry through email. If you haven't tried contacting them, then go to their website and do just that. Authentic survey panels respond quietly and professionally, whereas scammers tend to be slow and may remain unresponsive for days.
3. They are as transparent as pebbles - Authentic panels are not afraid to reveal their history, including the names of their founders and the address where their main office is located. Contact information is very important. They give you the opportunity to test them yourself.
Done filtering? Let's hunt
By now you should have scratched off the clutters in your list of prospects. The next we admonish you to do is to stay out of those websites that claim they have reviewed survey panels and have made found the top ten among the hundreds of them that exists.
In the internet, you will never know who you can trust. Fortunately, there are alternative sites you can go to, such as those with forums and discussion boards that are discussing paid surveys. There's a bigger chance of you acquiring a reliable set of recommendations from real, concerned participant of paid surveys.
Once you have updated your list of prospects, start researching their background. Listen to the opinions of other participants, especially those that you are acquainted with, and take caution against ropers and shills. Authentic survey panels will ever encourage you to quit your part time job by guaranteeing you a set amount of income per month.
You ought to know that is impossible because the money you will earn will land in your PayPal account six weeks after you request for it. In fact, most legitimate survey panels nowadays post a disclaimer that you do get paid for surveys, but not always in the form of money. They can give you gift certificates, test products, and sweepstake entries instead. This is the reason why any legit panel will never charge you with a membership fee. Study the terms and conditions they abide by and for sure you will know whether the panel leans more on the good or bad side.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Email Marketing
Email marketing is directly marketing a commercial message to a group of people using email. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. It usually involves using email to send ads, request business, or solicit sales or donations, and is meant to build loyalty, trust, or brand awareness. Email marketing can be done to either cold lists or current customer database. Broadly, the term is usually used to refer to:
Sending email messages with the purpose of enhancing the relationship of a merchant with its current or previous customers, to encourage customer loyalty and repeat business.
Sending email messages with the purpose of acquiring new customers or convincing current customers to purchase something immediately. Adding advertisements to email messages sent by other companies to their customers. Researchers estimate that United States firms alone spent US $1.51 billion on email marketing in 2011 and will grow to $2.468 billion by 2016. Types of email marketing Email marketing can be carried out through different types of emails: Transactional emails Transactional emails are usually triggered based on a customer’s action with a company. Triggered transactional messages include dropped basket messages, purchase or order confirmation emails and email receipts. The primary purpose of a transactional email is to convey information regarding the action that triggered it. But, due to its high open rates (51.3% compared to 36.6% for email newsletters) transactional emails are a golden opportunity to engage customers; to introduce or extend the email relationship with customers or subscribers, to anticipate and answer questions or to cross-sell or up-sell products or services.[2][unreliable source?] Many email newsletter software vendors offer transactional email support, which gives companies the ability to include promotional messages within the body of transactional emails. There are also software vendors that offer specialized transactional email marketing services, which include providing targeted and personalized transactional email messages and running specific marketing campaigns (such as customer referral programs). Direct emails Direct email involves sending an email solely to communicate a promotional message (for example, an announcement of a special offer or a catalog of products). Companies usually collect a list of customer or prospect email addresses to send direct promotional messages to, or they can also rent a list of email addresses from service companies. Comparison to traditional mail There are both advantages and disadvantages to using email marketing in comparison to traditional advertising mail. Advantages Email marketing (on the Internet) is popular with companies for several reasons: An exact return on investment can be tracked (“track to basket”) and has proven to be high when done properly. Email marketing is often reported as second only to search marketing as the most effective online marketing tactic. Email Marketing is significantly cheaper and faster than traditional mail, mainly because of high cost and time required in a traditional mail campaign for producing the artwork, printing, addressing and mailing. Advertisers can reach substantial numbers of email subscribers who have opted in (i.e., consented) to receive email communications on subjects of interest to them. Almost half of American Internet users check or send email on a typical day, with email blasts that are delivered between 1 am and 5 am local time outperforming those sent at other times in open and click rates. Email is popular with digital marketers, rising an estimated 15% in 2009 to £292m in the UK. Disadvantages A report issued by the email services company Return Path, as of mid-2008 email deliverability is still an issue for legitimate marketers. According to the report, legitimate email servers averaged a delivery rate of 56%; twenty percent of the messages were rejected, and eight percent were filtered. Companies considering the use of an email marketing program must make sure that their program does not violate spam laws such as the United States’ Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM), the European Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, or their Internet service provider‘s acceptable use policy. Opt-in email advertising Opt-in email advertising, or permission marketing, is a method of advertising via email whereby the recipient of the advertisement has consented to receive it. This method is one of several developed by marketers to eliminate the disadvantages of email marketing. Opt-in email marketing may evolve into a technology that uses a handshake protocol between the sender and receiver. This system is intended to eventually result in a high degree of satisfaction between consumers and marketers. If opt-in email advertising is used, the material that is emailed to consumers will be “anticipated”. It is assumed that the consumer wants to receive it, which makes it unlike unsolicited advertisements sent to the consumer. Ideally, opt-in email advertisements will be more personal and relevant to the consumer than untargeted advertisements. A common example of permission marketing is a newsletter sent to an advertising firm’s customers. Such newsletters inform customers of upcoming events or promotions, or new products. In this type of advertising, a company that wants to send a newsletter to their customers may ask them at the point of purchase if they would like to receive the newsletter. With a foundation of opted-in contact information stored in their database, marketers can send out promotional materials automatically—known as Drip Marketing. They can also segment their promotions to specific market segments. Legal requirements
In 2002 the European Union introduced the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications. Article 13 of the Directive prohibits the use of email addresses for marketing purposes. The Directive establishes the opt-in regime, where unsolicited emails may be sent only with prior agreement of the recipient. The directive has since been incorporated into the laws of member states. In the UK it is covered under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and applies to all organizations that send out marketing by some form of electronic communication. The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 authorizes a US $16,000 penalty per violation for spamming each individual recipient. Therefore, many commercial email marketers within the United States utilize a service or special software to ensure compliance with the Act. A variety of older systems exist that do not ensure compliance with the Act. To comply with the Act’s regulation of commercial email, services typically require users to authenticate their return address and include a valid physical address, provide a one-click unsubscribe feature, and prohibit importing lists of purchased addresses that may not have given valid permission. In addition to satisfying legal requirements, email service providers (ESPs) began to help customers establish and manage their own email marketing campaigns. The service providers supply email templates and general best practices, as well as methods for handling subscriptions and cancellations automatically. Some ESPs will provide insight/assistance with deliverability issues for major email providers. They also provide statistics pertaining to the number of messages received and opened, and whether the recipients clicked on any links within the messages. The CAN-SPAM Act was updated with some new regulations including a no fee provision for opting out, further definition of “sender”, post office or private mail boxes count as a “valid physical postal address” and definition of “person”. These new provisions went into effect on July 7, 2008.
Sending email messages with the purpose of acquiring new customers or convincing current customers to purchase something immediately. Adding advertisements to email messages sent by other companies to their customers. Researchers estimate that United States firms alone spent US $1.51 billion on email marketing in 2011 and will grow to $2.468 billion by 2016. Types of email marketing Email marketing can be carried out through different types of emails: Transactional emails Transactional emails are usually triggered based on a customer’s action with a company. Triggered transactional messages include dropped basket messages, purchase or order confirmation emails and email receipts. The primary purpose of a transactional email is to convey information regarding the action that triggered it. But, due to its high open rates (51.3% compared to 36.6% for email newsletters) transactional emails are a golden opportunity to engage customers; to introduce or extend the email relationship with customers or subscribers, to anticipate and answer questions or to cross-sell or up-sell products or services.[2][unreliable source?] Many email newsletter software vendors offer transactional email support, which gives companies the ability to include promotional messages within the body of transactional emails. There are also software vendors that offer specialized transactional email marketing services, which include providing targeted and personalized transactional email messages and running specific marketing campaigns (such as customer referral programs). Direct emails Direct email involves sending an email solely to communicate a promotional message (for example, an announcement of a special offer or a catalog of products). Companies usually collect a list of customer or prospect email addresses to send direct promotional messages to, or they can also rent a list of email addresses from service companies. Comparison to traditional mail There are both advantages and disadvantages to using email marketing in comparison to traditional advertising mail. Advantages Email marketing (on the Internet) is popular with companies for several reasons: An exact return on investment can be tracked (“track to basket”) and has proven to be high when done properly. Email marketing is often reported as second only to search marketing as the most effective online marketing tactic. Email Marketing is significantly cheaper and faster than traditional mail, mainly because of high cost and time required in a traditional mail campaign for producing the artwork, printing, addressing and mailing. Advertisers can reach substantial numbers of email subscribers who have opted in (i.e., consented) to receive email communications on subjects of interest to them. Almost half of American Internet users check or send email on a typical day, with email blasts that are delivered between 1 am and 5 am local time outperforming those sent at other times in open and click rates. Email is popular with digital marketers, rising an estimated 15% in 2009 to £292m in the UK. Disadvantages A report issued by the email services company Return Path, as of mid-2008 email deliverability is still an issue for legitimate marketers. According to the report, legitimate email servers averaged a delivery rate of 56%; twenty percent of the messages were rejected, and eight percent were filtered. Companies considering the use of an email marketing program must make sure that their program does not violate spam laws such as the United States’ Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM), the European Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, or their Internet service provider‘s acceptable use policy. Opt-in email advertising Opt-in email advertising, or permission marketing, is a method of advertising via email whereby the recipient of the advertisement has consented to receive it. This method is one of several developed by marketers to eliminate the disadvantages of email marketing. Opt-in email marketing may evolve into a technology that uses a handshake protocol between the sender and receiver. This system is intended to eventually result in a high degree of satisfaction between consumers and marketers. If opt-in email advertising is used, the material that is emailed to consumers will be “anticipated”. It is assumed that the consumer wants to receive it, which makes it unlike unsolicited advertisements sent to the consumer. Ideally, opt-in email advertisements will be more personal and relevant to the consumer than untargeted advertisements. A common example of permission marketing is a newsletter sent to an advertising firm’s customers. Such newsletters inform customers of upcoming events or promotions, or new products. In this type of advertising, a company that wants to send a newsletter to their customers may ask them at the point of purchase if they would like to receive the newsletter. With a foundation of opted-in contact information stored in their database, marketers can send out promotional materials automatically—known as Drip Marketing. They can also segment their promotions to specific market segments. Legal requirements
In 2002 the European Union introduced the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications. Article 13 of the Directive prohibits the use of email addresses for marketing purposes. The Directive establishes the opt-in regime, where unsolicited emails may be sent only with prior agreement of the recipient. The directive has since been incorporated into the laws of member states. In the UK it is covered under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and applies to all organizations that send out marketing by some form of electronic communication. The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 authorizes a US $16,000 penalty per violation for spamming each individual recipient. Therefore, many commercial email marketers within the United States utilize a service or special software to ensure compliance with the Act. A variety of older systems exist that do not ensure compliance with the Act. To comply with the Act’s regulation of commercial email, services typically require users to authenticate their return address and include a valid physical address, provide a one-click unsubscribe feature, and prohibit importing lists of purchased addresses that may not have given valid permission. In addition to satisfying legal requirements, email service providers (ESPs) began to help customers establish and manage their own email marketing campaigns. The service providers supply email templates and general best practices, as well as methods for handling subscriptions and cancellations automatically. Some ESPs will provide insight/assistance with deliverability issues for major email providers. They also provide statistics pertaining to the number of messages received and opened, and whether the recipients clicked on any links within the messages. The CAN-SPAM Act was updated with some new regulations including a no fee provision for opting out, further definition of “sender”, post office or private mail boxes count as a “valid physical postal address” and definition of “person”. These new provisions went into effect on July 7, 2008.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Make Money Online Free and Fast!
There are different online businesses that can help you at the time
of recession. Among these are: online survey, search engine
optimization, copywriting, affiliate marketing.These businesses teach
you “how to make money online for free”. It doesn’t matter where you are
or who you are, what matters is deciding what to do and choosing the
right market or niche. Whatever niche you choose, the end result is to
teach you “how to make money free and fast”. You may often wonder why
some are fast to make money online free and fast while it takes some a
longer time whereas some never make money online and quit out of
frustration. The answer is not far fetched. Learning the right way and
learning from the right persons often lead successful internet business
men to their wealth creation without expending too much efforts. This
site therefore, is intended to bring to you from time-to-time the latest
money making trends online.
AFFILIATE MARKETING: Many individuals have made millions of dollars from selling third party products online. What does it entail? All it takes is for you to feature or advertise other people’s products on your websites or blogs. Once the products or services are paid for, you too get paid for having it sold through your link or advertisement. Examples of these are clickbank, amazons, ebay and so forth.
GOOGLE ADSENSE: So many of us surf the web daily and make use of google search engine and other products without paying particular attention to google adsense profit making. This is an authentic way so many people have made money free and fast online.This happens when you register and place google’s adsense codes on your site and these codes generates different links and graphics based on the site content. The end result is that the money the site is visited, links genuinely clicked and products purchased, you will get paid by google for helping to sell third party products.
PAID SURVEY: This is a sure way of making money. By signing up on survey sites and leading traffic to such site for survey on relevant things eventually get you paid.
CONTENT WRITING: Article writing, Ghost writing, Copywriting, Web content writing, ebook writing and review. These and many more are available online. Sometimes, you get paid as much as $10 per word depending on who you are writing for and the niche. So, as it said that content is king on the web, content writers are kings and queens
online
AFFILIATE MARKETING: Many individuals have made millions of dollars from selling third party products online. What does it entail? All it takes is for you to feature or advertise other people’s products on your websites or blogs. Once the products or services are paid for, you too get paid for having it sold through your link or advertisement. Examples of these are clickbank, amazons, ebay and so forth.
GOOGLE ADSENSE: So many of us surf the web daily and make use of google search engine and other products without paying particular attention to google adsense profit making. This is an authentic way so many people have made money free and fast online.This happens when you register and place google’s adsense codes on your site and these codes generates different links and graphics based on the site content. The end result is that the money the site is visited, links genuinely clicked and products purchased, you will get paid by google for helping to sell third party products.
PAID SURVEY: This is a sure way of making money. By signing up on survey sites and leading traffic to such site for survey on relevant things eventually get you paid.
CONTENT WRITING: Article writing, Ghost writing, Copywriting, Web content writing, ebook writing and review. These and many more are available online. Sometimes, you get paid as much as $10 per word depending on who you are writing for and the niche. So, as it said that content is king on the web, content writers are kings and queens
online
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