Founded by Sharon and Edmund Gaffney in 2010, MeebleMail features unique designs, as well as many from well-known fashion, home and paper stationary brands, including Kara Ross (fashion), Celerie Kemble (home) and Jack and Lulu (stationery).

NY Convergence recently had the opportunity to sample MeebleMails offerings, and we came away with somewhat mixed feelings.

As a whole, MeebleMails website is simple and easy to navigate, clearly laying out the steps for selecting, personalizing, purchasing and employing the stationery to your emails. MeebleMail charges $4.99 per design for unlimited usage for one year, donating 50 percent of the purchase price to a non-profit organization, including The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Wildlife Conservation Society.

While the number of designs can seem daunting, there are many categories and colors in which to narrow your search. However, it is hard to identify what exactly you will get in the categories, with broad labels ranging from “Whimsical” to “Layout.”

After settling on a design, the user is prompted to input his or her name, monogram, address and an additional image on to the design. There are multiple fonts in which to chose, but the color of the writing is constricted based upon the design, a feature which does slightly limit the users freedom in personalization. In addition, MeebleMail does not allow users to upload their own images, such as a company logo, on to the stationery, which is, again, limiting.

Once purchased, MeebleMail prompts the user to drag a link to the “stationery selector” to his or her bookmarks toolbar. The user can then open a new, blank email, click on the “stationery selector” to input the design on to the email, add text to the body and send. We found it problematic that MeebleMail currently works on Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail platforms, with Microsoft Outlook “coming soon.” This is extremely limiting, as a major part of online communication, particularly in the business world, happens through Outlook.

This, in turn, is our main concern, that MeebleMail does not seem practical for business use. While there are many designs to choose from, MeebleMail lacks more professional stationery that would be desirable for corporate correspondence. It is a cute tool to include on personal emails, especially online event invitations, but does not seem to have much use beyond that.

Overall, we were satisfied with MeebleMails services, but think more developments to its functionality and designs are necessary before it will really gain traction and popularity.

MeebleMail

[Editors Note: NY Convergence received a $10 gift certificate from MeebleMail, a credit that was used up while in the process of reviewing the site]

Lloyd Trufelman is publisher of NY Convergence.

http://nyconvergence.com/nyconvergence-contributors

Symbian leads the way in Smartphone technology. Mobile messaging is now possible with Hosted Exchange on Symbian Smartphones. Customers can enjoy the ease and security of push email that eliminates the need for hitting the refresh button and checking for new email.

For people who just want their email to work and arrive in their inbox right away, Hosted Exchange Email is definitively the way to go. With push email systems in place all emails come through at the time they are sent. They don’t have to sit on a server for hours until you refresh your system. You can also send email attachments and sync all your contacts and calendars with the Exchange Email server.

You can make use of email flags with Microsoft Exchange. You can flag mail right from your handheld so that when you return to the office, you’ll remember what is most important. You’ll also get your mail much faster. Attachments and connected messages in threads load up faster so you don’t have to go searching to review a conversation for details.

Those emails you sent weeks ago and now can’t find? They can be searched for and found easily with the Symbian Microsoft Exchange system. You don’t have to resync everything. Just start an online mailbox search.

You can do so much with the Microsoft Exchange platform. You can set your out of office message, revise your calendar and view your emails in HTML. Work on the go knowing you can open the files that are sent to you and also edit them at the same time. Gone are the worries that a file won’t open or is too big.

The future of the Smartphone is here. Microsoft Exchange is changing the face of how people do business. No longer are employees chained to their desktop. Mobile work situations are entirely possible and telecommuting will save the employee and the company valuable dollars. Now it no longer matters where you live. Work anywhere with a Smartphone and feel like you’re right in the loop with the people at headquarters. The Symbian OS Smartphone platform with Microsoft Exchange Support is changing the landscape of the business world for the better.

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The Windows Phone email supports most of the syncing capabilities of ActiveSync. Both the 6.1 and 6.5 versions of the Windows Phone – Microsoft’s past contributions to the booming smartphone industry – host a number of Exchange ActiveSync functions from past to present versions of the synchronization platform.

Microsoft’s newest brainchild, however – the Windows Phone 7 – does away with half, if not most, of the features in later ActiveSync versions. Still, it seems that its email functionality is well on the right track. Better yet, it holds its own against other smartphones and handheld wireless devices that have dominated the market for the past year.

It might lack of some more comprehensive ActiveSync features, but the Windows Phone 7 nonetheless supports Exchange ActiveSync 14.0. All the vital functions and necessities for Exchange email are intact. There are features like DirectPush, email, calendar, and contacts sync, remote wipe, desktop and Internet sharing, Global Address List (GAL) lookup, and secure SSL encrypted transmission.

The Windows Phone email client is a powerful tool that allows users to sync to an email account or another client altogether. More importantly, it allows for managing multiple items seamlessly. The interface offers a pristine list-type display of received items that feature the sender’s name and subject prominently, and with the time affixed to the right of each entry. Tapping to the left of this list reveals a checkbox for selecting individual and multiple items all at once. Tapping the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen brings up a menu where selected items can be marked as read or unread, flagged or unflagged, moved, completed, and of course, deleted.

There are also multiple options to view messages. From the default view, users can slide the display to the right to get a list of only unread messages. Sliding to the right again brings up flagged messages. A third time brings up urgent messages, while sliding again from this view brings the display back to the default email list.

Composing an email is just as easy as reading or managing one. Pressing the compose key on the menu calls up the email editor that allows for setting the priority and the cc’s and bcc’s of an email – options which are not readily available on other smartphones, even when they’re running on Exchange email clients as well. Users can also attach a photo from their phone gallery to the outgoing message.

As the latest smartphone to hit the market, and with both hardware and software that are still in their beta stages, this kind of comprehensive email capability is quite an accomplishment for this brand new Windows phone.

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According to internetmarketingdefinitions.com “a safelist is a form of e-mail marketing and advertising where the members have agreed to receive each other’s messages. Usually, the safelist administration reserves the right to mail its’ members. Types of safelists include paid, credit based, and free.”

In order to be successful with your home business email advertising campaign you need to evoke a high response rate from your list. A high response rate largely depends on the effectiveness of your message or advertisement, therefore the first thing you must concentrate on, to improve your response, is the content of your message.

The first part of your advertisement to jump out at your reader is the headline, so your header is the most important part of your message. You only have a limited amount of time to catch and maintain your reader’s attention therefore a powerful headline is a must for any successful campaign. If other members of the list don’t find your subject line interesting they won’t even bother opening your message.

Try to avoid the headers which have been used over and over again. Subjects such as: “How To Get Rich Online”, “Make Money Tomorrow”, or “Make A Million Dollars In 12 Months” will only get your message fast tracked to the trash bin. You need an original, eye catching and attention getting subject to which your readers can relate.

A great way to grab other list member’s interest is to pose a problem and offer a solution to the situation. For example, “5 Reasons Why Most Affiliate Marketers Fail” suggests a problem, which is failure, and then illustrates five ways you can avoid this situation. You’ll notice that all the words in the preceding headline have the first letter capitalized which is another way to make your subject line stand out. Also use the member’s first name, if possible, to personalize the message.

Some keywords have proven to be more effective when used in headlines than others. Words such as sex, money, love, unique, learn and so on seem to have elicited higher response rates. When it comes to your ad copy keep it short and to the point. People receive a large number of messages from other list members so their time is limited and nothing is more off putting than a long winded sales message.

In your message body outline what this product can do for the reader. People love benefits and enjoy having their problems solved. Please don’t make outrageous promises which you know you cannot deliver. This only diminishes your reputation as a reputable Internet marketer and once your character has been tarnished it’s very difficult to reestablish in the eyes of the online community.

If you have no idea how to write an effective advertisement or you have never written one before conduct a search for tips on writing good ad copy online. When you think you’re ready to proceed take your time and write your ad over and over again if necessary. Read it to someone or email it to a friend to get their opinion. The time you invest in getting it right will reap benefits for you later on by way of increased sales.

Be sure to include your link within the ad copy several times. Don’t lose sight of your overall objective which is to have the reader click on your link and visit your sales page. Finally, promote to your list on a regular basis and be sure to track your results. If something isn’t working why would you continue to keep doing it? Tracking is a great way to save time on ill conceived advertising campaigns and save money on promotion.

By adhering to these safelist marketing tips and techniques your home business email marketing strategy will help jump start your enterprise down the road to online success.

Bob Withers is a professional sales and marketing person with over twenty years in the field. He has now set his sights on Affiliate Marketing and creating successful Home Based Businesses online to apply his trade. If you want to get in touch with Bob or learn more about Affiliate Marketing or setting up an Internet based Home Business please visit:
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An opt-in list is comprised of email addresses that people sign up to receive because the subject matter is something they find of interest. Names and email addresses are collected in various ways including squeeze pages, requesting email information in return for a free gift and requesting an email address in order to gain access to information on your website. Once you’ve compiled your list this allows you to market your offers and website via a mass e-mail campaign. Because of how the contact information was obtained sending messages en masse isn’t considered spamming.

Contacting an opt-in email list is usually the most responsive Internet marketing sales strategy you can employ because your recipients have already declared an interest in your products by signing up and agreeing to receive messages and updates on a regular basis. Your opt-in list also allows you to inform your customers and potential customers about any updates to your home business website and inform them of any upcoming specials or discounts.

As a webmaster you can rest assured, because of the nature of the relationship between sender and recipient, that more than 50% of your messages and announcements will be read and your response rate should be between 1% and 3%, according to net-market.com. Sign up rate and hence response rate will increase exponentially as the quality of your home business website content increases. The more valuable your visitors find your information the easier their decision will be to agree to become a list member.

After you have compiled your opt-in list and it has reached a number large enough to satisfy your comfort level then you can begin sending offers and promotions. These are some of the ways you can use your list to make money online:

(1) Sell advertising space on your list email. Many large companies will pay top dollar for ad space on a large, responsive opt-in email list. This saves them the time and money of having to build their own list and it allows them to reach a large audience in their particular niche. Each ad means money in your pocket but don’t over do it. Too many promotions can be overwhelming for your customers and list members therefore negating the effect of your advertisement.

(2) Create affiliations with other home business owners whose theme closely resembles your offer and whose list would be interested in your product and vise versa. You will allow this business to send a particular promotion to your list in return for the same so you can reach a lot more perspective customers.

(3) You can take this arrangement a step further and ask the business owner for a percentage of the sales made using your list. Therefore the more sales they make to your list members the larger your profits.

(4) If you’re into article marketing and article writing compile your editorials into an e-book which you can promote to your list. E-books are one of the hottest selling items online today and this would be an excellent way to create another income stream from your home business website.

(5) Create an incentive program which you can promote to your members. Ask them to recommend your home business to their friends and family and offer a bonus for each one they recruit who joins your email list and or becomes a paying customer.

(6) Create a joint venture with another business whereby you’ll market a product together and advertise it to both email lists. This is another great way to add another income stream to your business and increase your profits.

These are some of the ways you can profit from your opt-in email list and as you can see it provides an excellent opportunity to explode your profits and put your online home based business on the Internet marketing map.

Bob Withers is a professional sales and marketing person with over twenty years in the field. He has now set his sights on Affiliate Marketing and creating successful Home Based Businesses online to apply his trade. If you want to get in touch with Bob or learn more about Affiliate Marketing or setting up an Internet based Home Business please visit:
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Email marketing has grown to be one of the must-have tools for internet marketers and anyone who wants to earn more profit from their business. As it reaches the targeted traffic directly, you can build a strong business relationship with your customers.

This is beneficial to your business. You may offer almost similar products or services and competition can be stiff in your chosen niche, but when you have a strong relationship with your customers, you get to enjoy a certain advantage that competition cannot take away from you.

You must have an email marketing solution that will nourish and sustain this kind of relationship. Studies have shown that most customers stay loyal to a business not so much with the kind of products and services the business offers but more because of the relationship they have formed.

The solution include the following:

- An email marketing program that will systematize the process and provide direction to your email marketing campaign;

- An email marketing software that automates the process and lets your targeted traffic and customers to opt in or out of their email subscription;

- Your preferred email marketing tools such as newsletters to keep your targeted traffic and customers posted and updated of your latest offers.

Your email marketing solution allows you to save on cost and time. Economical and fast, you can reach the largest traffic as possible at once. You can also keep the interests of your customers who are most likely to continue to purchase your products and services.

In order to get the most from your email marketing, it is crucial to give your customers the liberty to decide whether they wish to subscribe to your emails or not. This will also help you personalize the content of your email. You also have the guarantee that those who have subscribed are interested in knowing the latest offers.

You have to build your email marketing solution around this statistics, and take full advantage of the interests shown by your subscribers. Send them relevant emails and stay away from those that will only waste their precious time. You can personalize the content such that every email you send can bring you your desired outcome.

What is good about email marketing is that you have the capacity to receive immediate gratification as well as feedback mechanism where you can revise your internet marketing strategies as found necessary. This you can do without the unnecessary expenses that you will otherwise incur.

With all the gains you can get from an email marketing solution, you shouldn’t miss the opportunity to bring your business to level up. If you haven’t started your email marketing campaign, this is the right time to do so. Get the right solution for you.

Victor Green is an Account Executive at EliteEmail.com, the award winning email marketing software used by companies who need the top email marketing service. Get more eBusiness tips on CEO, Robert Burko, business blog.

It can reach all corners of the globe – because of the advancement of technology, the email has become the number one mode of communication for many people all over the world. Gone are the days when you had to wait for months for your letter to reach a potential client in another country. Today, all you need to do is write an email or a newsletter, send it to a recipient and wait for a response.

It can create results in an instant – and because email marketing gives you a valuable means to get your message across much faster, you can expect it to produce instant results. Once the recipient opens an email, he or she has the option to click on a link if they want to make a purchase for example. It’s faster and much more convenient than any other old methods of marketing.

It allows you to get your message across to your target market – want to alert your valued customers that you’re having a sale? Or that you have limited and one of a kind freebies that they can avail? If you want your message to reach your target market, then there’s no better way that you’ll be able to accomplish the task effectively than through an email marketing campaign. Just simply message everyone on your mailing list and voila! Your pool of clients instantly knows just what you’re up to.

It won’t cost you thousands of dollars – compared to other marketing schemes; this program won’t cost you thousands of dollars to work. It is considered to be more cost efficient than other marketing methods such as advertising with the media or sending out catalogues as you won’t have to pay for any ad placements or postage expenses. You just need to get yourself a reliable email marketing software program to do all the work for you. And since there are many different programs that you can choose from, it’s up to you to decide on one that will is suitable for your business needs.

So there you have it. Now that you know how email marketing can help you achieve success in your future endeavours, start reassessing your marketing model and see how it can fit in with your current business processes today.

Victor Green is an Account Executive at EliteEmail.com, the award winning email marketing software used by companies to who need the top email marketing service. Harness the power of email marketing with an easy to use email marketing solution. Try it free today!

Company Information

Email newsletters should introduce what your company is all about, especially if you are still quite new in the business. Prospective clients want to buy a product or service from a company that they know and trust. There are so many con artists over the Internet that it is quite understandable for people to practice a lot of caution nowadays. Include contact information, especially more tangible ones such as a land phone number and an office address.

Product and Service Information

How can you convince your possible clients to avail of your service or to buy your product if you are not going to talk about it in your email newsletters? Provide as much information as you can without bombarding email recipients with too much information. Remember that people who are hunting for information via the Internet prefer quick reading.

Company Events and Special Promotions

To maintain relationships with clients, you should update them from time to time with news on the latest company events and special promotions. Events and promotions keep your email newsletters fresh. Imagine if you have to send the same newsletter regularly. That would be very boring. Your client gets it. Your selling so and so and offering this and that. So, what is new this week that could urge your clients to buy?

Coupons

Coupons are great motivators to avail of products and services. Some people, when presented with a limited time sale, are eager to take advantage of the price decrease. They would want to grab the opportunity, make use of the coupon and provide you with the sales that you have been looking forward to.

Call to Action

What use is a marketing newsletter that does not have a call to action? Such a newsletter should not be limited to the role of reading material. The reader must be urged and convinced that he or she has to avail of the presented products and services. He or she must do so now. You can provide different calls to action. One is to provide a link for your prospective client to click. He or she will be directed to the sales page. He or she can buy the products or services right then and there. Another call to action is to ask the reader to pass on the email to a friend if he or she happens to like it. This is a plus because your prospective client provides you with another prospective client. Yet another call to action is a limited time sale. The reader is urged to take action while the sale is still on.

Email newsletters are very affordable to prepare and send. All you need is to have good email marketing software and the appropriate content and calls to action.

Victor Green is an Account Executive at EliteEmail.com, the award winning email marketing solution used by businesses to create professional email newsletters. Harness the power of email marketing with the complete email marketing software. Try it free today!

Imagine completing a business proposal that has taken hours – if not days – to finish. One wrong click can delete all that hard work in a nanosecond. Secure email can be set up to eliminate complete loss of data. To be able to count on this is priceless.

If you take this example to another level and think of a time when the whole business is cranking out a high level of data, and a thunderstorm hits. The power goes out. Nothing is operational and there is a good chance that data that was going out in emails might be lost. If you have a secure email backup service, however, you won’t have to worry about losing all your important information.

It doesn’t have to be difficult. Just a couple clicks of the mouse will let you back up your email to a secure location. It might be and extra step over what you are used to, but it will let you rest assured that your hard work won’t go to waste. And when you can decrease risk you can increase productivity.

Many IT professionals working in the field have a lot of stories they could share about the problems associated with lost emails. If they could easily access a tool that would eliminate those risks, they would likely incorporate it into their procedures as soon as possible.

Equally important to securing backup for email is the need to ensure that email hacking does not occur. Having a secure email program that also takes this into consideration is best. Why spend more for something that one resource can cover?

This puts email security in two categories. First there is the need to be sure email is not lost and second is the need to prevent spying on emails. Both are of equal importance when it comes to having secure email.

Many people may try to get into your email to discover personal or business information. This could lead to some serious damage to the company through theft of trade secrets or damage done to character and reputation. If you have a good secure email system, though, you will have taken the first steps to eliminating these problems.

Jordan McPelt is a professional author who offers information about online security using anonymous surfing with a VPN. Having email security can be a great way to get a private connection while sending emails. For additional information see http://www.connectinprivate.com.

With all the email programs out there, which is the best email program? This is a very tricky question since everyone has their preference, not to mention that everyone out there may be working with a different workstation than another. The best option is to take a look at what these email programs offer, then weigh the pros and cons.

One thing in this day and age of technology is that the ways we communicate are more varied. For one, you can choose to pay for an email program or you can use the many free email programs out on the net.

Does a free app mean it is the best email program? Not really. You cannot say that anything free to the public is the best but it does bring up a point of being accessible to anyone to reach anyone they know. Being free also means that there are some features that you may not like. But the same could go for paid email apps. You do pay for it, you pay for the ownership rights but in the same light you are limited what they can do for you.

Perhaps a key point to consider would be the compatibility of each email application. Let us look at some of the most popular free email apps then you can see which is the best email program.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a very secure yet fully functional email client that has an RSS feed reader. The layout is sleek and functional and can help filter junk emails. Windows mail is a good app that helps keep email safe by using spam and phishing filters. While it uses nice stationary to write your mail on, advanced features that could help you manage email are missing or lacking. This app is more of a simple use, fuss free email app.

Eudora is a good app to use if you need to manage spam email on a large level. Sometimes the filters get a bit rough and can also keep out your legitimate emails. Eudora has a flexible user interface that can adjust to the user but does not have good strength in using encrypted emails. Mulburry is hailed as a strong and powerful email app but what it sorely lacks is simplicity of design. The screen is just too muddled, too much info is shown at once. Pegasus attempts to offer its bid with a strong interface and robust but its features get hidden over its messy appearance.

Choosing the best email program is not as easy as it seems but if you know what you need, whether it is ease of use or email encryption, there is always one that you can use.

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