There are a vast number of email marketing services available to businesses of all sizes. Since email marketing has been around for a while, many of the services have matured to the point that even novice tech savvy business owners use them with ease.
Last month I launched a campaign using MailChimp for the first time. I’d used and even recommended the service in the past, but it had been a few years. Since so much had changed with the service, I decided to give it a go and document my findings for you along the way. For me, there was an existing list that had to be migrated to their platform, this post touches on the features used to facilitate that process as well as features for beginners and advanced users alike, and even a couple items they could improve.
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Events are something that can serve your business and personal marketing well. In my experience the best way to make the most of an event is to prepare for it. You are investing money and (more importantly) time in your business by attending an event, preparation is key to making the most of it. 
Today I got a friendly email from the folks at Amazon. Perhaps you got one as well. It spoke of a price increase to my Amazon Prime membership. Not going to delve into the finer points of the message (screenshot below), rather I’d like to highlight what they did well and questions we can ask ourselves so, as marketers we can learn how to position ourselves for price increases of our own.
If you are like me, you know what you like when you see it but you have no way to create it yourself. For that reason I’ve always outsourced design work. Whenever I’m starting a project one of the first things I do after establishing a business plan is get a logo designed. Design work, however, goes well beyond logos, it also goes into things like blog posts, ebooks, and physical books.
Last week there was a video from a scientific channel on YouTube that has created quite a buzz. It exposes a little known issue by most Facebook advertisers (until now) who aspire to get genuine followers on the behemoth social network, but in all their striving end up getting likes from pods of “Click farms” in developing countries. 
The impact of social media on marketing over the past 10 years has been significant. Facebook leads the conversation, with breakneck growth for much of their 10 year history, boasting well over 1 Billion users worldwide. 