Your Questions About Email Marketing Reviews

Is this the proper way to phrase a salary negotiation email?

THE ORIGINAL OFFER WAS 27000 with incentives…but i make 27000 NOW at my current job !

Hello:

Unfortunately we have been unable to connect via phone. I hope we are able to speak today or over the weekend. I have reviewed the offer below and would like to suggest the following changes.

Base Salary should be $29,700. That meets a minimum of a 10% increase over what I am currently making. The market average is $32,000 for entry level Marketing Position with similar responsibilities. I feel that this would be a compromise considering the training that will be taking place. Even with the incentives, base salary is important to me. Please outline the other terms and conditions such as benefits upon the close of job description discussion phase. I reviewed the incentives and they are thoroughly outlined and extremely reasonable.

Please call or email me to discuss at your convenience. Thank you!

Jessica Lewis

Is this a spam or legit email asking to advertising on my website?

Here’s the main content of the e-mail:

Dear
I am a marketing executive for Digitally Distinctive, a company who works with a number of reputable global clients to generate relevant and engaging online advertising on websites similar to your own. We currently have a client in the Entertainment, Kids Toys, Gadgets, Tech and Travel Industries and after reviewing we feel that it is topically relevant to our client and their users. As such I was wondering if you would be interested in placing a text-based advertisement on your site? We would pay you as soon as the advert is live via Paypal, and look to renew it yearly. Please do let me know if this interests you, and thank you for your time. Warmest Regards

<their email at the company>
www.digitallydistinctive.com

I looked at the company website and it seems legit but I’m not sure. Do companies send spam emails like this? I have had other emails before that I think were asking to advertise on my site but they were so poorly written and it was obvious that it was spam. This one is well written and formal.

If you own a website and have had someone send you the same email, I’d like to hear your thoughts.

PROFESSIONAL JOB RECRUITERS PLEASE CRITIQUE MY RESUME.?

Please critique my resume. Anything will help.

John Smith
78 XYZ Avenue (123)456-7891
San Francisco, CA 94124

Career Summary
Seeking an entry level Marketing position which will enable me to apply my educational background and work experience to the growing success of the company

EDUCATION
B.A. in Business Management Economics, June 2009
University of XYZ, XYZ

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
? Proficient in Excel 2007, Word 2007 and Photoshop CS3
? In-depth knowledge of marketing concepts and strategies through relevant marketing course work
? Creative and able to identify current trends for marketing and advertisement
? Excellent written and oral communication skills
? Ability to multi-task and adapt to fast paced environments
? Work well independently or in a team-setting

EXPERIENCE
(07/07 – present) Freelance Marketing Consultant, Self-employed, San Francisco, CA
• Design business cards, promotional flyers and price lists for family-owned and operated salon business
• Maintain updated content and images for website
• Review online customer feedback and escalate issues to management for salon improvements

(04/09 – 06/09) Marketing Intern, Barrios Unidos, City, CA
• Designed the company’s official business card and promotional flyers for advertisement
• Researched new leads through the Internet
• Performed email marketing functions through creation of email ads and sending emails to prospective clients

(09/05 – 06/09)
Computer Consultant
Instructional Computing,
City, CA
• Researched and troubleshot complex application issues
• Provided one-on-one application training for lab students
• Assisted students in computer setup and logins
• Enforced lab rules and regulations to ensure equipment operability and cleanliness
• Safeguarded equipment against student vandalism and/or theft
• Escalated non-functional hardware issues to management
• Maintained and order lab supply and computer hardware inventory

(07/08 – 09/08)
Sales Cashier,
IMPARK Parking
City, CA
• Collected parking fees from SF Giants staff and affiliate partners
• Maintained high customer experience and satisfaction through providing a professional and positive demeanor at all times
• Collaborated and worked efficiently with peers and Area Managers to reduce long customer wait-time and traffic during parking peak hours

(07/07 – 12/07)
Sales Associate
Banana Republic
City, CA
• Ensure that each customer receives outstanding service by providing a friendly environment, which includes greeting and acknowledging every customer, maintaining solid product knowledge and all other aspects of customer service.
• Maintain an awareness of all promotions and advertisements.
• Performed inventory checks to assist customers in locating merchandise from various retail locations
• Communicate customer requests to management.
• Assist in completing price changes within the department.
• Complete customer transactions at register for merchandise sales

ACTIVITIES
Leadership
05/2006 – 06/2009
Vice President and Publicity, Psi Pi Alpha, City, CA

• Responsible for outreaching and maintaining good relations with other college fraternities and sororities
• Promoted and publicized the organization and its events through creating flyers and t-shirts using Photoshop as well as using online social networks such as, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and the organization’s website
• Organized an on-campus event for Bone Marrow Drives for the Asian American Donor Program

04/2007 – 06/2009
Publicity Chairman and Core Member
Vietnamese Student Association
City, CA

• Promoted and managed all aspect of public relations for the organization
• Raised funds through design and creation of organization’s official t-shirt

Extracurricular Activities
Santa Barbara Senior Center
Habitat for Humanity
Breast cancer awareness marathon

Reference Available Upon Request

Yahoo-Email: New “Upgrade” just announced — Best reasons to upgrade? Bet reasons not to? — MORE BELOW –?

Excerpt from latest announcement that I received from Yahoo Mail on April 7, 2011:

“If you don’t upgrade now, we recommend that you do it soon. Your current version of Yahoo! Mail will be available for the next few months, but you will eventually need to upgrade it to the newest version of Yahoo! Mail, or review Yahoo! Mail Help for other options.”

I get inquisitive when “free” services, like Yahoo Email, get “upgraded” …

1) Anybody have any insights as to what Yahoo is up to with the latest email “upgrade”?

2) Is Yahoo removing any features that currently exist? Or just adding new features?

3) How are Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo-Email, [plus other?] doing compared to each other, market-share-wise and feature-wise?

4) Best reasons to switch to Hotmail or Gmail? Best reasons to stick with Yahoo-Email?

5) Who are the best providers when it comes to PAID [non-free] email service? In regards to providers who do not collect/track any of your personal information, shopping-history, etc. and give or sell that info to others?

~ thanks for your answers ~

Anyone else get a NIC labs email like this? I think it’s a scam…?

I just got the following email, and it is definitely a scam. The writing style is all off…. the way that he specifies USD instead of putting in a dollar sign or saying dollars tipped me off, and then he specifies use of Western Union (http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/view.php?pg=fw_western_union) and another money transfer option. Plus, what company would let their money go through a middle man when it could be sent straight to them? and if it were going to be a middle man, wouldn’t they want it to be a legit money handling company and not just some random person? He also does not give an address, phone number, specific website URL, or specify which specific email address I should “contact” his company through. Plus, the job he mentions isn’t mentioned anywhere on the website for the company he claims to represent. They are apparently abusing access to websites like Monster with fraudulant type of activity.

I’d like to add, the company he cites seems legit, but whoever wrote the email does not seem to actually be one of their employees. Someone does exist with this name, but I highly doubt that it was actually written by anyone whose real name is such. Scammers often cite real names/companies to seem legit and “gain trust”. The email is as follows, although I removed my name and replaced it with underscores.

niclabs@gmx.us to me

Good day ________________,

I am Denis Efremov, a HR chief at NIC Labs Limited. After review of your CV at Monster website I’d like to offer a excellent job for you. The position of a Financial Assistant. Allow me to provide you with some info about our company first:

NIC Software Labs Ltd was registered back in 2003. The primary focus of NIC is design, development, as well as support of operational and financial software applications for the oil and gas business. We are interested in working on the market segments of all countries without exceptions and see promotion of its services through the network of representatives. NIC also offers consulting services such as business process consulting, project management, as well as systems analysis and integration. Recently we have been receiving a great number of applications for our services from customers in the USA and Canada. As we are strongly interested to offer the best services and in the shortest dates to overcome all the difficulties that are likely to appear, we decided to establish a position of the financial agent to deal with the transfers of relatively small amounts of 1000-6000 USD. So today, we are happy to offer you to:

:: Become a part of our organization
:: Join a team of highly qualified specialists
:: Get a prestigious part-time work

The key features of working as a Financial Manager are:

:: You don’t need any experience or specific knowledge
:: You don’t have to make any advance payments
:: This kind of career won’t take much of your time

Your range of duties will include:

:: Obtaining payments for the ordered software applications and consulting services from the NIC Labs Ltd customers to your bank account
:: Withdrawing the funds and transferring them further to our managers in one of the our branches

The transfer should be carried out by the means of WU or MG services to fasten the process of the delivery of the funds. For your services we offer base salary of $ 4000 monthly and also you’ll receive compensation of 50 USD for each successful transaction.

In case you would like to follow this job and would like to get more info, you can just write an email to us, and our managers will give a prompt and competent reply. We’re looking forward to working with you!

Your email was given by 3rd party website on our request, as you or someone else subscribed to a job opportunities publication.

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Yours faithfully,
D. Efremov,
Hiring manager,
NIC Software Limited