Your Questions About Email Marketing Templates

Jere answers:

If you are putting together a print newsletter, Microsoft Office has some free templates that you can download. Here are three general formats:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC010178181033.aspx?pid=CT101043281033

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC062062951033.aspx?pid=CT101043281033

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC062062911033.aspx?pid=CT101043281033

If you are designing an email newsletter, you can get some email newsletter templates from Template Zone:

http://www.templatezone.com/email-marketing-templates.php

Jere answers:

You should try http://www.templatecraft.com this website really offers the best professional easy to customize html newsletter templates that works in most of the email clients.

This templates easily integrates into constantcontact like email marketing tools.

Jere answers:

*** g 10/08 p. 6 Children Online—What Parents Should Know ***
BLOGS
What are they? Online diaries.
What is the appeal? Blogging gives youths the opportunity to write about their thoughts, passions, and activities. Most blogs allow space for readers to leave comments, and many kids are thrilled to know that someone has responded to their writing.
What you should know. A blog is open to the public. Some youths carelessly reveal information that can be used to identify their family, school, or home address. Another factor: Blogs can harm reputations, including the blogger’s own. For instance, some employers consult an applicant’s blog when considering whether to hire that person.
Instructions

1
Decide what kind of advice you want to offer. Think about what your own areas of expertise are and work from there. If you are a financial planner, you may want to give financial advice. If you are a psychologist, you may want to give mental health advice. If you are a nurse, you may want to give health-related advice. If you stick to what you are good at, you’re more likely to produce quality content that will keep your readership coming back again and again.

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Sign up with a free blog-hosting platform such as Blogger or WordPress. There are several others out there as well. Shop around for the platform you find to be the most user-friendly, with features that best match your needs. Your advice page will be more successful if you are able to set it up professionally and have a good understanding of the platform you are working in.

“How to Start a Blog”
A Step-By-Step Guide For Beginners. Read Along and Start Your Own Blog.

Choose a blog template that reflects the theme of your advice page. Keep it simple and uncluttered. Avoid sparkly templates or templates with a lot of background clutter, as this feels rather amateur. Instead, keep an eye out for uncluttered designs that relate in color or theme to your area of expertise. This will help with continuity on your advice page and make it a more memorable experience for you readers. If it feels professional, they will want to come back.

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Set up your blog layout with your template. Decide what elements you want on your page. Make sure your blog title reflects the subject matter and is simple and easy to remember. Make sure your layout includes information on how to contact you with advice questions so you can post answers on your blog. You will want to include your contact information in several places on your advice page so that it is impossible to miss it.

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Advertise your advice page by sending out emails to friends and family, putting up notices on social networking and bookmarking sites and writing articles about your advice page for ezines or websites. You don’t have to pay money to market your site with all of the free avenues for advertising on the web.

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Ask your friends if they would be willing to submit some questions to help get your advice page started. Post their questions and answers on your blog so that as new visitors come by, they might be enticed to ask questions as well.

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Monetize your advice page after you have about 30 questions and answers on your site. By this time, you should have some good content and regular readers. If you use a platform such as Blogger, it would be easy to include Adsense as a stream of revenue on your advice page. You might also look at affiliate relationships through places such as Amazon or Clickbank. Whatever you choose to use in monetizing your blog, make sure the ads are relevant to your content. You want readers to be intrigued enough to click on your ads.

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Maintain your advice page diligently. Add new posts several times per week and respond to the comments your guests leave. This will help you to establish a relationship with your readership to keep them coming back. If you have followed all of these steps, you will find that over time your advice page will likely become a profitable supplement to your regular monthly income as well as an enjoyable hobby.

Http://www.ehow.com/how_5084923_create-advice.html

Jere answers:

Despite what people say, there really is no best way.

However, start with the internet:

1) Job sites (i.e. Careerbuilder, hotjobs, monster, etc)
2) State unemployment sites (just look at your state’s department of labor)
3) Classifieds in the paper (not online – most major newspapers just link to CareerBuilder)
4) Larger corporations in your area

Going to a company to apply really doesn’t work unless it’s in fast food. If you just go into a corporation, you not only have no idea who you’re going to talk to and also have no idea what openings there are. Your resume may very well land on the desk.

Telephone and fax are even worse, unless a job posting states to apply via fax. Never just cold call someone.

Basically, here’s what I would do first:

1) Create an awesome, error-proof resume. Update an old one if you need to, but get your resume started. I always have a Word version and a Notepad/text-only version. You will have one to send as an attachment and one to use in electronic forms.

2) Get your cover letter template created. ALWAYS customize it for each job – you want to point out your strengths and really show why you’re great for the job.

3) Next, write down key words you want to be searching. If you want to go into marketing, don’t just search for “marketing.” You’ll end up with thousands of results. Instead, try “marketing manager, marketing specialist, communication specialist, social media, etc.”

4) Sign up for alerts and keep scanning those sites a few times a day. Keep a spreadsheet going to keep track of the jobs – when it was posted, when you applied, the company, the position, the contact, etc.

5) Keep applying to places. Don’t stop when you find a job that sounds great. You can’t fall in love. Just keep applying and apply well. Follow directions to the T. If they say to apply online, apply online. If they want an email with an attached cover letter, don’t put it in the body of the email.

6) If you aren’t getting hits after a month or so, re-examine two things:

A) Your resume – chances are you aren’t letting it fully express how great you are
B) Your expectations – if you don’t have any experience, don’t apply to positions that require 3+ years.

7) DO NOT APPLY TO JOBS MORE THAN A WEEK OLD!!! I know it’s tough, but after 7 days most companies stop seriously accepting resumes and are starting the interview process.

8) Have patience and don’t give up. I applied for a job on April 25 and didn’t get called for a phone interview until May 12. I didn’t get a face-to-face interview until May 25 and was hired the next week. Basically, it took a full week. This was after applying to 138 places and having 19 previous interviews with other companies.

Jere answers:

I work with a small med spa office that uses PatientNOW Medical Spa Studio, since adopting this software and the features it offers, they have experienced increased productivity and revenue.

After the initial set up, the scheduling tool books the appropriate staff and resources that are required for the appointment for you and sends out automated reminders through text and email. The reduction in time spent doing this has really allowed the office to focus on other important tasks.

The med spa documentation management allows each patient file to be free of human error from lost of misfiled documents, which is a more common occurrence with manual office filing. Initial set up of necessary documentation and forms with this software is made simple and quick with the templates that are provided.

The marketing resources provided by the software allow a great tool for re-targeting all previous patients and interested leads through contacts created within the system. Custom messaging to promote med spa packages, gift cards, and loyalty points that relate to specific services or procedures that the patient has previously received or expressed future interest allows the patient to be notified of upcoming marketing promotions.

The number of procedures being performed per month has increased, as has the volume of patients returning and/or making appointments for new services, which has allowed tremendous growth in revenue for their business. Additionally, office productivity has increased because of the tasks that PatientNOW takes care of, leaving your staff to focus on more important activities, like the patient.