The From Line
Sending, Managing & Monetizing Email
About a week ago, we posted a query in our GLJive Client Community for our clients to come up with 10 uses for our RSS to Email feature. If you aren't familiar with this feature, here are a few of the sticky points:
* Automate your Email Campaigns based on your RSS feed(s)
* Customize messages and templates easily to include RSS feed(s)
* Control which feed(s) are included in which campaign including multiple feeds per campaign
* Control the times that the campaigns go out (daily, weekly, or monthly)
* The ability to choose the launch of the campaign only when RSS feed(s) are updated (validation)
There are so many uses for this feature in pretty much every industry. If you don't believe that this saves time and creates a huge efficiency, ask Gary Smith of Fox's Bull's and Bears and owner of The Chart Man Website. With the help of Gold Lasso, he saved countless hours for him and his staff by automating his daily email campaigns using the RSS to Email feature. Our group came up with some great uses, so here they are in no particular order.
Usage #1 - Deal of the Day
Post exclusive deals for those who follow your RSS feed. Let the RSS to Email feature do the rest for you.
Usage #2 - Internal Communications
Aggregate RSS feeds of competitor information: tweets, news releases, Facebook updates, etc. Automate a campaign that’s internal to your company and sales team. Not many subscribers, but it could be quite useful!
Usage #3 – Automatic Photo Updates via Email
For a website constantly uploaded with photos, pull an RSS feed of new photos into scheduled campaigns. Several applications: Dating Site, Real Estate, News, etc.
Usage #4 - Deal Roundup
Similar to Usage #1, a website that posts MULTIPLE sales/deals can send a weekly or daily email that pulls all deals into an email.
Usage #5 – Candidate Recruitment
Insert feed of resumes titles, even by category, into an email to HR and recruiting managers. Use campaign categories for highly targeted approach.
Usage #6 - Job Listings
Insert feed of job listings, either by zip code or by category, into email for job-seekers. Schedule weekly or daily campaigns.
Usage #7 – Automate message assembly
Instead of designing new messages and campaigns, create a message template with space for your private feed. Update the feed and your campaign is sent automatically.
Usage #8 - Live Event Coverage
A lot of bloggers and tweeters constantly update from live events. You could sum up all of the posts from the event in an easy to read re-cap.
Usage #9 - Writers/Authors
Authors could send teaser chapters from an upcoming book to get readers excited.
Usage #10 - Public Postings
Public postings could be used by colleges and other higher education, regulatory, state run groups, government, etc.
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The Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA) named Gold Lasso as one of the early and expansion stage technology companies to present at its annual investment conference, Capital Connection 2010, May 19-20 in Baltimore, MD. I will be presenting Gold Lasso's accomplishments and strategies on Wednesday, May 19th at 3:40 PM.
To learn more about the conference click here: http://www.capitalconnection.org/
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Gold Lasso has released a new white paper on email rendering best practices. Proper email rendering challenges every designer and this is a great resources to help understand the difference between designing for email and Web. Included in the white paper are thirteen tips for email rendering best practices. You can download your free copy at Gold Lasso's Learning Center.
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| Brief Description Examples Using an Existing/Setting Up a New Opt-In Page Facebook Fan Page Information How to Setup Your Facebook Form Adding the Form to Your Fan Page Wall |
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| Brief Description This document will help you setup or use an existing Opt-In form and add it to your Facebook Fan Page. |
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| Examples Here is a link to The Gold Lasso Fan Page to see an example. |
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| Here is an example of the Form on our Fan Page. | |
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| Using an Existing/Setting Up a New Opt-In Page This help document assumes that you already have an Opt-in or Landing Page in your eLoop account. If you don’t, please click here for instructions on how to set one up. |
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NOTE: If you already have created an Opt-In page and modified it outside of eLoop then you can simply copy the HTML from there to be used in Step 9 of the setup process below. |
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| 1. | Log in to your eLoop account. |
| 2. | Choose “Data Collection” and then choose the “Opt-In pages” option from the top navigation bar. |
| 3. | Choose the Opt-In Page that you would like to work with and click the edit button. |
| 4. | Choose the “Page Edit” option in the bottom navigational bread crumbs. |
| 5. | Select all and copy the HTML code from the box located at the top of the page. |
| NOTE: The copied HTML will be used in Step 9 of the setup process in the next section. | |
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| Facebook Fan Page Information A Facebook Page is a public profile that enables you to share your business and products with Facebook users. When your fans interact with your Facebook Page, stories linking to your Page can go to their friends via News Feed. As these friends interact with your Page, News Feed keeps driving word-of-mouth to a wider circle of friends. (Information from Facebook) |
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| If you don’t already have a Facebook Fan Page, click here for a very easy to use tutorial provided by Facebook. Back To Top |
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| 1. | Log in to Facebook and navigate to your Facebook Fan Page as an Administrator and click the “Edit Page” link. |
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| 2. | Scroll down to "More Applications" and choose the "Static FBML" (which stands for Facebook Markup Language) option. |
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| 3. | Click the "Add to My Page" button which will bring up a light box where you can choose your page, click the "Add to Page" button, and then choose the "Close" button at the bottom of the light box. |
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| 4. | Click the "Wall" tab at the top to return to your Fan Page. |
| 5. | Click the Edit Page link under your Fan Page picture. |
| 6. | Scroll down to the "FBML" box and Click "Edit". |
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| 7. | Type in a Box Title which will be the title of your Tab and Paste the eLoop code in the FBML Box. This information can be modified later by editing the FBML as in Step 6. |
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| 8. | Click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom and return back to your wall by clicking the name of your Fan Page at the top of the page. |
| 9. | To add the form to your navigation, click the Plus Icon next to "Boxes" on the navigation bar located at the top of the page. |
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| 10. | Choose the FBML that you just created which will add it to your Navigation Bar. Once added you can simply drag the tab to the desired location. |
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| Adding the Form to Your Fan Page Wall If you make your form small enough, you can add it to the left side of your wall. Please see our example below. |
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| 1. | Go to "Boxes" (top navigation bar) and choose the box that you created above. |
| 2 | Click the pencil icon click “Move to Wall Tab”. |
| 3. | Navigate back to your wall to see your form on the left side. |
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With the exception of GoodMail's Certified Video service, LiveClicker is the only technology I have seen that allows marketers to easily bring full motion picture to email (excluding sound). I liked LiveClicker's technology so much that I decided to partner them. This partnership will allow Gold Lasso's clients easily leverage true video in email technology exchanging the simulated video control click-through image for something that's truly engaging.
The best thing about the technology is that video plays directly in the inbox and is compatible with most email clients.
You can read more about the partnership here.
If you're interested in learning more about how LiveClicker works with Gold Lasso's eLoop please contact your service or sales rep.
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