A question that many Internet Marketers would love to have the answer to but the fact remains, this is actually very easy. Let me tell you this...

I remember once looking for joint venture partners and almost baulking at the size of other peoples lists. Here I was with a list of 300 trying to compete with the "big hitters" with lists of 8000 plus!

I felt daunted and intimidated and wondered how, if ever, I was going to reach those heights with my list building strategies.

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Email marketing is mostly about successful delivery of your message into your recipient's inbox. But why limit yourself to just ONE communication channel? Find an email marketing solution that gives you multiple channels – an email marketing platform, SMS/texting, microsites and RSS feeds. GraphicMail for instance lets you publish your html email newsletters and promotional emails to an RSS Feed, doubling your marketing and communications efforts in one go. Clients can choose whether they would prefer to receive your updates via email or as a feed version via their RSS reader. They can even receive an RSS to email, or FeedMail as the global email markting platform calls it.

The benefits of using RSS with your email campaign

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Stopping email SPAM all together is an almost impossible thing in today's world. However one of the worst (and usually embarrassing) kinds of SPAM to receive is the "make your penis bigger" email, especially if you are at work, and even worse if it has pictures. Fortunately Outlook and Vista Mail (not Outlook Express) has a nice feature that lets us eliminate this or any other type of type of SPAM from ever getting to our mailbox.

The steps for Vista Mail and Outlook are similar so I will only include steps for both when there are differences between the two. Also these steps are best done when you still have the SPAM email that you want to block.

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In the 1960s, business executives marveled at their new organization tool – the Rolodex. This clever contraption made it easy to find an associate's or customer's phone number and add or delete contacts in just a few minutes, spinning cards around on its wheel alphabetically. The Rolodex became an essential tool for communication, taking us through the next two decades and into the computer era.

Once personal computers began to populate office desks, electronic mail ensued and business professionals discovered an even smarter way to connect with their customers and foster long-term relationships – email.

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