Using your standard email client (e.g. Outlook, Hotmail, AOL MailSM, Yahoo etc.) to send bulk emails thru a Bcc text or HTML message to your list is not doing email marketing well.

They are not designed for bulk email marketing and therefore has significant limitations that can actually undermine vs. aid your email marketing efforts. Many email clients and most ISPs limit the number of emails that you can send at one time and guard against bulk emailing, as it is often spam.

Approved Bulk Mailer services typically have strong relationships with ISPs and are able to send bulk email. With many services, while your email address is listed as both the "from", and "reply to" address, the email is actually being sent by the email marketing service's server which is recognized by the ISPs, therefore higher delivery rates

Because email marketing service providers are responsible for ensuring their customers' compliance, they worry about the law and ensure that their services are up-to-date on compliance.

North Vancouver, BC - eXtra Contact, a provider of email marketing solutions announces the launch of the Quick Start email marketing Action Plan. This plan includes everything the online marketer needs to get up and running with all the right elements included in their campaign to generate results.

Direct email marketing is an economical solution to the dilemma of how to keep sales coming in at the same time as you, and/or your sales team is busy looking after your current customers. "54% of small businesses surveyed rated e-mail as The top online promotion to drive site visitors and customers to their web sites and storefronts." reports DMA Interactive. It's 15 times cheaper to sell to an existing customer or one you already have email contact information for than it is to go out and get a new customer.

How are you going to keep in touch with prospects you meet if you have no economical way of keeping in touch with them?

eXtra Contact noticed that many of the entrepreneurs and small businesses they work with have trouble deciding what is most important to happen next, so they developed this Quick Start introduction to email marketing and included business letter templates, follow up templates and most important a detailed Marketing Action Plan of what needs to happen and when. Once set up, a do-it-yourself entrepreneur or small business can implement the plan themselves or work with eXtra Contact to ensure they stay on track.