Do you need to reach many people with your communication on a regular basis?

You might run a small or a big business or lead a community of volunteers or need to write to a group of people for various other reasons. Email is an excellent and cost efficient way to get the job done.

In my case I often have the problem that I can reach many people on Facebook or on Twitter but not on both. And the number of those who turn their backs on Facebook & Co. is increasing. But no matter which social media platform someone is using or even not using any at all, today most people at least have an email address which makes it very easy to send them messages to.

With an increasing list of recipients it becomes quickly impractical to use a regular email client since technical limitations and legal considerations come into play.

Using an email service provider takes care of the issues that otherwise will give you headaches.

My favorite email marketing service provider is AWeber (↑) as I have mentioned on this blog several times before. I recommend this service because of:

• Ease of Use
• Reliability
• Autoresponders and Automation
• Reasonable Priceplans

Find out about the features of AWeber by clicking here. (↑)


Other popular providers are:

• Constant Contact
• iContact
• ConvertKit
• GetResponse
• Infusionsoft
• Campaigner
• AWeber
• Mailgen
• StreamSend

A list with a comparison can be found here: Email Marketing Service Providers (↑)


Yours

John W. Furst

P.S.: I might earn a small commission if you choose to use AWeber.

Seriously. I am in. You remember that I did not write that positive about Google Sidewiki. Well with Google Wave this is different.

It definitely pays off to be active in online forums. Last week one of this online friends asked,

“Anybody wants an invitation
into the \/\/ave?”

Since I was among the first who virtually had raised there hands I got one of those precious nominations and got in within a couple of days.

Usually I am not excited so much about becoming a beta tester of anything and Google calls the current stage of Wave a Pre-Beta. Sounds worse, doesn't it. But actually I am surprised it really feels great. I was not among those in the early rush for Gmail accounts. Started to use Gmail seriously not before 2009. But the loooooong video from Google presented Wave got me hooked immediately.

So now I am in. And I am even more excited. Let me tell you about a couple of prerequisites.

Prerequisits

(1) Obviously you need an invitation currently.

Google wants to slowly build up a base of about 100,000 users and fine-tune their infrastructure as well as completing features that we have heard of in the video but not yet seen in the preview beta version.

Now I have a confession to make.

I am guilty

But first, let's look at a fun video.