How to use emails and newsletters to spread the word +

JobAngelsBy David Strom

david@strom.com

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Agenda

Good and bad email choices How to communicate with prospects Why an email newsletter is important Job Angels stuff

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Bad email IDs

kygirl@hotmail.com Something involving your favorite

fruit names Anything @ juno.com

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Good email choices

Use your own domain that you mastered

Work proactively with your contacts to keep in touch

Start your own email newsletter

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Google Apps

Standard: free and 7 GB mailbox for up to 50 email accounts

Premier: $50/user/year and 25 GB mailbox and unlimited accounts

Non profits can get Premier for free!

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Set up your email software with your domain

http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

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Why is a mailing list important?

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Email choices

Free: Yahoo Groups Cheap: Mailman on

EMWD.com ($4/mo) Expensive:

ConstantContact.com ($30/mo and up)

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Need a Yahoo email ID Find a group name that matches your

domain and book title Import your contacts and keep

adding people that you meet

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Yahoo

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Constant Contact

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Typical pricing

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Our regional work force is evolving away from

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Towards new industries

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The old methods of job acquisition

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What do these things have in common?

See a Broadway play Perform brain surgery Come to a wedding Donate blood

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National Job Angels

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Time for a new jobs strategy

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St. Louis 1st local chapter!

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Join up!

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Some other LinkedIn groups

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Good luck with your job search!

David Strom(310) 857-6867david@strom.comhttp://strominator.comhttp://webinformant.tvSlides available:http://slideshare.net/

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