Reasons to Use Domain Based email rather than FREE or ISP based email accounts for your business.

Most of the line items below have been pulled from other locations on the web. This post is designed to put all the nuggets of information we felt were valuable in one place. In some cases we took editorial liberty over the comment.

• With mass-market e-mail accounts, including MSN Hotmail, AOL! Email, Google GMail and Yahoo! Mail users share their e-mail domains (e.g., “@hotmail.com,” “@msn.com,” “@aol.com,” “@gmail,” “@comcast.com”, “@qwest.com”, “@verizon.com,” “@yahoo.com, ” etc.) with millions of other users, which makes it impossible to … Continue Reading
  

Update: Here’s a link to a handy video Patrice made showing how to do this in Outlook: http://www.viddler.com/explore/ProFusionDemos/videos/16/

I frequently get asked how to put the little Twitter and Facebook icons into an email signature with links back to their respective accounts. If you are using Outlook 2007, here are some basic instructions for how you can add these icons to your signature.

1. Open Outlook
2. Click on Tools
3. Click on Options
4. From the tabs, click on “Mail Format”
5. Click on Signatures
6. Click on the New Button
7. Give your signature … Continue Reading
   

There is no doubt that email has greatly improved communication in almost all aspects of our lives. My husband and I keep track of our children and appointments with emails, my staff corresponds with clients and each other via email on a daily basis, and we know that many people are using email as a way to try and get their foot in the door. As important as an email can be, it still astonishes me at how lazy, unprofessional and completely unnecessary some emails can be. I sit on three different boards and numerous sub-committees and I … Continue Reading

Email signatures are a direct representation of both you and your company. If you are a loose light hearted company it may be best to reflect that with an image or a funny quote. However, most businesses reside in the realm of relaxed professional; as such we have the following guidelines for your signatures. Continue Reading

If you’re new to email marketing, or not using it at all, you’re probably wondering, “Why use a professional email marketing tool such as ProFusion Mailer? I can just CC all of my customers or contacts using Outlook.” It’s easy to run into issues when you try and send out big blocks of emails like that.

Here is a list of 6 reasons why an email marketing program like ProFusion Mailer works better than Outlook every time.

1. Each email you send has the possibility of not reaching your intended recipient. Instead, it could get trapped in the … Continue Reading

For the past 2 months, I have really noticed an increase in email. A lot of the new stuff coming is in the form of e-newsletters. I guess people have finally figured out that emailing a newsletter is cheaper and faster than printing and mailing a newsletter and is definitely more effective than not doing one at all.

1. Open Outlook
2. From tools, click on Account Settings and you will get a screen that looks like this:

3. Click on New
4. Select Microsoft Exchange/SMTP/POP 3 and click next
5. Type in your name, email address and password. Be sure to check the box that says “Manually Configure server settings” at the bottom as shown below, then click next.

6. Click on Internet E-Mail and click next
7. The fill out … Continue Reading