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Email marketing is an internet marketing service, in which considered as second to the most popular in the industry. It is a form of direct marketing through electronic mail. They are using this marketing service to acquire new customers by sending full information about the company and to introduce merchant’s products or services, to asked for a repeat business and to enhance and maintain good relationship to the old and current customers.

Here are the four suggestion tips to a successful Email marketing:

1. Quality database
2. Timely and relevant messages
3. Advance technology and strong ISP relations
4. Segment your database.

Email marketing has a record of consistent growth since 2002. There is undeniable continuous support in the industry from online community.

Here are the several reasons for the popularity of Email marketing:

1. Powerful method for boosting online business

2. Effective in generating sales

3. Effective in Lead generation

4. Branding and awareness

5. Low cost way of sending information

6. Return of investment or ROI can be tracked using email marketing

7. Less expensive than direct marketing or newsletters

8. Many users, check their email everyday

9. Easy tracking of email messages, there are many tools than can track email messages, some of them are: bounce messages, auto responders and web bugs.

10. Advertisers can reach substantial number of potential clients.

11. You can send information in a short delivery time.

There are many advantages mentioned above, but still in all things, you also need to look for the disadvantage and that is your email is useless if it will be tag as spam or unsolicited mail by the user. Spam also called, as junk email is the abuse of electronic messaging systems by sending unsolicited bulk messages without any operating expense.

Email marketing is well accepted in online community, that is why many email marketing software are available in the net. See the short lists below:

1. Lyris – http://www.lyris.com/
2. Interspire – http://www.interspire.com/
3. Isoft – http://www.lsoft.com/
4. Mailing list manager pro – http://www.mailing-manager.com/
5. Desktop mailer - http://www.desktopemailer.net/index.html

Are you one of those people who are enthusiastic with social networking service? What is your insight to social networking? The said service has known in creating online communities in which People shares similar interest, school, friends, company and other different categories.

Here are the short lists of social networking sites:

1. Facebook – considered as one of the well-known site in the internet community. The site offer different features such as chat, posting ads, etc.., which I think makes them famous. You can check them here, http://facebook.com
2. Twitter – It offer social networking and free micro-blogging service. Twitter has known in their tags “What are you doing?” and “Followers”, for more information visit, http://twitter.com/.
3. MySpace – features Blog, MySpace mobile, uploading Music, Videos and photos and your own websites. For details check, http://www.myspace.com/
4. Hi5 – It is said to be Alexa’s 25^th most popular site. Find out why here…http://hi5.com
5. MyYearbook – content is similar with other social networking site. Most of their members came from United States. Here is the link to their site, http://www.myyearbook.com/
6. Classmates – It helps you find your old friends in your school days, from kindergarten to college. According to them, the site has 40 million members, records shows how popular the site is. You can find them at, http://www.classmates.com/.

By discussing the usual content of social networking site, I am sure some of you who are still not a member of any of them may got curious and do want to be updated in the circle. To be a member of social networking websites is very easy, just register your email address, verify the registration and create your profile.

What are the reasons why social networking site attract many users? Here are some of the reasons I got to various users.

1. Membership is free.
2. Some of them gives you the opportunity to do own blog, port and lets you chat within the site.
3. A chance to meet old friends, classmates and officemates
4. It is one way of getting an update to your colleague
5. Meeting new Acquaintances through a Network
6. An Effective way of Marketing

Social networking website is getting popular each day. Thousands of users added everyday, because of that selected social networking sites offer paid advertisement, such as MySpace and facebook. Advertisers have faith in social networking sites. They are assuming to gain revenue by placing their ads to the sites, relying with the popularity of social networking service.