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Permission Based E-mail Marketing

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Kim MacPherson's book on e-mail marketing is a really good read. This book, along with Seth Godin's Permission Marketing are quite similar and both are very easy to read. If you want to learn more about internet marketing I would highly encourage you to read Seth Godin's book Unleashing the IdeaVirus, which deals with viral marketing in businesses and might help create additional marketing opportunities from the e-mail marketing campaigns you learn to set up with Ms. MacPherson's book.

The book is packed with great tips and advice for those of us just starting down the path of permission email marketing. The case histories of good and bad practices alike provide strong insights on communications and etiquette. Most importantly, this book explains the terms of email marketing and, for someone more experienced, it helps you calculate costs and your ROI (return on investment) from the campaign.

All and all I would highly recommend this book as it is a practical guide for professional marketers and aspiring Internet Entrepreneurs. I've seen a lot of email marketing books, and this is the best how-to book. If you combined this book with the underpinnings you can get from reading Seth Godin's Permission Marketing you will have the subject matter down cold.

Time passes and this book now needs to be revised. The
M/s Mac Pherson gives you all the skills you need to
get to the place you should have been two years ago.

For example no mention is made of autoreponders. Today
almost all permission based systems now make use of
autoresponders as an efficient method that ensures
quick replies to new leads and immediately delivers
that special offer, white paper etc.

Also it is rather quaint that there seems to be no
web page associated with the book. A place to log on
to give my permission for the author to send me her
newsletter and receive a personal email from Kim
promoting her new book or on line web conference.

Although squarely based on permission marketing the
word SPAM is treated more as a sick relative rather
than the final attack of an infinity of verbal locusts
hatched for a world without meaning.

Kim, It's time to hide from the family again and
write an all NEW edition on How to do it right today.

Because I'm in the marketing industry, I received an advance copy of this book. Even though I was somewhat skeptical at first, the truth is that I really liked it. This book is full of really useful "how-to" information that you can use to design, test, and implement your own permission-based e-mail marketing campaign. There is a quote on the cover of the book from Seth Godin (whom we all know is the author of best-seller "Permission Marketing"), and this quote probably sums it up best: "Exactly the sort of nuts and bolts details you'll need to implement a Permission Marketing campaign of your own."

Even though I've been in marketing for twenty years, I found this book useful. After all, e-mail marketing is still somewhat new, and us "insiders" can always use a few good tips. However, I also think this book will be useful for the "non-marketer" who perhaps owns or manages a business that is considering e-mail as a tool for acquiring or retaining customers.

As a principal of a design firm who recently started offering email marketing to our clients I found this book invaluable. I have used it to educate our company and have recommended it to clients and at speaking engagements.

It is a really practical guide and makes it easy for anyone to put a permission-based email marketing campaign together. For the novice it explains the terms of email marketing, for someone more experienced, it helps you calculate costs and your ROI (return on investment). The case studies are informative too.

MacPherson's book is packed full of great tips and advice for those of us just starting down the path of permission email marketing. And for the small conclave of experts who have lived the real-world highs and lows of this fast-evolving marketing medium, you'll find it a valuable, credible resource too. So whether you're an ad agency exec looking to WOW a client with your insight, a marketing manager implementing your own email program, or a small business owner searching for a practical guide, this is the book for you. It weaves in just the right amount of charts, tick-lists, best practices and case studies to make it a lively read. You'll find yourself referring back to this book often as you implement your own campaign.

As a Senior Marketing Director for a large consumer software firm, one of my challenges has been to convey the necessary principles of email marketing to my operations team. These are the people who are more technologically-focused, but really do need to see the marketing backbone behind their campaigns. This is the first book on email marketing that laid out those principles in a smart, yet easy to follow format. The principles are sound and the case studies in the back are valuable. Highly recommended.

I've seen a lot of email marketing books, and this is the best how-to book. Others will cover theory and explain how email marketing fits in your marketing mix, but this is really designed for people who need to know the in's and out's of implementing a campaign. And the first to get into some detail on tips and tricks for making your first time out successful. For the novice direct marketer, includes some basic DM concepts to maximise your ROI in the short and long term (calculating lifetime value, testing methodology...).

Highly recommended!!

If you are thinking about starting email marketing campaigns, then know that this book is a prerequisite.

I've been using traditional marketing vehicles for years, but email marketing was something new and foreign to me. I started reading this book and signed up for Eliteweb.cc Email Marketing at the same time. I was truly a fish out of water with this stuff. After reading Kim's book cover-to-cover, I must say that I feel more like an email guru than someone just ready to take their first steps.

There are definitely a few parts of the book that are in need of an update. Several times I would ask my account executive about something that I had read, only to find out the `times have changed'. But, even with those outdated parts, the fundamentals discussed in the book are as true today as they were then.

The book was also a very good read. I was excited to start using this new vehicle, but I had no desire to pickup a text book and start studying. I found myself flying through the pages and I continue to have it right beside my desk and refer back to it often.

I've been able to implement many of the tips and ideas Kim suggests and they're not just theories, they really work. So often I read `expert' books that do little in the way of practical results, but let me assure you, this book has paid for itself many times over.

Just like another reviewer suggested, I would recommend reading some of Seth Godin's work as well since that has also helped me a lot when navigating the online marketing landscape.

From start to finish, Kim leads us on a journey to build our businesses through permission based email marketing. What an awesome way to generate new, fresh leads in order to jump start my business.

I found Kim MacPherson's book to be a true step by step guide to e-mail marketing worth many times the price I paid for it. She demistified the entire process of e-mail marketing for me. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in developing and executing an effective e-mail campaign.