Captcha and Turk – Two Tastes that Taste Great Together
Posted by John Wall | Filed under Blog, Podcast
In this Marketing Over Coffee learn :
About what to use to send bulk email, using WordPress as your homepage, and why nothing is free. All this and more…
Show length 26:45
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00:46 Mark “The Boffin” asks about Email tools and autoresponders – VerticalResponse, blue sky factory, Manticore, ExactTarget, ConstantContact, Dada Mail, or even Do-It-Yourself!
06:20 Captchas and Turks, security and getting work done, John laments sending money abroad
08:12 Ozzie asks about website hosting and getting a website off the ground, the risk of CPU overage
11:00 Ghetto-style websites with wordpress. Learn how to use wordpress, get a template cheap (or get a wordpress template done by a pro). Take advantage of all the plugins out there
15:00 Hosting a blog yourself versus using a service provider, and selling off third level domains as a Red Saber tactic
18:00 Google Apps and Salesforce.com Integration announced, and Google looking to aggregate Analytics data, tracking movement is more important than aggregating data
22:08 Even more on the Forrester report, and charging for Podcamp Boston 2, nothing is free (if you have no sponsor, you are the sponsor), maybe John can finally get Marketing Over Cocktails going
John is still on the wedding tour
Chris is going to Podcamp DC and then Podcamp NYC.
Our theme song is called Mellow G by Fonkmasters from the Podsafe Music Network
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Marketing Over Coffee is recorded every business Wednesday at 5:30am Eastern at a coffee shop in Natick, MA, just outside of Boston. Chris is on the legendary Shure SM58 microphone, John on an Electro-Voice N/D767a.
April 18, 2008 at 5:56 pm
There is also ( a slightly new) email service called icontact
http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/212813 (and yes that’s my affiliate link – feel free to substitute yours) that allows you to pay “on the go” so if you have a small list you pay less.
Another great email tool is http://www.tryfanbridge.com where you can manage your email list and your text message list (which might be great for Chris and all his college students).
You guys also said you had your numbers and demographics on your site where are they? I was curious..
Dave Jackson
http://www.perosnalpodcastcoach.com
April 22, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Toward the end you were talking about costs. One cost you also didn’t mention was the cost of time to produce content. That’s time that could be spent doing something else that could make money.
Great show and I’m glad you’re here!
April 23, 2008 at 4:06 am
Hi guys,
Another great cast!!
thanks for the answers to my pretty vauge question about auto responders….
Just for your info, I’m running a personalised gift website http://www.photostuffdirect.co.uk i’m looking to send out 5 photography lessons on a weekly basis to encourage subscribers.
your saying vertcial resp is expensive, but with no monthly fee it works out pretty good value for our efforts at the moment (as far as i can work out).
cheers!!
May 7, 2008 at 8:37 am
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