Has anyone used gmail for sending email marketing advertisements & or other suggestions?



I have a website that is ready to launch and I wish to let all that inquired about it that the site is ready. I wish to send out emails, however due to my large list I do not want to run the risk that someone forgot that they inquired and then reports me for SPAM (happened to a friend). So I want to do my email campaigns separate from my domain just in case.
Has anyone used gmail for this and or the biz version? Or does anyone know an economical solution??? Thanks

Posted on May 25th, 2010 in Google | 1 Comment »

Google Gmail as an SMTP server?



I got a job sending out email campaigns with Summit Soft’s Email Campaign software. Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to do my job. I need an SMTP server and I had heard you could set it up through gmail. I’ve tried and tried, and it seems to not make a difference. Please help if you could.

Instruct me on how to possibly set that up?

Posted on February 19th, 2010 in Google | 2 Comments »

Is the easy Google profits email I keep receiving serious?



I’ve been getting this spam in all of my email addresses and it almost seems legit. I say almost because like most spam, I never asked for it but its Google, and has a bison delivery systems tag and claims to be compliant with can-spam. It also promises easy money, another reason to be skeptical but unlike most of the other spam I get, everything is spelled right and there isn’t random capitalized blocks of letters and other inconsistencies.

Finally, I’m getting this in ALL of my inboxes, my spam target ones and the relatively secret (as in few know it) one I use for pay pal and online banking.

Is this real? $200-$943 a day would be nice, but it kinda feels like a scam, but a very well designed scam as opposed to the usual “I’m a Nigerian prince who wants to give you a very large, specific amount of money”.

Posted on November 28th, 2009 in Google | 3 Comments »

How do I track visitors from my email campaign in Google Analytics?

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4shiggles asked:


Hello,

I am attempting to filter visitors from my email campaign to track their basic visitor stats, site behavior, etc. My emails URLs are all tagged as they should be, however, I am not sure how to create a filter in the Google Analytics tool to parse out these visitors.

Any help from users more knowledgable than myself would be greatly appreciated.

Posted on October 29th, 2008 in Google | 2 Comments »

Does using link tags on an email campaign take away from direct visits?

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Bored_now asked:


I’ve added link tags to my email campaigns and have noticed a drop in the number of direct visits I get to my website. Are they related?

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 in Google | No Comments »