Many of us are planning on sharing our Mailing Lists. It benefits us all! Please email to be included.
FROM JINNANDTONICS
Greetings,
We have started the email marketing process to alert our buyers of the ebay changes, we have included as many of your site links as we could locate, if you did not submit yours to us and want to be included please contact us at jinnandtonics@yahoo.com
Furthermore, we have included the most popular eCommerce sites that everyone seems to be going towards. The professional marketing company we are using will collect the buyer click through rates giving us some indication of which sites the buyers are interested in going to. We are more than happy to publicly post these reports on the blog to share the data with you. This will help you see which stores are getting the buyers traffic. As we do these marketing plans over the next six weeks you should experience an increase of buyers to your locations, since we will continue to help push buyers to all the sellers without discrimination. If you are not sharing your urls links you may be missing out on free help from the community to boost your sales.
If you prefer to do your own marketing, not a problem, just a recommendation, we are using the online company Vertical Response.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us. Blessings
Tiffany
Greetings All,
(Thank you for the offer, but we are NOT accepting donations, we want this to be a community service and we are volunteering, there is no motive here other than it is the ethical thing to do for the survival of us all).
I'm happy to help. Just a note, our mailing list of 2,000 is generating some traffic to everyone's links, even though it has been less than 24hrs. It is not an instant result, marketing is a process that builds upon itself, so if you don't notice any changes yet, do not panic. We have only just begun. I wanted to offer some basics about how it works to those who may not be heavily involved in marketing.
Giants like Google, Yahoo, and Bing have software to block spam from people's mail. They do this automatically, without you knowing to protect you. However, this means we must establish our sending from email addy as "approved" so these sites let our newsletters and messages through.
There are a few things that make this happen. Send emails that ask the client to reply to you. (if they reply its a green light for your mail to get through) Not hitting your limits on sending out mail. Not sending too large of lists all at once in the same email. Sending to email addresses that you have a history of communicating with. For your mail contacts this will not be an issue.
Note: if you are forwarding our newsletter and clients are replying with "meta offer" separate those contacts email addresses or move the replies to a separate folder, these are buyers of yours who actively want to buy from you at the sales scheduled from Aug 30th through Sept. This is important to forward communication about your sales specifically to them.
However, many of you have clients that purchased through paypal, and messaged you though ebay, but never contacted you through your mail server address (gmail, hotmail, or other). We can still access these customers because we have a history with them so it does not violate the spam laws. However, you need to get these address out of your paypal account (link with instructions: http://www.
If you are not sure if your clients are getting your mail, we highly recommend you consider using an online email marketing program for your lists. Its fairly easy, not too expensive, and gives you info in return to tell you if the mail is received and opened, are they clicking your link to the store, and how many are unopened. Many times the time of day and day of the week effects the outcome. If your message hits their box at peak hours for marketing campaigns, it gets buried, they never see it, it never gets opened. These online programs can group your lists into sections to easily resend it to the ones not opened for a second chance. (WE WILL BE DO THIS WITH THE LATE SELLER LINK ADDITIONS) This allows yours links to be seen asap. We will also include them in future mailings.
Here is the link to the company we are using, free to sign up and 100 free mail sends, lots of video tutorials and good support team. If you sign up under this referral you get 500 free sent emails, and we get $40 in email sends as well. Which we will use to push more traffic to your sites. LINK: http://bit.ly/NW7FIU.
If you do not have the time or do not want to do your own lists, we are happy to keep sending out promos to get your store links out there which you can forward, just try to use the forward to a friend link to avoid getting your own email address blocked as a spammer.
If you want us to send your lists, we will do that too we will send it in a separate mailing, with your store name as the from address so your clients know it is from you, (we will not use your lists ever in the future for our own mailings... We would be considered a third party and it would be a spam violation, without your buyer's permission. NOT WORTH IT) We are not experts at this, we just researched it. But, we are working diligently to get the traffic pushed towards your stores. The more lists that get notified the better. If you do not want to share your lists due to privacy, we are absolutely ok with that too. We will be happy to work with anyone who needs help in what ever way you want to do that. This is only about getting the community traffic off ebay and back on you. We are trying our bests to be as open and transparent as possible here.
We have attached the reports of our email newsletter traffic, so you can see the results. The graph shows a little over half are still unopened. It also shows a high click through rate, this means many people who opened it are clicking the links. So, it is effectively getting them to your stores. This will increase as we engage the buyers with more incentives to go to your stores, like Big Sales. We are very open to your suggestions, and input. Especially regarding the blitz sales, what do you want to offer the buyers, and when? If you see any gaps in our efforts or ways we can improve please speak up, this is about helping us all. Please contact us if you have any questions. Blessings, Tiffany
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The current focus is on getting our items, which you love, to a safe place where you can find them. We understand it can be unsettling to experience sudden changes. However, we want you to feel assured we are all still here for you. You can rely on our strength and know that you will continue to experience the same dedicated customer services you have come to love. We are all very excited for these transformations are bringing great blessings. Look forward to finding us in our new locations and with great anticipation believe that great things are on their way!
