No problem. I am a teacher so thought I may be able to give some guidance as to how likely schools would be to buy it.
If I get my school to buy it, can I have a brown envelope stashed with cash?
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If I get my school to buy it, can I have a brown envelope stashed with cash?
Blue Smarties
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If you're serious, what're you struggling with mate? I manage and create content for a 1,000,000+ page (as well as our other handles). Pretty small fry numbers compared to the last place I was with, but it's also a bigger audience than many other pages out there!Kin hell.., i'm struggling setting up my facebook business page.
sir baconface
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First up is a simple guide how to design, build, implement, maintain and support your own commercial web presence for less than £5k.
Content is currently being populated but should be finalised in a day or so.
Love it :)
sir baconface
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No problem. I am a teacher so thought I may be able to give some guidance as to how likely schools would be to buy it.
If I get my school to buy it, can I have a brown envelope stashed with cash?
Reported to the local education authority. They are now combing their personnel files for a staff member called 117 M34.
Don't worry, the OP is going to give me a job.Reported to the local education authority. They are now combing their personnel files for a staff member called 117 M34.
whitenoise
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If you're sending bulk emails out don't use your own domain to send them, not sure if mail chimp do it but others will send from a new domain (for example if Ric wanted to bombard us with spam he could email us from bluemoon-online.co.uk rather than bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk) as all it takes is a couple of tossers to mark your email as spam and your domain gets black listed. If your list is true sign ins Mail Chimp should be fine, if recipients don't know who you are (ie a bought or "borrowed" list) you're going to have a couple of car crashes before you get a good list so it's best to get a mail sender that will give you a sending email address that's not your domain.For an email send of that size (i.e. 20,000-30,000) , you should really be using a third party such as MailChimp. They can stagger the send if you so desire.
As mentioned in my PM, Shopify might be worth looking at for your site if you want to keep costs down initially. It's $29 a month, which I guess could soon add up, but it means you don't have to throw a load of money up front at the project.
You shouldn't need to worry about your domain being blacklisted if your email list is legitimate. You need to send from a service such as MailChimp or Campaign Monitor (which is my preference) and you will receive a report in real-time of email opens. You say you need to know all the emails have been viewed but there is 0% chance of this. If you can get around a 30% open rate you have done very well. The good thing about these services is they are self-cleansing too. So if you receive hard bounces (not getting through to the email/firewall etc) they will be removed from your database.
Your list will need to be verified though. Anything over around 1000 I think needs some kind of proof/explanation of where you got the email addresses from. From memory, you will need to have acquired these from some kind of sign-up (either online of physically from some kind of expo) or have done business with them in the last 2 years.
I also noted you had SEO (ranking high in search engines) included in your RFP. As a designer/dev and online marketer I can confirm this is something that is a completely separate service and one that you will need to budget for on its own merits. While your site should be developed with this in mind it is only a part of how you get your site ranking highly.
All the best with your venture and if you need any advice fire me a PM.
Your list will need to be verified though. Anything over around 1000 I think needs some kind of proof/explanation of where you got the email addresses from. From memory, you will need to have acquired these from some kind of sign-up (either online of physically from some kind of expo) or have done business with them in the last 2 years.
I also noted you had SEO (ranking high in search engines) included in your RFP. As a designer/dev and online marketer I can confirm this is something that is a completely separate service and one that you will need to budget for on its own merits. While your site should be developed with this in mind it is only a part of how you get your site ranking highly.
All the best with your venture and if you need any advice fire me a PM.
Stuuuuuu
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Thanks for the tips @GeoBarmy .
The list isn't legitimate. The info inc. e-mail addresses is publicly available on EduBase - so it's legitimate in that way. I simply downloaded it from there. But the recipients know nothing about my business and they haven't opted in. I haven't done business with them before.
However, the product should be of genuine interest to many of them; it's not like I'm trying to sell them fake sunglasses or viagra.
So yeah, my concerns are mainly:
* How can I get the e-mails through without them being blocked / flagged as spam?
* If a handful of recipients do click on 'This is spam/junk' or whatever, am I buggered?
Are there any ways of addressing these issues?
Cheers.
The list isn't legitimate. The info inc. e-mail addresses is publicly available on EduBase - so it's legitimate in that way. I simply downloaded it from there. But the recipients know nothing about my business and they haven't opted in. I haven't done business with them before.
However, the product should be of genuine interest to many of them; it's not like I'm trying to sell them fake sunglasses or viagra.
So yeah, my concerns are mainly:
* How can I get the e-mails through without them being blocked / flagged as spam?
* If a handful of recipients do click on 'This is spam/junk' or whatever, am I buggered?
Are there any ways of addressing these issues?
Cheers.
stonerblue
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If you're serious, what're you struggling with mate? I manage and create content for a 1,000,000+ page (as well as our other handles). Pretty small fry numbers compared to the last place I was with, but it's also a bigger audience than many other pages out there!
Cheers BS. Initially i was confused with facebook after being inundated with 'requests' after making a personal page. Then i couldn't edit or admin the shop page. Finally found the verify bit where they ring my number to confirm identity.
I've now given my apprentice the admin role and he sorts it all out the way kids do.