Blog Category: Email

If you use eCommerceTemplates and want to export the mailing list into Constant Contact, you can follow these steps. Make sure you have explicit permission from folks before you send them bulk emails!

1. Export from ECT store (Mailing List, Action: Dump Entire Mailing List)
2. Convert CSV file to XLSX (because CC needs this)
(Option: Break fullname (first last) into two columns or whether to leave it as one value)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/split-text-into-different-cells-HA102809804.aspx
3. Sign in to CC, Contact, Pick List, Add Contact, From File
4. Select which fields to import and map them to CC fields
5. Import and done.

Sometimes it becomes necessary to move your website from one hosting company to another. As a small business website owner you may wonder what is involved in this process so that you can judge the benefits versus the cost of moving to a new website hosting company. I recently moved several dozen of my clients, including my own website, from one hosting company to another, in search of better customer service, and wanted to give others who may be contemplating such a move an idea of what’s involved.

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For the past two days (7/25/12 and 7/26/12) I am having difficulty sending emails to my clients who have gmail accounts. I am sending from my ISP, which is Comcast. Details of what I am getting are below. This has happened with 4 of my clients who use gmail. Anyone else having this issue?

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Should small business owners use AOL for their business email? Normally I strongly encourage clients who are getting a new website to use their domain based email as their business email address. So rather than having janedoe@aol.com, I try to get them to use jane@theirdomainname.com – or any email based on their website domain. Recently, two of my clients who wanted to use AOL had a strange thing happen.

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Often I get emails from clients without subjects. I know it takes a few seconds to type something in the subject field, and we’re all really busy. But here are two reasons that I will hope make it worth your while to type in a Subject:

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You’ve selected DreamHost as your hosting company and now you need to configure Outlook to read your email from your website. Here are the necessary steps to configure Outlook. If you need to configure Outlook Express, please read this article on how to set up Outlook Express. This article has been updated for Outlook 2007.

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This question comes up most often when setting up a client’s email account to handle their website email, such as Outlook or Thunderbird. Which is the best for email: POP3 or IMAP?

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All of us hate spam, those unsolicited emails we get from individuals or businesses who want something from us. But if you get spam from someone who is using a professional service, like MyEmma or Constant Contact, there’s something you can do about it.

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As part of the process of giving folks a cost range for their website projects, they often mention that they want a newsletter. I wanted to review the different approaches that can be taken when trying to integrate a newsletter into a small business website.

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On all the websites I develop, I strongly recommend that clients add an online contact “form” to make it easier for prospective customers to contact them. My own experience seemed to indicate that folks are more likely to fill out a contact form that’s embedded in a website page, rather than clicking on an email address link that opens their mail application. I decided to actually gather some real data, and post the results to my blog – so here it is.

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