Email marketing is an incredibly valuable marketing tool.  When you build a responsive email marketing list, you are creating a very powerful and profitable asset for your business and making it easier for your company to grow.

Email marketing done properly helps you generate more interest in your product or service, create new business, generate repeat business, and keep your overhead down. As your list grows, the value of your list grows.

The key is to make sure you manage the relationship with your subscribers so that they begin to recognize you as a leader in your industry and want to do business with you when the time comes. Email marketing is perfect for this scenario because you are able to set up regularly scheduled follow up messages that go out to your prospects over time.

You already know that your subscribers have an interest in what you are offering. This is why they subscribed to your list. Your job from that point is to let them know why they should trust you enough to spend money with you. They may not be making that purchasing decision right away but they are gathering information because they are interested in learning more.

For pennies per day, you can follow up with 3, 30, 300, or 3,000 prospects with your email marketing campaign.

As some of those prospects become customers, you can generate repeat business by letting your customers know about upgrades, bonuses, and even new products or services. Your expenses don’t go up. By creating an email marketing newsletter or broadcast, you can get your message out to prospects and customers with the click of your mouse.

Time savings, money savings, and increased sales are why so many businesses are using email marketing more and more.

Is your company ready to take on more sales in less time and at less cost?

Take a moment to request our free report by filling out the form below to find out how email marketing can help you grow your business.

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A lot of our training here at TrafficWave.net focuses on list building and there is good reason. List building is a key strategy used by top internet marketers around the world. I firmly believe that any successful business should focus at least a portion of their marketing energy and strategy on list building.

But I also think it is important to understand how that list becomes a valuable asset to your business. If all you focus on is the size of your list, you are going to miss a lot of sales and potentially lose a lot of subscribers.

But if you focus on building a strong relationship with your list, you will build credibility, your subscribers will trust you, and that will inevitably lead to more sales.

Here are a few key principles you will need to focus on if you want to build a profitable list for email marketing:

1. Help your subscribers solve a problem. If your email marketing message is always about trying to get money out of your subscribers, you are going to find that people begin ignoring and unsubscribing from your messages. Spend time helping your readers solve a problem. When your readers know you can help them solve a problem, they will be much more willing to buy from you.
2. Be sure you are only selling products or services you have used. One of the reasons our Affiliate plan is available to our customers only is integrity. If you actually have experience with the product or service you are offering your subscribers, you are much more qualified to make the recommendation. Your own experience will be of more value to you and your readers than just trying to sell something because you can make money with it.
3. Be honest with your subscribers. Get caught misleading or misrepresenting something to your readers, and your success rate is going to plummet faster than you can imagine. Be honest with your readers and build your reputation as a trustworthy resource.
4. When you mess up, admit it. It might be a link that got typed incorrectly or some other component in your email marketing message that got messed up. When this happens, admit it. Resend the correct information with an apology and keep moving forward. Your readers will appreciate your honesty and your humility.

There is no debating that email marketing is a powerful method for increasing sales. Treat your readers with respect. Keep your information relevant. Show your readers that you have their best interest at heart. Along the way, they will be much more likely to do business with you. That is when your email marketing list becomes incredibly valuable.

Brian Rooney
TrafficWave.net

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I am often talking about how much I believe in and rely on effective email marketing. Most of the time, the conversations are about why it is so important to get started with your list building if you haven’t already done so.

In this article, I want to move the conversation forward a bit to an excellent and recent real-world example of what you can do with your list once it is built.

A dear friend of mine manages a yoga studio. We were talking about ideas for how to boost sales through the traditionally slow summer months. They’ve done newspaper advertising, Groupon, and more over the years and they were looking for something they could do without the extra expenses and time delays.

I asked her, “Does the yoga studio use email marketing?” They do. In our conversation, she decided to run an email broadcast out to their list of customers and prospects. The broadcast was a special offer for discounted yoga sessions.

End result: More new sales came in over the next few days.

Cost of the campaign: A little bit of time to put together the offer and send it out.

Think about that. Because this company had made the decision a while back to begin building their email marketing list, they were able to quickly send out an offer to their list and increase sales the very next day. All it took was a little bit of time to create the offer and send it out.

This is why I am constantly talking to small businesses about the power of email marketing and why it is so important to build your lists, build relationships with your lists, and effectively sell to your lists.

If you already have a list started, what offer can you send out to them today to increase your sales?

If you don’t already have a list started, now is the time! Let us show you how in our free report, below:

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Have you ever thought of email marketing being like owning your own ATM?

When you build a solid email marketing list, you are giving yourself the ability to drive new sales growth with the click of your mouse button. Here are some real world examples of businesses that use email marketing to increase sales any time they like:

Email Marketing Success Stories

Much like the yoga studio, the singer, and affiliate marketers around the world, your business can grow with email marketing. The key is to build your list and then make sure you build a relationship with your list. When your list subscribers trust you, they are much more likely to buy from you when you send them your next great offer.

If you already have an account with us at TrafficWave.net, be sure you are taking advantage of our powerful training videos.

If you are thinking about how email marketing can help boost your business sales, request our free report to learn more:

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This article is for all of our Affiliates who are looking to create financial freedom through TrafficWave’s Affiliate Marketing plan.

If your goal is to refer enough customers to have your commissions offset your monthly subscription that’s awesome and we are happy to have you with us. That will be a matter of just sharing your Affiliate URL with a few of your business associates and showing them how to get an account with us. Remember: 3 Makes You Free.

This article is going to focus specifically on those Affiliates who want to create 4 and 5 figure monthly residual income by referring customers, referring other Affiliates, and working with those Affiliates to create momentum.

I am going to talk about some of the mistakes I see and I am going to talk about how to fix those mistakes and create a team that is dedicated to working together and making things happen.

The first thing to do is to make the decision that you truly want to learn and do what it takes to create a 4 or 5 figure monthly income. To give you some perspective, a 4 figure monthly income means you are earning at least $1,000 on a monthly basis. A 5 figure monthly income means you are earning at least $10,000 on a monthly basis. If that is what you want, I hope you are prepared to learn some things, maybe even unlearn some things, and lock in to creating success by following a simple pattern.

I want to be very clear that this article is intended for leaders. Leaders are focused on creating results. They take responsibility for their own actions and they take responsibility for making sure their team has access to the information they need to be successful. Leaders also get to cash Leadership Bonus checks!

We cannot force anyone to follow our example or our instruction but we can make sure that we are providing the right example and making the instructions available.

So, what are the basic things that should be happening if you want to truly create significant income as a TrafficWave Affiliate?

Use The Tools! Sounds pretty obvious, right? But I see a lot of folks who have signed up and are not even using their autoresponder tools. This is almost a sure-fire guarantee for failure.

Why should you be using your tools?

1. Be Smart. Make that 60 cents a day expense pay for itself by using your tools to generate more leads for your business, follow up with those leads, and generate more sales. How many sales do you need to make in your business to cover $17.95 per month? Get that done, first, so you aren’t thinking about “How do I pay for my TrafficWave.net account?”. If you are selling TrafficWave to other businesses, the answer is “3”. You need 3 sales to earn enough in monthly commissions to cover your $17.95 subscription.
2. Be The Example. When you are building your prospect lists, following up, and closing more sales, you are considerably more qualified to teach your team how to do the same in their own business. When someone says, “This doesn’t work.”, you can honestly tell them, “Sure it does. I’m getting results every day. Let’s look at how we can improve your results.” And then you are able to work with them to show them how it is done.
3. Improve Retention. When you have people in your team who are USING the tools, their business is going to grow. It will be very easy for them to see how much sense it makes to spend 60 cents a day on powerful marketing tools. Show them how to get results in their business and they stay. Simple.

All of this has to do with your referrals from the customer perspective. By teaching your referrals how to USE the tools, you are teaching them how to make more money in their business and they are going to WANT to stay with you. It will just make good business sense.

So, now, let’s look at this from the Affiliate perspective. How do we help our Affiliates make the most of this system to create additional income?

Use The Tools. Sound familiar? Think about this for a minute. You are using these tools to build prospect lists for your business. You are using these tools to communicate with those prospects and covert them in to paying customers. You are communicating with your customers to turn them in to repeat customers. Do the same thing with your Affiliate team in TrafficWave.net!

Set up at least 1 campaign to generate leads for your TrafficWave business. These are people who own businesses, are involved in network marketing, are involved with Affiliate marketing, etc… They need to be using these tools to grow their business. AND, since they are business people, it makes sense that they would want to open up an additional income stream by referring other businesses through their Affiliate URL.

Set up at least 1 campaign to train and support your Affiliates. Share your successes. Celebrate the successes of others on your team. Invite your team to our regular webinars.

Answer your emails. I receive daily complaints from new users about a sponsor that won’t reply to an email. If you aren’t going to be available to answer questions and help them find information, they are going to leave. That’s not designed to be “mean”. It’s just a fact of business life. When someone joins you, they don’t know anything. They are saying, “I trust you enough to try this.” Teach them how to be successful by setting the example and providing the information they need.

Teach your team members how to build their own lists. I see a lot of “team builds” that are set up to help the team leader quite a bit but lack the information and support to create strong team members.

As a team leader, ask yourself this question:

“Do I want a team that is relying on me to build for them or do I want a team of people working together for their individual and mutual success?”

Think about this: If you have 300 people relying on you to generate sales for them, you are going to get tired, worn out, frustrated, and experience a LOT of people giving up. BUT … if you have a team of 300 people all experiencing success because they are USING the tools to build their lists and generate more sales, you will still experience some giving up but you will also experience incredible growth and momentum as your team approach creates strong individuals applying these simple strategies in their own businesses and in their TrafficWave accounts.

When I used to coach basketball, we focused a lot on helping each individual become the strongest, fastest, and most efficient basketball player they could be. We focused on ball handling drills, shooting form, offensive strategies, defensive strategies, and conditioning. Those individuals that worked on their skills found themselves playing in the games and working together as a TEAM as each member combined their individual efforts and talents to win games. We won a lot of games, together. We lost some games along the way. We won Nationals championships. Not a single one of my players ever asked me to shoot the ball for them in the game. They each learned the skills and they each took their shots. Prepare your team members to do the same. Help where needed but always focus on making your team strong by equipping them to effectively use these tools to create results in their business.

Other tips for you to help train, support, and encourage your team:

Post your own success stories and the success stories of your team members in our Facebook group. Why? Everybody enjoys a pat on the back for a job well done. This is why I post our Top Affiliate Earners report, every month! It shows your team you are interested in and celebrating their success. It also shows people who are watching what kind of leader you are.

When you see your name on one of our Top Affiliate Reports, comment to let your team know you appreciate their efforts. When you see a team member’s name one of our Top Affiliate Reports, celebrate by commenting on the post, in your Facebook profile, on their Facebook profile, and in you campaign you are using to train and support your team!

Success begets more success!

Are you a leader? Are you wanting to become a leader? I welcome your thoughts, questions, and feedback on this article.

Yours In Success,

Brian Rooney
TrafficWave.net

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Every Affiliate I talk to tells me they want results. Makes sense. When I talk to our Top Affiliates, they want results. When I talk to a brand new Affiliate, they want results. We all want results in our business. Sadly, far too many of us don’t know how to consistently create results.

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Congratulations to our Top Affiliate Earners for August 2016!
Previous Months: | July | June | May | April | March | Feb |

These top affiliate earners are using the TrafficWave.net AutoResponder system to build and manage their own email marketing lists. They are also spreading the word about this powerful system to other businesses around the world and reaping the benefits in the form of weekly and monthly commissions! Learn more here: TrafficWave.net Affiliate Plan

Want To See Your Name On The List? Find Out How!

Here are more helpful articles:

Keys To Affiliate Marketing success
How To Recruit More and Retain Better Customers and Distributors
How To Be a Good Affiliate

Top Commission Earners – August 2016

1. Dorothy Wargo (Find Them Here)
2. Lori Edwards (Find Them Here)
3. Scott Douglas (Find Them Here)
4. David M Sherman (Find Them Here)
5. Team MLM Can Be Fair (Find Them Here)
6. Margaret Albright (Find Them Here)
7. Bill Darton (Find Them Here)
8. Mohd Darus Haron (Find Them Here)
9. Tamasne Fehervari (Find Them Here)
10. Cheryl Hutson (Find Them Here)
11. Tsunehiro Morikawa (Find Them Here)
12. Jean Francois Mineo (Find Them Here)
13. Lloyd Cooper (Find Them Here)
14. Ewen Chia (Find Them Here)
15. Michael Williams (Find Them Here)
16. Wolfgang Jacques (Find Them Here)
17. JoAnne Lida (Find Them Here)
18. Jens Steyaert (Find Them Here)
19. Fe Hermo (Find Them Here)
20. Chase Swift (Find Them Here)
21. David Hall (Find Them Here)
22. Louis Fiorentino (Find Them Here)
23. Richard LaBay (Find Them Here)
24. Marvin Williams Inc (Find Them Here)
25. Harvey Vickery (Find Them Here)

Top Fast Track Bonus Earners – August 2016

1. David M Sherman (Find Them Here)
2. Tamasne Fehervari (Find Them Here)
3. Bill Darton (Find Them Here)
4. Wolfgang Jacques (Find Them Here)
T5. Team MLM Can Be Fair (Find Them Here)
T5. Ewen Chia (Find Them Here)
T5. Jean Francois Mineo (Find Them Here)
T5. JoAnne Lida (Find Them Here)
6. Scott Douglas (Find Them Here)
T7. Renee Sullivan (Find Them Here)
T7. Louis Fiorentino (Find Them Here)
T7. David Hall (Find Them Here)
T7. Ed Vilar (Find Them Here)
T7. Danny Walker (Find Them Here)
T8. John Blume (Find Them Here)
T8. Daniel Caswell (Find Them Here)
T8. Sam Prindle (Find Them Here)
T8. Joey Wilson (Find Them Here)
T8. Johnny Eaves (Find Them Here)
T8. BORDERON Patricia (Find Them Here)
T8. Janet Croft (Find Them Here)
T8. Shawn Standre (Find Them Here)
T8. Kevin Edwards (Find Them Here)
T8. Delroy Osbourne (Find Them Here)
T8. Bruce Garforth (Find Them Here)
T8. Fe Hermo (Find Them Here)
T8. Sonia Gach (Find Them Here)
T8. Colin Owen (Find Them Here)

T9. 24 member tie…

Top Recruiters – August 2016

1. John Jelf Ltd (Find Them Here) – 118 recruits.
2. Ahmad Ridzuan Bin Abd Rahman (Find Them Here) – 44 recruits.
3. Benoit Dubuisson (Find Them Here) – 31 recruits.
4. Ewen Chia (Find Them Here) – 25 recruits.
T5. David M Sherman (Find Them Here) – 23 recruits.
T5. Bill Darton (Find Them Here) – 23 recruits.
6. Delroy Osbourne (Find Them Here) – 22 recruits.
T7. Bruce Garforth (Find Them Here) – 19 recruits.
T7. Chaumeny (Find Them Here) – 19 recruits.
8. Samuel Oss (Find Them Here) – 17 recruits.
T9. Marvin Williams Inc (Find Them Here) – 11 recruits.
T9. Gerard Dicaire (Find Them Here) – 11 recruits.
T9. Tamasne Fehervari (Find Them Here) – 11 recruits.
T10. Howard Nelson (Find Them Here) – 10 recruits.
T10. Renee Sullivan (Find Them Here) – 10 recruits.
T10. Aaron Newby (Find Them Here) – 10 recruits.
T10. Alan Ribeiro (Find Them Here) – 10 recruits.
T11. Giles Ensor (Find Them Here) – 9 recruits.
T11. Team MLM Can Be Fair (Find Them Here) – 9 recruits.
T12. George McBride (Find Them Here) – 8 recruits.
T12. David Hall (Find Them Here) – 8 recruits.
T12. Carol Rivet (Find Them Here) – 8 recruits.
T13. Ed Vilar (Find Them Here) – 7 recruits.
T13. Princilla Russell (Find Them Here) – 7 recruits.
T13. JoAnne Lida (Find Them Here) – 7 recruits.
T13. BORDERON Patricia (Find Them Here) – 7 recruits.
T13. Wolfgang Jacques (Find Them Here) – 7 recruits.
T14. Jodie Wood (Find Them Here) – 6 recruits.
T14. Alan Bentoy (Find Them Here) – 6 recruits.
T14. Katheen C. VanBeekom (Find Them Here) – 6 recruits.

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Congratulations to our Top Affiliate Earners for September 2016!
Previous Months: | August | July | June | May | April | March |

These top affiliate earners are using the TrafficWave.net AutoResponder system to build and manage their own email marketing lists. They are also spreading the word about this powerful system to other businesses around the world and reaping the benefits in the form of weekly and monthly commissions! Learn more here: TrafficWave.net Affiliate Plan

Want To See Your Name On The List? Find Out How!

Here are more helpful articles:

Keys To Affiliate Marketing success
How To Recruit More and Retain Better Customers and Distributors
How To Be a Good Affiliate

Top Commission Earners – September 2016

1. Dorothy Wargo ( Find Them Here )
2. Lori Edwards ( Find Them Here )
3. Rusty L. Shelton ( Find Them Here )
4. Team MLM Can Be Fair ( Find Them Here )
5. Scott Douglas ( Find Them Here )
6. Sean Walters ( Find Them Here )
7. Mohd Darus Haron ( Find Them Here )
8. Joey Wilson ( Find Them Here )
9. Ewen Chia ( Find Them Here )
10. Cheryl Hutson ( Find Them Here )
11. Jean Francois Mineo ( Find Them Here )
12. George McBride ( Find Them Here )
13. JoAnne Lida ( Find Them Here )
14. Louis Fiorentino ( Find Them Here )
15. Michael Williams ( Find Them Here )
16. Lloyd Cooper ( Find Them Here )
17. Tutavae Tara ( Find Them Here )
18. Chase Swift ( Find Them Here )
19. Jens Steyaert ( Find Them Here )
20. Legrand sebastien ( Find Them Here )
21. Fe Hermo ( Find Them Here )
22. Marvin Williams Inc ( Find Them Here )
23. Bill Darton ( Find Them Here )
24. Duret Anne-Christel ( Find Them Here )
25. John Wrightson ( Find Them Here )

Top Fast Track Bonus Earners – September 2016

1. Sean Walters ( Find Them Here )
2. Joey Wilson ( Find Them Here )
3. Ewen Chia ( Find Them Here )
4. Tutavae Tara ( Find Them Here )
T5. JoAnne Lida ( Find Them Here )
T5. Jean Francois Mineo ( Find Them Here )
T5. Louis Fiorentino ( Find Them Here )
T5. John Wrightson ( Find Them Here )
T6. George McBride ( Find Them Here )
T6. Duret Anne-Christel ( Find Them Here )
T6. Legrand sebastien ( Find Them Here )
T7. Bruce Garforth ( Find Them Here )
T7. Kervella Thierry ( Find Them Here )
T7. Delroy Osbourne ( Find Them Here )
T7. Stoyan Sirakov ( Find Them Here )
T7. Vassort Michel ( Find Them Here )
T7. Bill Darton ( Find Them Here )
T8. Marvin Williams Inc ( Find Them Here )
T8. Morris Gilles ( Find Them Here )
T8. Peter nickson ( Find Them Here )
T8. James Reilly ( Find Them Here )
T8. Walter Latty ( Find Them Here )
T8. Dilly ( Find Them Here )
T8. Morris Eleonora ( Find Them Here )
T8. Fe Hermo ( Find Them Here )
T8. Wolfgang Jacques ( Find Them Here )
T8. Rudolph Ferro ( Find Them Here )
T9. Jean Christophe Tsiafindra ( Find Them Here )
T9. Meenakshi Bapat ( Find Them Here )
T9. Becquembois Bernadette ( Find Them Here )
T9. Sonia Gach ( Find Them Here )
T9. Trevor Cheetham ( Find Them Here )
T9. Pauline Bennett ( Find Them Here )
T9. Charles Brooks ( Find Them Here )
T9. TARISTAS Jean-Mathieu ( Find Them Here )
T9. Cyril Bouillet ( Find Them Here )
T9. Motte ( Find Them Here )
T9. Ganesh Kumar ( Find Them Here )
T9. Sid Sarahson ( Find Them Here )
T9. Team MLM Can Be Fair ( Find Them Here )
T9. Paul Haycock ( Find Them Here )
T9. John Santoro ( Find Them Here )
T9. David M Sherman ( Find Them Here )
T9. Morris Jacqueline ( Find Them Here )
T9. Adrian Gurgui ( Find Them Here )
T9. Scott Caile ( Find Them Here )
T9. Christophe ( Find Them Here )
T9. Nicole Bregeot ( Find Them Here )
T9. Brenda de Reus ( Find Them Here )
T9. Jean Cook ( Find Them Here )
T9. Rajsekhar Ghosh ( Find Them Here )
T9. Renee Sullivan ( Find Them Here )
T9. Ed Vilar ( Find Them Here )
T9. John Lederer ( Find Them Here )

T9. 24 member tie…

Top Recruiters – September 2016

1. Bruce Garforth ( Find Them Here ) – 26 recruits.
T2. Scott Laing ( Find Them Here ) – 20 recruits.
T2. Sean Walters ( Find Them Here ) – 20 recruits.
3. Mick Owen ( Find Them Here ) – 15 recruits.
T4. Jean Francois Mineo ( Find Them Here ) – 14 recruits.
T4. Joey Wilson ( Find Them Here ) – 14 recruits.
T5. Marvin Williams Inc ( Find Them Here ) – 13 recruits.
T5. Bill Darton ( Find Them Here ) – 13 recruits.
6. Ewen Chia ( Find Them Here ) – 11 recruits.
T7. Ahmad Tarmizi Md Isa ( Find Them Here ) – 10 recruits.
T7. Brett Marlow ( Find Them Here ) – 10 recruits.
T7. Samuel Oss ( Find Them Here ) – 10 recruits.
8. Princilla Russell ( Find Them Here ) – 9 recruits.
T9. Brenda de Reus ( Find Them Here ) – 8 recruits.
T9. Charles Brooks ( Find Them Here ) – 8 recruits.
T9. JoAnne Lida ( Find Them Here ) – 8 recruits.
T9. Felicia ( Find Them Here ) – 8 recruits.
T10. Carol Rivet ( Find Them Here ) – 7 recruits.
T10. Louis Fiorentino ( Find Them Here ) – 7 recruits.
T10. Tutavae Tara ( Find Them Here ) – 7 recruits.
T11. Uliana Volgina ( Find Them Here ) – 6 recruits.
T11. John Wrightson ( Find Them Here ) – 6 recruits.
T11. Aaron Newby ( Find Them Here ) – 6 recruits.
T11. Richard Shutt ( Find Them Here ) – 6 recruits.
T11. Kevin Waldron ( Find Them Here ) – 6 recruits.
T12. Winmac International Inc ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. Team MLM Can Be Fair ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. Tasha Brown ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. Santro Sondy ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. Richard Coulter ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. A.G Lousich ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. Chase Swift ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. Gary Ferguson ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. Richard LaBay ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. Robert Fraser ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.
T12. Legrand sebastien ( Find Them Here ) – 5 recruits.

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Email marketing is a powerful tool for businesses around the world. In fact, email is one of the most handy tools available to both individuals and businesses alike. It provides nearly instantaneous communication with friends, family, colleagues, and businesses all over the world.

For the most part, when you send an email, the recipient has it within a few seconds, but sometimes, that email that you really really need doesn’t show up when you expect it, and you don’t know why. To understand why emails get delayed, you have to undestand how an email is sent from one person to another.

When an email is sent, it doesn’t just go from your computer, to the recipients computer, it follows a path along the Internet, and along the way has several stops.

1. An email is created on your computer using a email authoring tool like Outlook or by using a webmail service like Gmail.
2. Once you click send,the message is sent to your mail server.
3. Your mail server then looks at the email, determines where it needs to send it according to DNS records the recipient company has set up.
4. Your mail server then sends the message to the place listed,
5. Many times, the server listed isn’t actually the recipients mail server, it is an intermediary server set up as a spam filter or an archive server.
6. The receiving server then forwards the message off to the real mail server
7. The recipient then connects to their mail server and grabs the message.

(In the case where you are setting up emails to go out through your TrafficWave account, your email gets sent from our servers and the process picks up at step 2 above.)

Seems simple enough, right? Not exactly. The Internet really is a series of computers, connected via wires, fiber optics, and other computers. An email must travel long distances, and a break down at any step, or between any step can cause a delay.

Some of the most common causes for delays and failed delivery that I see are the following:

1. User Error: It is very common for someone to mistype an email address. If you are missing an email, get in touch with the sender, and have them read you the email address they are sending to (don’t ask “did you send it to youremailaddress as they will just assume they did). If they are your subscriber in your TrafficWave campaigns, the email address has already been confirmed but can be delayed by any number of other possibilities.
2. Spam Filters / Grey Lists / Black Lists: Spam filters are meant to block spam, but sometimes they are wrong and block a legitimate email, which means the recipient doesn’t get it, check your junk mail folder, or ask your admin to check the spam filter if you are missing something.  Double check your email messages for possible spam triggers as indicated in the following:Most Common Spam Triggers Killing Your Deliverability
   How Content Affects Deliverability
   Tips To Improve Email Marketing Deliverability
3. Internet Connectivity Problems: Sometimes things break, and broken things causes delays. A bad connection between your computer and mail server, your mail server and a DNS server, your mail server, and the recipients mail server(s), or the recipients mail server and the recipients computer can all cause delays in email delivery. Because of this, email servers have various rules they have configured to retry message delivery several times before you ever get an error that says the message could not be delivered. This can lead to delays.

The bad part about most of these delays is that there is little you, or your IT department can do about it. People make mistakes, computers make mistakes, and things break. The good part is, this article gives you a little more insight in to some of the things that can cause email delays.

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A few minutes spent on text formatting can help your message stand out and communicate directly to your subscribers. Here is a quick overview of how to format your text in your messages with TrafficWave.net’s email marketing editor:

Enjoy the video and feel free to post your comments or questions, below…

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How is your business using email marketing? Is your email marketing focused more on lead generation, prospect building, customer retention, training, or all of the above?

All around the world, these powerful email marketing tools are being used by online marketers, real estate professionals, entertainers, attorneys, restaurants, programmers, web designer, network marketers, affiliate marketers, church groups, publishers, and more. We think that’s pretty exciting and would love to hear your story about how email marketing is helping you grow your business.

Ready to share your story with our readers? Add a comment, below, to tell us the name of your business, what you sell, and how you are using email marketing to help your business grow. Let us know if you are using hosted capture pages or if you are adding forms to your web site or blog (or both). Let us know what is working for you and ask any questions you may have.

Feel free to include your web site address in your comment.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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TrafficWave.net Announces a New and Improved Letter Editor

We are very excited to release our new and improved letter editor. It’s available in your back office, now!

You can still create simple emails and you now have the option to use the simplicity of “drag and drop” to create a professional looking email. You can even create custom templates to use in all of your messages.

The new letter editor makes it easier than ever to load and work with images, create and save templates, and give your email marketing message a look and feel that you can get really excited about.

You can even use the new letter editor on your mobile device!

We have created a new video training series designed to help you get up to speed on the new letter editor and the many powerful features that are available to you.

The new video training series is available at:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtKFsSPLKB2z9gFkJzgMjAwK5BVF2lSLn

Be sure you are subscribed to our YouTube channel at

https://www.youtube.com/user/trafficwave

I want to encourage you to spend a few minutes reviewing the video training series to familiarize yourself with the new letter editor.

We are very excited and believe you are going to love it!

As always, we welcome your feedback and we look forward to hearing from you!

Yours In Success,

TrafficWave.net

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Success with email marketing comes down to doing a few things consistently and doing them well.

Whether you are selling digital services, downloads, hamburgers, coaching, music lessons, t-shirts, books, opportunities, or real estate, your success with email marketing will come down to making sure you are doing a few things consistently:

1. Create Your Email Marketing Messages
   Your email marketing message needs to be clear about what you are offering and how your subscribers can take advantage of the offer. Create effective email marketing messages that will help you convey your message and offer to your potential customers.
2. Getting Email Leads
   Your options include:
   a) setting up a hosted capture page in your TrafficWave.net account.
   b) adding capture forms to your blog or web site.
   c) using a third party capture page service.
   d) adding subscribers from various networking events you attend.
3. Send Your Emails
   You can set up automated follow up letters to go out over time. You can also broadcast special offers and newsletters to your subscribers at any time.
4. Your Emails Get Opened
   Your message gets opened. It is important that your message stand out so that it gets opened and read by your subscribers. This is where you are making your mark, building your reputation, and letting your subscribers recognize your authority in the market place.
5. Your Offer Link Gets Clicked
   You want to be sure you have a clear call to action so that your readers know how to learn more and take advantage of your offer. Once they have opened your message, good layout, design, and call to action will help keep their attention and close the sale.
6. Close The Sale
   The details on this will vary depending on your offer, your industry, and how you interact with your subscribers. Make sure your landing page provides clear instructions not the next step whether that be to place the order, contact your for an appointment, etc…

Some of these steps require some time to set up and some testing to make sure you are getting the results you are looking for. The time you invest now will pay off with time savings, more leads, and more sales in the future.

Feel free to check the links in this article for more details and ask any questions you have for us by posting a comment, below:

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Why do affiliate marketers love email marketing? Because email marketing may be the closest thing you will find to a push button ATM. There is no denying email marketing makes it easier to sell.

When people trust you to provide information, you have a built in sales funnel. Email marketing can help you build that targeted list. Then, any time you follow up with that list, you can expect sales.

Affiliate Marketers love email marketing because when they have an offer that appeals to their list, sales is as easy as putting together the offer and sending it to your subscribers.

Do you have a list of prospects interested in video gear? Send your latest offer for editing software to your list to see sales come in with the push of a button.

Do you have a list of people interested in building their social media presence? Use email marketing to send out an offer for social media marketing lessons, tutorials, videos, and more.

No doubt you’ve heard the phrase, “the money is in the list”. This phrase is based on real results of successful affiliate marketers. Affiliate marketers love email marketing because this is the best way to build that targeted list and then sell to that list over and over again.

No matter which course you buy. No matter which class you attend. No matter which PDF you read, list building and email marketing will always be included as one of the most popular go-to strategies for successful internet marketing professionals.

If you have no list and no idea how to get started, why not take us up on our 30 Minute List Building Challenge? This free guide walks you through the steps to begin building your own targeted email marketing list so you can quickly get started learning the basics.

If you already understand the power of email marketing and want to put it to use in your affiliate marketing, click this link to get started with a Free 30 Day Trial.

Affiliate marketers love email marketing. Get started with us today and you will too!

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This Email Marketing Checklist is designed to give you a quick overview on how your business can grow using email marketing.

Email marketing is a powerful tool being used by small, medium, and large businesses around the world. Whether you are a large Fortune 500 company or a solo operator reading this post while you sip your favorite coffee, email marketing can and should be a major part of your focus.

Email marketing allows you to convert those all important web site visitors to real prospects. Instead of just visiting your site and going along their way to the next site, you can invite them to give you their name and email address in exchange for information they are looking for.

Then, you will be able to follow up with your prospects, let them know of any special offers, and invite them to do business with you. Here is the email marketing checklist to give you the best shot of success as you move forward:

Reinforce Your Brand

From your web site capture form to your email marketing template, make sure you are reinforcing your brand by adding your logo, your company name, and selecting the colors that coordinate with your branding strategy. You want your subscribers to recognize and welcome your messages when they are sent out. I highly recommend a custom landing page on your site so that when someone completes the form, they are taken to your web site and reminded to check their email for a confirmation message.

Craft Your Content

Remember to do the little things like spell checking. Make sure you have a clear and compelling call to action in your messages. Make sure your content is showing value. Your reader wants to know, “What’s in it for me?” Write your messages like you are answering that question for your readers. Be sure to include your company name and contact information in your messages.

Check Your Design

Have you checked to be sure your links are all correct? Once an incorrect link goes out, you cannot “unsend” the email. Take a moment to double check your links. Proofread your messages to be sure they look good across various formats. I have email accounts set up with gmail, outlook, hotmail, yahoo, aol, and others just so I can see what my messages look like in those systems. Double check that your call to action is clear and compelling.

If you are looking for more details about the basics of starting your email marketing campaign, check out: Getting Good Email Marketing Results

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If you are new to internet marketing, you may be wondering how to do email marketing so that it builds your business and your reputation. This article is going to get you started on the basics of how to build your email marketing campaign from the ground up.

The first step is to get clear about your goals. Ultimately, you want sales but you want to understand that the role of your email marketing campaign is to generate leads. To do this, you need to get their permission to email them. When you offer a form on your site asking for their name, email, and whatever other information you want to collect, their mind instantly goes to a series of questions like:

• What do I get when I give you my email address?
• Are you going to spam me?
• How often will you email me?
• Will I get discounts?
• Will I get a first crack at your beta?
• Will you send me relevant offers or more junk?

If you are really interested in learning how to do email marketing that drives your companies sales, understand that just asking for someone’s contact information isn’t going to get it done. Let them know what you are going to send them. Assure them that you will not be spamming them (and then do NOT spam them). Mention how often you will be emailing and let them know of any special offers or incentives they can expect. A smoke house in Michigan makes it clear that they send out special offers and discounts to their email subscribers that are not available anywhere else.

Getting there permission to send them your information is the first step. When they fill out the form, they are saying, “Ok, I’ll take a look.”. Congratulations! Your list building has begun.

The next step is to manage expectations. Stick to the content and terms you set up when they gave you their email address. Keep the information relevant, and make sure you are providing solutions for your readers; not just another sales pitch.  If your call to action is strong and your follow-up is consistent, you can expect good results. If you offered to email them weekly and you are sending emails every day, be prepared to see a lot of remove requests. If you offered to email them weekly and you let months go by without emailing them, be prepared to see a lot of remove requests, bouncing emails, and a dead email marketing campaign.

The first email you send should be thanking them for subscribing, reminding them what you will be sending, and giving them a link to your offer, presentation, download, etc…

Your followup messages should be a mixture of updates, education, and presentation.

As you learn how to do email marketing effectively, this will become more and more powerful and profitable for your business.

You can go here to see our: Guide To Creating Powerful AutoResponder Letters.

You can also go here to see our: Guide To Getting Good Email Marketing Results

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Have you ever found yourself wondering how to generate email marketing profits? No doubt you keep hearing about people making ridiculous amounts of money using email marketing. The techniques I am going to show you have been proven to work over the years.

This article is designed to show you how YOU can start generating email marketing profits by following some basic principles and techniques. It doesn’t really matter what you are selling. These techniques have been proven to work for physical products, digital services, entertainment, consulting services, and more.

I have personally used the techniques I am about to share with you to generate email marketing profits while in my office, in the pool, on a cruise ship, driving across country, at a concert, and even while I’m in the shower.

The fact is, generating email marketing profits can be really simple IF you have the desire to learn a few techniques and the dedication to follow through on what I am about to show you.

Let’s talk about why I am so excited about email marketing profits. When you build a list of targeted prospects with the email marketing strategies you are about to see, you are setting yourself up to create financial stability for yourself that nobody can take away from you. It won’t matter what Google or Yahoo do, It won’t matter what your boss does. It won’t matter what anyone else does. When you build a targeted email marketing list, you OWN it. Nobody can take it from you.

The Email Marketing Profits Model is:
BUILD YOUR LIST >> SEND YOUR EMAILS >> GENERATE PROFITS

Sounds simple, doesn’t it? That’s because it truly is. It’s not always easy. There are some things to learn and things to watch for and I am going to show you how to do this right.

Let’s take a look at the steps you will want to make sure you are following:

Traffic To Your Web Site

No mystery here. You need to get people to your web site. Some of the techniques I have used include:

Social Media, including Facebook ads, Twitter, Youtube, Solo Ads, Traffic Exchanges, Online Advertising, Print Advertising, etc…

Getting people to your web site is critical to your success. And this brings us to the next step that a lot of people miss:

Your Opt-In Page

Opt-in pages can be simple or very involved. Personally, I keep mine pretty simple. One example is the opt-in form that appears on the right of this page. It looks like this:

You can also create stand alone optin pages like the one seen here:
http://lcp.trwv.net/lcp/BR1655/listchallenge/48312

Your AutoResponder

This is where it all really comes together. Anybody who fills out that form is added to your AutoResponder campaign. It is your AutoResponder campaign that will allow you to send your sales messages, follow up messages, updates, announcements, and special offers.

• Affiliate marketers use this technique to sell services, downloads, apps, and products around the world.
• Entertainers use this technique to build and communicate with their fan base.
• Restaurants use this technique to drive new sales and bring in repeat customers.
• Network marketers use this technique to find and follow up with interested prospects.

So if you already have a product or service, you are ahead of the game! You are building a profit center and can use your AutoResponder to generate email marketing profits selling your products or services.

What if you don’t have your own products or services? There are many different affiliate networks full of products and services you can promote to your list. I’ve seen people generate hundreds of dollars in sales in just a few minutes by sending an offer out to their list.

Important Tip: 

The Opt-in page is a very important part of this process. There are a number of things that can cause problems for you if you are not careful. For example:

Bogus email addresses. As an email marketer you are spending time and money to send traffic to your page. When someone gets to your page and enters a FAKE email address it costs you money and brings you absolutely nothing in return. Both the time and money spend are gone. Forever.

Disposable email addresses. Do you have more than one email address? Most likely you do and that’s ok. Most people do. One thing email marketers hate is when people enter the email address they never check into these optin forms. After all if people don’t check their email how can you ever make any sales? You can’t.

TYPOS: We all make mistakes. I do it all the time; especially when I am in a hurry trying to type a long email address into a box on my cell phone. Many email addresses entered into these optin pages are simply spelled wrong leaving you unable to ever reach that person again. That potential sale is gone.

Email marketing profits can only happen when your email marketing list is filled with valid email addresses from people that actually WANT your information and have confirmed that they want to receive it.

A lot of guides you read will try to tell you that building a “Huge” list is the key. I believe you will do much better to focus on quality over quantity. A smaller list of real humans that check their emails is worth much more than a massive list of bogus, dead, or ignored emails. AND you can still build a huge list with real email addresses that will be read by real humans.

Our system guarantees that you will never get fake, bogus, or ignored email addresses in your campaigns. Each time someone fills out a form with the TrafficWave.net system, we confirm their email address and confirm that they want your information. These subscribers are much more likely to actually read your message and that makes it much easier for you to generate email marketing profits.

Of course, you will want to personalize your messages, addressing your readers by name, and make sure you provide valuable relevant content. We make it easy with our system designed to help you optimize your email marketing profits.

When you take the time to build your lists properly, you can create email marketing profits by following these steps:

BUILD YOUR LIST >> SEND YOUR EMAILS >> GENERATE PROFITS

Want to learn more about how you can generate email marketing profits? We’ll even show you how to get started for FREE with a 30 Day Free Trial. Fill out the form below to learn more:

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More and more businesses are asking, “What is email marketing and how does it work?”. It’s a great question and we hope to answer it for you with this article. Email marketing has become an essential tool for small and large businesses since the introduction of the Internet. In this article, we will do our best to explain what email marketing really is, why companies should use it and how they should go about doing so.

In simple terms, email marketing is a form of direct marketing in which businesses use email as a means of communicating with potential clients or existing clients.

The most common ways for companies to use email marketing include:

• Generating new sales leads.
• Following up with sales leads.
• Converting leads in to customers.
• Communicating with customers.

To give some more specific examples to better answer the question, “What is email marketing and how does it work?” let’s take a look at how various industries use email marketing.

• Entertainers use email marketing to build and communicate with their fan base. At an event or concert, fans could be invited to join the entertainer’s list. The entertainer would add a signup-form to their web site. When there is a new event, concert, or special announcement, the entertainer would then be able to send that information out to their list.
• Retailers use email marketing to drive new sales and generate repeat business. Advertising would include an option to join the retailer’s list to receive special updates, coupons, incentives, or announcement. From there, the retailer would be able to stay in touch with their customers to create ongoing repeat business.
• Restaurants are another great example. Chances are, you receive emails from some of your favorite restaurants with coupons, discounts, and special event announcements. This is a great way for restaurants to keep their name in front of their customers and drive repeat sales.
• Network Marketers often use email marketing to generate new leads and then follow up with those leads.
• Affiliate Marketers will use email marketing to build targeted lists of people with specific areas of interest. Then, as they find offers that would appeal to those groups, they are able to use email marketing to send those offers out to their lists.

So, if you have been asking, “What is email marketing and how does it work?” we hope this article gives you the overall idea for how email marketing can work for your business.

If you’d like to learn more about how TrafficWave.net can help you build your business with email marketing, we invite you to request our free report that gives you more details and can show you how to get started absolutely free. Just fill out the form, below.

You may also want to check out these articles:

Getting Good Email Marketing Results

How To Do Email Marketing

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Is your business researching email marketing tools and how to use them? Wise choice. Email marketing is a very powerful resource for small and large businesses. No matter what the latest buzz or the newest marketing trend is, email marketing continues to be one of the most targeted and valuable channels available when used properly. To make the most of this powerful resource, it makes sense to know how to use email marketing tools to help your business generate new leads, drive new sales, and create repeat customers.

The biggest place to start is understanding what email marketing tools can do for you. Like a carpenter buying tools or a fishing pro buying fishing gear, how you learn and use your email marketing tools will have a big impact on your level of success.

The most common mistake we see is when someone decides to get started by choosing an email marketing service provider but never taking the time to properly learn and use the tools. As with any new system, there is a learning curve. You may be learning new terms, new ideas, and new technology. That really is all part of the process.

To help our users better understand how to really put email marketing tools to work in their business, we have created a quick and powerful guide called How To Generate Email Marketing Profits.

Here are a few examples of how various industries use email marketing tools:

• Entertainers use email marketing to build and communicate with their fan base. At an event or concert, fans could be invited to join the entertainer’s list. The entertainer would add a signup-form to their web site. When there is a new event, concert, or special announcement, the entertainer would then be able to send that information out to their list.
• Retailers use email marketing to drive new sales and generate repeat business. Advertising would include an option to join the retailer’s list to receive special updates, coupons, incentives, or announcement. From there, the retailer would be able to stay in touch with their customers to create ongoing repeat business.
• Restaurants are another great example. Chances are, you receive emails from some of your favorite restaurants with coupons, discounts, and special event announcements. This is a great way for restaurants to keep their name in front of their customers and drive repeat sales.
• Network Marketers often use email marketing to generate new leads and then follow up with those leads.
• Affiliate Marketers will use email marketing to build targeted lists of people with specific areas of interest. Then, as they find offers that would appeal to those groups, they are able to use email marketing to send those offers out to their lists.

If you’d like to learn more about how TrafficWave.net can help you build your business with powerful email marketing tools, we invite you to request our free report that gives you more details and can show you how to get started absolutely free. Just fill out the form, below.

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