Direct Mail Advertising and Real Estate Postcards information: Unfortunately, we cannot release the percentage of Service Provider members that log in to Web Mail to check their email from work or away from their home computer. However, the versions that are sent to service provider members should be viewable the same by members, regardless of whether they are accessing email via the service provider client or Web Mail. Businesses and/or service provider partners that wish to send HTML email to service provider members should send multipart emails rather than separate ones. We have many partners that utilize this functionality, such as Gap and Tiger Direct to name a few, with great success. What happens is that the service provider mail server will determine if the user is able to open HTML mail from the version they are logged in to. If they are, then the user will receive the full HTML mail. If not, they will receive the text.

 

As online publishers, electronic retailers, financial service providers and cataloguers devise new ways to market using the Internet, opt-in email is emerging as especially attractive, due to its reach, relative low cost and proven effectiveness." Internet users were sending 5 billion emails per day and over 1.4 trillion email messages per year in 1999. By 2000 this figure had reached 10 billion. In 2002, Internet users will send 14.9 billion emails per day and 4 trillion emails per year.

 

Email advertising is incredibly effective at maintaining customer loyalty, as well as at converting interested prospects into customers. However, for the acquisition of a new prospect, email advertising may not be the most ideal method due to the proliferation of unwanted offers. So how do you get these “hand-raisers” to give you the permission to market to them in the first place?

 

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Ninety-six per cent of consumers who are registered at a web site or online organization have requested email from businesses (mostly newsletters, web sites, and discussion groups), with the average consumer receiving permission-based email from approximately six businesses. .

 

A survey found people spending 84% of their time on the Internet for email. According to a survey by NFO WorldGroup, 83% of consumers access email for work purposes at least once a day; 82% access email for personal purposes at least once a day and 53% check email at least once a day for school purposes.Spam remains an issue as 78% of consumers state they receive email that they have not requested (NFO). Three quarters of the respondents to a survey by Nikkei Multimedia have a positive attitude towards email advertising.

 

 

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