The document provides tips for improving email marketing effectiveness. It discusses getting people to open emails by avoiding spammy elements like excessive capitalization or exclamation points. The subject line should be clear, brief and interesting. Images should comprise no more than 25% of the email and be optimized for size. Content should be visually appealing, concise and relevant. Links should be prominently formatted and direct the recipient to take a desired action like donating or accessing additional content. Tracking link clicks provides insights on engaging future recipients.
A concise presentation on writing a report, blog, magazine, or a website headline. We refer to this Keynote whenever we write headlines for our blog.
Courtsey - Lynda.com
Internet marketing works well but you need to use the right strategies to make sure that the time and effort you spend on your internet marketing is rewarded.
A concise presentation on writing a report, blog, magazine, or a website headline. We refer to this Keynote whenever we write headlines for our blog.
Courtsey - Lynda.com
Internet marketing works well but you need to use the right strategies to make sure that the time and effort you spend on your internet marketing is rewarded.
Have you always wished maybe as a beginner to create posts that go viral, generate thousands of traffic, lots of comment and shares and drive many sales? To do these discover from my expert tips on how to write a perfect blog post as a beginner.
Low Prep Strategies for Multi-level Classes that Volunteer Tutors Can UseBurgen Young
Slides from a workshop called Low Prep Multi-Level Strategies that was presented at the Minnesota Literacy Council. This workshop was intended for volunteers who work in adult literacy classes, particularly with English language learners.
I volunteered as Presentation Coach for App Camp for Girls (2017) - giving this talk and then coaching the campers as they prepared to pitch the apps they built during camp. Learn more about App Camp for Girls: http://appcamp4girls.com/
If you want to write to engage, you need to first figure out how the person you'd most like to connect with would answer these questions: What gets you up in the morning? What keeps you up at night?
Tips on How to Handle Tough Q&A Sessions During PresentationsPayman Taei
So you've just given "the presentation of a life time." But your job's not yet done. You still have the Q&A session!
Having a hard time answering your audience's questions? Are you sweating buckets over the most simple of queries? What will you do if there's a tough one you can't answer?
All of these are valid worries, but they shouldn't stop you from handling the most worrisome of scenarios. Here's a guide containing helpful tips on how to manage difficult Q&A sessions.
Six things to start doing now to increase salesCarol Doane
Simplify your communication, keep it short, confirm receipt of requests, ask for help, template and test, end with a call to action - any question. Do you have one to share?
Communication with Clients, either be it on call, or face to face, or even on Chatting platform. Not only communicating with clients, but also can be used in general to communicate.
We can self improve ourselves by following these tips and Happy Communicating!
PS: If found this slide to be irrelevant or found that more information to added or to amend information provided, please let me know or add it in the comment section.
Thank You!
Bogdan fiedur Blueprint for Success Lesson 1Bogdan Fiedur
The blueprint for success was written to the new internet marketer who is wondering how to market or be an affiliate marketer. While everyone will show you ways and means to how to market, these lessons are based on my experience and watching so many people fail.
Have you always wished maybe as a beginner to create posts that go viral, generate thousands of traffic, lots of comment and shares and drive many sales? To do these discover from my expert tips on how to write a perfect blog post as a beginner.
Low Prep Strategies for Multi-level Classes that Volunteer Tutors Can UseBurgen Young
Slides from a workshop called Low Prep Multi-Level Strategies that was presented at the Minnesota Literacy Council. This workshop was intended for volunteers who work in adult literacy classes, particularly with English language learners.
I volunteered as Presentation Coach for App Camp for Girls (2017) - giving this talk and then coaching the campers as they prepared to pitch the apps they built during camp. Learn more about App Camp for Girls: http://appcamp4girls.com/
If you want to write to engage, you need to first figure out how the person you'd most like to connect with would answer these questions: What gets you up in the morning? What keeps you up at night?
Tips on How to Handle Tough Q&A Sessions During PresentationsPayman Taei
So you've just given "the presentation of a life time." But your job's not yet done. You still have the Q&A session!
Having a hard time answering your audience's questions? Are you sweating buckets over the most simple of queries? What will you do if there's a tough one you can't answer?
All of these are valid worries, but they shouldn't stop you from handling the most worrisome of scenarios. Here's a guide containing helpful tips on how to manage difficult Q&A sessions.
Six things to start doing now to increase salesCarol Doane
Simplify your communication, keep it short, confirm receipt of requests, ask for help, template and test, end with a call to action - any question. Do you have one to share?
Communication with Clients, either be it on call, or face to face, or even on Chatting platform. Not only communicating with clients, but also can be used in general to communicate.
We can self improve ourselves by following these tips and Happy Communicating!
PS: If found this slide to be irrelevant or found that more information to added or to amend information provided, please let me know or add it in the comment section.
Thank You!
Bogdan fiedur Blueprint for Success Lesson 1Bogdan Fiedur
The blueprint for success was written to the new internet marketer who is wondering how to market or be an affiliate marketer. While everyone will show you ways and means to how to market, these lessons are based on my experience and watching so many people fail.
Feeling lost on how to act natural with your marketing messaging. These simple do's and don'ts can help you write in an engaging and welcoming way. It's not as hard as you think. Made by Avery Wagner at Hoot Design Co.
Writing emails is easy, right? You just sit
down, put in a quick subject line, bang out
the body text, and hit send. It only takes a
few seconds and doesn’t require that
much thought.
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
Do you have trouble getting warm leads from your cold emails? Email has revolutionized the way we sell and is now the first step in the sales process. Crafting a compelling initial email can determine the success of your sales campaigns.
With this presentation, you will learn how to:
- Come up with engaging subject lines and compelling content
- Find out the best times to send your initial emails
- Discover why writing compelling emails is vital to your sales success
Watch the webinar here:
http://livehive.com/resources/compelling-emails-webinar/
Content to Convert :: Part Deux / Putting Strategy into your Content Marketinge-Strategy
What is content.
Content is...
• the staff within your business. Think of Hooters... not literally. Be Unique.
• the design of your shop/office. Google for example - Free WiFi lets them share
• your products and services. Think of Coffee shops and ‘Latte Art’
• things like the menus on your tables. You could deliver your Menus on iPads?
• the Branding of your Business. Sofa King & “prices that are Sofa King low!”
• your company values. Associations with charities and causes are great.
• your customers. User generated content on experiences via social.
• EVERYTHING. Just understand your goal & what you are trying to achieve.
Leading With Impact: Looking Ahead at 2024 Trends in LeadershipBloomerang
Kishshana brings a wealth of experience from both nonprofit and corporate realms, offering a unique perspective that is both relatable and transformative. Learn about the synergies and distinctions between these two spheres and how you can leverage these insights for greater impact.
Google & Yahoo's Email Update: Your Must-Do ChecklistBloomerang
Google & Yahoo have new rules to prevent spam, and these rules went into effect on February 1. Here’s what you need to know and do to make sure the emails you send continue to reach your supporters.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
4. Don’t Look Spammy
● Avoid Spam Trigger words.
○ These can be surprising…
● Don’t use lots of exclamation points!!! I mean it!!
● Don’t use ALL CAPITALS.
● Balance your text-to-image ratio. (More on this
later…)
● Send a test email to a spam checker, like mailtester.com
5. Don’t Look Spammy
● Don’t paste content from Word.
● Do Not Paste Content from Word.
● DO NOT PASTE CONTENT FROM WORD!
● Word’s formatting is not good HTML. This can
mess up your template AND possibly lead you to
be flagged as spam.
6. Subject Line
Subject lines are to emails what envelopes are to
direct mail pieces.
● Good subject lines are:
○ Clear
○ Brief
○ Interesting
7. Clarifying Your Subject Line
If the reader can’t tell what they’re going to get
from reading your email, why would they spend
their time reading it?
Example: A Word from People for Puppies
Better: 10 Ways You Can Save Puppies
8. Keeping Your Subject Brief
50 characters is plenty, for most audiences.
Example: 10 Ways You Can Save Puppies from the
Plight of Parvovirus
Better: 10 Ways You Can Save Puppies from Parvo
9. Interesting Subject Lines
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Useful & Specific
Urgent (but only when it really is!)
Evoke Emotion
Inspire Curiosity
Example: Save Puppies from Parvo
Better: Rescue 10 Puppies from Parvo This Month
Better: Rescue 10 Puppies from Parvo in 5 minutes
10. More on Interesting Subject Lines
These items can be used with good results:
● Questions - What Do Puppies Need Most?
● Numbers - 5 Breeds Most in Danger from Parvo
● Violating Expectations - No Such Thing as a
Vaccinated Dog
Be careful - when in doubt, stick to clear and
concise over clever and obscure.
11. Subject Line Don’ts
● ALL CAPITALS
● Exclamation points!!!
● Words like “Free”, “Help”, “Percent Off”, and
“Reminder”
● Using the same subject over and over
○ Instead of “November eNews”, think along the lines
of “What are Puppies Thankful for this November?”
12. Sender/From Line
● Use a work-related address
● Consistent, Known Sender Name
○ Include the org name first (e.g. People for Puppies,
Kay Nine)
○ Be consistent on who is sending what type of
messages to build familiarity with recipients
● Don’t use a “no reply” email address
13. When You Send It
● Consider both Time and Day of the Week
● It can vary depending on your audience and
your email’s contents.
● Research indicates:
○ Afternoon is better (get people on their lunch break!)
○ Weekdays perform better than weekends
15. A Caveat...
Getting people to read what you wrote is
not always the most important thing…
...as long as they get your message
and take the desired action.
More on this later.
16. Use the Right Amount of Text
● Less is More!
○ 750 words max.
○ Put in a snippet that links to full article on your
site, like this email.
● Avoid large blocks of text. Break things up with
images and headings.
17. Use Images Correctly
● Never, ever, ever create an email that is one
giant image.
● Set Image Description.
● Use smaller image files.
○ Jpeg Mini
○ Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT)
○ Smush.it or Kraken
● No more than 25% of your email should be
images.
18. Make it Purty
● Would you want to read these emails? Would
you take them seriously if you did?
● Think of the colors and fonts in your email like
putting together an outfit:
○ Pick ones that look good together.
○ Don’t have too much going on, or its distracting.
19. Selecting Colors
● Lots of bright colors together can be garish, as
can too many colors.
● Matching your organization’s brand.
○ ColorZilla plugin
○ Or, upload a screenshot to Image Color
Picker
● Use a color visualization tool like Color Scheme
Designer or Color Hexa
20. Selecting Fonts
● Best to stick with fewer fonts - 2 max, one for
headings and one for text, works well.
● Aim for readability
○ Sans-serif fonts for body text (Arial, Tahoma,
Trebuchet, Verdana)
○ Serif fonts for headings (Georgia, Palatino, Times
New Roman)
○ Dark font on light background
○ 10 point (13px) minimum (Pixel to Point Converter)
21. Provide Good Content
● We could spend a whole hour (or several) on
this! (And if there’s interest, we will!)
● Suffice it to say, if what you write isn’t
relevant or interesting to your recipients, it
will not get read.
23. Is reading the email enough?
● Sometimes, yes. If your goal is awareness or
cultivation, then a reader opening the email and
reading it is enough.
● But...how do you know they read it?
● Give them something to DO as a result - give
them links!
24. Using Links Well
● Link to related content on your site.
● Link to your donation page (yes, even in a
Newsletter).
● The links should make sense and be useful don’t put random links in just to have some.
25. Formatting Links
● Make them stand out from the other content.
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○
○
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Bold, underline, a different color.
Don’t use the same formatting elsewhere.
Avoid underlining non-link text.
Blur your eyes - can you still locate the links?
● Don’t use generic phrases like “Click Here”. Link
to text that indicates what the reader will get
from the link.
○ Bad: Click here for info on Parvo virus…
○ Good: Parvo virus can be deadly for...
26. Formatting Links
● Make the link text just a few words - 2-5 max.
● Set a Title on your links!
● Make sure the link goes to where it should go,
and the page is not broken!
27. Link tracking
● Link tracking occurs automatically in
Bloomerang.
● Check to see which links get clicked - that can
drive what links you use in the future.