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January 1, 2009 volume 9-issue 1

 

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

 

 

Your editor: Jan Tallent, mailto:rimdigest@usa.net

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Today's Issue Contains:

 

Publisher's Spot

Featured Article:   Humor Turns E-Mail Viral

Positive Quotes

Feedback

Recommended eZines

Publisher's Goodbye and Legal Stuff

 

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Happy New Year, can you believe it is already 2009?

I honestly do not remember a year ever going by so

fast and at my advancing age, they all go by pretty

quickly, lol.

 

My baby brother, Dan, will be 41 on the 6th, my

Princess Madison will be THREE, oh, my AND my son,

Justin will be 21! Where does the time go?

 

And oddly, I still often feel like I am still 44,

the age I was when I got ON the net and started

my first business, Tallent Agency office services,

and then a month later got it on the net.

 

Of course that is now almost 11 years ago, I will

be 55 in April, whoa, AND Rim and I will be

celebrating year NINE on February 10!

 

I hope you had a safe and happy new year's eve

and day AND have the best years of your life ahead.

 

Once again I want to thank YOU for being part of MY life.

 

 

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Featured Article

 

 

Humor Turns E-Mail Viral

 

 

A study by Sharpe Partners, an interactive marketing agency,

revealed that 89% of adult Internet users in America share

content with others via e-mail. This is excellent news for

those companies who use self-propelling word-of-mouse”

e-mail techniques to sell their products.

 

The study generated some interesting results regarding

the type of content that is most often forwarded, as well.

The most popular content is humorous material.

 

The second most popular category is news, followed by healthcare

and medical information, religious and spiritual material, games,

business and personal finance information and sports/hobbies ...

in that order. So it is easy to see that humor is the best content

for your viral e-mail campaign.

 

Cartoons, jokes and funny video clips are among the things

that can be added to an e-mail to insure that it will go viral.

People will want to pass along something that makes them laugh.

 

They are a lot more likely to hit the forward button and send

your email to their friends and relatives if it is an “advertainment”

rather than an advertisement.

 

Not along ago, about 35 million people got an e-mail containing

a picture taken in Disneyland. It took a minute to see it but

there was Donald Duck lying prone in front of the famous

Cinderella Castle.  The title of the picture was

“Bird Flu has hit Disneyland”. It was a viral e-mail advertising

Disneyland and used the edgy strategy of making light of what’s

serious, and it works.

 

I’d guess that most people who own a computer have seen that

picture, and thus the advertisement for Disneyland. The bird flu

epidemic is newsworthy and has the potential to attract an

enormous amount of attention to any brand that might,

for whatever reason, associate itself with it.

 

Remember that people are much more likely to share a joke

or a funny picture than anything else so you would be well

advised to include humor in your e-mail campaign.

 

 

Jan Tallent is the editor of Rim Digest eZine at

http://www.rimdigest.com/ and also known as the

Marketing Warrioress at http://marketingwarrioress.com/

 

 

 

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Positive Quotes

 

 

So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless

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Feedback

 

none this issue :-)

 

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