Tuesday, October 2, 2012

How to Export Gmail Inbox Messages and Email Addresses: Also, AOL Hotmail for Import to

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Sure. Gmail let's you have data liberation. 

The problem is that the data you can pull out of Gmail with the data liberation method renders you data you can't play with and repurpose easily. So what we need to do is export all the data from gmail inbox including messages and email addresses so you can use it and import the data into another email like AOL Hotmail or social media sites like Facebook or LinkedIn.

This new method also works for exporting from AOL Mail or Hotmail as well as Gmail and Yahoo Mail.

Once you've exported all the messages from your inbox, you can even re import the email addresses to Google Groups, Aweber, Constant Contact, or even Mail Chimp.

Why You Should Harvest Your Email Addresses From Your Gmail Hotmail AOL Inbox

Personally, what I recommend doing is to create a new Gmail address and use that to start a new Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn account. You'll get massive friends, followers and connections. Then, I recommend that you keep the email addresses in raw format so that you can send messages out without a chron script. This means that you can send messages one at a time 24/7 until you've emailed your new 300,000 contacts.

Here's How: Export Gmail Inbox Messages and Contact: Also AOL Hotmail for Aweber

You'd be amazed how much higher a response ratio you get when you send out individual messages rather than blasts with some email blast application or service. It's worth it.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Venture Capital and Angel Funding for Startups: How To Get Investment Money Fast

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Just flew back from LA for a few days. I'm sitting in a cafe in the Gangnam district of Seoul. You've heard of it. I'm sure. 

There's a table behind me full of beautiful 20 something modelesque, tall, gorgeous women dressed in Prada and Gucci. In front of me there's a table packed with 5 young business men from Europe somewhere. They look like they too could be models.

A few minutes in, I realize the table in front of me is a delegation of businessmen from Spain. They are here to work with the WTF or World Tae Kwon Do. But their conversation is the same one you'd hear at any table. 

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"Miguel, you speak the most Korean here. How do you hit on a Korean girl?" They ask, in Spanish. I know because I lived in Madrid.

Behind me, the gorgeous girls as saying, "Uhn ni, soh gae ting hae joh!" 

They are asking each other to introduce them to European men. 

Neither groups even realize they are looking for each other.

This is exactly what it's like in the Venture Capital and Angel funding world. You might have a startup that needs one missing link. Maybe you have a technology that needs to be integrated into a bigger ship. Maybe you have a team that can make disruptive innovation happen but you just need to bring in another element that you can't afford right now.

Well, chances are, while you realize that you'd love to have a gorgeous infusion modelesque infusion of capital, you may not think you're packaged or presentable yet. What you don't realize is that there are VCs who want you and need you just the way you are now. THIS is how to get Venture Capital and Angel Funding for Startups: Getting Investing.

It's surprising to most people who find out that all you have to do is send an email with the rigth words in the subject line at the right time and a VC or Angel will fly you out to meet them if you can't affort the flight.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Social Network UX UI IA Information Architecture Design Structure Style Guide Lines

We've built a lot of social and quasi social network sites. We've built components for large sites. And we've built entire sites that have gone big. And these are the common factors or general guide lines for understanding the information architecture of a social network website. See: iPhone and Android App Programming Process Best Practices

While your website can look as different as Quora vs Pinterest. You'll see that they both follow the exact same principles. Only the visual CSS Design elements are different. By stripping away the superficial differences, we're left with the foundation skeleton of what today's HTML 5, CSS, C++, PHP, and Ruby languages can do coupled with server side database driven content.

Basically, what this means is that the examples below will show you what can and cannot be done today.

Scheduling Gmail Emails to Send Later and Auto Email from Gmail

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You know you want to.

You want to email everybody in your inbox and you want to email everybody in your contacts. And well, that's just not possible unless you do it youself. 

Or is it?

Why Mass Email Programs Suck Or How to Mass Mail Everybody In Your Gmail

Half of the above is true. You do have to do it yourself. If you use Aweber or MailChimp or even Google Groups

1. It looks like spam

2. It is impersonal (even with mail merge)

3. It has to legally have that lame "to be removed" link at the bottom that screams "you're just a number to me."

But the half that's not true is that you don't have to email everybody in your inbox or contacts yourself. You can just make it look like you did it. All you need is Marketing Automation: Gmail Scheduling to Send Email in Bulk

You'd be amazed the rate of responses you get back using this method of automating your emails straight from your Gmail inbox instead of some 3rd party bulk mailer.

Craigslist Email Extractor: Spider for Extracting Craigslist Emails

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The number 1 advise professional HR people tell prospective hires is, "work at applying for jobs like a job."

We all know that most of life is a numbers game. 

Even if something is as mystical as love and spirit, it's still got statistical underpinnings. It really is all about numbers. The guy that gets the most dates just asks more girls. The best sales man just makes 10 more phone calls. The greenest pastures get more days of rain.

Sales and Marketing is no different.

It's all a numbers game. Now, to sweeten the game, prequalify. The higher the likelihood that one prospect will be a customer, the higher the conversion rate when you've you've got a target count of 1,000.

So the question then becomes, how do is find 1,000 people who are highly likely to want my products or services? The answer is either Google (which is challenging to stand in the limelight. see Google SEO) or Craigslist.

But Craigslist poses two problems:

1. If you're a contractor or firm, they only want employees.

That's just a perception issue. They only THINK they want an employee. It's simple to convince a HR department to outsource instead of hiring in.

2. Craigslist is email spider extracting proof.

It was, until: How to: Craigslist Spider, Extract Email Addresses.

You might be surprised how easily you can extract 1,000 email addresses of the companies who are looking for your app, product, or services from Craigslist.

Marketing Automation: Auto Scheduling Gmail Emails and Craigslist Email Extracting Spider

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There are two types of women (yes, you can already tell this is going to be a gender biased article. but bear with us, it's done tongue in cheek.). First, the women who will want to date you. Second, the women who will want to date you, now.

Men tend to not understand the difference. They figure that if she's female, she's gotta want me. Ironically, they apply the same myopic thinking in marketing. 

"If they're in the right demographic, they want my product."

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And just as in real life, whether the female is too young, too old, too married, too in love, too smart, or two dumb, even if by all outward appearances, she fits the bill, there are a million reasons they are not your target. So, where do you go find the people who are in your sweetspot and want to date you right now, because for all practical purposes, the people who don't want you now are not your prospects now. 

1. Google

People searching for what you do are searching because the demand is present.

2. Social Media with a Question Mark.

When's the last time you did a Twitter search or a Facebook or Quora search for a question who's solution is your product or service? Do it.

3. Craigslist.

No matter what you do. There's someone looking for an employee to do what you do. Now, all you have to do is convince them that you're the right company for the job and that outsourcing is smarter than hiring (unless you want to be hired)

So, now, how do you email every single person at a rate of 1000 per day?

THIS is how: Auto scheduling Gmail Emails and Craigslist Email Extractor Extracting Spider (view in Youtube Only)

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NOTE: You'd be surprised how many companies are looking for what you do. Only, they don't ever think to hire a consultant or a contractor.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Desire: It's the Second Most Powerful Sales Producing Emotion.

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We all sell.

I don't care if you're a street sweeper guy or a gas station attendant. You sell.

You may not sell products or services directly. But if you've got a guy who pays you, like your boss, you gotta persuade him to take what you've got so that he will give you what you want. That's called a sale.

If you're a CEO, marketing director, writer, content producer, etc, then, you're a pro salesman.

And the #1 Most Powerful Sales Producing Emotion Is...

As such, whether you know it or not, you must tug on one primary emotion in order to produce the will to make the deal with you. And most of you choose desire.

Most people try to make their target customer feel desire to consumate a purchase. Well, desire is the second most powerful emotion in producing a sale. If you use the #1 Most Powerful Emotion in Generating Sales and Conversions, you'll have an immediate 800% jump in CTR and Sales.

You'll write your blogs differently. You'll conduct customer service calls differently. You'll even build your marketing strategy from a totally different perspective. This is it:

Dangerous Social Networking and Social Media Tips: