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 Adland Digest FREE Edition #650
  Saturday, October 25, 2008

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Worldwide Holidays for October 2008

1st October

Armed Forces Day: South Korea.

Goodwill Day: Namibia.

Independence Day: Cyprus, Nigeria, Tuvalu.

National Day: Botswana.

National Day: China.
The official reception and celebration are held in the Great Hall of the People while various kinds of performances and operas are shown at all theatres.

Unification Day: Cameroon.

United Nations Day: Barbados.

2nd October

Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday: India.

Independence Day: Guinea.

3rd October

Foundation Day: South Korea.

Morazan Day: Honduras.

Unity Day: Germany.

4th October

Independence Day: Lesotho.

5th October

Republic Day: Portugal.

Sports Day: Lesotho.

6th October

Armed Forces Day: Egypt.

8th October

Battle of Angamos: Peru.

9th October

Independence Day: Uganda.

Independence of Guayaquil Day: Ecuador.

National Dignity Day: Peru.

10th October

Kruge Day: South Africa.

Moi Day: Kenya.

National Day: Taiwan.

11th October

Beginning of Independence War: Cuba.

Revolution Day: Panama.

12th October

Columbus Day:
Belize, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Dia de La Raza: Mexico.

Discovery Day: Bahamas.

Discovery of America: Argentina.

Independence Day: Guinea.

13th October

Cession Day: Fiji.

14th October

Founders' Day: Zaire.

15th October

Evacuation Day: Tunisia.

Independence Day: Bosnia.

17th October

Dessalines Day: Haiti.

18th October

Lord of the Miracles: Lima, Peru.

20th October

Heroes' Day: Jamaica.

Kenyatta Day: Kenya.

Revolution Day: Guatemala.

21st October

Army Day: Honduras.

Overseas Chinese Day: Taiwan.

Revolution Day: Somalia.

22nd October

John Paul II Day: Vatican.

23rd October

Chulalongkorn Day: Thailand.

National Liberation Day: Egypt.

Revolution Day: Hungary.

24th October

Independence Day: Zambia.

Suez Victory Day: Egypt.

United Nations Day.

26th October

Government Day: Rwanda.

National Day: Austria.

Revolution Day: Benin.

27th October

Independence Day: Saint Vincent, Turkmenistan.

28th October

National Day: Cyprus.

National Holiday: Greece.

29th October

Cumhuriyet Bayrami: Turkey.
Commemorates the proclamation of the Republic in 1923.

National Youth Day: Liberia.

31st October

Chiang Kai-shek's Birthday: Taiwan.

Halloween.

Reformation Day: Slovenia.

 

 

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Editor's Comments 

Barry Scott -Digest Editor

Despite the downward turn in the economy, holiday sales will still exist. Regardless of the times (even the Great Depression) people still found ways to spend during the holidays. If you have not started yet, time is running out to start setting up campaigns for the holidays. Some suggestions I would make that could bring interest to your ads and increase your sales are: offer, 2 for 1 deals, bonus gifts or free download gifts. They will bring attention to your ads and for some customers they may be able to get themselves something as well as provide a gift to someone else.       

As always and feedback or questions are always welcome, just click on my name below

Sincerely, Barry Scott Editor

  

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Email Marketing Plan of Attack to Increase Holiday Sales

By Karen Scharf 
          
Many retailers are worried about the dire state of the economy and are forecasting meager holiday sales. But don't let their doom and gloom attitudes get you down. You've got email marketing on your side!

Here's a great plan of attack for using email marketing to supplement your sales during the holiday - and beyond.

Focus on growing your list.

Try to capture email addresses at every stage and every location. Get permission from warm leads, prospects, customers, even vendors to add their names and email addresses to your mailing list. Invite your on-line customers to join your opt-in list when they make a purchase.

If you have a brick and mortar location, ask your retail customers for permission to send email. Provide an incentive for joining the list that coordinates email with your brick and mortar customers, such as a 15% off coupon for in-store purchases.

Take advantage of order transactions, such as email receipts, shipping notifications, upsell offers, etc. to invite your customers to join your mailing list.

Look for ways to improve.

Email marketing is not a set-it-and-forget-it activity. Every time you send a campaign, set aside time in the future to review the campaign and measure its performance. Map out possible improvements for the next campaign. And watch for warning flags, such as extremely low open rates, delivery issues to a certain ISP, excessive bounces, etc. These problems need to be addressed immediately.

 
 
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Watch for list fatigue.

You may be tempted to over-send this holiday season in a desperate attempt to increase insufficient sales. But be careful with this tactic. You're not the only retailer feeling the strain; as more and more retailers send more and more email messages, it's easy for your readers to become inundated and stop opening your mail altogether. Keep an eye on your open and click through ratesin addition to your unsubscribe rates.

Help your readers and yourself through joint ventures.

How can you help your readers get all their holiday shopping done? Is there an item or service that piggy-backs on what you already sell? Why not create a few joint venture partnerships with complimentary providers and develop a complete, one-stop shopping area for your busy readers. You can send out partner mailings and messages and make it easier for your customers to purchase the other items you know they'll be needing.

Most importantly - start NOW.

Don't wait for the first snowflake to start planning your holiday email marketing. Take time this week and put your plan together. Once the busy shopping season arrives, you won't have time for graphic design and article writing and being creative. Your competition is already planning their holiday sales campaigns, you better not wait any longer.

 

About the Author:
Karen Scharf is an Indianapolis marketing consultant who helps small business owners attract and retain more clients. Karen coaches and trains website owners on various tricks and techniques that have been proven to increase website conversion. She offers coaching programs and a Marketing Makeover to turn your ineffective advertising into a profit-pulling system. Grab your FREE checklists, whitepapers and reports at http://www.ModernImage.com And learn the professional secrets to successful web site marketing at http://www.SuccessfulSiteSecrets.com

 

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Issues in Web Design - What Makes a Good Design?

By Ajay Prasad
 
You may be on with your first website or you are redesigning the existing website, which is not functioning well. When you begin a website, your purpose should be very clear. For example-if you are a web design firm, you want to show off your high tech services keeping a particular kind of customers in mind. Keep it as simple and as direct as the functionality and purpose of the site allows you to.

A web designer has very little control on the page display since it depends mainly on the browser. However, making a webpage look similar on various browsers is challenging as well as rewarding. While creating a site, a web designer has to keep certain things in mind such as-

1. Various browsers
2. various versions of browsers
3. Operating system used by the customer
4. screen display area
5. Availability of plug-in

One thing you must remember that a website is designed keeping visitors and customers in mind. Good designers look at their website through the eyes of their visitors. For example- if you run a site, which sells a product for elderly, you should make the layout easy, the font size large and design simple.
Optimizing web pages is the most important aspect of web design. An optimized web page loads quickly on the client's system and your web visitor can quickly get the information they had come for.

Your website should reflect what your company is all about. That is why, the color is an important aspect in portraying your company. Blues and greys are considered as good colors for professional websites. The color used in your website should complement your company website's logo.

While thinking of font size on your web page, write only in browser compatible fonts, because what looks good in your browser may not look the same in your customer's browser.
Simple and clean website with little color and lots of white space can be a good site. Graphics should be few. The navigation system should consist of -

1. Left-side menu
2. Site search in the top corner
3. Major categories in the dark color bar
4. Services, shopping in grey blocks
5. Recent releases.

Photos can be effective on business websites. Well-composed photos can add a touch of class to your web pages.

Commercial web sites are built from templates. You should build a template that constructs each part of typical webpage with a hole at the centre for content. You can create page after page from the template. For each page, you have to insert a page title, meta tag content, a headline and text content.

 

About the Author:
Ajay Prasad is the President of GMR Group of Companies. GMR Web Team is a website design company based in Orange County, California. The company purpose is to provide small and medium businesses website design and maintenance services at affordable rates. They have been in this business for the past 7 years.

 

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Common Technical Questions

                                                               
How does my Renewable Ad service keep my ad on top or close to the top when there are so many different ads running?

The renewable ad is refreshed every hour based on the time you originally entered it. So at the moment your ad is refreshed you will be on top.

One other point to consider is the category the viewer is searching, if they look under a general category then it is possible that your ad may be a little further down the list depending on what time of the hour and the number of renewable ads are in the category the viewer is searching and in almost every instance your ad will be on the first page.

However, most viewers use a keyword when searching in general or in a category, as this narrows down the list, because the viewer will have a more specific target in mind based on the keywords.

 

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