How to use emails and newsletters to spread your influence

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This is one part of a two-day workshop given by BounceBack St Louis in September 2010. We talk about good and bad choices for your email identity, how to communicate with prospective employers, and why having your own email newsletter is important.

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JobAngelsBy David Strom

david@strom.com

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Agenda Good and bad email choices How to communicate with prospects Why an email newsletter is important Job Angels stuff

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Bad email IDs kygirl@hotmail.com Something involving your favorite

fruit names Anything @ juno.com

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Good email choices Use your own domain that you

mastered Work proactively with your contacts

to keep in touch Start your own email newsletter

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Google Apps Standard: free and 7 GB mailbox for

up to 50 email accounts Premier: $50/user/year and 25 GB

mailbox and unlimited accounts Non profits can get Premier for free!

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Set up your email software with your domain

http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

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Why is a mailing list important?

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Email choices Free: Yahoo Groups Cheap: Mailman on

EMWD.com ($4/mo) Expensive:

ConstantContact.com ($30/mo and up)

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Need a Yahoo email ID Find a group name that matches your

domain and book title Import your contacts and keep

adding people that you meet

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Yahoo

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Constant Contact

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Typical pricing

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Our regional work force is evolving away from

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Towards new industries

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The old methods of job acquisition

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What do these things have in common?

See a Broadway play Perform brain surgery Come to a wedding Donate blood

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National Job Angels

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Time for a new jobs strategy

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St. Louis 1st local chapter!

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Join up!

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Some other LinkedIn groups

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Good luck with your job search!

David Strom(310) 857-6867david@strom.comhttp://strominator.comhttp://webinformant.tvSlides available:http://slideshare.net/

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