It’s easy to miss the obvious—things so obvious they make you slap your forehead and say, “How could I have forgotten that?”

One obvious place (in fact, the best place) to find new leads for your marketing list is right in front of you . . .

People You Already Know

Remember the email account you opened years ago, back when you had to pay for email addresses? Yeah, that was a while ago, long before my time

There may be people in that address book with whom you rarely correspond. But they remember you, and you owe it to them to stay in touch.

You may have two or three (or more) email addresses, depending on the type of contact and which email program you were using when you first made contact with the person.

The Easiest Way to Get Back in Touch

Those people would love to hear from you. In fact, they would welcome an opportunity find out what you have been up to.

Now GetResponse gives you an easy way to consolidate your contacts all in one place, so you can communicate with them regularly using an attractive email newsletter format.

Our new feature, “List Booster” enables you to import your contacts—automatically— from all of these popular services and sites:

• AOL Mail
• Apple Mail
• Gmail
• Google Contacts
• Google Docs
• Hotmail
• LinkedIn
• Microsoft Outlook
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• MSN
• Outlook Express
• Plaxo
• SalesForce
• Windows Live Mail
• Yahoo! Mail
• ZenDesk

Isn’t That SPAM?

Remember, you should never use a regular email program for distributing mass communications to your lists. It can lead to legal trouble, due to the existence of laws designed to reduce unwanted email solicitations.

Equally troubling, it can cause hard feelings with friends and business associates who, for reasons of their own, prefer not to receive your newsletters, updates, and marketing messages.

A Simple Way to Avoid Problems

The GetResponse solution is to require an opt-in confirmation.

At the end of the “List Booster” import procedure, a confirmation message with a confirmation link is sent automatically to every contact.

All those who click the confirmation link will be added to your email list to receive future communications. Those who choose not to opt-in may simply ignore the email, and they will not be added to your list.

With one simple step, you avoid legal problems and give everyone a graceful way either to accept or decline.

“List Booster” Is for Prospects, not Non-Prospects

Of course, a few people may decline to confirm. That simply means that they are not prospects for you.

Those who welcome your email newsletter are true prospects. They respect what you do and want to learn more. They are the people you can help most.

So take a few minutes to run “List Booster” for the sake of those prospects. And don’t be concerned about a few non-prospects who my decline to join your list. They may make a better decision later.

How to Get Started

We made a quick video (1 minute 13 seconds) to get you off to a fast start. You’ll find that the interface is designed to be easy and intuitive. To view the video, click HERE.

And, as always, if you should happen to get stuck, our friendly Customer Service Reps are always happy to help. Feel free to reach out via live chat, phone or email.

Don’t Miss Out on an Opportunity

There may be gold in your email lists. At the very least, there are friends and associates who would love to hear from you.

Give it a try! And let us know how it goes.

Grow Your Marketing List With Ideal Prospects is a post from: Email Marketing Tips - Blog GetResponse

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We’ve been thinking about what else we can change in GetResponse to make it more productive for you in 2010. We decided to start with import contact functions!

Until recently, you had only one mode of importing contacts. Now, you can choose between three modes:  Default, Update and Add new mode. Here are the details:

•    Default mode lets you do  BOTH − import new contacts and update information (such as name or custom fields) for those contacts already on your contact List.

•    Update only allows you to ONLY update the information (such as name or custom fields) for those contacts already on your contact list.

•    Add new only allows you to ONLY import new contacts. If your import file contains contacts already on your list, they will be ignored to avoid duplication.

These new contact management modes should make updating and importing much easier and faster! And help you avoid mistakes! Tell us what you think!

New GetResponse Import Modes is a post from: Email Marketing Tips - Blog GetResponse

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