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Why Send Me This Fancy Email? View Online Keeping current Business is easier than finding New Business View Online I had several clients ask about web promotion methods. Another asked for help with sending an HTML email party invitation for their clients. The times and the economy seemed to make this a good topic for MY first HTML email. The interest was in simple and inexpensive. Something that looked good and did not require website design skills. == At the top of this email is a Banner. It is 590 pixels wide. Make your banner 590 pixels wide or it will be resized. It can be most any height you want. == == Below the Banner is a Section Title with larger bold text. == == This is a Text block. It could be moved to any location in this stack of blocks. There is a video on YouTube demonstrating the process of setting up MadMimi HERE == == Below this text is a Divider line. == This email was done at MadMimi an html email site that allows unlimited emails to a hundred email addresses for free. Meaning you can send an email like this to one hundred friends or clients, once or ten times a month, for free. The other site that offers a similiar 3 free emails a month to 500 addressees is MailChimp. MailChimp also has a feature comparison chart. Both allow you to upgrade your free account when the limited number of email addresses is not enough. Note that this picture and text block wraps around the image at the left when the text extended below the image. == This is a Left image and text block. It could be dragged and dropped to any location in this stack of blocks. The picture is 180 pixels wide and whatever height you want. You can add an html link to the picture, so that your audience can click and go to your website or another webpage. == A few of the other fancy email services ConstantContact iContact VerticalResponse Adbase MailChimp == This is a Right image and text block. The picture is 180 pixels wide and whatever height you want. You can add an html link to the picture, so that your audience can click and go to your website or another webpage. == The two challenging tasks are graphic preparation, and contact list setup. One of the most involved tasks is exporting your email addresses to a document so you can choose which hundred you will upload to your email service, in this case Madmimi. Madmimi allows you to type in your email addresses (five at a time) Madmimi also allows copy and paste of email addresses. And then there is the import of a Comma Delimited File exported from your addressbook. I am preparing some PDFs to help with that. Basically, you export a comma delimited file from your addressbook. If you have the option, only export the contacts you want to use. If you can NOT choose the contacts to export, you will use one of the following techniques. Open the exported file in a word processor (poor choice), spreadsheet (better), database (better, yet), or an address manager that has good import and export options (best option). Delete the unneeded addresses, export the remaining to a CSV and upload to Macmimi. Palm Desktop is a free download for both Windows and Mac that has good addressbook management tools. I hope you found this email interesting. My near future emails will deal with backups, both choosing software and hardware. The following ones will discuss hard drive replacement and recovering data from a failing harddrive. Note At the top of this email are THREE options View this email on the web here • You can also forward this email to a friend • Unsubscribe Madmimi keeps track of the unsubscribes for you. View this email online HERE AND you can FORWARD THIS email to your friends. (maybe they would be interested???) I know, you're thinking this is pretty simple. Yes, it is simple. Sometimes, elegance is found in simplicity. (and sometimes, not) David Anders, The Computer Guy, Seattle (206) 286-8438 davidanders@gmail.com This is an Image only block (400 pixels wide and variable height) Helpful Emails - The Other Basic Subjects My Helpful Newsletters Backup Basics Monthly Maintenance Basics File Recovery Basics Build Your Web Presence Google Local Business Send Fancy HTML Emails Common Computer Mistakes Email Basics HowTo Break Email Windows Security And, My Other Links My YELP Business Profile My Google Profile My Google Places My Blogspot My Other Blogspot My FaceBook My LinkedIn My Biznik My LiveJournal My Posterous My Tumbler My WordPress My Google Website My AllExperts Statistics        ©2011 The Computer Guy, Seattle | davida3292@aol.com

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My Basic Links Feb 2011

My MadMimi Newsletters    [Feb 2011]
Backup Basics                    http://mim.io/08d4     
Monthly Maintenance Basics      http://mim.io/93864     
File Recovery Basics         http://mim.io/61ad5     
Build Your Web Presence      http://mim.io/01141     
Google Local Business      http://mim.io/eaf31     
Send Fancy HTML Emails      http://mim.io/24e1     
Common Computer Mistakes      http://mim.io/173b2     
Email Basics                    http://mim.io/64ef5     
HowTo Break Email         http://mim.io/3f346     

**And, My Other Links**
My YELP Business Profile      http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-computer-guy-seattle     
My Google Profile                  http://www.google.com/profiles/davidanders     
My Google Places                  http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&georestrict=input_srcid:4e93360754ca3438     
My DavidAnders Blog           http://davidanders.blogspot.com/     
My ComputerGuySeattle Blog      http://computerguyseattle.blogspot.com/     
My DavidAndersSeattle FaceBook      http://www.facebook.com/DavidAndersSeattle     
My LinkedIn                          http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidandersseattle     
My Biznik                              http://biznik.com/members/david-anders     
My LiveJournal                      http://computerguysea.livejournal.com/     
My Posterous                        http://davidanders.posterous.com/     
My Tumbler                          http://davidanders.tumblr.com/     
My WordPress                      http://davidanders.wordpress.com/     
My Google Website              http://sites.google.com/site/davidanders/     
My AllExperts Statistics      http://www.allexperts.com/ep/1063-16292/Macintosh-OS/David-Anders.htm 

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The Computer Guy, Seattle
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davidanders@gmail.com

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Special Two Hour Spring Cleanup for $45 . . . View Online . Why Offer This? . Most Everyone neglects their organization during Seattle's cloudy time . . Backups that are not done. . Files that are scattered. . Monthly Maintenance undone or ignored. . Questions unanswered, or researched. . Mom finger wagging undone tasks. . . Promotions are recommeded for most businesses - this my first MailChimp promotion Two Hours. You choose the Time. You choose the Place. You choose the Tasks. Get a jump on your spring cleaning. $45 Call Now! Limited Offer! Email Me! Windows and Macintosh - A Free Database for Your Passwords I got tired of losing my passwords and user names. A few months ago, I created a database for my use. I added and changed and updated it. I have been using Filemaker for years. the advanced version allows you to create runtime databases that do not require a copy of Filemaker. You may have used one without realizing it was a Filemaker database. If you would like to test version one The links below will download a zipped folder about 12Mb in size. Folder is named PasswordsSerialsWIN.zip or PasswordsSerialsMAC.zip The folder can be placed anywhere on your harddrive - even on a flash drive for easy transport. Just do not remove or move anything in the folder. Within the folder just Click on "My Passwords" to start the database. Any feedback would be welcome. You can download the Windows version here http://filemakerinfo.acme-help.com/downloads/PasswordsSerialsWIN.zip You can download the Macintosh version here http://filemakerinfo.acme-help.com/downloads/PasswordsSerialsMAC.zip Mac OSX - Monthly Maintenance - Windows Reminder Do your Monthly Maintenance Today It is very important that you do this. Check your Backups Today Backups are important, but if you don't test them by retrieving a file or two, you DO NOT KNOW if they are working properly. Build Your Web Presence - My Results Two years ago, I had very little presence on the internet. A search for me would turn up an ancient website I did more than a decade ago. Several clients asked about promoting themselves and their businesses on the Web. After eight months of testing, learning, reading, researching and redoing, this is the result of a Google Search for "david anders seattle". I have to add seattle to the search because there is an actor using the alias of David Anders. His web presence overwhelms any search done just for my name. http://www.google.com/search?q=david+anders+seattle Eight out of ten links on the first page are my connections, blogs and websites. There is a Madmimi Newsletter about expanding your web presence, your internet footprint, your standing in searches on Google, Yahoo, and Bing that I sent to some several months ago. The second one is about claiming your business listings on these services. (Yes, your business liisting exists, claiming it and customiziing it costs nothing but some of your time. Build Your Web Presence Google Local Business This is without paying for anyone's help or paying for listings. You can do the same. There are 15 or 20 options that have appeared since I began the ressearch. REMEMBER 15 to 30 year olds do not use the Yellow Pages. How long did it take for you to create this? I had most of the graphics ready. I did not have the layout or text prepared. It took 2 hours on a Monday afternoon. If I had had the layout and text prepared, it would have taken 15 minutes. This is a test of the newsletter on Madmimi.com (you can send unlimited emails to 100 hundred email addresses) The goal is to send this through MailChimp.com - I haven't sent one from there, yet. (you can send up to 12,000 emails a month to up to 2000 email addresses.) This is my first MadMimi Newsletter (it's about sending MadMimi newsletters) Send Fancy HTML Emails Links to my other MadMimi Newsletters are listed below. If you found this useful, you can forward it to five friends at the very bottom of this email. You can Unsubscribe from any further Helpful Emails I send at the bottom of this email. Thank you. David For Further info, just email me davidanders@gmail.com Helpful Emails - The Other Basic Subjects Backup Basics Monthly Maintenance Basics File Recovery Basics Build Your Web Presence Google Local Business Send Fancy HTML Emails Common Computer Mistakes Email Basics HowTo Break Email And, My Other Links My YELP Business Profile My Google Profile My Google Places My Blogspot My Other Blogspot My FaceBook My LinkedIn My Biznik My LiveJournal My Posterous My Tumbler My WordPress My Google Website My AllExperts Statistics        ©2011 The Computer Guy, Seattle | davida3292@aol.com

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http://davidanders.wordpress.com
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The Computer Guy, Seattle
(206)  286-8438
davidanders@gmail.com
filemakerinfo@gmail.com
bluemagicsmoke@gmail.com
http://davidanders.wordpress.com
Questions answered freely by email or phone
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