– – “Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing” by Eric Groves. Email marketing and Constant Contact have been synonymous for years. If you currently use Constant Contact as your email marketing system, this book is a must-read so that you can get the most out of it. Or get at  Amazon ). MORE >>

Constant Contact’s Fall 2011 Attitudes and Outlooks Survey , released today, proves that the change is happening pretty rapidly: in the past six months, social media use among small businesses is up 8%, from 73% this spring. They don’t think it’s necessary. They don’t know what to say. What about you? For free. Social Media MORE >>

Resolve to update it constantly. If you are sending an email newsletter you should try to use software like Constant Contact , Exact Target , MailChimp or other professional tools. We’re in the New Year and the time for making resolutions about health, wealth, family and oddball bucket lists. Communications. Community. MORE >>

Common email marketing tools used at low cost are Vertical Response , Constant Contact and Mail Chimp. The techniques that are effective to keep and get new customers continues to radically change. In 2012, they will evolve even more. Here is what’s going to be hot (and what’s not) in the year to come. Direct Selling. More Mobile. MORE >>

Make a commitment to one of the professional email marketing systems like Constant Contact , which has been mine since 2007, or several other great choices like IConnect, Aweber and Mail Chimp. Marketers will spend $77 billion on interactive marketing by 2016.” It was the very first platform I used to build my business database. MORE >>