Never Stop Learning
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The educational process should be a non-stop thing for everyone. In our society, technology, information and processes are changing on an almost daily basis. This is why I am always looking for new things to learn and new processes to explore. Learning WordPress was one of those challenges. I didn’t take a formal course to learn it; I went through the trial-and-error process, which worked for me.
My next challenge will be to learn all the ins-and-outs of Constant Contact. I will be travelling to Chicago, on the Metra System to take their seminars titled The Power of Email Marketing and Getting Started with Constant Contact. I am really looking forward to this. I love taking the train to Chicago and the seminars are quite the bonus.
I have invited members of the two local chambers that I belong to: the Wind Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Waterford Area Chamber of Commerce. I hope that a lot of people reply to me with interest in this event. It would make the experience richer to share this knowledge with some friends. So far, I have one friend that is going, along with my daughter and a friend of hers, (they are just going to shop, though).
Constant Contact has been quite the impressive program so far. I downloaded their free trial less than a month ago and have sent out one email so far. The really impressive thing was that within one hour of my download, I received a call from a tech support person, asking if I had any questions. I almost fell off my chair! It was a good thing that he called though; I did have a few questions. Like “are you going to scrutinize every email and address that I attempt to send out; even to people in my personal address book?”
I had this happen with another email blast program I tried to use to announce my redesigned WordPress website. I received a call from an administrator at this particular service and they told me they were deleting my email from their system because I didn’t have “permission” to send to the people in my Outlook address book. Can you believe this? People that I email every day, I was told “no”. I explained this episode to the gentleman from Constant Contact and he reassured me there was no problem doing what I wanted to do. He made my day!
Another question I had for Mr. Tech Support was if they offered an affiliate program. I am big into promoting products that I like, (or in this case, love), and with unsolicited customer support calling, I had to spread the word! Before we were off the phone, I had an email in my inbox with the form to join Constant Contacts Business Partner Program.
I was also impressed that I received another email, (while still on the phone), with instructions on how to import my customer file from QuickBooks into Constant Contact. I didn’t even tell the tech support person that I used QuickBooks. He did his own research and knew what I needed.
After next week Thursday, I will be able to confidently announce my new service of Email Marketing. I have done this for others in the past but without the proper training, always wondered if the job could have been better. Now, it will always be the best. Next on my list will be to take the Constant Contact Expert Program.
Remember – Never Stop Learning!
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