Looking for volunteers to critique my new marketing efforts

In My Humble Opinion
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I checked with the moderators before posting, and got the okay. Thanks for that! I’m not trying to sell you anything, I’d like to have your help as I try and reach out to the folks to whom I would like to be selling things.

I own a retail custom framing shop. I’ve been to a few seminars about email marketing and am wading through options right now. I’m looking at two different online services that offer templates and easy forms and so forth.

Would any of you be willing to be added to my email “Test Case” list? I feel as if it would be wise to have people on it other than my 4 relatives. Right now I’m focussed on comparing the interfaces of the two companies. What I’m hoping to find here is feedback regarding how the things come across, and have some of you fill in forms and respond and give some feedback. This would be for me to determine which service meets my needs.

At this stage I’d be hoping for “I use firefox and none of the images loaded” rather than “You should use blue instead of maroon” (For anyone willing to make those kinds of critiques, that’s the next phase).

It would probably bring you a flurry of emails for a week or so while I hammer out the details. If you’re willing to take a look at some things, and help me make sure links click through and so forth please send me a PM with the email address you’d like to use.

Thank you in anticipation of your kind cooperation.

Gwendee

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There’s a lot you can do yourself, you know…

You can have IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and even Safari (for Windows) on your computer to check Web pages.

You can get free email addresses at Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and AOL and send to those email addresses to test those interfaces.

You can get Thunderbird for free, as well as Eudora. Windows Live Mail is the new free mail client for Windows, I think, replacing Outlook Express. Depends on which operating system you have as for which you can use. If you don’t have Outlook already, I believe you can get a free trial of Office.

You can get several Gmail accounts for free and use a different one for each of mail clients you set up on your machine.

All of this might sound like a pain but it might be easier than finding people using different mail systems and mail clients, and then sending them a bunch of emails and waiting for their replies.