Don’t miss the Nouri.sh Thank You Giveaway!

As another great year draws to a close we would like to thank all of our customers for choosing Nouri.sh as their email marketing solution and helping us shape the service.

What a better way to say thanks than a present! We are giving all our existing and new customers (who sign up between 11-22 December) an easy and fun chance to win 6 beautiful presents!

What do we give you:
1) Four x 3 month subscriptions: Nouri.sh Basic subscription for 3 months will be offered to four winners. (Each worth $225)
2) Two x 6 month subscriptions: Nouri.sh Basic subscription for 6 months will be offered to two winners. (Each worth $450)

So, the total value of this giveaway is: $225 x 4 + $450 x 2 = $1800 and a great way to boost your business in 2016 = priceless!

How to get it:
All you need to do is to perform simple social actions AND drop us an email at sales [at] nouri.sh to let us know.
1) Share this post on Facebook = 1 point
2) Tweet about this giveaway = 1 point
3) Leave a comment on this post to tell us more about your business and how you will/ are using Nouri.sh = 1 point
4) Do all 3: Share on Facebook with your friends, Tweet about it & comment on our blog to get 5 points!

Based on these points we will choose our six winners.
To enter the giveaway, use this Rafflecopter interface Rafflecopter giveaway

Please Note:
If you do not have an active Nouri.sh account please create a free one (yes it’s free forever yours but you can upgrade at any time if you need to!) before making your entries. It only takes a minute! After we choose the winners, we will send a notification email to confirm their email address. Winners have to confirm their email address within 3 days. In the event, if they don’t confirm their email address within 3 days, we will pick a new winner.

Entries window:
The entry period starts on 11 December at 12:00 am GMT and ends on 22 December 2015 at 12:00 am GMT.

Already a customer on a paid plan?
If you are one of the winners we will simply waive the monthly fees!

If you need any convincing at all here are the benefits of the Nouri.sh Basic subscription on offer:

1) Up to 10,000 emails per month: You choose how to use this allowance and the team at Nouri.sh will happily advise what is best for your and your goals. This could range from sending 1 newsletter a month to 10,000 subscribers, through to sending 4 emails a month to 2,500 subscribers.

2) Unlimited number of campaigns: You have the ability to create dynamic campaigns. By categorizing or tagging the posts within your blog, only relevant content is sent out in each campaign. High relevancy means a higher readership and lower unsubscribe rate.

3) Unlimited number of subscribers: You can upload as many subscribers as you want to your account. Simply upload your database when creating your account, and keep building your subscriber base one email at a time.

4) Custom templates: With custom templates you can really make the newsletter your own. Choose from our pre-made templates that suits your brand and your message or upload a custom template matching the look and feel of your blog/ website for eye-catching campaigns.

5) Track your progress: Track the success of your campaigns with Google analytics. Use these stats to influence future decisions and ensure you are driving relevant content to users.

6) Multiple RSS feeds: You can create automated email newsletters and include multiple RSS feeds in a single newsletter.

7) Automatic scheduling: Scheduling is an important aspect of email marketing. A newsletter which is scheduled correctly gets a higher open rate and click through rate. Nouri.sh provides automatic scheduling options for your newsletters so that you can schedule them on a specific date and time. Sending out is easy with no action required from your side.

8) Personalized support: The Nouri.sh team are on hand to ensure you make the most out of the service. The more we know about your needs, the more we can tailor Nouri.sh to suit you. We can help you grow your subscriber base, improve your campaigns and are open to users suggestions for new features.

We look forward to giving you your present! Good luck!!

Each social media platform offers something different. Here we focus on the top 3, highlighting their strengths and key features so you can decide which ones fit your business best. Before jumping in to any social media activity, consider who your key demographic is and think of how best to engage this audience.

Facebook

Facebook pages are a great tool for businesses. In fact if you operate internationally you can conveniently run all your pages from one login.
It allows you to share content including images and videos and it is also great for arranging events. With no limit to the number of characters you can use per post, Facebook is ideal for explaining your business, selling your concept to potential customers and raising awareness of your brand.

A word of warning, you should try and limit yourself to one post a day unless it’s exceptional news. The optimum number of posts per week is between 3 and 5.

Click here to like our Facebook page

Twitter

Twitter is a great way to promote your business, including special offers and bulletins. With only 140 characters per tweet, your posts need to be concise and focused on one thing; this is why many companies tweet away all day! It is recommended that a business tweets every 2-3 hours, but if you are repetitive and are not publishing anything of value to your followers you will become very annoying, very quickly!

Set time aside to interact with your followers and show off your expertise, a retweeted comment or conversation with a user provides you with excellent exposure to all of their followers as well. Also, make the most of the popular hashtags to ensure you are on trend. A Twitter account needs a consistent commitment and you will have to allocate some time to it to reap the benefits.

Click here to see what we get up to on Twitter

LinkedIn

LinkedIn has had a massive boom in users over the past 18 month. It is by far the best site for networking and posting career relevant content. 

Many businesses do have pages on LinkedIn, but that is not what it was designed for. In fact, by using your own personal profile to promote your business you will have increased success.

Ensure you join relevant groups and share your ideas and business updates with like-minded people. There is a special section of each group for promotions, so don’t go for the hard sell on the discussion page as you will more than likely be removed!

Use this site to show you are an expert in your field. In the long run earning the respect of other users will prove far more valuable than the few sales you may make by pitching your products and services.

If you would like any advice on which platform is best for you, contact us here.

So it’s that time of year again, just over a week to go until Christmas Day. As consumers step up their spending we in the office are unsurprisingly winding down for a small (well deserved) break.

It is common for businesses to avoid change as the festive season approaches. This can be because it is the busiest time of year and not the appropriate moment to be changing strategies, for others they feel it is just not the time of year to get things done. People will inevitably have holiday, partners will be closed for various amounts of time, and others are simply excited for one too many glasses of bucks fizz!

Whilst we have a few more working days available, let us prepare a few treats we can give our business. After all, the Christmas indulgences may very well inhibit your judgement, so it best to outline some plans before the holidays.

A Blog

If you don’t have one, get one. It can be used in so many different ways, depending on your requirements. It allows you to have a voice, whether this is for selling, informing, helping or simply connecting with people it is a great way to compliment any social media work you do. The only thing you may need to pay for is content creation, so blogs bring a whole host of benefits for very little outlay.

An eNewsletter Campaign

Again it is essential that you have a voice and that you communicate. This could be a newsletter for your staff members, a newsletter for clients or why not just implement both! You can use content from both social media campaigns and from your blog. In fact, any source that has an RSS feed. You can tag certain posts so they only go to certain groups and the whole thing really can be tailored to your individual needs. Have a think what would benefit or add value to your company and if you have any questions please post a comment and we will get back to you.

Appraisals/Reviews

These are great opportunities to rebuild relationships with staff. If you have been focussed on a project and haven’t given them much time over the past few months, suggest a catch up. This is a great opportunity for an employee to share thoughts about their own progress and it really doesn’t need to be your analysis of them. Have a chat, make some notes and then get back to them with a plan of action. Another benefit about engaging your staff in this way is that they feel they can share ideas and solutions to their everyday problems. With your help these can be implemented, so you end up with a happier employee who has a little more spare time to make you some lovely money!

A Christmas Party

The highlight of the social calendar, new dresses, new shirts and everyone is filled with festive cheer. It is great to end a year on a high and recognising hard work with a nice meal or a few beverages is always appreciated. It is nice to remind ourselves that we work with great people and this is something we often overlook in the office. Especially in the run up to Christmas, tensions in the office can run high. A lot of people under a lot of pressure cannot end well. The great thing about socialising outside of work is you get to know and appreciate the person, not the job title.

Merry Christmas!

From the Nouri.sh team

Yes it is hard to build up momentum on social media sites, but just because it is difficult to get going it is still imperative that you give it a go.

There really is no excuse for not getting involved

It is quick and easy to create a page that can be viewed by millions of people. And you control your own destiny, the more time and effort you put in the more fans you will acquire.

Every day you avoid getting involved is a day wasted…

“How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” – Seth Godin

So let’s hit the ground running and ensure you dedicate some of your time to social media pages each week. You can use this time to tweak the look and feel of the page, interact with clients and potential clients, and if you have the time (or a sudden burst of inspiration!) collate a few ideas for future posts and comments.

Connecting with your audience

Enhance your posts with images, not just any old image but a relevant one preferably! Don’t be afraid to add text, if it is not clear what the image is trying to convey then add a few words. Even if you are repeating what you have said in your post, it is better to make it obvious from the get-go as people are naturally drawn to the images first rather than the text.

Don't let readers invent their own meaning - Annotate any ambiguous images

Another benefit is that your social media page can act as a forum where you interact with your clients. It is clear that just having a page gives you some degree of credibility, if your company name doesn’t appear in a search people are obviously going to wonder why.

Free publicity

Some people argue that social media is the cheapest form of marketing; however it can only be used as marketing tool if someone is putting the effort in to create and maintain a great page!

Team this with the services Nouri.sh offer to really exploit these great tools. Your pages can easily be turned in to RSS feeds and in turn these feeds can be used to produce a newsletter. You will be surprised how many people would love to receive a newsletter summarising all your posts rather than logging on to the social media sites every day.

The new year is a time for new starts, but why fix what’s getting results?

Continue nouri.shing your online marketing campaigns into 2013 and we’ll give you some special discounts to help kick-start your newsletter:

• 2 months free when you prepay for 10 months, giving you newsletter campaigns throughout 2013.
• A free, tailor-made newsletter template (worth $99) AND 2 months free when you prepay for 22 months. Your template will be designed to match your existing branding or your new vision, and structured to your liking.

And in case that wasn’t enough, we’re also offering comprehensive bespoke packages tailored to your unique business requirements.

To take advantage of any of these offers, email us at my[at]nouri.sh and we’ll get in touch as soon as we can.

Don’t miss out. The Nouri.sh team look forward to helping you make 2013 your best year yet!

Thanks to the growth throughout 2011 we are preparing to migrate Nouri.sh to new, more powerful servers. We wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to all our customers who submitted new features/ functionality ideas. We appreciate your feedback!

As always we remain open to new ideas. Our Q1 2012 development plan is now being reviewed. We welcome any suggestions from all customers until December 11th 2011.

So step up and help us shape Nourish and make it even better! We promise to review all ideas and take the best into development. Please post your comments here or email: my [at] nouri.sh

You are welcome to join us and share with us:
Nourish on Facebook | Nourish on LinkedIn | Nourish on Twitter

Thank you for using Nourish. Please invite all your friends and connections. Nourish is Free and Fun for them as well!

Nourish is great for your Social Media strategy

Our customers know it, but we thought you may also want to know just how powerful Nourish really is when it comes to engaging an audience.

You know your business best, however one thing we wanted to make sure you have is a great eNewsletter. We have been developing Nourish as the eNewsletter solution that will empower you to differentiate in your Social Media strategy. Your ‘unfair advantage’.

Here is how…

Nearly all news sources on the web use RSS. How many of your readers familiar with RSS? Who knows?… But the good thing is that almost all of them are familiar with email. So this is where comes Nourish helping you to share your content in the format familiar to your readers.

Unlike other tools Nourish only lets you generate emails from an RSS feed. You can use a single or a combination of RSS feeds to streamline valuable and engaging content to your readers. Different feeds can be used for different campaigns, and even different template can be used for each of your newsletters. For example you can communicate with your clients using a different tone to how you communicate with your suppliers.

Nourish is easy to set up and intuitive. It makes managing a large list of subscribers effortless. The opt-out process, as well as subscribing/unsubscribing to individual campaigns is completely automated. Nourish can take the hassle of you managing any number of subscribers, starting from a personal blog to a large company newsletter.

Only those who have run multiple campaigns know how overwhelming that can be. If you aim to target multiple audiences or promote different products, Nourish has a great deal to offer you. It allows you to run multiple campaigns for segmenting your subscribers. Delivering the most relevant content to each group of your readers can boost your open and click through rates and reduce unsubscribers. Plus you have subscribers’ statistics at hand any time to validate the relevancy in the course of your campaigns to their audience.

Nourish allows you to manage multiple campaigns in one single account. Each campaign you create represents a different newsletter. Nice and simple! Unlike any other service Nourish does not limit the number of campaigns you can have.

We know how important it is for B2B organizations for example to segment their subscribers by industry sector. Your campaigns, and the content you deliver with each may vary on (for example) customer demographics, or by set products or services. Or perhaps you may need to have a more ‘independent’ newsletter featuring content from multiple sources.

It’s also easy to create a form for your website to add subscribers to one or more of your campaigns. We have developed a WordPress plugin called Nouri.sh Newsletter that makes this a simple 2 step process.

With the automated scheduling you are sure that your email campaigns go out at regular intervals, without logging in or any manual intervention from your side. Just set and forget!

And my favourite one: your readers like cool custom templates. Your Nourish emails can have your unique branding for a professional look of your campaigns. We can help with that too, just send your brand ideas to: my [at] nouri.sh

Unlike other similar services, Nourish will not force you to upgrade after a trial. Come join us for free today and keep it free as long as you wish!

Plus one: make sure you invite all your friends and contacts too. We’ll make sure they will also get it for free!