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E-mail marketing: What do you need to know?

One of the main strategies for business success is e-mail marketing. However, nobody wants to receive many boring and annoying mails. For avoiding dissatisfied customers and reaching high open rate follow some essential tips! 1. Personalize. There are many ways you can personalize your e-mail. The best one is to add customer’s name. In case of a formal letter, the surname is also the central part of personalizing. Personalized messages make customers feel their significance and respect. 2. The

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Short.cm extension for Google Chrome: New and updated

Short.cm extension for Google Chrome lets you shorten links being at the necessary web-page. There are some ways you can use the Short.cm extension for Chrome. * Shorten links. * Change a domain. * Edit a slug. * Make screenshots. Learn the instructions below on how to use the Short.cm extension for Google Chrome. How to install the Short.cm extension 1. Open Google Chrome and go to your Short.cm account. [http://short.cm/] 2. Open User Menu.

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Change Google URL Shortener to Short.cm

On April 2018, Google URL Shortener closed down the service for new users. Only the existing customers can use Goo.gl up to March 2019. Short.cm shortening service provides with Goo.gl features and even more. Here are some detailed tips for your assurance of joining Short.cm. 1. Branded links. Replace a standard Short.cm domain to your branded one – «yourbrand.com». This feature allows increasing the link trust and brand recognition. With branded links, the CRT skyrockets for 35%. Read here [h

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UTM tags: Why do you need them?

UTM tags play an essential role in marketing promotion. Short.cm shortening service provides all price plans with UTM tags feature. UTM parameters tool is in a Short.cm dashboard in the «Campaign tracking» section. Using UTM tags with short branded links results in better online marketing campaigns tracking. After adding UTM tags, the traffic data is displayed in Google Analytics. What are UTM tags? UTM tags form an easy-to-use code, which you attach to the link. The code allows Google Analytic

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Links import

The previous article was about links export [https://blog.short.cm/export/], thus you know that Short.cm allows downloading existed short branded links from the Short.cm dashboard to the PC. Short.cm links import feature Short.cm provides customers with links import too. If you have links which are already branded by another shortening platform, you may easily transfer them to Short.cm. This feature lets keep links without losing the original URL and associated data. Why do you need this? Imag

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Links export

Short.cm provides customers with one more useful feature. It is about exporting all your short branded links to the PC as an Excel document. You may see in the example above that what you write after the slug is in the first position, then a long URL is situated, and the last is the name of the site. Why do you need this? Imagine that you want to add a new domain name but simultaneously to keep all links from the previous domain. For this, export all links to the computer. After that import Ex

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All about Short.cm Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On is a system thanks to which a team of web-users may pass through a login session for co-working without separate registration. This feature is highly recommended for business structures. Short.cm [http://short.cm/] presents a Single Sign-On feature for successful teamwork. Business owners may gather lots of team members together in Short.cm without their separate registration process. With this feature, they just attach users to a necessary domain with Google Apps for Domains or

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HubSpot and Short.cm Zap

Surfing the Internet takes a staggering portion of the person’s leisure. Always remember to spend time in the Worldwide web profitably. In such a way, this time will have resulted in your future achievements. For example, if you are a business person, it’s a great idea to create a business blog. This type of blogging became popular in the last few years. It is a simple as well as far less sophisticated way for brand-building. Publishing posts with the latest updates and advantages of the brand,

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RSS feeds and Short.cm Zap

RSS feed is an instrument which provides an easy way to be well informed about the latest posts of your favorite blogs. Thanks to RSS, you are capable of reading blog articles without deliberate website visiting. It is set up as a Google extension, which you may quickly add to your browser with Google Web Store. After adding it, an orange icon will appear from the right side of the search line. To add a necessary website click on RSS icon and paste a site URL. Each added site is called as a feed

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Google Sheets and Short.cm Zap

Google is an enormous web-space with its separate features and assignment. It is mostly known as a massive search engine with googles of answers. Through years, Google ushers in new and new tools and today it is thought to be one of the greatest web-company. Besides Google as a search system, it provides internet users with a vast choice of necessary tools and platforms. The main advantage is that all programs are connected to the personal account what means that you may access your data in any

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Short.cm and Buffer Zap

The most effective way to promote a brand is using social networks. Pay attention to people while you walk the street or go by bus. What do most of them do? Right, they are absorbed with mobile phones. That pretty girl is posting a new photo to Instagram, that smart woman is sending a new article to her Facebook business page, that guy is looking for the best sneakers ever in the e-shop. Note: somebody shares, somebody uses. In our example, we see that girl thanks to Instagram shares with frien

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Ghost and Short.cm Zap

Blogging is becoming popular more and more. You may certainly know that nowadays it is one of the most common ways to earn money, get famous as well as share your thoughts, information or news. There are some possibilities for creating a blog – it may be YouTube Blog, Instagram Blog and so on. But the most appropriate way is article blogging. You may use it for a business, for example, or express emotions. It is especially suitable for business structures because usually YouTube and Instagram b

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