Create and Send great looking emails

We offer an easy to use interface to Create and send great looking emails. In fact, you can design with your favorite tools, import with a single click and do A/B Split Testing to see which campaigns work out the best for your message.

You can easily use our template gallery that we provide or you can build your own and re-use templates. With our simple WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, you know exactly how your message will be seen and viewed by your subscriber.

Each message contains Personalization, a Forward to a Friend link and you can even send in any time zone. We won’t add any ugly logos or links either, but any images you do provide will be served from a lightning-fast CDN (Content Delivery Network) . Keep in mind, if you want to see just how effective your campaign is, we can also integrate your Google Analytics code as well.

Manage your Lists and Subscribers

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  • Unlimited number of lists
  • Subscribe forms for your site
  • Customize the subscribe process
  • Confirmed Opt-in
  • Preference Centers
  • Suppression lists
  • Customize the unsubscribe process
  • Custom fields
  • Segmentation
  • Let clients manage their subscribers
  • Manage via the API
  • Export to Excel
  • Track list growth via RSS
  • Flexible import process

You probably don’t ever think about things like fully redundant servers, enterprise class delivery engines and in-house deliverability expertise, right? Luckily for you, our developers can’t get enough of it. All you need to know is, we’ve got you covered.

Maintaining a good sender reputation

Today, the most important factor in the delivery of your email is your sender reputation. If ISP’s don’t know you or don’t like what you’re sending, you won’t be invited back. We’re constantly working to ensure you can piggyback off our great reputation and give your campaigns the best chance of reaching the inbox.

Human approval process

Before they can send a single campaign, every new customer is reviewed by our team to ensure they meet our comprehensive criteria covering permission, email content, privacy and much more.

ISP feedback loop integration

Campaign Monitor is integrated into the feedback loop of ISP’s like Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL. We can detect if a subscriber marks you as spam, and remove them from your list automatically.

Email authentication

Email authentication allows our customers to prove they are who they say they are. Using technologies like Sender ID and DomainKeys/DKIM you can protect your reputation and improve the chances of getting delivered.

Smart bounce and complaint handling

We automatically detect different types of bounces and react accordingly. Undeliverable addresses are removed immediately, temporary fails are given additional chances before removal based on best practice.

Best practice built in

We support confirmed opt-in for all susbcriber lists, include a single click unsubscribe link in all campaigns and allow your subscribers to maintain their own subscription through preference centers.

3rd party deliverability monitoring

We use a number of third party tools to monitor our inbox delivery to dozens of the leading ISP’s allowing us to spot potential delivery issues and react immediately. Our team monitors all major blacklists daily.

Reliable, secure server environment

To keep your data safe, secure and always available we use a state-of-the-art redundant server cluster in a fully managed, world class data center. All sensitive data is stored on servers behind a constantly maintained firewall using the same level of encryption as many banks.

World class data center

Our US-based data center is monitored 24×7 for all aspects of operational security and performance. It is also equipped with state-of-the-art security such as biometrics and sensors for intrusion detection.

Serious about data security

All sensitive data is stored on servers behind a constantly maintained firewall. Our database servers are secured by additional access restrictions, and more sensitive data is encrypted.

Smart redundancy

We have redundancy at every layer of our application to ensure a smooth recovery in the event of any type of hardware failure. All data is also securely backed up offsite for the unlikely event of a system-wide failure.

Strict privacy policy

Our strictly enforced privacy policy ensures your data is never shared with third parties and is kept safe and secure at all times. Only limited staff have access to your account in order to provide support.

Now it looks as if Internet advertising is set to take over take print advertising in the United States. According to a survey by research firm Outsell Inc. of more than 1,000 US advertisers, companies plan to spend nearly $120 billion on online and digital strategies, from search engine keywords to seminars on the web, while they plan to spend about $112 billion on print strategies such as newspaper and magazine ads. (http://www.outsellinc.com/press/press_releases/ad_study_2010)

“Advertisers are directing dollars toward the channels which generate the most qualified leads and most effective branding. As they emerge from the recession, they need more accountability, and they’re spreading their spending over a widening set of options,” said Chuck Richard, Vice President and Lead Analyst, Outsell.

If the forecast holds true, the U.S. will follow the UK, which became the first major economy where advertisers spent more on Internet advertising than on TV advertising, with a record £1.75bn online spent in the first six months of 2009, according to guardian.co.uk.

The .com world may only be 25, but as the shift in advertising dollars shows that it is growing up fast.

By utilizing our own back-end content delivery network (CDN), Converg is able to easily distribute and offer value-added services of local content to these properties in the form of:

• Local Movie Listings
• Local News
• Local Calendar of Events
• Hotel and Travel information
• Local Weather
• Advertising Engine
• Local Business Directory Services

Each property that we manage has unique differences and offers different challenges.  Our automation and SEO services easily improve local search placement for specific categories and ultimate added value to the customer.

Some properties under our management and / or development include:

KCMetro.com – A Kansas City Metro portal for the greater Kansas City area.  We offer the management of all the advertising services, news content aggregation, movie listings and directory content management.

OKC.com – As “the” Oklahoma City Community portal, we provide the backend Advertising management engine, local aggregated news content, local movie listings, directory content management and other value added services specific to Oklahoma City.

BattleCreek.com – A work in progress, we will offer similar services above but have some additional exciting changes.

Cumberland.com – A similar work in progress, this property will flow with local geo information regarding Cumberland.

LasVegas.NV.com – Local to Nevada, our services will concentrate on the challenges of providing related content and local information for both tourists and hometown Las Vegas visitors.  This also includes all the major cities of Nevada such as Carson City, Reno and Henderson.

More bad news for traditional media outlets.   The revenue drain at traditional media outlets is accelerating as advertisers shift their marketing dollars to the web.  A new survey of business marketers from Forrester Research says that 60% of those surveyed intend to increase their interactive marketing budgets by shifting money away from traditional media.  According to a Research Brief article at MediaPost.com, direct mail is the category the largest percentage of marketers planned to cut, with 40% of them saying they would make reductions there. Newspapers were the #2 target on the hit list, named by 35% of respondents. 28% said they would spend less with magazines and 12% cited television as the medium where they were most likely to cut back.

The study says the biggest winners among interactive platforms will be social media and mobile marketing platforms. Over the next five years, social media is expected to enjoy a 34% annual growth rate (compounded annual basis) with mobile marketing increasing by 27% a year. That means social media would explode from $716 million in 2009 to $3.11 billion by 2014.  Mobile marketing would zoom from $319 million this year to $1.27 billion by 2014.

Online display advertising is expected to go from $7.83 billion this year to $16.9 billion in 2014 – a 17% annual growth rate.  Today’s 800-pound gorilla, search marketing, is expected to grow more slowly, but still a very healthy 15% annually, which would take it from this year’s $15.39 billion to $31.59 billion five years from now. Email marketing is projected to go from $1.25 billion to $2.08 billion – an 11% annual rate of growth.

To show just how bad things are going for the traditional media platforms, a corollary report from Forrester says budgets for old standbys like television, print, radio and magazines, along with staff and training expenses and branding/advertising expenditures have been slashed by two-thirds from last year’s levels. When it comes to media and advertising, the Internet is obviously where you want to be.

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More Advertisers Turning To Internet

The majority (92%) of advertisers are using Internet advertising in their media campaigns followed by print advertising at 88 percent, according to a new LinkedIn Research Network/Harris Poll.

At the same time, less than half are using radio advertising (46%), television advertising (46%) and mobile advertising (39%). The Harris Poll found there is a regional difference as advertisers in the South are more likely to use radio advertising (57%) and television advertising (56%) while those in the West are least likely to use both (39% each).

Among those advertisers who are using each of these types of media, there is a difference in the level of usage since last year. Three-quarters of those who use Internet advertising (74%) say they are incorporating it more often while 69 percent of those who use mobile advertising are using it more often compared to a year ago. Unsurprisingly, the largest drop is with print advertising as half (49%) of those who use it are using it less often compared to a year ago while 41 percent are using it the same amount.

Of those who use Internet advertising just 14 percent say they use it in a standalone campaign, while 54 percent say the use it in an integrated campaign with other media and 33 percent use Internet advertising in both types of campaigns equally.

Four out of five advertisers who use Internet advertising use it as a branding device (79%) and two- thirds use it to drive information gathering for an offline transaction (65%). Slightly less than three in five advertisers (58%) use Internet advertising to drive online transactions while 57 percent say the use it to promote community around their brand.

Internet users find many aspects of online advertising very annoying. The majority (80%) say they find ads that expand on the page and cover the content very frustrating while 79 percent say ads where they can’t find the close or skip button are very frustrating.

Three-quarters of consumers (76%) find Internet ads that automatically pop up very frustrating while two-thirds (66%) say ads that open if they are “moused over” are very frustrating. Three in five consumers find both animated ads that automatically start playing and ads that play music and/or have loud soundtracks to be very frustrating (60% for both).

“Although the trend among advertisers is clearly towards the Internet, advertisers have to walk a fine line,” the study concludes.

At least three in five consumers are very frustrated with six of the main Internet advertising characteristics, and there is the potential to see a backlash forming. To be successful, those that advertise on the Internet will need to come up with more engaging ways to connect with consumers.  This is where Converg Media comes in, we bring the convergance of different media type into your advertising campaigns.

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The Doom of Traditional Media

Your navigational hierarchy plays a key role in passing link gain, deep into your website. Pages too far down your website tree won’t get enough attention to warrant high rankings.

It is important to optimize your website linking structure by creating a rich web of interlinking within your website. Whenever it is appropriate, we will include links to related products, related articles, related searches, etc. In doing so, we ensure the anchor text is optimal and visible enough to both the user and the search engines.

Clean website navigation structure helps enhance the user experience on the site, increase click through rate by providing shortcuts in form of mini sub navigations, improve internal linking between all relevant pages which helps build and promote pages similar in theme and topic

Link Popularity

Link popularity is one of the most important elements that search engines factor into their ranking algorithms. You may have a perfectly optimized website; however, if your site does not have competitive link popularity regarding your targeted keywords for optimization, then, your site is not likely to compete for top rankings of these phrases.

Elements search engine algorithms consider important when evaluating the strength of a link:

• Page rank of the page where your link appears.
• The actual text that is linked. For example, it is optimum to use your main keyword as the text that is linked instead of your company name.
• The link popularity of the site that is linking to your site. Link popularity is “inherited”; links that come from sites that are authoritative in the SEPV are more powerful.
• Industry relevancy of the sites promoting your products and services plays a big role in determining the quality of such link.

Get a Quote Today and see what Converg can do for you!

Make money with Converg Media’s SEO Experts…

Converg Media can help make you money. We produce SEO results that businesses love. Every client we help positions our customers for profit! If you buy SEO services from us, it will improve your bottom line.

We have another way to increase your profits:

Producing higher search engine placement for you isn’t the only way we can help you prosper. We have an unbeatable reseller opportunity. If you would like to offer unparalleled SEO services to your customers, it’s time to join forces with us.

This is how it works…

You sell our SEO services to your contacts and customers. You can do it in your own name, without even mentioning the Converg Media SEO team at all! Meanwhile, we will be in the background, producing SEO results that will keep your clients happy and your pockets full.

Just contact us and let us know how much work you expect to generate, and we will quote you, the reseller, the best possible discounted rate for SEO Services.

You quote your own price to your customers, and keep the difference as pure profit. Your customer never deals with us and never knows what you are paying. They pay you and credit you with the fantastic SEO Services they receive.

We can provide online support whenever necessary; our resellers handle localized support needs. You can go one step deeper and secure your own resellers, too!

This is why it works…

Our rates are spectacular. One of the reasons we are willing to offer such great rates is because we can deal in volume. We give fantastic rates to our resellers, who can then sell SEO services at a healthy profit. All you need is a good front-end; we handle everything else.

Our SEO reseller deal is even more attractive when you consider the massive demand for this service. Online business continues to explode, and every new start up has one thing in common — the need for Search Engine Optimization. The online economy generates thousands of new potential customers every single day!

This is who can make it work…A reseller opportunity in the SEO field is a potential winner for just about anyone. All you need to do is recruit the business and take the payment. We take care of the rest. It’s a perfect chance to sell something everyone wants without having to invest a great deal of time or energy in the process!

Are you looking for a part-time way to generate additional income? A SEO reseller relationship with Converg Media’s SEO Team is a perfect solution for anyone.

Are you already in the SEM/SEO business? Advertising agencies and graphic designers can use our reseller plan to handle customer needs with a profitable margin when they otherwise might have to turn down jobs due to time constraints or infrastructural expenses. We can handle overflow work or serve as a productive yet inexpensive part of your SEO team!

Do you work with other web businesses? If you are a designer, programmer, hardware seller, content producer, internet marketer or have any other links to the online business world, our SEO reseller plan is perfect for you. You can put a wonderful opportunity in front of your customers and clients. They receive a great attention and give the credit to you, while you turn a nice profit in the process. And it’s all nearly effortless!

Our current resellers are having a great deal of success selling our premium SEO services. You can be a successful SEO merchant almost overnight by teaming up with the Converg Media SEO Team. Contact Us and join in the profits.

Hard to believe?   This is the magic of article marketing, one of the last remaining effective marketing methods that is absolutely free and Converg Media takes that manual overhead off your plate!

Once we submit your article to our hand selected list of article directories, these articles will be used by numerous webmasters in their own sites.   Not only will this build your reputation as an authority in your field, but it will also provide you with free incoming links whenever your articles are used, considerably improving the Search Engine positioning for your site.

Identifying good article directories and submitting to as many of them as possible is the key to wide popularity and subsequent success — and this evidently is not an easy task!

We will manually submit your article to multiple article directories.

Sounds incredible?   Here is what we will do for you…

• 100% manual submission – High acceptance rate
• Submission to selected SEO friendly, high page rank directories
• Separate unique author accounts for your submissions
• Screen shot proof of each submission

We DO NOT use:

• Automated submission tools
• Multiple submission spamming
• Banned directories

We will submit your articles manually to each of the article directories from unique author accounts customized according to your specifications. As proof of submission, we will send you a report containing screen shots of each submission showing the respective article directory submission form with the contents of your article to be submitted.

We offer a unique opportunity for your company and website to become highly relevant.

Author Account Creation & Submission to at least 200 directories

We will create unique Author accounts in almost all the high ranked Article directories

Project Duration: Become the Author of your articles at 200 best article directories in just 4 working days

The Converg Media benefit to you: Fast manual author account creation at 200 popular directories in just 4 days.  Detailed reporting system with login information for all the 200 article directories. Manual Submission to 200 high ranked article directories to cover huge reader-base. Our manual submission includes 6 different resource contents for increased visibility in search engines.   An Inclusion of 18 links to get more entry points to your website.

Project Duration: Wide media coverage in just 10 working days.

Our team of new media experts will assist you in your successful fulfillment of your objectives from managing your ad campaigns to designing your website. Converg has experts in all media forms. Contact us today to find out more about what we can do for you.