Free WrapMail for Google Apps for Business

Many companies move to having their emails hosted by Google in Google Apps for Business. This way users get access to all the features of Google Apps and the ease of the gmail interface. Setting up a free WrapMail account could not be easier, simply go to the website and click on “Sign Me Up for FREE” and then create your wrap in the WrapMaker found in your WrapMail Dashboard. WrapMail even offers to make your first custom wrap for free based on your website! Then, when your wrap has been made it is very simple to get started; just log into your Google Business Apps account and go to “Service Settings”, click on “email” and enter in WrapMail’s server in the “Outbound Gateway” box and send emails. They will all arrive in the wrap you chose so recipients see your images and can click on these to go to various parts of your website. WrapMail even reports clicks right back to your inbox! WrapMail is also compatible with Google Analytics so you can track the effectiveness of your emails also there.

Just click here to see some client examples.

WrapMail approved by Google Analytics and listed in the Google directory

WrapMail was just approved by Google for inclusion in the Google Analytics Application/Product Marketplace. The listing can be found here

WrapMail has for long been listed in the Google Apps Marketplace with both the Business and Educational email marketing solution.

Companies invest a great deal in their website which is often the only “store” where they showcase products and services. The challenge is to drive people to the website but as we all know, more people in the store will typically lead to more sales. Corporate employees send emails every day to clients, prospects, friends and others but these are plain emails that do not generate any traffic to the website.
WrapMail offers a solution that does not require any installation but that seamlessly adds interactive letterheads (designed by the client) to every outgoing email so that each and every one becomes a promotional piece for the company and when clicked delivers the reader to the website. Furthermore the solution tracks the clicks and reports who is clicking on what and when (also in real time), turning the system into a research tool.
This “hidden” advertising medium is probably the most viral available and the least costly, WrapMail only charges $5 per user per month (and a one-time signup charge of $150 which includes a custom wrap).

Email Marketing does not have to mean only mass emails

Companies invest a great deal in their website which is often the only “store” where they showcase products and services. The challenge is to drive people to the website but as we all know, more people in the store will lead to more sales. Corporate employees send emails every day to clients, prospects, friends and others but these are plain emails that do not generate any traffic to the website.
WrapMail offers a solution that does not require any installation but that seamlessly adds interactive letterheads (designed by the client) to every outgoing email so that each and every one becomes a promotional piece for the company and when clicked delivers the reader to the website. Furthermore the solution tracks the clicks and reports who is clicking on what and when (also in real time), turning the system into a research tool.
This “hidden” advertising medium is probably the most viral available and the least costly, WrapMail only charges $5 per user per month.

WrapMail Lite Launches

We are pleased to announce the official launch of WrapMail Lite for independent consultants in multilevel marketing companies. Independent consultants now have access to the same powerful email marketing software that WrapMail Pro clients use. After signing up for the web-based system, reps will choose their affiliation or network marketing group by selecting a professionally designed wrap which they can customize with their picture, personal web site link & contact info, then, they can send emails and track their activity.

Currently, there are more than 30 companies that reps can choose wraps from with plans to have more than 100 multilevel marketing companies in the system by the end of January. Some of the current companies include: Amway, Arbonne International, Shop to Earn, Avon, Mary Kay, Monavie, Pampered Chef, Herbalife, and Your Travel Biz. The cost for the service is $4.95 per month or $49.95 for the year.  Here’s the full list of currently available groups to choose from:

Ameriplan
Amway
Arbonne
Avon
Creative Memories
Dubai MLM
Enagic
Eniva
FreeLife
Genewize
Herbalife
IntelaTrader
Isagenix
Longaberger
Malaleuca
Mary Kay
Monavie
Nuskin
Pampered Chef
Party Lite
Passion Parties
Pre-Paid Legal
Shaklee
Shop2Earn
Southern Living at Home
Stampin Up
Tastefully Simple
Tru Chocolate
Tupperware
U1st Financial
USANA
USBorne
Warranties for Less
Xango
YTB
Zrii

The Wrap can be linked back to the sender’s unique web site, blog, or the corporate site. When the Wrap is clicked, the system will report who is clicking on the sender’s Wrap and when. With an estimated 15 million people in the U.S. involved in network marketing and more than 68 million worldwide, we thought this was a natural product for us to launch. Additionally, given the current economic conditions, we expect the activity in MLMs to increase and WrapMail Lite is a very inexpensive tool for independent reps to use to grow their business.

Wrap it up and stay tuned for more updates!

Dave Kustin – CMO, WrapMail

WrapMail, web statistics and Google Analytics

WrapMail offers full reporting as far as what recipients are clicking on what element of a wrap (a wrap is the html surrounding the text that is delivered via a server so clients do not need to install software on any desktop or cell phone).

In addition to the reporting offered through WrapMail’s control panel clients can also find WrapMail’s unique links (that all start with t0.wrapmail if shared solution) in the referrer list when they check their website statistics using any statistics tool including Google Analytics.

regular emails deliver website traffic

Statistics will show how many new visitors were driven to the clients website directly from a sent email. For those who are not WrapMail clients these statistics are not available/possible.

We all send emails every day, why not use them to promote our own business?

Letter to Governor Charlie Crist

Governor:

I read in the Sun Sentinel on almost a daily basis how more funding is needed for the public school system and believe that I have an “outside the box” solution. I have always been an entrepreneur of sorts and as such look for alternative ways to make money. When I look at government anywhere in the world then the mentality is pretty one of “taking money” – read: tax. I would love somebody in Government to look at the other side of the equation: make money. All government institutions have opportunities to make money, some in more obvious ways than others and deploying such new ideas combined with more efficiency could result in lower taxes, better schools and happier people.

You notice how this email is “wrapped” in an interactive letterhead which consist of images with embedded links to various portions of our website. WrapMail currently performs this service for Broward College and every email sent from faculty or staff brands the college, promotes the many different educational programs, the foundation etc and links back to various portions of BC’s website. The basic principle behind WrapMail (which has been developed in-house in our Fort Lauderdale headquarter) is to connect two obvious dots: organizations have websites and employees that send emails. WrapMail turns every email into a branding tool for the organization, drives people to the website AND turns into a research tool as the system matches up sender and receiver when a link is clicked (telling our clients who is interested in what and when). WrapMail is server based so nothing is installed on any desktop or cell phone, i.e. senders have no new routines to learn.

Here’s where I’d like to connect the opening statement and the quick overview of WrapMail and Broward College:

BC has about 2,000 faculty and staff, in addition they have close to 150,000 student email accounts.

The NEW idea: Solicit advertising from major corporations to be in the BC wrap. Imagine what it would be worth to say, Apple, to be featured in every external email sent from broward.edu. We believe it is worth about $5.00 per click or 5 cents per impression. The reason these ads are worth much more than banner ads is the fact that they appear in an email between people that know each other. WrapMail is not a mass email system, it is all about using the emails employees send every day anyway – why not use these to promote your own organization. Another potential advertiser in the BC wrap is also very obvious: The State of Florida.

The numbers:

BC sends about 200,000 emails daily
5 cents per impression of one advertisement: $10,000 daily “revenue” or $2.5M per year (and that’s only for one advertisement).
Even with some hefty discounts this could become a major funding source for Broward College.

Imagine rolling this program out to all public educational institutions in Florida.

WrapMail would be willing to provide the technology for free against sharing the advertising revenue.

There’s more: you will notice on the bottom of this email that there’s an amber alert for a Florida missing child. We feed these alerts automatically into all of our emails to increase the impressions of missing kids in the hope that more visibility increases the chances of finding them.

The bottom line is that I wanted to make you aware of our little technology company down here in Fort Lauderdale and how this technology combined with some outside the box thinking could provide great opportunities for the entire State.

I would love to discuss this in more detail so feel free to contact me at any time.

Thank you

________________
Rolv E. Heggenhougen, CEO
305 S. Andrews Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
US Office: (954)-376-4750

The Power of a Simple Idea

6 days ago we posted a video pitch on the pitch section of TechCrunch, which is one of the most read blogs on the internet.  Today, our pitch is the highest rated on TechCrunch. I believe it is the highest rated because of the power of “the simple idea.” In the years before email, corporations ALWAYS sent external written correspondence on stationery, which of course included a logo and contact information.  

Fast forward to the days of corporate email and there are currently billions of corporate email users sending out trillions of emails that are essentially on blank sheets of paper. Think about that.  Imagine you are corporation and you send an introductory letter to a prospect and you send it on a plain white sheet of paper. Wow, that’s pretty memorable…I mean forgettable.  Yes, some email users include a logo in their signature, but c’mon this is the 21st century we’re more high-tech than that aren’t we?  

WrapMail takes that blank email from every employee and turns it into a branded piece of collateral and is linked back to your website.  The links are clickable and trackable which means that corporations now have their very own research tool as part of every email that is sent from every employee.  Mind you, these are emails that are going to be sent anyway, might as well put them to work.

Interactive letterhead for your email.  Simple.

 

Dave Kustin – EVP Marketing, WrapMail

Marketing – Focus

I just read that Twitter has secured another round of funding and one of the founders says that they will worry about the business model (read = revenue) after they firm up their infrastructure.  Huh?  I’m trying to think hard about this, but I’m pretty sure had I told my finance professor in business school that “I’ll worry about the revenue model for my business plan later” I think he would have flunked me.  How do these companies get funding without a clear revenue model? Amazes me.  

Marketing is no different.  Having a clear focus on what your brand means and stands for is utterly and completely essential to long term success, it cannot be overstated enough.  Being able to create a brand and word/concept association in the minds of consumers is key.  For example: Volvo = safety, Red Bull = energy drink, TechCrunch = source for tech news, Apple = cool/hip consumer electronics, WalMart = retailer of all things…get my point?  Focus is what enables consumers to create a mental shorthand for your brand.  This is ultimately done by having a clear, PRE-planned business strategy (see above) and then following that with clear, concise language, images, advertising strategies, etc.. that are memorable and different from the competition.  Being first helps too (see this post).

 

Dave Kustin – EVP Marketing, WrapMail

 

WrapMail on YouTube and TechCrunch

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WrapMail on TechCrunch

Positioning & the iPhone

There has been a great deal of talk about the iPhone - how revolutionary it is, the latest version and of course competitors to it.  The iPhone is beginning to take a chunk of the Smart Phone category away from BlackBerry.  Additionally, much of the recent press has been about the competition releasing devices to combat the iPhone and how great the devices are, blah, blah, blah.  I have some bad news for the competition.  They will never surpass the iPhone in popularity.  I am not saying this because I am an Apple loyalist (I do not own an iPhone).  I am saying this because it is law.  It is part of the laws of “Positioning” which in marketing-speak is to say that the iPhone has captured the “first-mover” position in the minds of consumers.  In addition to their superior operating system, which the competition cannot copy, they have created the perception of innovation with the iPhone as it relates to what consumers were used to.

All that said, the iPhone will most likely never supplant BlackBerry as the number one Smart Phone either and will remain the #2 in the category.  But, the competition will never supplant the iPhone and what it has done in terms of its market share.  The iPhone will however, be the #1 touch screen phone, if it already isn’t. Remember when the iPod came out and was subsequently followed by all the iPod killers like the Zune? Umm, where’s the Zune now?  Same law is in effect.  First mover, combined with innovation, from a company that has the ability to let customers know about new products will always own the mind of the consumer.

WrapMail will abide by the same law.  We have the first-mover advantage and have created innovation to the most frequently used business communication tool there is – email. Much like the iPhone did for Smart Phones, we will benefit from the same transformation in consumer thinking and perception about email marketing and how to use ‘everyday’ emails to communicate to customers and prospects.

 

Dave Kustin - EVP Marketing, WrapMail