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Google Docs is a useful online application that many people use to create electronic documents such as text documents and spreadsheets. Today, we will be talking about Google Docs Spreadsheet application that lets you manage spreadsheets online. Suppose you have a mailing list created in Google Docs Spreadsheet that you need to export into a mass mailer such as Email Marketing Courier.

In this article, we will talk about how to export any Open Office / Neo Office spreadsheet into a CSV file. CSV format is a standard plain-text data feed format that has been around since 1960s. It can be used as a data feed with almost any software that has a file import feature. You can use CSV file format to transfer database information between several software products that support CSV file format.

In this article, I am going to explain you what CSV file is, and what you need it for. I will also teach you how to export any Apple iWork Numbers spreadsheet into a CSV file. CSV format was invented long time ago in 1967 and is pretty standardized by now. It can be used with almost any database and spreadsheet processor that has a file import or export feature.

Today we are going to learn how to export any Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet XLS to CSV file. You probably know that CSV file format is standardized and supported in almost any database or spreadsheet management software as an import and export option. CSV file can be used to transfer information between Microsoft Excel and any other software that supports CSV import and export.

Bob just downloaded an email marketing software from the Internet and he is striving to make his first powerful email blast. He is happy, he is anticipating the moment when the first thousands of dollars will start to arrive. He already subscribed for an email mailing list service in a reputable company and composed a beautiful email message template that perfectly fits into the list subject. He hits the send button in an email marketing software and oops, he gets a message that he needs to configure smtp outgoing server before he can go on.

It looks like almost all folks trying email marketing for the first time in their life make the same silly mistake all over again. They want to pay zero in expenses and expect to get astonishing results. It looks like a hundred dollars more in expenses really matters when thousands of dollars are expected from email campaigns. Please, remember the old tale: "Free cheese can exist in a mouse trap only".

Email list marketing is normally done with the use of email message templates and email address lists. Combined together they yield personalized email messages delivered to every person on the address lists. Email message templates can be easily created in any email program, text or html editor and therefore will not be discussed in this article. However the process of getting email address lists for most of beginners in this field is sort of pain-in-the-ass since it involves different types of data transformations.

If you read this article, you are definitely into email marketing and interested in one important thing, how to make your customers to read your e-mail newsletter and react on it. First of all, I would like to talk about the content of email newsletter template, then we will discuss some technical issues that many people experience while delivering newsletters based on email newsletter template.

E-mail newsletter is a very effective email marketing technique used by advertisers to market products and services using email as an information carrier. Many people like you believe that e-mail newsletter must be created and sent by professionals who dedicate their time and skills in email marketing only and therefore might do it better than you. Other people think that sending e-mail newsletter is dangerous because of the tricky anti-spam laws existing in the United States and they prefer to stay away. If you do so, you miss the opportunity.