November 2, 2012

Make Christmas Fun with a Portable North Pole Santa Video

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Recommendations Christmas Gifts, Portable North Pole

Screenshot Taken from Portable North Pole Website

Thinking of a way which you can make Christmas extra special for your kids. How about sending them a Portable North Pole Santa Video?

At Portable North Pole you can customize a message by Santa to your child with pictures of your little one embedded within the video. I made one for Doggie boy and it was really easy.

screenshot1 In just 4 simple step you can make and purchase your own unique Christmas greeting from Santa. The first step includes choosing whether the child has been nice, naughty or naughty and nice.

Screen capture from Portable North Pole

Next, you will need to choose your child’s gender, date of birth, country that he lives in an your relationship to him. You also have to fill in a short questionnaire on the message that you wish Santa to relay to your child via the video.

order form step 3

A summary is shown to you on the right column of the page which indicates the selections which you had made. If you wish to alter any of your prior selections you just need to click on the green button on the right next to the column that you wish to change. You will be taken back to your previous page and edits can be made easily.

Checkout

After everything has been been confirmed you will be brought to the checkout screen where you can check your order and op to pay by Visa, Mastercard or Paypal. I opted to pay by Paypal as it makes payment a breeze with it.

confirmation

You get instant confirmation about the purchase immediately after the order has been placed through. It took me about 10 minutes to complete my order and I’m looking forward to receiving the video link once their PNP video console is released in mid November.

I’m sure that Doggie boy will be simple ecstatic to see a personalized video from Santa with pictures of him inside. It would certainly be a Christmas which he will never forget.

How are you going to make your child’s Christmas a memorable occasion?

Disclaimer: I am participating in a campaign by Portable North Pole. All opinions expressed are 100% mine. This post has a Compensation Level of 13. Please visit Dominique’s Disclosure page for more information.

October 17, 2012

Mad Mimi E-mail Marketing a Breeze in Newsletter Creation

Dominique Recommendations Mad Mimi

Are you looking for a way to build up your mailing list? Do you have products to sell or services to offer and want to keep your readers in the loop with regular updates? Mad Mimi Email Marketing is something which you should certainly consider.

Mad Mimi is a simple fuss free e-mail marketing utility that can help you create stunning looking newsletters easily. You can use existing 31 themes and customize it your own header and pictures while designing your newsletter. That is certainly a lot of flexibility and choice that you have. Just look at the sample newsletter which I managed to create within 5 minutes!!

E-mail newsletter

Doesn’t the newsletter look professionally done up? You don’t even need to know about HTML and other technical stuff to create it. You just need to drag and drop what you need to create the newsletter with their WYSIWYG editor. This e-mail newsletter was sent to my inbox within minutes of creation and schedule to send on my dashboard. You can create your e-mail newsletters before hand and schedule them to send to your readers on a certain day each week if you intend to send out a weekly e-mail newsletter.

Mad Mimi has tracking system in place so you know how many of your e-mails that you sent out were read and how successful your campaigns are in graphics on your dashboard. It really helps you in monitoring your newsletter.

With all e-mail marketing systems we need to weigh the Pros and Cons before deciding on which one to go with.

Here is a list of Pros and Cons for Mad Mimi.

Pros:

Unlimited image hosting (Market Standard is 5-10 MB)
Bulk image uploading available.
Can export a clean contact list that automatically removes bounced and unsubscribed email addresses
A real person manually reviews your email campaign before it’s sent
Easily share your newsletter across various social media outlets like Facebook, twitter, pinterest and Google +

Cons:

Fewer than 100 email templates available
Spam checker not available
Phone support not available

For me the Pros outweigh the cons and I certainly recommend Mad Mimi E-mail Marketing if you are starting out on creating your own e-mail list. With the option having a free account for up to 100 contacts you can test out yourself today.

What are you waiting for?

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post for Mad Mimi, however, all the points and views are 100% my own