Archive for 2010
Mailing Lists & eNewsletters for your Business
Posted by admin in Marketing Desk on November 9, 2010
Move from sending plain unbranded emails to your clients to dazzling them with professionally laid out email newsletters.
An eNewsletter is a correspondence email, usually sent to a mailing list containing multiple email addresses, that allows you to communicate with your clients and prospective clients. The content of the message may cover a broad range of topics, such news, columns, opinions and events.
HTML email messages (eNewsletters) are very popular for several reasons: they enhance your branding, they include links, images, colors, and they can be managed easily with templates.
HarvestSMS Hits 700 User Milestone
Posted by admin in Inside Exist Digital on September 1, 2010
The HarvestSMS’ service which allows the sending of messages from the web to cellphones both locally and internationally from a minimum charge of 5cents has reached an astounding 700 users, with a network coverage of more than 500 networks.
Lauched by Harvest International in May last year and currently managed by Exist Digital, the www.harvestsms.com’s service ranges from sending single to bulk messages by just one click.
A HarvestSMS spokesperson hints with this service people are able to communicate to their targeted audiences about promotions, new products, public relations or reminders and notices.
“Some of our big clients include Trust Academy, Kingdom Bank, Genesis Bank, ABC Auctions and Truworths, among others.”
“Using the service is fast and easy. Delivery is almost instant. Sending one hundred messages from your cellphone is not easy unlike when you are using HarvestSMS it will be a matter of a single click, she said.”
The spokesperson adds users can schedule messages to be sent at anytime and you can also personalise the messages.
HarvestSMS’ service encompasses everyone, from individuals, business people, social groups, churches, schools and hospitals.
Truworths IT manager, Joseph Kativhu says his firm uses the service for payment reminders and promotions.
“Before this we were using emails and there was a very low turnout as people cited they were not receiving emails. Ever since we started using this service, responses have increased sharply and more and more people are now paying in time.
“As for promotions, there is a huge response whenever we send out messages. We are generally happy with the service and it has made life easier and has increased our turnover significantly,” he said.
The HarvestSMS spokesperson concludes people can log on to www.harvestsms.com and sign up for free to create an account.
We Are Moving…
Posted by admin in Inside Exist Digital on August 13, 2010
Dear clients, friends and partners
Please note that as from Tuesday August 17, Exist Digital, Harvest SMS and PressRelease.co.zw will be operating from our new Belvedere offices, located at 72 Eastcourt Road (email us for map).
As the company has grown we have found it necessary to find an alternative, more spacious location. We will maintain our link with the office at 336 Herbert Chitepo Avenue, where our sister company Harvest International t/a eatout.co.zw still operates from.
Till further notice, you may continue to leave material for websites and make payments at 336 Herbert Chitepo Ave.
We look forward to seeing you at our new offices.
Here’s to more fruitful online EXISTences!
Best wishes,
The Exist Digital Team
Email
Our main email address for now remains:
exist@harvest.co.zw
Our numbers:
We will let you know once our new numbers are in place. In the meantime please continue to use:
0912 393 863
0912 913 184
PressRelease.co.zw – Zimbabwe’s Portal to the World
Posted by admin in The Work we are Doing on July 8, 2010
Innovative local IT firm, Exist Digital have launched a new website that will make it easy for organisations and individuals to tell the world what they are doing- at a click.
PressRelease.co.zw, which went live early this week, will enable anyone who has something to tell the world to submit it for publication. Normally companies and organisations want to let the press know when they have events, new products and other news to share but many do not know where to start.
The new website will enable anyone to send in their press release for uploading at no cost. Companies that require extensive online publicity can sign up for various packages at a cost.
Exist Digital is a web solutions and online marketing company that focuses on creating and expanding the online existence of human beings and the organisations they create.
PressRelease.co.zw has started and continues to establish linkages with local and international news agencies. Daily mailshots of new press releases that appear on the website will be sent out to newspapers and agencies and so anything published on the website will potentially be published in thousands of newspapers, blogs and magazines around the world.
Submissions in the areas of business, politics, entertainment, sport, technology and more are now being collected and can be sent to info@pressrelease.co.zw.
PressRelease will be an up-to-date information portal that will be updated on a daily basis as and when updates are received. The website itself will be part of a bigger online project that will include a Facebook page, Twitter, Digg, and Zimbablog accounts and other online information dissemination tools.
Exist has established various mass mailing lists meant for sending specific information to specific receivers. The categories include journalists, advertising companies, marketing managers and chief executive officers, among others.
Tuku Music Thrilled by Exist Digital
Posted by admin in Marketing Desk on June 28, 2010
We took some time out to have a chat with Shepherd Mutamba, the Public Relations Manager of Tuku Music in order to find out how having us develop and manage their website has helped them, as a business. The Tuku Music website address is www.tukumusik.com. Below is the question and answer conversation.
Exist Digital: How has having a website developed and managed by us helped you in your business so far?
Tuku Music: We treat www.tukumusik.com as the window for Oliver Mtukudzi, Tuku Music Company and Pakare Paye Arts Centre. The website has enhanced our visibility in terms of news and information, including projects that we disseminate to the world.
The age when everyone relied on newspapers that reserve the right to publish is gone. Websites/ cyber publishing are now the future. We can now interact with fans and the wider music and entertainment sector because our website provides that networking. We also market our performances through the calendar of events on our site and the hits (reads) on the calendar are very encouraging considering that our new website is barely six months old.
Exist Digital : What challenges are you facing with the website?
Tuku Music : Honestly, there are no challenges right now. Things are perfect and our website host Exist Digital is commended for doing truly professional work especially the speed with which they do our content updates which enables us to disseminate information as things happen.
Exist Digital: Would you recommend a website to someone who does not have it yet?
Tuku Music: Of course yes, I would anytime. In fact, after seeing the Tuku Music website several artists are enquiring through Tuku Music about how and who can develop and host their own websites. I will not hesitate to recommend Exist Digital.
Exist Digital: Is there any area that you would want us to improve on in terms of service delivery and customer service?
Tuku Music: On service delivery, we can’t complain. It’s superb. Exist Digital including your partners FungaiFoto and Zimbojam.com are professionals one can rely on. They make our work much, much manageable. As for customer care, many thanks for the herbal tea that keeps flowing!