Exist Digital | Website Design, Social Marketing, eNewsletters

Mailing Lists & eNewsletters for your Business

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:52:54 +0000

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.

eNewsletters will give you the opportunity to remarket your company and its services in a modern, simple and effective way.

•   eNewsletters also serve as a continual and regular form of contact between you and your clients/ prospective clients.
•   The end result is awareness of your spectrum of services/ products, more email feedback and a larger, loyal audience and client base.
•   Internet marketing activities are generally focused on two goals; generating feedback and enhancing the value of your brand. These are typical goals, even of traditional marketing, but on the Internet they take on an entirely new dimension.
•   The cost of creating and sending an eNewsletter is a fraction of the cost of a printed one.
•   By communicating with your audience and prospects on a regular basis you will ensure that your business is always ‘front of mind’ when they make purchasing decisions.
•   You can tell your target audience about your company and about products and services that meet their needs. The more they know about you, the more likely they are to try your products and use your services.
•   An eNewsletter will assist you in building and strengthening relationships with clients/ customers and audience in helping to ensure they stay with you for the long term.
•   eNewsletter lead times are shorter than for printed materials, which means that you can be more responsive and seize opportunities as they arise (For instance, there is an important news flash, notice or story. You then don’t have to wait for placing the information in newspapers and wait for them to go out on the streets. You can use an eNewsletter to send an immediate news item/ notice to its clients/customers or audience so that they know what is happening quickly.
•   eNewsletters can be used to gather information from customers by encouraging interaction and dialogue. You can use this data to improve your products and services.
•   Including hyperlinks or email addresses in your eNewsletter allows people to respond instantly. In other words, eNewsletters make it easy for people to buy from you- creating room for dialogue.

Connect to your clients using the power of enewsletters and mailing lists. Send emails to thousands of people with just one click. Click here to join our mailing lists. Contact us for more information. To advertise in our weekly enewsletters click here.

HarvestSMS Hits 700 User Milestone

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:03:37 +0000

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…

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:14:48 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:51:39 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:28:45 +0000

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!

Who’s doing your website these days?

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:57:04 +0000

That’s a question we cannot resist asking the people we meet, for one simple reason; We design websites ourselves and if you are happy with your website, then no quarrels. BUT, if you’re not, then we’d like the answer to that question to be: “Exist Digital.”

Why? Perhaps a look at our portfolio will answer that. We endeavour to make sure that our client’s online presence is beneficial to them.

Beneficial meaning that you get results from your website. Whether it be more sales queries, an increase in customers, greater profitability or a surge in online sales, that’s what we seek. For you.

Webdev knows a thing or two about search engine optimisation

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:13:49 +0000

A few days ago, I started talking about search engine optimisation. There’s one web development company in Zimbabwe that’s actually doing some things right in this regard. Their name is Webdev and, yes they are our competition but it’s a big sky and there’s room enough for every bird to fly, so we WILL mention them by name.

I’d like you to take a look at the following sites:

What do they have in common (besides the fact that they were all built by Webdev)?

Hint: Look at the sponsored links.

We have a winner! Vonai Ratisai!

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:37:02 +0000

Our first 1Gb flash stick from our draw for last week goes to Vonai Ratisai. Many thanks to every one who sent in emails. We’re giving away another flash stick this week so keep them emails rolling in!

Happy Birthday to the website that reminds us of breakfast

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:24:54 +0000

When we think Zimbo Jam the first thing that comes to our minds is marmalade on warm toast. Then almost immediately we think about music, theatre, dance, visual art, fun, the thumping beat of life. For these are the things that the Zimbo Jam has brought to our lives- music from the shows we never attended, theatre from stages we couldn’t be present at, dance from across the world into our homes and offices, visual art that we would otherwise have been blind to, and yes, loads and loads of tangible fun!

The thumping beat of life.

The Zimbo sweetest Jam.

The day that you turn one.

Marmalade. Sweet marmalade. May all your jams be sweet. Happy birthday dear friend.

We’re giving away 10 flash sticks!

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:29:49 +0000

To celebrate the launch of our new website, Exist Digital is giving away TEN 1Gb flash sticks.

Simply email us the answer to this question:

Name any one service that Exist Digital offers.

To email us use the feedback form on our Contact Us page.

Conditions

Only one entry per person is permitted.
Staff and relatives of staff of Exist Digital and its sister companies may not participate.
Deadline for entries is every Friday at 1pm on 30th October, 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th November 2009.
Two flash sticks will be given away every Friday during the competition’s duration.
Only entries from Zimbabwe will be permitted.
Winners will be drawn from entries with the correct response to the competition question.
The judges decision will be final. No correspondence will be entered into.