Mad Mimi - Email Marketing Tool Suitable for Bhutanese Bloggers

I would like to give few backgrounds of Mad Mimi before actually explaining its suitability for Bhutanese bloggers. Mad Mimi, as an email marketing service was founded in the year 2008 by Gary Levitt, who was then into the business of Music Production. Mad Mimi was borne out of his mind when none of existing email tool could meet his expectations. 

 

In 2014, GoDaddy purchased Mad Mimi at an agreed price of $45 millions. Therefore, Mad Mimi is now 100% GoDaddy owned Email Marketing Services. 

Why Mad Mimi would the best email marketing service for Bhutanese Bloggers?

If we look into the number of bloggers from Bhutan and their patterns of blogging, one can say for quite sure that Bhutanese bloggers aren't a bunch of serious bloggers. They don't care whether their blogs are free-hosted, self-hosted, paid domain or free domain. They only want some area to write. This means they are also bunch of bloggers who won't be willing to pay for their email marketing services and paid advertising of their blogs - they aren't serious bloggers. 

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They want their blogs free-hosted with free domain. They don't care of content advertising because they aren't a group of pro bloggers aiming to take blogging seriously and also make some money out of their monetization. 

In other countries, bloggers are treated as people who are into business. But in Bhutan, blogging means just writing articles and sharing with friends. Nothing much. 

They don't care of email list building and email marketing. 

Email marketing means sending your blog's contents as emails to a list of contacts you have gathered-email list. In blogging term, this is called as campaign. 

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You must have received some emails giving you links to purchase so and so from this and that links. These are nothing but campaigns. 

Mad Mimi also provides services in email list building and then creating campaigns. There are many companies that provide email marketing services like Mad Mimi does. But then why Mad Mimi for Bhutanese Bloggers?

Bhutanese bloggers don't like to pay for email marketing. Yet they want to share their post articles and increase traffics. In this case, features provided by Mad Mimi come as missing link. 

Mad Mimi features to suit Bhutanese bloggers:

• Bhutanese bloggers are new into blogging. Mad Mimi is a simple Email Marketing Tool.
• Bhutanese bloggers aren't willing to pay for email marketing. In Mad Mimi an email can be sent to 100 people.
• Bhutanese bloggers like any blogger love beautiful designs. Mad Mimi has good campaign designs. 
• Bhutanese bloggers love sharing to many friends. Mad Mimi is integrated with other social media.
• Bhutanese bloggers want something ready. Mad Mimi has email marketing templates already being designed.

It's only when you send emails through such campaigns, your blog will receive regular readers and also new followers. I have been using Mad Mimi for few months and has also created two-three campaigns. 

How to join Mad Mimi?

Step-1
Open Mad Mimi.

Step-2
Click on Create Account

Step-3
Get your Email ID verified
     

Step-4
Open your Mad Mimi Dashboard 
      
Step-5
Click on Compose for New Campaign

Step-6
Click on Audience to add Contacts 
        
Step-7
You can then send the campaign.
   

If all the people you have added in audience open their inbox, your campaign would have got delivered. If they happen to open it, your blog's views will get increased. It seems cool, right? Try it then.

10 genuine methods for Bhutanese to make alternative income

If you think there are no other ways of making alternative income in Bhutan and you are suffering to make ends meet, probably you must have not gone out of your house and walked beyond your backyard lawn. If you really try to read things around you, there are many sources from which you can make good alternative income.

So today I have come up with a list of methods through which you can make good side income. There may be more. But I don't want to explain things I haven't experienced. So this list shall be a list of genuine alternative income making methods.
       

#1 RICBL Sales Executive Membership

You must have heard this before. There are 2000 plus Bhutanese working as part time Sales Executives with RICBL. It’s a commission based. You will be paid depending on the number of people you have helped in getting insured – just like referrals of any blog monetization program.  

          
If you can insure more people, higher will be your commission. It’s very much simple. But they have different commission rates for different insurance policies. However it guarantees a continued income. Once a person you have recommended gets insured, you’ll be receiving commission until his policy gets matured. 

I am also one such Sales Executive. I have attended training conducted by RICBL sometimes in 2014 and got certified. Till now, I have insured around 24 people (mostly my relatives and friends) fetching me monthly commission of Nu.3,500 per month. If I can insure more people, my commission will increase. 

 
Since this provides an opportunity of making good money, some of my friends have resigned from their jobs and are into doing full time Sales Executives. They are earning as high as Nu.80,000 commission in a month. 

#2 Freelance Tourist Guides

If you know how to communicate in Chinese, Japanese, Thai or Korean languages, you’ll get part time job as local tourists’ guide to guide tourists from those countries in and around Thimphu/Paro during weekends.

My office colleague Singye earns more than USD 100 per day by doing part time guide during weekends and government holidays. He has studied his bachelor degree in Japan and knows Japanese language well.    

 

#3 Tuition Works

In town there is always one or two parents who want their children undergo tuition after school or during weekends. You can take one or two from your neighborhood and start the tuition in the subject where your capabilities lie. If you can do well, you will get more number of tutees in coming days thereby increasing your side income.

But it’s quite cumbersome. You have to study before tuition, prepare lesson plans and collect study materials to deliver valuable tuition. It’s best for teachers.
   

#4 Accounts Preparation

If you are good in book keeping, accounts preparation or Bhutanese tax computation policies, there will be someone who would love to have you handling their commercial works’ accounts. You can target travel agents. There are many travel agents who scratch their heads during annual BIT and PIT filing. You can grasp such opportunities. 



You must know some people who are into such line of business. If you don’t, it’s never too early to start building relationship. My friend earns more than Nu.15,000 in a month out of handling accounts of petty businesses in and around Thimphu.

#5 Web Designing Works

If you have studied computer science, BCA or knows web designings and wants to make some alternative income, you can design websites and sell. You can focus travel agents.

They won’t look much into technicalities and professionalism. Many of my friends who are making side income from such works are just customizing WordPress themes and delivering to them. It’s not very difficult.

#6 Blogging & Affiliate Marketing

If you have a good blog with unique contents and good number of visitors, then you can start integrating it with various content monetization programs.



You can sign up with Google Adsense, VigLink, Bidvertiser, InFolinks and more to start earning some extra income out of your blog/website. You can read my recommended blog monetization programs for Bhutanese.

#7 Facebook Group/Page Maintenance

I am sure you must have come across the second hand stuffs trading group in Facebook. I am not talking about other copied versions of Passang Passu Tshering’s Facebook group. I am talking about B-bay founded by Passu Diary.

If you ask Passang Tshering on how much and how he earns from this group, you’ll get convinced that Facebook too can be a source of alternative income. But you must have good number of members or followers in page/group you can access.

#8 Website Contents Writing

Some travel agents are paying to update their websites with tourism related updates and happenings on regular basis. If you have good command in English and online marketing skills, you will surely get one or two travel agents who will be willing to pay for your services.

It’s not only travel agents, some new firms will also offer you with money to write reviews of their products or services to penetrate market.

#9 Freelance Photographer

Just like people of other countries, more and more Bhutanese people are becoming but who love being photographed in good dresses and during special occasions.

If you have passion in photography and also own good camera and accessories, people who want to photograph family photos, banner photos, ads photos, cover photos, content photos, album and visual are many.

#10 Other Sources

There are also many genuine ways of making alternative income in Bhutan. If you are passionate of paintings, drawings, wood carving, you can also make good side income during weekends. Your passion will remain lit as well as you will get paid.

Some of my friends are also making side income by selling cars or land plots of others for agreed rate of commission.
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However, it doesn't mean that I am encouraging you to remain materialistic and go after money all the time. You should also give time for your children, parents, loved ones and friends. Money is not everything.

How to add social media sharing buttons in blog to grow visitors?

We have posted a tutorial on how to add Social Media share buttons powered by Addthis manually in your blog via secondary gadget. That was quite a basic and doesn't guarantee availability of room for changes in future. Moreover, adding third party gadget in your blog reduces loading speed.

Therefore, today I would like to extend that tutorial to little advance level, but to better level, and take you through in adding Social Media sharing buttons of Addthis by getting inside Addthis dashboard. We have done same in Getsitecontrol. This means by creating an account with Addthis, subscribing to all its tools and keeping them enabled and active.

Let us get started. Please follow the given steps:

Step-1

Open Addthis.

            

Step-2

Create your Account.

      

Step-3

Click on 'Get Share Buttons'

           

Step-4

Choose a side. Left or Right

            

Step-5

Choose theme. Consider the background of your blog.

               

Step-6

Give title of the gadget

              

Step-7

Select the number of buttons you want.

           

Step-8 

You can click on 'Show More Options'

          

Step-9

Make customization as you wants

            

Step-10 

Click on Activate. You're done! 

                 

Addthis not only provides social media sharing buttons for bloggers. It also provides email list building facilities, content recommendation gadget, social media follow buttons, analytical tools and also conversion tools. And all those tools are for free. Wonderful, right?