Here are three great services that can help you market to your audience via email:

Campaigner – The Campaigner service really focuses on making email marketing easy.  You can pick from predesign templates for your email messages, get statistics on who is reading your email announcements you send out and save some money too.  While the service is not 100% free, you do get a 30 day free trial and the average cost after that is only $10 per month.

MailChimp – I am a big fan of what MailChimp does, because they seem to be a company that is really staying up to date with all the latest and greatest ways you can reach your customers and they provide you with great tools to do so.  They give you all the same basic email marketing tools Campaigner does, but you can also sign up for a free account.  The free account is limited to 1,000 subscribers a month and 6,000 emails per month – but that should be enough room to help you decide if it is the right tool for you to use in your own business.

RatePoint – The RatePoint service takes the cake when it comes to providing you both free and premium email marketing services.  It does not just stop at email marketing though.  They also give you business review tools, online survey tools, and social marketing tools too.  Using the free service, you can send emails out to 550 contacts and the premium services start at $25 per month.

Which One is the Best E-mail Marketing Tool?

That is a hard call to make, but I think the fight would be between MailChimp and RatePoint.  Where MailChimp gives you more bang for your buck when it comes to the number of people you can contact, RatePoint gives you more tools to use to grow your business. 

MindMeister.com – With mobile, offline and online mind mapping tools, this brain storming tool is perfect to mind map with, no matter where you need to do it from.

XMind.net – XMind is the self proclaimed coolest brain storming and mind mapping software package out there.  It does provide a great way to share ideas, and comes in both free and paid for versions.

Mindomo.com – Mindomo lets you organize your ideas, solve everyday problems, plan and track projects, manage tasks and define goals.  One of the better mind mapping tools, and worth the price.

Web.DropMind.com – Collaborate, and share your ideas with others.  This unique mind mapping tool is a little more affordable than the others. You can create FREE mind mapping account in 40 seconds, to test it out too!

Know of any more mind mapping tools, either free or premium, that are worth checking out?  Be sure to leave them in the comments so we can all check them out!

Far from being just another off topic service, in a world filled with them, the new Web Hosting Show Coupons and Deals page will deliver, and impress you.  This was a quick project I cooked up over the weekend, to better serve the public at large by delivering a better way to keep track of the latest coupons, deals and special offers from the entire web hosting world out there.

Point your browser towards: http://www.webhostingshow.com/coupons/

Once you navigate yourself to the web site, you can browse through 15 of the most recent offers that have been featured, as well as get a little description of what the offer is all about.  Then I try to link back to the source, so you can get instant gratification in the quickest way possible.

Want more web hosting coupons and deals? You can follow the Web Hosting Show’s coupons and deals on Twitter @whscoupons too.  The third content delivery method you have is the RSS feed, which you can subscribe to – to have all the deals streamed to you for free, into your favorite news reader of choice.

• Follow @whscoupons on Twitter!
• Subscribe via RSS to our Hosting Coupons!

Are you a web host? Good!  I need your help too.  Just like the Web Hosting Show podcast itself, I am looking to serve both the web hosts and the web hosting clients with this tool. Want to see your own special web hosting coupons and deals listed here? Contact me, with your web hosting special, coupon or offer and I will get it listed with the rest. For more on what went into building this new coupon tool, I would suggest you listen to podcast 198 of the Web Hosting Show where I go into a little more detail.

Want to share your art, your photos or your digital creations via Twitter?  There are a lot of ways to get the task down, however here are the seven best image sharing sites that aim themselves at the tweeter on the street.

• flick.to.twitt – Quick and easy Flickr to Twitter photo sharing. 
• Twitgoo – A Quick and reliable image host aimed at Twitter users.
• Twitpickr – Quickly send your TwitPic images to Flickr.
• twitngo – Quickly produce Twitter status updates with photos or images.
• Twitrpix – Another instant photo sharing via Twitter web application.
• TwitPic – Probably the most popular Twitter related photo sharing web site so far.
• Twitxr – Take a picture and instantly share on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and more.

Know of another you love to use, but didn’t make it on the list?  Leave it in the comments. 

To use it, all you have to do is save the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar, and then click it anytime you are checking something out that you want to temporarily save.  For example, let’s say you were checking out this post here – and wanted to try out the Toread service later today.  You could click your bookmarklet, save this link and return to it later in the day.

The “save it for later” services like this save on bookmark clutter being added to your browser, work in a number of different browsers and locations, and are easy to sort through at any time. 

Go visit toread.cc and let me know if you like it better than the other alternatives out there.

FeedMyInbox is a new service that recently caught my eye, due to the fact they make things very simple.  They are offering you blogs, feeds and news delivered magically to your e-mail inbox.  All you have to do is visit the web site and enter a web site RSS feed and your e-mail address. 

Here is how FeedMyInbox explain the process:

Once you find a feed you would like to subscribe to, simply type in the web address (URL) for the site on FeedMyInbox.com. We will find the feed(s) available on the page, and you can select what you want to subscribe to. Once you subscribe to a feed, we will send an email to the address you specified. Simply click the link that is enclosed to confirm that your email address is correct, and you are all set!

It is an interesting service, to say the least. 

Of course, if you want to get my feed in your inbox, that is easy enough to do without this service.  Just click this link to subscribe to e-mail updates, so you never miss a post.

With xFruits you can go from:

+ many RSS feeds to just one RSS feed
+ RSS feed to web page
+ RSS to a mobile device
+ E-mail to an RSS feed
+ RSS feed to PDF

I was playing around with the Aggregator RSS option and made one big RSS feed out of the RSS feeds I had for Mitchelaneous, the Web Hosting Show, Firefox Facts, and Mitch’s Midgets.

After I finished that, I made a mobile edition of Mitchelaneous.

If you are looking for a few new tricks for your RSS feed, definitely check them out!