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AD DAY at Teamail encourages vendors of any type of *retail* tea-related
businesses to post a commercial message about their products or
services, and gives our members the opportunity to learn about new products and vendors.
AD
DAY normally takes place on the first Wednesday of each month, with
occasional seasonal changes. This
consumer-oriented promotional service is free of charge to current
Teamail members.
Teamail members are strongly advised to review all protocols before
posting your AD DAY message. Sorry, but any message that does not follow
AD DAY protocols will not be posted. *No exceptions.* We appreciate your
following the rules.
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RULES FOR AD
DAY:
AD DAY is for RETAIL-oriented adverts only. Your product and/or service must be
available and of interest to consumers. Sorry, no wholesale-only or B2B adverts.
(See our "sister" group, TEA-Online, for
tea business networking.)
AD DAY is for
commercial messages only: what product/service you sell and where to
find it. No other content is acceptable. Sorry: *No exceptions.*
The Subject line
of your message must start with AD DAY followed by the name of your
company or business.
Good
example: AD DAY Happy Wombat Tea Company.
Good
example: AD DAY Happy Wombat Tea Company New Teas and
Teapots.
Bad
example: AD DAY New teas and teapots from Happy
Wombat.
Bad
example: New teas and teapots from Happy Wombat - AD DAY
You must follow the
Good format if you want your AD DAY message posted.
Agents for
franchises or networks, such as a home tea party business: the
Subject line of your message should read AD DAY followed by the type of
business and location (for example: AD DAY In-Home Tea Parties in
Toronto). You may not link to the main company's website. If you have
your own personal website separate from the main company website you may include a link to that site, or
include your telephone number and/or email address.
*ONE* post per
business/member. The post must be about your own business, not a third party.
No postings by advertising agencies or PR firms are permitted.
If you are promoting a joint venture product or event, all
participants in the joint venture must be Teamail members, but
only one member may promote the joint venture on any AD DAY.
(That member may not post a second AD DAY message for their
own business only.)
Affiliate marketing, pyramids,
and similar schemes are not permitted on Teamail at any
time.
Please keep your
postings BRIEF: ONE screenload, including signature. Messages longer
than one screenload will be returned or deleted. (Not sure what a
screenload is? Start keying in your message. When the page begins to
scroll, you have reached one screenload.)
AD DAY messages
are for commercial postings only: what you are selling and how to find
it. General information, anecdotes, or any other "tea chat"
should be sent in a separate non-commercial message.
You may post a
general promotion of your business, or you may promote specific or
special items or services. Exclusive offers for Teamail members are very
much encouraged!
Send your post on
AD DAY between midnight and 11.59pm (this always refers to your local
time). Sorry, AD DAY messages sent at any other time will be deleted
unless cleared in advance with the List Administrators.
Your message must
direct members to your website for
more details. If you do not have a website, or operate only a
brick-and-mortar business like a tea room, you may instead include your
walk-in business' address and telephone number instead.
AD DAY messages
may *NOT* contain nor promote:
- Personal
websites of any kind. Only commercial (sales) messages are
permitted.
- Personal or
commercial mailing lists, chat rooms, blogs, zines, or message
boards.
- MySpace,
FaceBook, LinkedIn, or similar "meet-up" sites.
- Societies, Red
Hat chapters, or any other type of group, online or off-line.
- Solicitation
for contributors or content for your online or offline publication.
- Goodies, games,
articles, stories, anecdotes, directories, photos, travelogues, or
*any* other non-commercial content of your website.
- Free tea
newsletters or publications. (You may advertise tea newsletters or
publications that you *sell.*)
- Giveaways or
contests.
- Charitable
contributions or donations.
- Business,
franchise, consulting, real
estate, or job offerings, even if tea-related.
If you are a
tea-related merchant and have any type of "freebies" on your website, Teamail members will find it when they
visit your site to *shop* for the items or services you are offering in
your AD DAY message. Sorry: *No exceptions.*
Remember that HTML
and images are stripped from all messages before they are distributed
via Teamail. We recommend that you compose your AD DAY message in plain
text to avoid reformatted or missing content. (This also applies to
formatting of your automated signature.)
Again,
AD DAY normally is scheduled for the first Wednesday of each
month, but this can (and often does) vary. Watch Teamail
messages for AD DAY announcements with Subject line AD
DAY Call to merchants.
For more
information about commercial postings and AD DAY, see
the related FAQ -- or contact
the List Admins at teamail-owner@yahoogroups.com.
Please also keep
in mind that the Terms of Service and Guidelines of our list host,
YahooGroups, state that using a group to solicit members for another
group, or for "harvesting" group members' email addresses to
populate your group, are not permitted and may result in loss of
YahooGroups membership.
If you have
questions please
the List Admins direct, off-list at teamail-owner@yahoogroups.com.
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