July 2009
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Email Success Requires Well-Educated Marketers →
A colleague on an email discussion group posed a version of this question recently: “Who is responsible for educating email marketers?” Is it their email service providers (ESPs)? Their employers?…
Get Ready For Email 3.0 →
It’s definitely not the most elegant collaboration tool, but email is the most widely used for sharing thoughts, documents and other communication essentials. So it’s surprising it has taken this…
Great Design Doesn't Always Follow The Rules →
A solid, well-branded, flexible template is a must in today’s email marketing world — vital to recognition in the inbox, consistent rendering, and communicating an air of professionalism worthy of…
Keys To Great Email Strategy →
The foundations of strategy don’t change, but transferring it to email require a different level of thinking these days. I was teaching my daughter backgammon and talking about the strategy of the…
Some Metrics to Consider →
Like many of you, my inbox is filled with the latest research on social media and how it will soon change the world for many email marketers. Unlike some of you, I happen to be a true believer that…
What 'Free' Means For Email Marketers →
Despite the debates that have surfaced about the viability of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube or the future of publishing, there is consensus about the digital age having ushered in an era where…
Christmas Advice In July →
Imagine losing all the sales generated by your email marketing program during the first week of December — plus the distraction and expense of getting your email unblocked during the heart of the…
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Is Scale A Factor In Successful Email Marketing? →
I’ve been on a Greek island for the past three week, with little access to email, mobile or the Internet in general. Once you wean yourself off grabbing the laptop in the morning as you grab a…
High-End Rental Markets on Downward Trend →
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A recent nationwide study of rents and occupancy, conducted by RealFacts for 2Q09, reveal that renters are showing resistance to paying a premium to rent an apartment in a high-end market.
Rents…
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B2B Email Marketing Comes Of Age →
Consumer marketers have traditionally led in marketing innovation with their larger budgets and resources, use of agencies and direct sales models. However, B2B marketers are catching up to their B2C…
YOU Control Your Deliverability -- Not Your ESP →
From time to time we run into marketers who think that they have deliverability covered because they have signed up with an Email Service Provider (ESP). You’ve probably even seen some ESPs that are…
Email Marketing's ROI Probably Closer To $130 Than... →
For better or worse, email marketers have long touted the channel’s fantastic return on investment. According to the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing is projected to generate an ROI of…
If The Jetsons Had Email, What Would It Look Like?... →
Imagine you are George or Jane Jetson, living in a skypad some time in the far future. There you are, laboriously pressing buttons to run the factory or do the housework, and suddenly you hear a…
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I Want a New Drug... For My Email Programs →
There is a lot of conversation happening around social media and socializing email — so much so that it almost feels redundant focusing this article on the topic. But hey, it is what it is — the…
To Err Is Human; Sending An Email To Correct It,... →
Most email marketers have at least one horror story of an email that managed to slip through their gauntlet of tests and get deployed with some sort of error. This can be especially disheartening…
Are You Making Your Subscribers Feel Welcome? →
The welcome email is one of the most important messages in any email program. Welcomes come at a time when subscribers are most receptive to receiving messages, generating outsize open and…
Are Your Emails Zero To Many? →
Social media is the next bandwagon every marketer is jumping on. All the ESPs and all the email marketing teams are creating “share your content” modules and integrating social into their strategy…
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ApartmentCareers.Com Named a Top 100 Job Board →
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WEDDLE’s, world’s largest publisher of print guides to job boards, includes ApartmentCareers.com in the elite of the online employment services industry.
Are You Using Email To Help Other Departments... →
As marketers, we get so wrapped up in the daily issues of email, such as promotions, deliverability and list growth, that we often don’t see all the ways email can help meet other departmental goals…
Microsoft Starts Officially Tweeting →
It’s Twitter day at Microsoft, apparently. Not only did the software giant announce that it would start adding tweets to its Bing search results, the company actually started officially…
Bing Wants To Feature Your Best Summer Photo — No... →
It may sound kind of silly, but when I talk to people outside of the tech world about Bing, the first thing brought up is usually how they like the pictures. And now Microsoft has created a…
Bing Keeps Its Foot On The Gas, Adds Tweets To... →
Bing is something of a rarity for Microsoft these days: It’s a product that actually has pretty good buzz. And for good reason too, it’s a solid product. For certain queries, it seems more…
Joost, Meet The Competition. Magnify.Net Sees... →
With the news surrounding the implosion of Joost and the startup’s move towards providing white label video platforms for companies, we thought it would be a good idea to check in with one of…
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Details On The Upcoming New Facebook iPhone App.... →
It’s been a big day for Facebook, with news earlier this morning that the social network will soon be totally revamping its privacy settings and making it easier to share with the entire web….
The Looming Facebook Privacy Fiasco →
Facebook’s privacy conference call just ended, and it’s clear some major changes are going to be coming to the social network soon. Some of these, like a totally revamped privacy control page,…
Twitter To Developers: “Tweet” Your Heart Out, But... →
There’s been quite a bit of controversy over the past several hours over words and images related to Twitter being used by third-party developers. Yesterday, Twitter seemed to threaten one…
Firefox 3.5 Hits Five Million Downloads in 24... →
In the first 24 hours since its release yesterday, Firefox 3.5 has been downloaded more than 5 million times. (It took only a few hours to pass a million). That is certainly respectable, but…
Google Enhances Gmail Labeling With Drag And Drop... →
Gmail is constantly adding features to help people become more organized. Today, Google has tweaked its Labels feature to add more functionality to the labels toolkit, helping users implement…
GDGT Launches For Non Stop Gadget Action →
Last summer we broke the news that Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block would team with former editor-in-chief Peter Rojas to create a new gadget startup. Today that new startup, GDGT,…
Live Blog: The Facebook Privacy Conference Call →
This morning Facebook is holding a conference call/web share for press outlining changes the site is making to its privacy options. Facebook hasn’t given us much of a heads up as to exactly what…
Vote In The Europas, The TechCrunch Europe Startup... →
Public voting in the The Europas, the tech startup awards from TechCrunch Europe, will close today, Wednesday July 1 at 11.59pm London time (GMT/BST). So best get your vote out now. This…
StyleCaster Nets $4 Million For Personalized... →
Interactive fashion community StyleCaster has raised $4 million in Series A round of financing from investor Dan Gilbert, the chairman and founder of Quicken Loans.
Launched in February…
Big Websites Start Running Bigger Display Ads. Big... →
According to MediaPost, The Online Publishers Association yesterday announced that 37 of its members, including juggernauts like The New York Times, Forbes, ESPN, CNN and MSNBC.com are (or are…
TEDTalks : Daniel Libeskind's 17 words of... →
Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture — raw, risky, emotional, radical — and that offer inspiration for any bold creative…
Realtime Matching Startup Raises Series A From... →
The wave of investments in “realtime” is continuing with today’s announcement from Cognitive Match that it has raised Series A investment from Dawn Capital. Terms were undisclosed but it’s…
The Venture-Backed IPO Pokes Its Head Out Of The... →
After four quarters in which venture-backed IPOs have been dead in the water, a handful finally poked their heads up in the second quarter. The National Venture Capital…
Venture-Backed Liquidity Going Down, Down, Down →
Fifty-seven percent. That’s how much overall venture-backed liquidity decreased in the second quarter of 2009 compared to that of last year: from $6.48 billion to $2.8 billion, if you want the…
And Now You Know: Enabling Multi-touch in Firefox... →
Did you know you can switch tabs in Firefox by making a twisting motion with your fingers on a multi-touch surface? I did. Turns out I’ve been doing it for months — I thought I was late to the…
Twitter Grows “Uncomfortable” With The Use Of The... →
We were just forwarded an e-mail conversation between a Twitter API team member and a third-party developer because the latter was using a UI for its web-based service that was admittedly very…