After the weekend we’re sure you won’t want to see another turkey till Christmas! So, we decided to kick off the week by offering up some treats you may have missed while enjoying your holiday. We promise, no turkeys here!

Top Takeaways for the week of 11-27-09

Stuffed full and nothing dry about it. The top insightful delightfuls from Friday.

The eMail Guide’s new and improved home page!

While you were eating turkey we were talking turkey and based on your feedback, we made some changes to the main page at TheeMailGuide.com. It’s more graphically rich and shows you featured listings, events, blog posts and reviews at a glance — this gives those listed in the eMail Guide just one more way to get seen at The eMail Guide! You’ll also find a cool countdown clock for MarketingSherpa’s eMail Summit — we wouldn’t want you to miss a single round at the pool bar.

Five practical ways to improve performance with eMail marketing

On Friday, Angela Hribar offered some basic straightforward advice which you should take a taste of if you are starting out in eMail marketing or just want a quick brush up on some basics. Small business owners new to eMail marketing will enjoy this delicious tidbit.

Sign-Up.to plans eMail marketing presents under charity trees

Sign-Up.to are asking visitors to their website to name their favourite charity that they think could benefit from their email marketing, SMS and social media services. The 5 charities with the most votes will win 12 months of Sign-Up.to’s integrated email, mobile and social media marketing suite, plus training and support, worth over £6,000 each.

Now there’s a nice bit of “Kristmas Karma” marketing.

Top 5 holiday travel tips – safe travels from The eMail Guide

Who would of thunk that we could fit a one of our top fives from last week snugly in a top 5 for this week? We did!  Bookmark this post because you’re gonna need it again in just a few weeks.