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We welcome our newest Ninja to The eMail Guide: ClickMail Marketing! The path of the Ninja The path from email marketing NewBee to Ninja is not an easy one but, despite the traditional nature of the Ninja, it does not have to be a lonely one. Master email marketing Ninja’s such as ClickMail Marketing are here to help you eliminate your email marketing challenges and make you a Samurai of success. This... [Read more]
For this week’s follow Friday page, we decided to do something a little different. We’ve broken it down into sections to give some shoutouts to the those companies who’ve now signed on to become a part of our great communtiy! We also have included our blogger team because without them we wouldn’t have such great content here at The eMail Guide! Last and most certainly not least,... [Read more]
eMail is not dead…just ask any 9 year old! Mark Brownlow from Email marketing reports sat down with his two sons and asked Michael 9 and Patrick 7 what they thought about eMail and the future of same. Neither chocolate nor gummy bears or even more time on a Nintendo DS could stand up to eMail. So, it would seem apparent to this reporter that eMail has a couple of generations of popularity before... [Read more]
Thomas Edison once said that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Edison claimed that he always found inspiration from a real existing need. Which may explain his lesser known inventions such as the “talk to the dead machine”. Regardless of the actual impetus, I think it often comes from those around us. The web has certainly made the sharing of creativity and innovation... [Read more]
You’ll recall we posted last week (and tweeted our little hearts out) looking for the best “free forever” ESP plans. The idea was to give those providers who offer this service a chance to reach out directly to our community and let them know what they have to offer. We’re very pleased to say that the original post got a lot of traffic and we had two great ESPs step forward to offer you something... [Read more]
We’re always thrilled to welcome new companies to The eMail Guide listings and today we want to give a big eMail Guide welcome to StyleCampaign! By the way Anna, we love the video in your listing! Welcome aboard StyleCampaign! Style Campaign is an email creative agency in LA. They design and hand code, beautiful email templates from scratch. Read More →
Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing VerticalResponse CEO, Janine Popick. We thought of doing it as a straight podcast but, decided to switch it up and bit and add some visuals. Let us know what you think! Takeaway: Janine tells how easy it is to go from Outlook to eMail Marketing by using technology such as VerticalResponse. Interested in being interviewed by The eMail Guide? Drop me an eMail:... [Read more]
Please give a warm welcome to our newest sponsor: Port25 Solutions! We apperiate the support our sponsors give us both financial and otherwise and hope you’ll click those banners! Here’s a little bit of information about Port25 Solutions right from their “About Us” page: “Port25 Solutions is the leading provider of e-mail infrastructure software that helps enterprises... [Read more]
Great teams attract great players and we are proud to welcome yet another star to our line up! Welcome Anna Yeaman of Style Campaign to our regular blogger rotation! Anna Yeaman is the co-founder of Style Campaign, an email creative agency in LA. With over 4 years experience in email marketing, Anna is the design heart of the company and author of the Style Campaign Blog. Prior to founding Style Campaign,... [Read more]
One thing I enjoy about the blogosphere is how a good post can be missed by most of us initially but, then get picked up later by someone and suddenly get the attention it deserves. Such was the case yesterday with a post made by Bronto’s Julie Waite regarding online customer reviews and how to leverage them in your eMail marketing. It seems this gem went unnoticed by most of us the first time... [Read more]
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... [Read more]
Black Friday is the tradtional day of deals when thoughts of sugar plums and 200 dollar laptops start dancing in our heads! Here at The eMail Guide we have deals galore to offer today and we are starting it off with a whopping 25% savings coupon towards upgrading your listing to our Showcase level! The best part is no line ups! Find out how to claim your listing and your savings here! Read More →
While we know many of you are stuffed after the TG holiday, we still wanted to offer up some fast takeaway for desert. Dig in and feel free to bring your comments to the table — your brother-in-law won’t be around here to spoil your appetite. Takeaway: Sending an eMail is like dressing your child up to go out on a cold winter day. Make sure you’ve buttoned it up right so that it arrives... [Read more]
The newest addition to our blog roll has more than just years of experience in eMail marketing going for him. He’s got personality style and lots of insight to offer and his Gravatar is one the better webcam pics I’ve seen – I’m always left with the impression that he’s about to conjure some kind of hocus-pocus when I see it. DJ Waldow is the Director of Community at Blue Sky Factory, an... [Read more]
VerticalResponse, Inc. Surveys the State of Small Business in America; Reports on Planned Marketing Spend for 2010 Over two-thirds of 831 respondents report that they plan to increase their use of both email marketing and social media in 2010; 54.2 % surveyed won’t do online banner advertising in 2010 SAN FRANCISCO, November 17, 2009 — VerticalResponse, Inc., a leading provider of self-service... [Read more]
What’s in it and how much? The guide comes in at a whopping 293 pages with almost 200 charts, tables and graphs. At that size I was pleased to see just how easy a read the report actually was. When you consider the value of the data in MarketingSherpa’s 2010 eMail Marketing Benchmark report, it’s a steal at just $447. Who should read it? While this report is by no means a beginner’s... [Read more]
We certainly love it when an eMail service provider makes an effort to boil it all down for the newcomer to eMail marketing and puts something together which answers questions and provides advice without being too heavy on the self promotion. With this in mind I’m tipping my hat today to the folks over at eMail Brain for their “beginner’s guide to eMail marketing” which they offer free... [Read more]
I’ve always believed that it’s an important to hit people with your eMail or blog posts no later than 8:30 in the morning and this is one reason why we here at The eMail Guide make sure we have our latest blog post up early. We want the information piping hot and sitting on your desk for your morning intellectual repast. Of course, we continue to post all day long because it’s like breathing... [Read more]
It certainly doesn’t shock me that monkeys can run their own testing lab when I consider all their accomplishments. Think about it, get enough monkeys in a room with enough typewriters and you’ve got yourself Shakespeare! So, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that MailChimp has the little darlings running around in lab coats carrying laptops and compiling code. This, I imagine is the scene at the... [Read more]
As I mentioned Monday in our Google News, eMail marketing Constant Contact has a nice treat with a cool new trick for SMBs and organizations interested in marketing events. Constant Contact claims Small businesses, associations, and non-profits can use Constant Contact Event Marketing to manage event promotion, communicate with invitees and registrants and capture and track registrations and payments... [Read more]
