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I'm interviewing Mark Littrell for EmailSherpa later today. Here's a recent article he wrote on Can-Spam in the context of B2B marketing, where the ramifications for remote sales forces and resellers are still being clarified.
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Kevin Newcomb highlights forthcoming deliverability developments like authentication, reputation and accreditation systems, all of which provide yet more reasons for sticking to the kind of best practices that have been around since the early days of email marketing; send relevant mails to people who want them.
You'll forgive me for featuring links to MarketingSherpa email-related articles while I catch up on life post-vacation. But I wrote most of them (including this one).
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Al DiGuido explores some GMail issues for email marketers, suggesting some of the things you might do to keep your eye on the service and how its impacts on your efforts.
As a little bit of background, it seems RSS is beginning to get some serious investment cash, suggesting that the technology has a promising future. Mind you, the same might have been said of many internet dot com flops. So you never know.
Gmail has turned the free email industry on its head, and changed the email marketing world, too, in ways you may not have thought of. This article summarizes what you need to know.
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A summary of the state of legislation, plus key links to legal documents and interpretations from a business perspective.
A coupon and email case study, notable not only for its marketing insight, but also because any email marketing by the makers of SPAM has a kind of poetic resonance deserving of attention.
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And the winner -- as usual -- is the USA, apparently responsible for 42.53% of the world's spam. But Asia is doing its best to catch up, with South Korea and China occupying positions 2 and 3. Good performance by Europe, with no offenders in the top 6.
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I'm back from a 2-week vacation in the English rain...and here's Paul Soltoff with some thoughts on using testimonials in email marketing campaigns.
No further updates until August 23rd, since I'm on vacation.
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And Computer Business Review cites experts who think technology might finally get the better of spam within a matter of months, rather than years.
Case study of how a wildlife center breathed new life into its e-newsletter. Includes samples.
A summit meeting on this important email authentication technology will be held August 12th, hosted by Microsoft and the Email Service Provider Coalition. Authentication systems look like a promising weopen in the war on spam, so marketers need to encourage and monitor their development.
Some excellent little tipettes from the folks at ClickZ.
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Now I don't normally point to acquisition news, but this one is a biggie. AOL intends to implement Mailblocks' challenge/response technology across its email services (as an option).
Think about that for a moment.
Up until now, nobody had a problem with C/R because of the lack of addresses using that functionality. But if AOL subscribers use it in a big way, that's a whole heap of manual confirmations that broadcast mailers will need to do (unless they can bypass the CR with a whitelisting?).
Bill Stoller has some basic advice for those looking to get their PR messages through to reporters. Forward it to your PR agency - based on the PR emails I see, they could do with the help.
This freebie was just released by the folks at Convio, and is sub-titled "Email Communications to Build and Strengthen Constituent Relationships Online." Is it any good? No idea - I'm about to leave on vacation, so I haven't time to look it through.
A brief explanation of what the Sender Policy Framework email authentication scheme is and why as a marketer you need to know about it.
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