Chattanooga area payday lender Carey V. Brown lays off workers
August 21, 2013
Major payday loan email sender shut down
21August
August 19, 2013
Ken gets spam
19August
Ken at Popehat gets spam offering to write a sponsored post. Ken counters with what he wants out of a sponsored post.
Blogging is going to be light this week. I’ve got a couple project deadlines to meet and most of my focus is on that. Plus, it’s the end of August and most folks are on vacation.
August 14, 2013
Gmail promotions tab
14August
Chad White explains why you shouldn’t ask recipients to move mail from the promotions tab to the inbox.
July 29, 2013
VerticalResponse acquired
29July
The acquisition of email service providers continues. Last week Deluxe (yes, the check printing people) acquired Vertical Response. This appears to be positioning themselves to improve their collection of business services to include email marketing.
July 15, 2013
Sending mail to the wrong person, part eleventy
15July
Another person has written another blog post talking about their experiences with an email address a lot of people add to mailing lists without actually owning the email address. In this case the address isn’t a person’s name, but is rather just what happens when you type across rows on they keyboard. These are similar suggestions to those I (and others) have made in the past. It all...
June 25, 2013
Spammers already abusing Vine
25June
Spammers have already figured out how to abuse the new twitter video service (VINE) to make money. I wish I could say I was surprised, but spammers (and scammers) are some of the earliest adopters of technology out there. They adopt it and try to extract as much money as possible before the property owners can catch up and implement anti-abuse technology. Too few companies actually build products...
June 20, 2013
Feedback from recipients
20June
Please Don’t Add Me to Your Email List
Email marketing wisdom from Forbes and someone who spends a lot of time networking and handing out business cards.
June 5, 2013
About the @ sign
05June
The @ sign is ubiquitous online. We use it and we don’t think about it. But the history of the @ sign is more complicated than we realize.
May 21, 2013
Seedy underworld
21May
ESPs have to deal with spammers, phishers and scammers getting onto their networks. Mailgun talks about some of the things they’ve found our about these problem customers.
April 15, 2013
Think before scheduling tweets
15April
My twitter feeds exploded with discussion and comments and retweets about the explosions in Boston this afternoon. One of my friends even commented, “It’s days like today when you can tell who is scheduling tweets.” If you are scheduling tweets it’s really important to have someone around to monitor local, national or international events and stop those tweets before your...
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