Fun With Email Geeks

Once upon a while ago Andrew Kordek got a group of email geeks to change the lyrics to popular songs just for fun.  After seeing my Lady Gaga parody, Spammer Face, Luke Glasner pointed me to Christopher Walken doing a read of Lady Gaga’s Poker Face, which got me to thinking….

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The Real Email 10 Commandments

What is it that makes people that specialize in not-email feel compelled to write about email? 

Wading through my morning Inbox today I noticed a post, “10 E-Mail [sic] Commandments“.  Having spent all these years in the email space I figured that maybe I should check it out to see if I’ve been living a clean email life.  Commandments? “Tips”, sure, but Commandments?  Not hardly….

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Expose – Interview With an Email Poseur; Episode 3

The final episode of our interview with Stevie….  It’s scary that these people walk among us.  They are coming out of the woodwork lately it seems.  Check out this post from Laura Atkins over on Word to the Wise

Pay attention; it isn’t just the blocking and blacklisting.  Spamming a purchased list can cause your registrar to put your domain in a coma, and/or your host, network, or ESP to suspend your account for being in violation of the terms and conditions of your agreement. 

The conclusion of our interview with Stevie….

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Expose – Interview With an Email Poseur; Episode 2

In Episode 2 of Interview with an Email Poseur our guest, Stevie, who is “yet to be convinced that the consumer should have a right not to be marketed to on a proactive basis” takes some questions from viewers….

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Expose – Interview With an Email Poseur; Episode 1

After so many years one would think the topic of email list buying (and selling) would be a settled Email Marketing Worst Practice; the worst of the worst practices.  For most it is, but there are still a few out there that tie themselves in knots trying to challenge it. 

I’d said in Passing the True Beauty Email Test I’m at the point of metaphorically hoisting heads on stakes.  And when the opportunity presents itself….

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