Archive for the ‘Operations & Integration’ Category

Back to Email Basics – The Rest of the Story



A couple of days ago "E-Mail (sic) Essentials" (the former Ken Magill weekly) posted a piece, "Back to Basics: An E-mail (sic) Checklist".  I don't really disagree with any of the points posted, but I think some could use a little deeper thought....

Three Hard Bounces



What a good day to dust off another in my pile of unfinished blog posts and random ideas thanks to the folks @StrongMail for sharing "Marketing chiefs: Are you spamming your customers?" "And nearly one fifth (17 per cent) of marketers surveyed are not failing to remove email addresses from mailing ...

“6 reasons to fire your ESP”? Seriously!?



So I'm wading through my Inbox on a Monday morning, like a lot of people I'm sure do, when the Subject Line, "6 reasons to fire your ESP", jumps out at me from my iMedia Connection subscription.  Since I've spent lot of time studying ESPs; a lot of time working with clients on ...

An Underpants Gnomes View of Email Marketing



I started this post a while ago - one of something like 15 in my pile of unfinished blog posts and random ideas for blog posts - and never got around to finishing it.  After some South Park fun on Twitter with my friends Shannon Holato from Bronto and Andrew Osterday ...

What is Email Integration?



It seems like a simple enough question, but the answer you get usually depends on who you ask. Ask a traditional marketer and the answer will likely be that it is blending email with other marketing disciplines so that there is one unified message to the consumer.  Ask an IT or ...