Jaren Angerbauer Joins Red Pill Email

When you hear, “We live to deliver”, do you think of FedEx or Jaren Angerbauer?  We think of Jaren. And deliverability.  Email deliverability.  Because Jaren knows email deliverability.  And if we’re going down the deliverability rabbit hole, we want to go with Jaren.  So we gave him the Red Pill and brought him in as a consultant on the team. Jaren will be working with...

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What can Sound Garden teach us about email?

As a marketer, I look for inspiration and learning where ever I can find them. Surprisingly this Sound Garden song can tell us a lot about the sign up process and welcome emails. In case you are not familiar with the song, here are the lyrics or you can listen to it below. Let’s take a look at some of the lyrics and see what they can tell us about email. Every word I said is what I mean Every...

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Dependability of a Loyal Customer

As a consumer, we’re all faced with questioning our loyalty to brands and products as time progresses. Whether a new product is released, or we experience poor customer service, we ask ourselves if we could be happier if we take our business elsewhere. For example, I’ve always had a crush on the iPhone, but I am devoted to my BlackBerry on Verizon, based on all my positive experiences with...

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New Fun with a Spamming Scumbag

So there’s a little twitter conversation with a spamming scumbag happening on Twitter.  One Mr. Douglas Karr seems to think that if you’re spamming people on LinkedIn you’re not really spamming.  I and many others disagree. Here’s your forum for debate in more than 140 characters, Douglas.  Have at it….

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Shannon Holato Joins Red Pill Email

Shannon Holato rocks! Seriously! She’d stomp us if we made this stuff up! So, trust us when we say we are stoked to announce that Shannon has taken the Red Pill! Not the blue one, but the kick-ass red one. Shannon will be working with key clients on their email marketing and social media strategies and implementations. We’re sure you know Shannon from her years at Bronto where she managed...

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The Email Geeks Poetry Slam: The Raven

What happens when you get a group of email geeks talking about Halloween? Why a rewrite of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, of course! The Raven is 18 stanzas. We’ve rewritten the first 6 and invite others to add the next dozen stanzas in Poe order. To make it a little more fun, The Email Geeks Poetry Slam is posted at theeMailGuide, InboxGroup, Red Pill Email, and Glasner.com. That means that...

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