Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

If you send out email regularly, getting a few extra opens is always a good thing. I had read a good case study a while back at Marketing Sherpa that mentioned that you may want to try writing emails that contain some good information at the top of the email as this will seen in the AutoPreview in Outlook. Marketing Sherpa left out a few key items: a.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Does the word "test" still make you tense up and think of your high school math teacher with the bad comb over? When it comes to e-marketing, testing takes on a whole new meaning. If you read Anne Holland's weekly email newsletter, you will typically hear her preaching to e-marketers to TEST, TEST, TEST. at least a few hundred times. OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration but if you read her stuff, you know what I mean.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Stefan Pollard over at EmailLabs continues to write great articles on email marketing. In his recent article over at ClickZ called Get Over Being Blocked , he outlines how you can check if your IP address that your emails are being sent from has been blacklisted and how you can get yourself "clean". Your email provider will let you know what your IP address is if you don't know it or check out these IP look-up services: SURBL and DNSstuff.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2007

If you're waiting for another kick in the ass to get out there and start a corporate blog, check out the CEO of Marriott, Bill Marriott's blog. I love it! Check out his latest on Marriott's decision to ban smoking at all Marriott hotels - this guy sounds like a Texas gun slinger who cracks a mean whip and runs a tight ship. He basically says "If you don't like it, stay somewhere else".

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2007

I reviewed a business blog in my last post so I thought I would check out and see how Easton was doing in his project to see which of the Fortune 500 were blogging. For fun I checked out Goodyear Tire & Rubber to see what they were up to on the blogging front and have contributed the following to this project. Cutting Through the PR Crap - Blogs Can Help While Goodyear may be saying that it set a sales record in Q4 2006 , it's obvious that a 3 month strike that ended on December 28, 2006 rea

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FEBRUARY 12, 2007

While Old Spice is still trying to make itself look like the cool, "in" brand to appeal to a younger demographic, it's recently launched a new campaign that embraces that old, stuffy, "that's the type of stuff that my dad used in the dark ages" feeling that we all know. How are they doing it? The Old Spice Experience Old Spice has created a few sites to take note of.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I wanted to do a follow up post from my original Feed Icon Library post as there are so many new icons out there that you can add to your blog! Be Original with Your Blog Why use a different feed subscribe icon? Why not just use the regular orange feed icon that you typically see? While it's easy to keep the standard icon (as it's recommended), why should you?

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