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Why brands keep emailing you to ask how you feel about them

The Customer

LinkedIn settled a lawsuit for unwanted emails in 2015, paying out $13 million to complainants. Glossier asked in July, a few weeks after emailing out a set of free downloadable phone wallpapers with the subject line “We made these for you.” So, email blasts aren’t actually always email blasts at all.

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Privacy Report 2020

Goolara

Also getting in on the post-GDPR drive for stronger privacy controls, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEITY) in India has been hammering out its own privacy regulations—a process they started back in 2010. In 2009, U.S. Compare that to the GDPR’s 4% of an organization’s annual revenue or 20 million Euros (about 22.6

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The Evolution of HubSpot's Email Marketing Strategy: An Insider's Story

Hubspot

Phase 0 (2006-2007): Building Our Opt-In Email List. I say "unleashed" because it really did take off -- over the course of its first year, it garnered thousands of opt-in email addresses. The early success of HubSpot''s lead generation playbook can be attributed to this single asset and opt-in strategy.