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Email 101: Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know

The Point

In 90 percent of all cases, this dreadful habit occurs in the service of what at our firm we call the “set-up paragraph” – that very first paragraph of email copy in which the writer attempts to make a case for why the recipient should care about everything else he/she is about to read. Get to the point.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)