On Friday, NPR’s Morning Edition ran the following segment: Can you go a day at the office without e-mail? Employees at U.S. Cellular try to do that every Friday. A policy implemented…
Tag: Email Ninja
Dream of an Empty Inbox
How many messages are in your email inbox right now? Seriously, I have seen too many people become completely overwhelmed by the onslaught of email. Just because it is digital doesn’t give…
How to Kill Your Email Marketing Campaign
It is pretty simple to do. Here are the steps: Make sure that your email messages are very generic. Send them out too frequently. Add people to your list that haven’t asked.…
What is Bacn?
Most people know what spam is…Viagra advertisement, unsolicited stock tip, lottery winning notification from somewhere in Europe, etc. But what is Bacn? (It’s pronounced bacon, but in Web 2.0 lingo.) Bacn is…
Close your email program
Don’t get me wrong, email is a fantastic communication tool and I wish that everyone used email. But too often I see email as a constant distraction. Think about this…You have Outlook…
Get Action from your Email
If you’ve been around email long enough, you have certainly experienced the misunderstandings that email can sometimes cause. But to go even further, how do you make sure that your emails will…
CAN-SPAM and Email Marketing
Startup Nation blog has a digestible breakdown of the CAN-SPAM act: How the CAN-SPAM Act affects online marketing
Email Marketing – In the customer's mind
So often, email marketing bugs me. Companies forget that in order for email marketing to really be effective, the customer has to actually be interested in the message. So when I received…
Writing Email
While talking to a friend yesterday, we were discussing the whole concept of Email ettiquette. So many people use email but so few are taught how to really use it. Of course,…