Tag Archives: email

How Marketing Automation will Need to Evolve to Survive

Meghan Keaney Anderson is a marketing manager at HubSpot, a marketing software company in Cambridge, MA that makes marketing automation software. We are all seeking a way to scale personal attention. The great promise of marketing automation is that it enables you to trigger messages based on a visitor’s actions on your site, ideally sending [...]

Tech PR Peeps Poll: 80.4% Say Twitter Overrated As Tool for Pitching Authors

This is a guest post from Travis Van.  Travis is the founder of Business Wire partner ITDatabase, a research platform for tech industry PR. Social media fever runs so high these days that it’s tough for tech PR pros to distinguish real opportunities from the useless fluff regularly offered up by pundits. Particularly unclear is [...]

Email Marketing Goes Social: Follow us on Twitter, Like us on Facebook

Email, we love to hate it, yet we hate to love it. For better or for worse, we are tethered to our inbox and continue to send messages and respond to those individuals and organizations to which we’re tied or vested. Over the years, I’ve labeled email as the world’s largest untapped social network and [...]

Think Outside of the Inbox

With the pervasiveness of social networks and the conversations that take place within each, many had hoped for either the reduction in volume of traditional email or the socialization of the inbox. Instead, email remains as the world’s largest untapped social network, with Gmail and Google Buzz offering a glimpse of the integration that looms [...]

The Socialization of Email Marketing

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It seems that everywhere you turn, businesses, media properties, and brands are asking us to connect with them in the social Web. Whether it’s on TV, in press materials, advertising, or email, brands are vying for our “friendship.”
In July 2009, Bill McCloskey in partnership with StrongMail, analyzed [...]

Social media old & new

Christmas cards are the old social media – of the printing press era. But they say something to us about the new social media – our current interactive networks.
Personally, I love sending and receiving greetings this time of year. It’s a chance to touch old friends and colleagues with a personal wish of peace and well-being. [...]

Email is Not Your Friend

Email is such an ubiquitous part of our lives today that we rarely think about the long-term implication of what sending an email involves. Recently we have been treated to the spectacle of the Securities and Exchange Commission bringing fraud charg…