Archive for the ‘Great eMail Marketing’ Category

Email gets a new kind of interactive look

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

I have to hand it to the guys over at Mountain Equipment Cop-op. They sent out this very interactive email that really made me look hard.

Scroll down and lean away from your monitor.

Check out the full version online.

Get rid of SPAM - 99.9% of it

Monday, April 16th, 2007

I have now been using Spam Arrest  for the last 2 weeks and have to admit that I have been able to eliminate 99.9% of my unwanted junk mail.

Spam Arrest is a challenge response system that sends out an auto-reply email to anyone that sends me an email.

Cool part is, unless that person fills out a CAPTCHA security form, their email does not get delivered to me.

On average we were receiving over 250 spam messages a day. Now we only get

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Return Path shows a great sample

Monday, April 9th, 2007

I was just checking out my inbox and came across this great article by Return Path.

It shows an example of how online retailer http://www.adagio.com/ sends you an email confirmation when your order has been delivered.

Now that’s even better than knowing it’s been shipped!

Check out Return Path’s Article

Hotwire.com integrates search with email

Monday, March 26th, 2007

I have never received a more relevant email than the one I got…or should I say get from the folks at Hotwire.com.If you are not aware, Hotwire is the sell off discount division of Expedia. So if you’re looking for a travel deal, this is the place to go.

First thing you have to do is opt-in to their email program by signing up to receive their email offers. A day or two after you do some searching you begin to get special offers based on your destination.

Have a look…

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