środa, 19 stycznia 2011

Spam blockers have to act quickly

Spam-filters are so advanced now that even the most clever spam creators have a hard row to hoe trying to sneak their adverts into our mailbox. Unluckily for us, there still are many traps in the Web awaiting for our moment of distraction. With one click we may agree for adding us to a spam list!
And then, one morning we find messages with bizarre titles, e.g., like this one: VIooAGooRA Glorious Morning, Dear Friend… or including a strange content...

Well, one thing is certain - we hate loosing control of over email flow...

... and don't want anyone to make fools of us!


So... what are your experiences with spam?

See more:
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środa, 12 stycznia 2011

Colourful footers, banners and animations as a part of email marketing

With new possibilities of digital graphic and email management software, email marketing is now more powerful than ever. Just look at emails that we get every day, even the most evident spam! All the messages with promotional stuff not only 'shout at you' with the tempting headlines, but more and more often include something else to attract our attention...

It can be a jumping or shining animated gif...

 or a colourfool footer...

or a nicely designed side-banner...


and some companies add even comic strips as a part of their marketing campaign!



Since the first example is most likely to annoy a recipient rather that encourage a potential client to check out the offer, the rest of ideas can work pretty well. As most marketers know, a well-matched and eye-catching images are more than compelling words. While this is something you may understand and agree with in theory, it can be difficult to execute in practice if you don't have a proper tool to implement your concept. Sometimes a nice and professional look of your emails depends on a program that you use. Big organizations usually equip their administrator with a professional email management software that includes an advanced and user-friendly template editor. This editor allows one's to easily upload photos, logos and rotating banners, to test them and view in Plain Text, HTML and RTF. In large companies with hundreds of employees it's important to implement their unified signatures automatically.