Archive for February, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28
AMAZING insight! RT @aliverson: It's true! Prospecting for email addresses is more complicated if you're not allowed to spam. # Hrm. When you retweet, do you put comments before or after the tweet? Which is more clear and useful to the reader? # Listening to They Might Be Giants…. "The sun is a mass of [...]
You might be a spammer
You might be a spammer if you think in terms of “prospects” not “clients” or “customers” you think only of the revenue that the people on your list represent you think that “best practices” are rules that apply to other people, but not you you think that businesses who use your product or service are [...]
“The recession has forced us to drop this etiquette.”
Image by Getty Images via Daylife semantics definition se·man·tics (-tiks) noun the branch of linguistics concerned with the nature, the structure, and the development and changes of the meanings of speech forms, or with contextual meaning semiotics the branch of semiotics dealing with relationships of signs and symbols to the things to which they refer, [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21
RT @aliverson: Already at 115 hits on the co-reg dashboard, just from 5pm-midnight on Sunday evening. http://bit.ly/9DVBR2 (Congrats!) # .@evan_burke I am also missing out on #maawg Maybe next time we'll both be there # .@toddherr Can a Brazilian bar be too long? # .@indiescott Mayo Clinic: "Ideally, CPR involves 2 elements: chest compressions combined [...]
Back to WHOIS Privacy Services
Image by Getty Images via Daylife There seems to have been a bit of confusion over a previous post I’ve made over the use of WHOIS privacy services, like Domains By Proxy. It has gotten back to me that some people are pointing to that post as saying that ANY use of a WHOIS privacy [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14
Asking people to repost things is like saying "I know this is really lame, but I need to get my name out there." # Just got a pre-record in the governor's race here in Texas. So not cool, @teamkay #spammer # Great fun: Some #spammer sent me viagra #spam with a From: line of "Greg [...]
The Legal Status of Feedback Loops
An interesting question comes in today: “Is it required by law to unsubscribe feedback loop complaints received by senders?” And I call it interesting because it’s a question dealing with legal status, and not best practices. So, today’s post gets a caveat: I am not an attorney licensed to practice in any jurisdiction and so [...]
Handling Unsubscribe Requests
Image via Wikipedia When someone wants off of your list what do you do? Obviously, the answer to that question is “remove them.” Just as important of a consideration is “How do you go about doing that?” Commercial email is an animal all to itself. If you have a falling out with your best friend, [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
ValueClick to sell off the same lead gen business that cost it $2.9M : http://bit.ly/9YmOew # Excellent post by Al Iverson on the use of domain privacy services: http://bit.ly/acHNPs # Something to think about: Are you adding to the conversation or just typing? # RT @aliverson: Email marketing isn't my life. Spam fighting is my [...]
No one wants to hear 100% marketing
Image via Wikipedia What is your conversation like with the people you communicate with? I don’t care what they really are. They could be people on Twitter, bloggers, customers/clients, or family members and friends. What is your conversation like with them? There has to be evident value to the things we do, or we quickly [...]
