Deliverability and Your Email Campaigns - What You Need to Know

As legitimate email marketing senders, we all get frustrated when we get unsolicited email clogging up our inboxes. It's not only infuriating it's time consuming as well. On top of this, phishing and spoofing are even more infuriating to us...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

VerticalResponse Goes to the Zoo

VerticalResponse partnered with HandsOn Bay Area (HOBA) last weekend to improve our community through animal conservancy efforts. Activities included planting and refurbishing various gardens and exhibits at the SF Zoo. In the wee hours on a Saturday morning you could...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

SuperTweet - When 140 Characters is Not Enough

Have you heard of the SuperTweet? A SuperTweet post is a post that is larger than the 140 character limit provided by Twitter. A SuperTweet post can be as big as 250 characters in length. Edward Lewis (@pageoneresults) first discovered it and wrote about it, Twitter 250 Character SuperTweet. Edward mentions that you can post a SuperTweet directly from Twitter as well a Twhirl. You can see my SuperTweet.

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[Source: Twitter Tools, Reviews, & News - eINFO]

Corporate blogging software - Where do you turn when everyone is inboxed-out?

Corporate blogging software - Where do you turn when everyone is inboxed-out? Posted using ShareThis

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[Source: Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices]

Make a Referral Week - 200 Referrals Made on Our Way to 1000!

We've just passed 200 referrals and need your help to get to our goal of 1000 for the "Make a Referral Week - Small Business Stimulus Package." We've already referred a few businesses on the list so match up a...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

B2B Marketers - Build Your List Using White Papers

If you are marketing to a business, you're always looking for creative ways to build your prospect list. You need to constantly keep feeding the funnel with prospects so you can convert them to your best customers. If you are...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Using Scarcity to Get More Business

You see them all the time, offers in stores and online that have limits attached to them. Whether there's a limit of one per customer or three, it does catch your eye, admit it! Using scarcity to motivate people to...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Obama's Small Biz Stimulus Package

This week our President talked about getting some much needed cash in the hands of struggling small businesses as soon as the end of this month. After all, a majority of all employers in the US are small businesses so...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

FREE & Low Cost Tools We Found (And Use) To Help Your Business

I'm taking a break from writing about email marketing to tell you about some very cool online tools you might try to put to work for your business. We know that you like online tools that are easy to use...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Twitter Censoring Posts?

Eric Lander (@ericlander) noted that one of his Twitter posts that contained some explicit words within it had suddenly disappeared from his Twitter stream. It looks like Twitter has some kind of curse word filter. The orginial post can be found here. While still an active status page, it is not being displayed in his current Twitter stream.

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[Source: Twitter Tools, Reviews, & News - eINFO]

Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging - In tough times, you better be easy to find

Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging - In tough times, you better be easy to find Posted using ShareThis

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[Source: Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices]

Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging - Blog Action Day 2008 End Poverty

Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging - Blog Action Day 2008 End Poverty Posted using ShareThis

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[Source: Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices]

Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging - Blog Action Day 2008 End Poverty

Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging - Blog Action Day 2008 End Poverty Posted using ShareThis

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[Source: Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices]

Want to Hear From Your Customers? Create An Advisory Board!

If you�ve got a customer pool you can talk to, first of all, do one thing, consider yourself lucky. Sometimes we only think about how we communicate TO them, instead of asking them for their opinions. We�ve talked a bit...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

B2B Marketers - Build Your List Using White Papers

If you are marketing to a business, you're always looking for creative ways to build your prospect list. You need to constantly keep feeding the funnel with prospects so you can convert them to your best customers. If you are...

Read More...

[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Want to Hear From Your Customers? Create An Advisory Board!

If you�ve got a customer pool you can talk to, first of all do one thing, consider yourself lucky. Sometimes we only think about how we communicate TO them, instead of asking them for their opinions. We�ve talked a bit...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Twitoria - Find Inactive Twitter Friends

Twitoria is a nice Twitter app that allows you to discover which of your friends have not been active on Twitter for a given period of time. Twitoria allows you to see all inactive friends for the past week, past two weeks, past two months, past six months, or for the past year. A nice tool for cleaning up your Following list.

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[Source: Twitter Tools, Reviews, & News - eINFO]

Skittles Replaces Website with Social Media

In a bold move to spark some word of mouth, Skittles has changed it's entire website and turned it into a social media extravaganza. Yesterday the Skittles home page was their Twitter stream, and today the home page is now...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

As Newspapers Shut Down, Small Businesses Need Email

I was just having a conversation about the newspaper industry with Cindy our Marketing Analyst. These are terrible times for the Rocky Mountain News, the San Francisco Chronicle may close its doors, and newspapers all around are suffering from the...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]