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News of September 15, 2009
 New EmailAppenders-Related Firm Surfaces
 Stupid ESP Watch: The Big Lie
 Social-Media Links Get Half-Percent Clicks: Silverpop
 ExactTarget Debuts ‘List Growth Advisor’
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New EmailAppenders-Related Firm Surfaces

09/15/09

Yet another e-mail list-sales firm has surfaced that appears to be related to EmailAppenders, an India-based company that evidence suggests has no physical presence in the U.S. and has been accused by multiple marketers of ripping them off.

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Stupid ESP Watch: The Big Lie

09/15/09

I received a cold-call voicemail yesterday from a representative of an e-mail service provider looking to do a barter deal.

Never mind I’m not the person to approach for barter deals—or any other type of non-editorial issue, for that matter—the sales rep made one statement that made me cringe.

“Our delivery rates are very high,” she said.

That statement has no place in a pitch from an e-mail service provider.

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Social-Media Links Get Half-Percent Clicks: Silverpop

09/15/09

Social-media-share links generate on average 0.5% click rates according to a just released study by e-mail service provider Silverpop.

And while social-media-share links’ average click through may seem to be a minuscule number, it is significantly higher than forward-to-a-friend links’ click throughs, which average in the low tenths of a percent, according to Silverpop.

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ExactTarget Debuts ‘List Growth Advisor’

E-mail service provider ExactTarget unveiled a List Growth Advisor tool today that automatically offers personalized recommendations on how to grow an e-mail list after users answer a series of questions.

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