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News of December 8, 2009
 Let's Play the E-mail Blame Game!
 Stupid Pitch Watch: That’s Not PR, It's Me-R
 E-mail File Sizes, Volume Up; Opens, Clicks Steady: Silverpop
 Goodmail Partnership Enables E-mail Video Chat
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Let's Play the E-mail Blame Game!

12/08/09

OK readers, time for a pop quiz: It’s the middle of the fourth-quarter Christmas-shopping season and suddenly you’re experiencing deliverability troubles with your outbound commercial e-mail. This being a business issue, rather than simply tackle the problem, we must assign blame first.

The blame for your e-mail troubles primarily should be placed on:

A) Your e-mail service provider (After all, they said their delivery rates were among the highest in the industry. Liars. Pants on fire.)

B) The e-mail inbox providers who are bouncing your mail (You’re Can-Spam compliant, so they should be delivering your messages no questions asked, right? Let’s sue the bastards.)

C) Anti-spam zealots who run blocklists, such as Spamhaus (Who appointed those holier-than-thou weenies to police the online world, anyway? Let’s sue the bastards.)

D) The real spammers (Yeah, they ruin everything, don’t they?)

E) You (Who, me?)

F) Your boss (I told that barnyard idiot we shouldn't be mailing 18-month-old names. Now I’ve got to make some phone calls and clean up after his/her sorry ass.)

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Stupid Pitch Watch: That’s Not PR, It's Me-R

12/08/09

The first time I heard of the WIIFM principle was in an interview with permission marketing guru Seth Godin.

“Everybody’s favorite radio station is WIIFM: What’s in it for me,” he said.

I’ve since learned it’s a very old concept. It’s also a concept a lot of PR folks and their clients/employers should learn.

I am forever receiving pitches that fail to take into account why anyone would be interested in them.

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E-mail File Sizes, Volume Up; Opens, Clicks Steady: Silverpop

12/08/09

Online marketers’ e-mail lists are significantly larger and their mail volume is higher this Christmas-shopping season over last while open and click rates have held relatively steady, according to a just released study by e-mail service provider Silverpop.

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Goodmail Partnership Enables E-mail Video Chat

12/08/09

Goodmail Systems announced yesterday it has partnered with TommiMedia, to embed TommiMedia’s instant video chat technology in e-mails sent by companies using Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail—a program under which senders agree to abide by certain non-spamming practices and pay a fee to ensure their messages get delivered at participating ISPs with graphics intact.

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