Ever need to guess someone’s email address so that you pitch them a sale or contact them about an idea? This new tool from Linksy.me called Email Guesser will do just that. It generates possible email addresses and then checks them against Gravatar to see if there is a photo to match. It found my […]
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Techdirt: Late last week, the Washington Post reported that The Smithsonian had acquired “tapes, documentation, copyrights, and over 50,000 lines of code from V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, who both the Smithsonian and the Washington Post insisted was the “inventor of e-mail.” There’s just one problem with this: It’s not actually true. … As is nicely summarized
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Law enforcement agencies don’t flip through old yearbooks when they want information on a suspect anymore–they turn to Facebook and Twitter. Social media sites say they are constantly besieged with requests for information. Facebook told Newsweek in 2009 that it received between 10 and 20 requests for information each day. The New York Times reports
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Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them. According to the Associated Press, eight years ago Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his
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A third of businesses don’t make money from promotions on socially charged buying site Groupon, says a new study reported by Inc.com. Consumers who use the deal-of-the-day web site don’t make return visits to the businesses offering discounts, don’t spend much and don’t tip well, says the study from Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate
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According to The Tampa Tribune, in a mad rush, the advertising world has fallen head over heels in love with daily discount deals. Websites like Groupon, LivingSocial, Gilt, DailyDeal.TBO.com, and a string of others have hit pay dirt with a marketing concept that’s spot on with our exhaustion with being so frugal: A once-a-day ridiculous
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While reading Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors, Joseph Collins had a unique thought reports DenverPost.com. “I was reading Charlie’s book and I thought it was very unfair that Eliot Spitzer could just walk into companies and demand their email,” Collins recalled. Spitzer
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Just in case you missed it, the Washington, DC area has been hit by numerous snow storms this year. Some smart businesses used e-mail to communicate with customers and prospects, build goodwill and, in some cases, drive sales, reports clickz.com. Did you do anything special for the blizzard of 2010? If not, here’s some food
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Gina Trapani over at Fast Company has an interesting solution to your email overload. How many messages are in your email inbox right now? A few dozen? It’s probably more like a few hundred, or even a few thousand. We all get too much email. Getting through all those messages every day isn’t easy. Certain
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Do you send email newsletters to your customers and prospects? Smashing Magazine has some great tips for designing and sending your email newsletters. Respect your reader. Don’t waste their time or attention. Ask nicely first. Focus on relevance. Design with a goal in mind, so that you’ll know if it worked. Make unsubscribing easy. Code
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