The UpTake: E-commerce sites might think that email is an old-fashioned way to reach customers, but with the ability to make these missives personalized, that’s all changed. While organic search is still the leading way for customers to find e-commerce sites and pull out their credit cards to buy, a new study by online retail […]
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The Government Would Like to Keep Reading Your E-Mail
The scandal that brought down General David Petraeus this fall contained a miniscandal within it: just how easy it is for the FBI to read people’s e-mail. If Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell had communicated about their extramarital affair solely by telephone, their exchanges might have remained secret. But e-mail does not get the […]
Protect Yourself from “Phishing”
Dear Online Community: Email systems have recently experienced a higher and higher volumes of successful “Phishing” attempts that have resulted in a number of compromised online accounts. As is the case with most email service providers, a lot of email accounts are frequently targeted for this type of fraud, which can often result in outright […]
How To Brand and Grow Your Company Through Marketing
Companies want to grow. Obvious statement, right? This is the reason why we all have jobs as marketers; companies need to grow and they need people who understand how to do that. […] Produce content As Will Critchlow said, you don’t have to have money, but you do have to have one of these: Time […]
5 Tips to Empower Your Email Marketing
Email is has proven to be a very effective way to drive engagement with consumers. Here are five things to ask yourself in order to create an email campaign that will drive maximum engagement. 1. Is it Easy on the Eyes? Make sure that you have less text that is spaced out and that your […]
More than half of senior citizens now use the Internet
More than half of Americans who are 65 or older now use the Internet or email. That’s the first time data have shown more than 50 percent of seniors going online. This study, by the Pew Research Center, found that 53 percent of older Americans use the Internet or email. And just over a third […]