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Meet the #emailgeek women on Twitter 👩

Posted on November 6, 2017 by | Leave a comment

This is a follow-up to last week’s “#emailgeeks on Twitter” post. One thing that I noticed when browsing through the community is that women seem to be significantly underrepresented. They also tend to have fewer followers. To encourage networking, here is another interactive map just with #emailgeek women. Continue reading →

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Meet the #Emailgeeks community on Twitter [Infographic]

Posted on November 2, 2017 by | 9 Comments

It has been 123 weeks since I last surveyed the #emailgeeks on Twitter. This needs an update. Read on and check out your spot in todays geeks universe. Explore your neighbourhood and other expert communties using an interactive infographic. “Not an ego bait again” you say? Partly yes, but mostly no. I mean there are maaaany geeks around, and there’s a lot to discover if you click though a bit, I promise. Continue reading →

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A word on SSL/TLS and on competitive intelligence using Google’s transparency report data

Posted on October 27, 2017 by | 1 Comment

HTTPS encryption is hot in the news for some time, now. It not only affects online marketing on webpages, but also email marketing practices. Google shares open data that sheds light on the adoption of email encryption. I present you a view on the data set from a completely different perspective. Continue reading →

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MailChimp promotes single opt-in – and why I continue using double opt-in

Posted on October 24, 2017 by | Leave a comment

MailChimp is one of the biggest email service providers in terms of email volume and number of customers. The company now announced that “[s]tarting October 31, single opt-in will become the default setting for all MailChimp hosted, embedded, and pop-up signup forms. This change will impact all MailChimp users“. And it is a huge change. Continue reading →

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Comparing Email Service Providers? 3 data points you might not know, yet

Posted on June 17, 2016 by | Leave a comment

How many emails do Email Service Providers (ESPs) like MailChimp, Salesforce (ExactTarget), Oracle (Responsys) and others send? What are the biggest brands using their infrastructure? And do they only send solicited and legally compliant emails? Below you’ll find three data points, which shed some light on these questions. Continue reading →

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Top Tweets from the Email Insider Summit #MPEIS

Posted on December 10, 2015 by | Leave a comment

mpeis_topweetsDid you miss the Email Insider Summit, which took place on December 6-9 2015? Check out the session recordings. In addtion, you’ll find an inspiring retrospective by looking at the most interesting tweets from that event below:
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Hashing email lists for AdWords Customer Match

Posted on December 7, 2015 by | Leave a comment

rapidminer_adwordsGoogle AdWords Customer Match lets you target email lists for remarketing purposes. Marketers upload their subscribers, and Google Search, YouTube, or Gmail, match them against signed in users to show them targeted ads. This makes it possible to e.g. reach out to inactive email subscribers on other channels easily.

To create such a list, one has to meet certain requirements. For privacy reasons, it’s always a good idea to hash addresses as a means of pseudonymization. Below you’ll find a step-by-step guide to accomplishing that using RapidMiner, an open source predictive analytics platform, which may be an alternative to using Excel. Continue reading →

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German email agencies and their email service provider relations [Infographic]

Posted on October 4, 2015 by | 1 Comment

Absolit Consulting maintains a list of German email marketing agencies and their relationships to the most common email service providers (see also the ESP worldmap). Please find it in the two articles More Success with Specialized Email Agencies and Specialized Email Agencies Part 2. Both are in German.

The list would fit well into the agency-branch of the email marketing ecosystem. However, to make the visualization not more confusing than it already is, here’s a separate infographic, mapping the relationships between German email agencies and their supported ESPs: Continue reading →

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Top 1.000 Email Experts on Twitter – are you part of the movement? ;-)

Posted on June 25, 2015 by | 6 Comments

Remember the top 250 email experts on Twitter from January 2013? Plus the gleanings? Although I did an update last year, it’s time to summarize the international email marketing community once again.

Several people changed their careers, others introduced themselves recently. Therefore, I took a fresh look at the friends-follower relationships of more than 2.200 folks on the social network, who seem to deal – or have dealt – with email marketing. The inner circle of this subnetwork looks like this: Continue reading →

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Email marketing inbound hours on Twitter…

Posted on June 12, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Who isn’t keen on new digital marketing approaches these days… Well, yesterday I stumbled upon a one hour (?) twitter chat with @litmusapp and other #InboundHour hashtag participants. I did not attend, but it looked like the organizer @HubSpot posted seven frequently asked email marketing questions and @litmusapp as well as others shared their opinions on them.

Is this concept effective? I mean @HubSpot has 498,838 followers and @litmusapp has got 16.741. That’s a lot. Here’s a brief summary of the event, you can decide for yourself: Continue reading →

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