blThanks to the Chisago businesses who attended today’s webinar on e-blasts and e-newsletters. And thanks to Chisago HRA EDA and SBDC for hosting us! We talked about different tools for email lists, how to avoid spam, get read and track interaction. Someone in the session asked about combining email marketing with text messaging. I knew the last … Continue reading
Category Archives: Email Tips
Email Management Tips
I’m cheating this week by passing on tips that one of my customers is passing on to their patrons: Here’s a quick take on the article on handling email: 1. Lower the volume. 2. Don’t ask to be kept “in the loop.” 3. Return email in batches. 4. Be clear. 5. Spell correctly. 6. Leave … Continue reading
Email Newsletters
This week I met with nonprofit executive directors in Grand Rapids, MN. We started talking about Constant Contact (www.constantcontact.com) – and while I don’t usually promote tools you have to pay for here I thought I’d recap the conversation a bit for anyone else who has been thinking about starting or moving an email list. … Continue reading
Getting your Email past Their Filter.
It seems as if I have email filters on the brain this summer. Although for a change of pace I’m going to talk today about how to make sure that your email reaches your recipient and isn’t caught in a spam filter. Here are 5 quick tips: Don’t use spam-type words in the subject. You … Continue reading
Email Tips
The following is a suggestion from Denise in Minneapolis – top tips for sending email (or email newsletters). 1) Do not send one email message to more than 10 people at a time. Many email filters will throw that into the junk bin because it is going to too many people and often that is … Continue reading
Google for Enterprise-Wide Email
Today’s Byte is for readers who work with an office of folks … I’ll start by saying that I don’t know much about this firsthand as I don’t have an office of folks – but this looks interesting. Google is beta testing a program that would bring Gmail to every user in your domain. Since … Continue reading
On Vacation
I am at a wonderful conference (Symposium on Small Towns and Rural Summit) today and head out to vacation to a wonderful resort tomorrow. So, today’s Byte is brief. Below are instructions for setting your email to the automated out of office reply when you go on vacation (although I’ll actually be checking email in … Continue reading
Spam Protection and a New Library (not necessarily related)
Last week I talked about how email addresses (IP addresses actually) get blacklisted. Rosemary, from St Paul, wrote in to tell me that addresses can also be blacklisted when there is a poorly constructed email-based form on their web site. It’s a good reminder to check your web forms too. You can learn more here … Continue reading
Rejected Email?
I spoke with someone today whose email is not reaching his intended recipients. He works for a small company. They handle their email on their own server. They noticed a while ago that their messages were bouncing back to them – rejected. They had been blacklisted. So what does that mean? There are organizations on … Continue reading
Bits & Pieces
Remember a couple of weeks ago when I said I found a web email list tool that I loved. You might not remember because that message may have never reached you, which leads me to report that I no longer love simplelists.com. Having lunch with some Byte subscribers I learned that they hadn’t heard from … Continue reading
Byte of the Week 