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Email List Hosting, Cheap & Free

January 15, 2015 No Comments

Email List Hosting, Cheap & Free You are running a top notch well know nonprofit agency, in charge of projects from fund raising to membership drives. Most if not all your work is done online, so you pick and choose the products that will give you the most bang for your buck, and believe free is even better. You wonder if free is always better recalling the saying “you get what you pay for” as opposed to “the best things in life are free”. You’re on a budget so you subscribe to the later and run things accordingly. For your

EXTRA – EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT “Email Service Provider Just Fired Their Number 1 Customer”

December 17, 2014 No Comments

EXTRA – EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT “Email Service Provider Just Fired Their Number 1 Customer” As email became the marketing tool of this century, I often thought my fellow ESP’s (Email Service Providers) would benefit from a customer Black List. Most ESP’s, including Dundee Internet, vett prospects before we put our reputation on the line, so to speak; a customer Black List would make that process a whole lot easier. With an industry specific Black List, we could know all about our new potential customers:those that didn’t pay their bills, reversed credit card payments or worst yet are SPAMMERS.

The Holiday Season Email Marketing Challenge Is Here*

November 17, 2014 No Comments

The Holiday Season Email Marketing Challenge Is Here* What type of challenges will you face this season? Delivering the right message at the right time? Will unsubscribes be your top concern? Are your subscribers even reading your newsletters? Divert the challenges of the season using Lifecycle emails. Start by classifying the subscribers of your current email campaigns into different Lifecycle categories: Engaged customers – they love your emails’ Potential or interested customers – they’re promising but not on board yet Disinterested or lethargic customers – For the most part, they have lost interest in you. Using specific categories will give

SPAM for Fun and Profit

September 19, 2014 No Comments

SPAM for Fun and Profit Sending SPAM for profit is a big business. SPAMMERS are notorious for getting their messages out no matter what the cost. They hop from ESP to ESP – burning bridges as they go. They are known to recruit anyone they can with a computer to send their SPAM for them. Haven’t you seen the offers to send mass email from your home computer for cash? This makes YOU a SPAMMER, which in the end, will get you kicked off your ISP. Spammers know, not everyone is interested in the promise of Enhanced Sexual Prowess and

The Technicalities of Email Marketing

August 30, 2014 No Comments

The Technicalities of Email Marketing On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rank your email campaigns? Do you believe they are in the top ten and should have an excellent rating or do you rank them on the bottom of the scale, poorly rated with only a sometime average ranking? It’s interesting to note that according to online sources only %5 of email marketers give themselves an excellent rating while most fall in the average or poor category. Mail is complicated. If you’re in the majority (average or poor) do you rate your campaigns lower because of

Email Quick Tips on Higher Open Rates

July 10, 2014 No Comments

Email Quick Tips on Higher Open Rates Did you know Transactional Emails have a higher open rate than Marketing Emails? Dundee Internet Email List Hosting is the path to A-mazing Email Campaigns. Amaze me Dundee Internet Lyris ListManager Hosting Solutions: Mail * Share * Grow “This is the best thing that we could have used. We get fantastic service” Suzanne K Wellesley College Facebook Twitter

Have you heard? AOL recently changed their email acceptance policy – and it could affect you!

April 25, 2014 No Comments

Have you heard? AOL recently changed their email acceptance policy – and it could affect you! Dear Dundee Internet, What’s “uncategorized failure” all about? My posts– or, it seems, posts from anyone else using AOL–aren’t appearing in my inbox and weren’t yesterday. What’s up? Thanks for your assistance, Mr. Edwards ———————- Dear Mr. Edwards, It appears that AOL has followed Yahoo’s lead and has implemented a DMARC p=reject policy. This breaks all mailing lists worldwide for anyone using a yahoo.com, and now aol.com, From: addresses. AOL, recommends changing the list parameters like this: “For mailing lists, also known as listservs,

Have you heard? Yahoo recently changed their email acceptance policy – and it could affect you!

April 10, 2014 No Comments

Have you heard? Yahoo recently changed their email acceptance policy – and it could affect you! Yahoo recently changed their email acceptance policy to combat network attacks against their users from bad people using a yahoo.com addresses that are not sent via a yahoo.com server. Yahoo’s decision to reject this class of email fixes their problem but breaks everyone else who sends legitimate email via an Email Service Provider (ESP). Yahoo has been fighting ongoing phishing attacks for a long time. These attacks attempt to compromise legitimate yahoo user accounts. Once compromised the hacker can then send SPAM and phishing

Transactional Emails, This One’s For You.

March 19, 2014 No Comments

Transactional Emails, This One’s For You. A Transactional email, is defined as an email sent in response to an action such as “Thank You For Your Purchase” when a purchase has been made. A Transactional email, normally sent automatically (e.g. triggered email based on the action taken by the customer) contains information relevant for only that customer. Sending a Welcome Letter when someone joins your marketing list or an order confirmation with items and shipping details are two examples of transactional emails. According to several studies transactional emails (triggered emails) have a higher open rate than marketing emails. This makes sense,

Unsubscribes Happen

February 13, 2014 No Comments

Unsubscribes Happen Does your Marketing email contain the same message over and over again, sending to the same list of people, over and over again? Most likely, your message changes, with fresh content and the right call to action, ideally the call to action will get the right response from your list subscribers. The right response doesn’t include unsubscribing, but unsubscribes happen. You can’t stop them so why make it difficult when someone is saying “I want off you list”. Most people will generally opt-out of permission email for the same reasons: Your Messages Lack relevance You send too often