As we reported last week, email is forty years old this month, and despite plenty of challenges from rival forms of messaging, it's alive, well and still growing. It seems...

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It's become a firm fixture of everyday life, loathed by some but essential to nearly all of us, and yet its future is far from certain. Email is forty years old this month, with the first message having been sent in October 1971. The birth of email Like many technological innovations, email has its roots [...]

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It's become a firm fixture of everyday life, loathed by some but essential to nearly all of us, and yet its future is far from certain. Email is forty years...

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Spotify has been going from strength to strength since it launched stateside back in July, and since its deep integration with Facebook last month. Indeed, Spotify is now among one of the most recognizable digital brands – but it too was once a young startup. An email from Napster Co-founder Sean Parker to Spotify's Daniel [...]

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Spotify has been going from strength to strength since it launched stateside back in July, and since its deep integration with Facebook last month. Indeed, Spotify is now among one...

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Great inbound marketing is integrated marketing.  Social media can't be an isolated tactic and succeed. Instead it has to be part of an overall inbound marketing strategy that includes search engine optimization, blogging, email marketing, marketing automation, and other strategies.  One of the most powerful points of integration exists between email marketing and social media.For most B2B marketers [...]

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Tweet If you have a teen at home, I'm sure you have noticed the usage of email accounts is completely different than previous generations. My daughter the other day had to check her email address because she didn't remember it. I'll tell you more, when she's done watching Netflix movies she puts them back in [...]

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Tweet If you have a teen at home, I'm sure you have noticed the usage of email accounts is completely different than previous generations. My daughter the other day had to check her email address because she didn't remember it. I'll tell you more, when she's done watching Netflix movies she puts them back in [...]

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For those of you who are very active on Facebook, I imagine you receive multiple emails a day in your inbox from them. The company announced today a new feature they are testing – summary email notifications. The message under the photo posted above says: We're testing a feature for people who are very active ...

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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 8. Add an incentive to your email opt-in Chris Garrett suggested this one on Google+ when I raised the topic of this post, and he's a guy who has seen real benefit from doing it. Chris offers [...]

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Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to boost your blog, today's tip is: 2. Start an email newsletter This is another tactic that I know many bloggers are convinced of. But for one reason or another it's seen as something they'll do "one day"—maybe when they have more traffic, maybe [...]

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This guest pst is by Martyn Chamberlin of Two Hour Blogger. "When you work with words … words are your work."—Don Knotts I assume you know a lot about blogging. You know how to set up a blog, you know how to write. You know how to tweet and share. Most importantly, you know how [...]

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This guest post is by Ethan Waldman. Everyone starts from zero.  Zero readers, zero subscribers, zero dollars.  I can tell you from experience that staring at that number on the screen is one of the most gut-wrenching things about building an online presence. You’re staring that that big, fat, zero right now and you don’t [...]

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Audioboo, the mobile & web-based platform that lets users record and upload audio, has announced the launch of a new service allowing users to upload files by email. The service, called ‘BooMail’, goes live today.As it stands, Audioboo allows users to record and upload unlimited audio clips via iphone, Android and some Nokia devices, as well as through the Audioboo website. BooMail will also allow BlackBerry users to upload audio content on the go, as well as giving web-users a new, faster r [...]

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Guest post from Chris Sietsema, who teaches and trains small to medium-sized businesses and non-profits in the disciplines of search, social media, email marketing and online analytics.  Chris owns Teach to Fish Digital, a one-man consultancy in beautiful Mesa, Arizona.  He also created the infographics for The NOW Revolution. A common challenge for us is

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Guest post from Chris Sietsema, who teaches and trains small to medium-sized businesses and non-profits in the disciplines of search, social media, email marketing and online analytics.  Chris owns Teach to Fish Digital, a one-man consultancy in beautiful Mesa, Arizona.  He also created the infographics for The NOW Revolution. A common challenge for us is

Read More: The 12 Key Messaging Strategies for Email Lifecycle Marketing

Guest post from Chris Sietsema, who teaches and trains small to medium-sized businesses and non-profits in the disciplines of search, social media, email marketing and online analytics.  Chris owns Teach to Fish Digital, a one-man consultancy in beautiful Mesa, Arizona.  He also created the infographics for The NOW Revolution. A common challenge for us is

Read More: The 12 Key Messaging Strategies for Email Lifecycle Marketing