Posts Tagged ‘Email’

Sam Cece is Chairman and CEO of online marketing solutions provider StrongMail. Follow his blog, School of Hard Knocks.

In StrongMail’s 2010 Email Marketing Survey, we asked a number of questions to determine how businesses were leveraging emerging communication channels to engage customers, and, more importantly, accomplish core business objectives. The findings of the report were particularly interesting when looking at email and social media. The survey revealed email was being used enhance the value of the social web for consumers and for the overall effectiveness of brands’ marketing programs. The survey identified five business objectives driving the integration of email and social media. Let’s take a look at each objective, the value to the business and some examples of how brands are executing towards these goals today. Read more

Ever feel like you’re spending more time submitting your blog posts to all of your different social networks than you actually spend writing? Well Amplify – a conversation-oriented social network – has a solution: post-to-email sharing. Now you can write up an email and set it to go live on your various networks, from Facebook to Twitter and beyond. This new feature will allow bloggers and social network users to post directly from any device, anywhere, with relative ease. Read on for more details.
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A growing number of young men in UK prefer checking emails and browsing through social media sites like Facebook over sex, according to a new study conducted in UK by Sparkler for Microsoft Advertising.
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A new white paper, published by Merkle Inc., suggests that social media users are more likely to check their email inboxes than people who do not use social media. The study, conducted in Fall 2009, had several interesting findings. While many reports have suggested that Facebook and other social networks are replacements to email, this report would suggest that users are much more likely to use both products together.
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Best email spam filters deals with unwanted messages pretty great, but time to time some of the spam emails find the way to your inbox – nothing is perfect! But, maybe, there is a way to stop giving your email to unknown sources and avoid spam.

Many people use temporary email services to protect their real email addresses. When you need to fill out some registration forms or give away your email to shady/unknown sources you can simply create temporary email address and use it instead.

Below are some of the most popular temporary email services that will help you create temporary email address within a few moments:

1) Mailinator

One of the most popular and advanced temporary email services. They have several alternate domains you can use for your email. Check out also Mailinator widget for websites.

2) Melt Mail

Very simple service for setting up temporary email address that will forward incoming mail to your real address. Simplicity is the greatest quality of this service so if you want to go the easiest way use Melt Mail.

3) 10 Minute Mail

Using this service you are able to create email address that will work for 10 minutes. If you want to do something quick use 10 Minute Mail.

4) Guerrilla Mail

Don’t understand English? Use Guerrilla mail in German, Spanish, Polish and Dutch languages. Emails of this service are active for 15 minutes and after that they will expire.

5) TempEMail

Your email address created using this temporary email service will expire in 14 days, so it is very useful if you need to wait some time for some emails and you don’t know when exactly you will receive them.

6) MailExpire

Great service that offers you to create email that will be active from 12 hours up till 3 months depending on your needs. Only problem is that it works for me a bit slow.

7) Filz Mail

Very easy to use and simple solution. You even have a possibility to check for your mail using RSS feeds, which gives you great possibility to receive messages via your favorite RSS readers you use on daily basis.

Earlier this month Pelago’s mobile service Whrrl launched an updated version at the SXSW conference in Austin, TX. Today, the company is revealing some useful enhancements to Whrrl v2.0, with SMS and email integration along with digital camera functionality.

You may recall that Whrrl is a mobile-to-web service that enables users to create collaborative stories around a particular event, contributing content through photos, videos and more. With location-based capabilities and an inherent community that can be built up around these collaborative events.
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Google’s email client, Gmail is a powerful web-based email client. Although it still hasn’t achieved the unlimited storage feature like Yahoo mail, Gmail’s storage capacity keeps on growing everyday. With its simple and clean interface, Gmail has become the top choice for a web mail account by many. To make it even more useful and entertaining as well, Google, through the Google Labs is introducing a new opt-in feature called Mail Goggles.

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Do you suffer from habitual e-mail checking? Fear not! You are not alone. In fact, each day, thousands of Americans succumb to the dreadful disease. What makes the epidemic particularly frightening is the fact that the average computer user maintains more than three e-mail accounts.

That’s a whole lotta wasted time remembering passwords and staring at the inbox.

NutshellMail wants to help you “escape inbox overload” by allowing you to check all of your messages through a single account. Read more

Like millions of workers, I use Microsoft Outlook at work. As hard as I try to stay on top of my inbox, I inevitably fall behind. The main culprit of inbox overflow are messages which don’t need to be addressed immediately.

By the end of the day, I’m staring at a sea of red flags.

While I make every effort to respond to every e-mail, it’s a foregone conclusion that some will slip through the tracks. If those little red flags become like wallpaper, you might need Hitmelater.com. The Web app functions like a snooze button for your e-mail.

If you’re simply not in the mood to entertain an e-mail, but are afraid you’ll forget to respond, you can have it sent back to you when you’re ready to read it. Set a timer and schedule a redelivery of the message.

“Just forward any email to 24@hitmelater.com and we’ll resend it to you 24 hours later.”

Seriously, That’s it. No need to register.

You can replace “24″ with any number or day. For example, forward it to 4@hitmelater.com and you’ll get it back four hours later. Send it to wednesday@hitmelater.com and we’ll send it back to you the first Wednesday morning after today.

The creators of the site claim that you will never receive spam – at least not by extension of using the service.

There are an abundance of e-mail providers to choose from, each offering a growing number of quality features. However, it’s amazing that the majority of e-mail services do not allow you to schedule e-mails. LetterMeLater is a free service that wants to tell your e-mail service not to bother, they have it under control. Read more