Posts tagged with 'spam'
“It’s not you, it’s me. Actually no, it is you. You keep sending me boring, irrelevant emails that I don’t want. Our email relationship was going really well at the beginning but now its fizzled out and I’m unsubscribing from your emails. For one thing, you just send me way too much. It comes across a bit...desperate."
As an email marketer, does reading this make you cringe? Are you afraid this is what your email subscribers would say to you if they had the chance?
The unsubscribe process doesn’t have to be as painful as a “Dear John” break-up letter, but with the way some brands go about it, it might as well be.
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by Margaret Farmakis
28 February 2011 10:26am
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In recent weeks I have seen a definite increase in Twitter spam, and it's something that I think Twitter needs to get on top of and smother. Make no mistake: spam is always a threat to the user experience.
Sometimes spammers will follow you. Other times they’ll just send you a tweet. All of the time they totally suck.
It’s not at all difficult to spot a spammer... here are 12 ways to identify one of these timewasting losers on Twitter. Spam, be damned.
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by Chris Lake
25 February 2011 13:04pm
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Long gone are the days when one could criticize Twitter for being a revenue-less startup without a business model. Today, Twitter does have a business model, and several commercial offerings.
One of those commercial offerings: Promoted Trends, which gives brands the ability to insert themselves into Twitter's Trending Topics list.
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by Patricio Robles
08 December 2010 09:05am
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Can a Google bomb win an election? With the upcoming election in the
United States just weeks away and one political party facing major
losses, the Daily Kos, a popular liberal blog, is turning to Google to
help Democratic candidates.
The plan: organize a Google bomb to direct voters to the most disparaging articles about Republican candidates.
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by Patricio Robles
11 October 2010 12:34pm
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Google Instant certainly ranks as one of the biggest user experience
changes Google has implemented since it launched Google search more than
a decade ago. And for that reason, it has attracted a lot of press attention,
and sparked a significant amount of conversation among search experts.
But is Google Instant really little more than a convenient distraction
that masks Google's flaws? Some are essentially arguing just that.
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by Patricio Robles
13 September 2010 08:57am
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If you deal in online marketing or the media in general, then you'll probably be familiar with The Trump Network, owned by business icon (and face of
the US 'Apprentice' show) Donald Trump.
The Trump Network is currently making a foray into affiliate marketing, pop along to the campaign's homepage and you'll see a short video from
Mr.Trump, explaining how his affiliate program can benefit anyone
financially, up to and including multi-millionaires like himself.
The network itself wasn't what initially caught my eye however. Instead,
what piqued my curiosity was the way in which the network is being
promoted across the Twittersphere.
While there's no reason to assume
that Trump or his company are directly behind it, the Trump Network does
have a number of seemingly automated feeds out there promoting the
business, a practice which indicates a fundamental
misunderstanding of the medium.
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by Matt Owen
10 September 2010 18:10pm
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Social media is a lot like a car: it's easy to buy, but harder to maintain. Just as many of us buy a new car, only to neglect the day-to-day maintenance that will keep it running smoothly for years to come, many individuals and businesses buy into social media but fail to do what's necessary to make the most of the investment.
Case in point: Britney Spears. The pop singer has more than 4m fans on her Facebook Page, making her one of the 50 most popular musicians on Facebook. But as detailed by Wired, the people running her Facebook Page are apparently "asleep at the switch."
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by Patricio Robles
20 August 2010 09:15am
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Emails from social networks are marked as spam 100% more often then those from other sectors, and in the case of Friends Reunited, one in four of its emails failed to reach the inbox.
According to Return Path, the deliverability issue is partly a result of spam complaints from recipients, which suggests that social networks need to take a closer look at the issue.
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by Graham Charlton
12 August 2010 09:19am
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Email marketers' lives just got even tougher with the recent changes to the Windows Live Hotmail user experience, which enables users to better organise their inbox.
The changes include the addition of a trusted senders icon to prevent phishing; the ability to "sweep" or automatically file "grey/gray mail," email that subscribers signed up for but no longer want; and the use of one-click and time-travelling filters, which remove messages that reach the inbox but are later discovered to be from senders with a poor reputation.
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by Margaret Farmakis
20 July 2010 11:32am
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Tens of millions of consumers say they're aware of 'bots, yet they continue to interact with spam. Chalk it up to some sort of blissful, can't-happen-to-me oblivion.
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) just completed a survey of North American and European consumers and found that despite their awareness of the dangers, they're playing with spam in ways that can leave them vulnerable to malware infections. Half had opened spam, clicked on a link in spam, opened a spam attachment, or replied or forwarded to spam. All these actions open the door to fraud, phishing, identity theft and infection. Most consumers said they're aware 'bots exist, but only a third believe they're vulnerable to an infection.
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by Rebecca Lieb
26 March 2010 14:02pm
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