GSI Commerce Buys E-mail Firm E-Dialog; Denuo's Pahade Leaves To Join GSI
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Email Marketer Blue Sky Factory Buys Blogarithm
By Joseph Weisenthal
Blue Sky Factory, a provider of email marketing solutions, has acquired Blogarithm, a service that sends email alerts whenever a selected bl… Read more »
E-mail Delivery Software Firm ExactTarget Files For IPO
By Rafat Ali
Another e-mail delivery software company files for an IPO: first was ConstantContact, earlier this year, and now Indianapolis-based ExactTar… Read more »
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Constant Contact Shares Surge in Debut
By Joseph Weisenthal
Shares of e-mail newsletter manager Constant Contact surged in the company’s public market debut, closing at $27.64 — well above the $16 p… Read more »
E-Mail Newsletter Service Constant Contact Prices IPO
By Joseph Weisenthal
Constant Contact, which manages and delivers e-mail newsletters (including ours), has priced its IPO, which it initially filed for in July.… Read more »
Mozilla Creates New Subsidiary Around Thunderbird With $3 Million In Seed Funding
By David Kaplan
Browser app provider Mozilla is breaking out its Thunderbird e-mail tool into a separate company, similar to what Mozilla did. Mozilla, whic… Read more »
Yahoo Updates Mail; Adds IM, Mobile Text Messages, Shortcuts To Other Content
By James Quintana Pearce
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will take its new e-mail service out of beta on Monday, finally, and roll out the service to around 254 million active us… Read more »
E-mail Newsletter Service ConstantContact Files For $86 Million IPO
By Rafat Ali
Constant Contact, the e-mail newsletter management and delivery firm (we use the company’s services for our sister site MocoNews.net and Con… Read more »
Gigya Receives $4 Million In Funding For Rich E-mail
By David Kaplan
Rich e-mail design start-up Gigya raised $4 million from Benchmark Capital in its first financing round, Globes Online reported. The Israel-… Read more »
BigString Acquires New Viral Video Site DailyLOL.com
An odd blend here … BigString Corp., which specializes in self-destructing email, has acquired DailyLOL.com, a viral video site launched… Read more »
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E-mail’s Still Got It: NYT’s Starts Urbanite; B2B Newsletters’ Renewed Focus
By Rafat Ali
Here’s a way to look at it: think of the good, old sturdy e-mail newsletter as packaged RSS…newsletters as more packaged editorial, RSS as… Read more »
E-mail Newsletter Vendor Constant Contact Gets $15 Million Funding
By Rafat Ali
Constant Contact, the e-mail newsletter management and delivery firm (we use the company’s services for our sister site MocoNews.net’s newsl… Read more »
EmailLabs Bought Out By J.L. Halsey
By Rafat Ali
Consolidation continues in the e-mail vendor space, as holding company J.L Halsey is indulging in a small rollup: the company, which bought… Read more »
When Online Subscriptions Turn Into The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
I had a run in with the Media Post log-in process this morning and ended up registering again. I signed up so quickly I didn’t pay attention… Read more »
FierceMarkets Buys Wireless Newsletter
By Rafat Ali
FierceMarkets, the Washington DC-based e-mail newsletter company, has bought out IT-Wireless e-mail newsletter from Emerge Media. Terms of t… Read more »
Study: More Than Half Of 100 Major Permission Emailers Are Being Skunked By SPam Filters
By Rafat Ali
It’s almost comforting to know we’re not the only ones whose permission emails sometimes get caught in trigger-happy spam filters — even wh… Read more »
The Inbox Style Magazine Czars
(via Susan Mernit) A nice story on the e-mail fashion/style newsletters,including Daily Candy and London-based Urban Junkies. UJ launched in… Read more »
Scripps Works Hard To Improve Email Delivery Stats
By Rafat Ali
Scripps actually tries to track every e-mail newsletter that doesn’t get through, raising the deliverable rate five percent his year by addi… Read more »
Gates: Mobile Phones Will Overtake MP3 Players For Portable Music
By Rafat Ali
Bill Gates is in a very talkative mood these days. This time he’s chatting with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German text)about Window… Read more »
Lyris Acquired For $24 Million
E-mail marketing and delivery pioneer Lyris is being acquired by J.L. Halsey, a holding company, for nearly $24 million in cash, along with… Read more »
Newsletter Usability: Can a Professional Publisher Do Better?
By Rafat Ali
Jakob Nielsen on e-mail newsletter registration usability… Read more »
How to Launch a Profitable Paid Email Newsletter
By Rafat Ali
How has London’s The Friday Project pulled off what US-counterpart Salon still can’t manage? A good case study… Read more »
E-Mailers Urge Consumer Steps for Delivery
By Rafat Ali
(via MarketingVox): Publishers are now getting in an overdrive against the e-mail filters…CNET Network plans to advertise the need for its… Read more »
Email Nation
By Rafat Ali
Circulation Management does a cover story on e-mail newsletters…and takes examples from B2B publishers like CMP Media, Meredith, PennWell… Read more »
E-Publishers Like E-mail Act…As Long As They’re Exempt
By Rafat Ali
Newspapers and newsletters, which pushed for a federal law to restrict unsolicited bulk e-mail, are now urging the FTC to rule that the new… Read more »
How to Stem Email Opt-in List Shrinkage
By Rafat Ali
A good case study… Read more »
Top 10 Stupid Email Mistakes for 2004
By Rafat Ali
Top 10 Mistakes being made daily, even by some big famous mailers. Read more »
Twice as Many Online Newsletters Expected in 2004
By Rafat Ali
This is a continuation of the story I mentioned yesterday…As the novelty of the electronic format begins to wane, and the various content… Read more »
Online Newsletters Grow
By Rafat Ali
The number of online newsletters nearly doubled from 2,500 in 2002 to 4,949 last year, according to Oxbridge Communications.
About 3,309 of… Read more »
Whitelisting is Hottest Topic – Should You Pay?
By Rafat Ali
The stakes are about to go a lot higher in email delivery, as this story shows:
– ISPs and others that determine whether or not your email… Read more »
Are E-mail Lists Dying?
By Rafat Ali
A slightly misguided story, but the reality’s staring in the face. E-mail lists, long one of the most popular and useful online tools, are i… Read more »
Tech Newsletter Company Receives $850,000 Investment
By Rafat Ali
This is among the first pure newsletter-based venture funding I’ve heard in a long time. NarrowCast Group, a Louisville, KY-based start-up t… Read more »
Topica Users Pay the Piper
By Rafat Ali
Some Topica subscribers are up in arms after the leading provider of free e-mail discussion lists started inserting spam-like ads last week… Read more »
Match.com Tests Rich Media Email to Convert Site Skimmers into Paid Members
By Rafat Ali
Interesting case study on using e-mail to drive online subscriptions…The trick was in making the registration process so fun and engaging… Read more »
ISPs Continue to Block Permission-Based Emails
By Rafat Ali
A substantial number of permission-based emails continue to be redirected to the digital dead letter office by the overly aggressive filters… Read more »
Tips on AOL Email Delivery Challenges
By Rafat Ali
Last week AOL said that for the first time in ages, their spam rate went down. Which, unfortunately, means the rate of false positives (perm… Read more »
Can a New Desktop Application Replace Email Newsletters?
By Rafat Ali
MarketingSherpa, the online marketing resource site, has launched a desktop alert tool, in an attempt to replace some of the problem it is f… Read more »
Online Health Publisher Raises $4M From Time Warner Investments, Among Others
By Rafat Ali
Certainly a return of the boom-days scenario: Waterfront Media, formerly known as Agora Media, has received $4 million in a new round of fun… Read more »
Judge Upholds $19.7 Million Copyright Award Against Legg Mason
By Rafat Ali
A federal district court judge in Maryland refused Wednesday to reduce the nearly $20 million award that financial services firm Legg Mason… Read more »
E-mail Newsletter Readers Adapt Behavior to Read Them Through The Flood of Spam
By Rafat Ali
Nielsen Norman Group, the company of which usability expert Jakob Nielsen is a part of, has released a very interesting study on spam and ho… Read more »
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