Category Archives: Privacy and Permission

Facebook Marketing Moves Beyond the Side Panel

Over the past couple months, there has been a significant increase in Facebook highlighting their advertising options for those who have a Business Page or are interested in this feature. Personally, when I think of advertisements on Facebook, I envision … Continue reading

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Email Deliverability – Blacklists and Whitelists

Deliverability is a key statistic that email marketers follow to determine the success, or failure, of an email campaign. After all, if the email is not delivered to the intended recipient, then it is not opened, not read and, most … Continue reading

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The Unsubscribe Link – It Can Be Your Friend

  What is the Unsubscribe Link? Best practices, as well as the Federal CAN-SPAM Act, require that there be present in all emails a simple and plainly visible method for allowing any email recipient to opt-out of receiving any further … Continue reading

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DMARC – Controlling Spam and Phishers

DMARC – Defined A group of large, influential organizations, including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Bank of America, ReturnPath Fidelity, among others have banded together to begin to solve an on-going issue related to email authentication.  They created a working … Continue reading

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The CAN-SPAM Act – Important Elements

  What is the CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003), was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 16th, 2003.  It established the United States first national … Continue reading

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An Old Email Address Can Become a SPAM Trap

Let’s say that a few years ago you started collecting email addresses from your customers in an opt-in process for future email marketing campaigns.  You have been collecting those addresses for a while now and are just starting to send … Continue reading

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