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Face it: No one reads your company e-newsletter. The average user spends a mere 51 seconds skimming one -- and needs only 90 seconds to unsubscribe. To prevent inbox irritation, "include short stories or bits of advice that are ...READ»

Community Farmer's Market Uses Tech Tools to Gain Competitive Advantage

For nearly 40 years, the Belleville Farmer's Market in Belleville, IL has been delighting its customers. In recent years, the produce industry has seen dramatic changes. Now the community market faces fierce competition from big box stores and large grocery chains. In order to compete, the market is using technology tools to gain a competitive advantage. READ»

Flowtown Extends Reach of Small Business Marketing

Now that brands are becoming more aggressive users to social tools like Twitter and Facebook, there's a danger that consumers will be inundated with marketing messages and unwanted advances. The messages have become "touch points" ...READ»

11 Tips for Driving Marketing With Data

Are you facing increasing pressure from your leadership team to justify your marketing decisions? Most marketers can no longer afford to make decisions based on intuition or gut feel. Today, making good decisions requires data. Data and technology enable marketers to act and react. Very few marketers would suggest that data is not essential to being more effective. And most organizations are not lacking data. Data is everywhere. The real challenge is gathering, extracting, analyzing, and presenting data to drive decision-making and action. Marketing organizations that leverage data to maximize their efforts and optimize their marketing investments are considered data-driven cultures.READ»

Noodle: How we design PURL’s

A PURL, or “Personalized URL”, is a media type we use often to create a larger lead conversion for our clients. It is often combined with our variable data print pieces, though we sometimes use them with emails as well. The point of PURLS varies from generating leads with a form, selling products via an e-commerce solution, or printing off vouchers/coupons for sales events.READ»

Noodle Media Launches Variable Google Maps into AI Print Media

Noodle Media, based in Layton, UT, has announced the release of new innovation within variable data print marketing. With the help of Google's Maps API, you can now send your variable print pieces with custom directions using Google Maps.READ»

Email Advertising Solutions for Eco friendly Marketing Initiatives

Email Advertising is one of the eco friendly ways which boosts sales and at the same time ensures lower costs.As different from early days of mankind, there has been revolutionary changes happening in the field of communication. It ...READ»

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Email Marketing in a Tough Economy

In tough economic times, email marketing might seem more desirable, but marketing veteran ‘Mr. Crisis Buster’ says watch out for the pitfalls.READ»

The Power of Excellent Customer Service

How does your staff communicate with new customers? With the power and reach of the social web, it matters more now than ever. READ»

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Aghreni delivers 1.5 million emails for Indian Marketers in less than 2 months of its operations

Aghreni Technologies, leader in interactive email and mobile marketing recently published the numbers to the Industry. It sent about 1,450,000 emails through its email marketing platform in just less than 2 months of its operations in india.READ»

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End to End Email and Mobile Marketing automation Solutions and Services for Marketers

Aghreni Technologies, that is part of a global email marketing giant is offering e-messenger, email and mobile marketing automation platform that can send high volume emails and mobile messages with high deliverability to Indian Marketers.READ»

Ringing the NASDAQ closing bell: A Small Business Success

I never thought I'd be there, but sure enough – there I was on the stage at the NASDAQ -- part of a group invited to ring the closing bell. What a thrill! We were there because we'd been selected to participate in a venture capital ...READ»

Digital Media Spending, Strategy and Results - A long summer for media buyers and brand marketers

2008 has been a turbulent year for agency and brand marketers alike. With ad budgets pulled back but agency and brand marketing result expectations as great as ever, I've been spending a lot of my time on the road, addressing ...READ»

Work/Life: Honesty vs Oversharing - the Fine copyline

Undeleted email of the day … View PDF In a nutshell: a company called REMO asking its community very directly to help them continue to stay viable,  by buying their product. In the fuming pile of spam I pooper scoop each ...READ»

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Ideal Client Mix

The more I learn about small businesses, the more I’m surprised about the shaky foundation on which they build their businesses. Owners risk so much for their yet they often put themselves at greater risk because they choose not ...READ»