Personally I find my email address abused most by “Social SPAMmers” – these are the people who I have the biggest grievance against – including my wife. These people send me emailed petitions, jokes, “good luck” messages and pitiful stories about sick puppies with eight legs who’s life can be saved only through global awareness….

Well I can tell you there were no major fireworks, no front page headlines or any kind of excitement for the release of a piece of law which will affect just about every business in New Zealand. The New Zealand Herald which is one of the major papers was more concerned with a story about…

Another News Comment: NEW LAW WON’T STOP OVERSEAS SPAMMERS IRN-SPAM-PACUNLIFFE Feb 28th 2007 5:35am Govt passes laws clamping down on spam, but admits it will not stop overseas spam The Government is confident the law now has the teeth to deal with the spam afflicting New Zealand computer users, but admits it cannot stop spam…

Press Release: Minister for Information Technology Parliament has passed a new law to fight the avalanche of spam clogging Kiwi inboxes, says Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe. The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 aims to prevent New Zealand becoming a haven for spammers by prohibiting unsolicited commercial electronic messages and requiring senders of commercial electronic…

I have decided to create a series of articles on email marketing for small business after helping numerous of our small business clients with their email marketing strategies. The one common element I have found is that they are all scared to venture into this space for fear of being marked as spammer and losing…

Well well. many times we at Mobilize Mail have yelled at the top of our voices that the KISS principle should be applied to email templates. How many times do we need to say “Inline CSS and tables” is what provides the most consistency for email templates. Here is a link to an article on…

If you have more than one subscription form on your website you can track which form was used and by whom with a simple addition to your subscription form. Follow the steps below: 1) Create a new field in the attributes section of your account and name it something like “source” or whatever is meaningful…

Mobilize Mail supports two types of subscription forms: 1) Internal, the subscription form is housed on Mobilize Mail and is a great idea for customers who do not have their own website but want a subscription form to send people to. 2) External, the subscription form can be housed on any website. External styles are…

Yesh! Another news item on the increasing influx of spam in mail boxes. This is of course a huge concern to email marketers trying to do good by following every email standard and protocol on the planet. The cost of safelist accreditation services and other third party reputation services for email marketers is massive to…

Gmail empowers its users to download email from other accounts into their gmail account which means more and more emails are ending up viewed in gmail. Which means you need to give more attention to Gmail’s display eccentricities when it comes to email. More information on these developments here.