Just a little plug for a company I have nothing to do with but must thank for their amazing service. I’m not a paying subscriber to them at the moment but have recommended them to many clients after finding them great for the email marketing stuff that they specialise in.
Today’s main tips are, go and download the templates for HTML emails from their site, it’s a great starting place for doing your own HTML emails, I know it saved me a fair headache when I had to redo a template last week. I’m also loving the fact that they have a testing service that lets you see what your newsletters will look like in a whole bunch of different email clients.. it’s going to feature heavily in my workflow in future.
also I can’t go without pointing you to their awesome resources section.. it has a ton of amazingly useful information all for free. You can findresearch based on over half a billion emails that they sent, so you can see how your campaigns hold up compared to others in your sector, of course the templates mentioned above, in a github repository so you know there’s a process to keep an eye on them and submit bugs etc.
I think that’s about it for the plugs.. I’m loving the PDF guides too, I know that email marketing isn’t my speciality so maybe some of the things I’ve learned are obvious to many people, but I’m sure there’s plenty in there for all of us to learn from..
Happy learning!
Tumblr
Working with grace
Is tumblr the new twitter?
These feeds are so easy to embed, why use wordpress?!
I don’t wanna replace my mouse.. But the double click seems broken..
Note to self..
Make an effort to attend as many open source software, web dev, Facebook dev, any dev and design events and conferences, inevitably meet nice and interesting people, sometimes useful people.. After 8 years it’s still important to network, maybe more so now..
We’re at the diner, retro milk!
iphone data open
so sounds like there’s something going on with logging wifi and gps data on iphones and ipads, of course there’s going to be the usual uproar, but you know maybe it’s kinda cool. What could you do with all that location data?
Well .. a couple of fun ideas, how about a real life stumbleupon where you get suggested streets you’ve never been to, or even what’s there that’s similar to places you have been. I guess thats possible without the live GPS tracking, but who really checks in everywhere they go?
I think I foursquare only at restaurants and cafe’s, and the odd techy event because the foursquare iphone app is easier to slap a picture and caption on than a blog or facebook.. that is of course until tumblr came into my life…
So I’m waiting for the wife to come along and go to the gym in town, it’s 10.30pm, there’s a 24hr fitness first right here. Just having a mint tea to kill some time
The Facebook developer garage was interesting tonight, talks on gamification and scaling popular sites by Pop cap and playfish. Very interesting, turning the world into a game and why it needs more consideration than action.
Links and notes to come
