If you are like most business people, when you are going to be out of the office for an extended period of time, you set up some type of Out of Office (OOO) auto-responder. I am like most business people (in some ways). So I set up an OOO message while on was on the [...]
Archive for the ‘What the hell email?’ Category
Introducing The Triple FAIL
Posted in bad email, Really Really Bad Email, What the hell email?, tagged Conde Naste, DJ Waldow, Fail on January 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Get in Front of Millions?! #FAIL
Posted in bad email, email acquisition, email engagement, Email Marketing, Great Email, Not So Great Email, Really Really Bad Email, What the hell email?, tagged email, Email Marketing, rant, spam on January 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Email marketing is a privilege; not a right. When it comes down to personally communicating to people, respect is a virtue that fosters a great relationship. Understanding that is a key component to growing an interactive marketing channel online. Believing that an email is just another task to check off of a marketing list or [...]
Valuable Coupon Attached!!
Posted in bad email, Email Marketing, Not So Great Email, Really Really Bad Email, Retail Email, Subject Lines, What the hell email?, tagged Ashley Furniture, bad email, Email Marketing, Fail on December 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Who do you know who is sending out emails on behalf of your company? What if I told you that some dude, say the VP of Marketing and Media Relations, blasted out an occasional terrible email using your much-coveted brand name? Yeah. I agree with you. I’d not be so happy either. The Backstory My [...]
Laptops or a cup of coffee? Using a weird image to sell me something.
Posted in Email Marketing, email rendering, Not So Great Email, Promotional Email, What the hell email?, tagged confusing email, email engagement, email image, Email Marketing, image based email, weird email on September 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Is Circuit City trying to sell me a laptop or coffee? Sure its a woman looking at what appears to be a laptop, but to me its a really weird use of an image to push cheap laptops. Your thoughts? Technorati Tags: weird email, email image, email marketing, email engagement, image based email, confusing email
Montgomery Ward’s Gmail Disaster
Posted in bad email, email engagement, Email Marketing, email rendering, Really Really Bad Email, Retail Email, What the hell email?, tagged bad email, bad email practices, email, email best practices, Email Marketing, email rendering, HTML coding, montgomery ward email, montgomeryward.com, Promotional Email, Retail Email on August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Please tell me that someone on the email marketing team over at Montgomery Wards checked to see if they email rendered in gmail? Nope..guess not..check out how their email rendered in gmail and then the web version below. Lessons learned here: Make sure your HTML is clean Make sure you test rendering in email clients. [...]