Mar 11
Linda Coles had nice things to say about the footer of our last Spike news email in her blog entitled What Marketing Opportunities Are You Missing? “We all get email newsletters, some better than others and today I got one…
Mar 07
A computing legend has died. The inventor of email and saviour of the @ symbol, Ray Tomlinson, suffered an apparent heart attack on Saturday, according to reports. He was 74 years old. Read more about Ray and his contribution to…
Mar 02
The objective was to help JFJ grow their database while keeping the current database engaged, so we came up with an online Fortune Cookie for Chinese New Year. Something fun that only takes a few minutes, that people would want…
Mar 02
“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” – Mark Twain The best work habit you can ever get into is very simple: Do your worst task…
Mar 02
As part of our series that explores the retail industry’s smartest moves of the past year, First Retail managing director Chris Wilkinson answers 10 questions on the highs and lows of retail in 2015, and shares some thoughts for 2016….
Jan 22
The following infographic from emailmonks.com shows in glorious colour a lot of the things you need to know to get your emails looking great.
Jan 22
Over the holiday period you no doubt received many seasons greetings and Happy Holidays messages in your inbox from various companies. Did any of them actually warm your heart? More importantly did any of them come with a free gift…
Jan 19
The email interaction in this article on Boredpanda is too good to not read all the way to the end. I’m frankly surprised that the scammer persisted for so long. “I set up multiple pseudonymous email accounts and began replying…
Jan 08
Adrienne LaFrance provides a concise history of email and then explains why one of the world’s most reviled technologies keeps winning. Email has always been a great medium. It’s the content of most emails that’s problematic. Read The Atlantic’s article…
Dec 23
By now we’ve all heard about Steve Harvey’s mess up at the latest Miss Universe Pageant, but could it have been avoided? This article by Eric Thomas on LinkedIn makes an excellent point about not scrimping on the design of…