Check out a fun infographic for best practices for email marketing Email Marketing: All That Sizzles Is Not Spam infographic by obizmedia.
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How To Create An E-Mail
Our complete knowledge base for Email marketing can be found at: http://kb.blackrocknetworks.com Creating an e-mail message using our service is a simple process. Familiarize yourself with our sending guidelines. If you send a message that does not conform to our terms of service it will be rejected. The guidelines can be found here: Why was…
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Uploading your List of Subscribers
Our complete knowledge base for Email marketing can be found at: http://kb.blackrocknetworks.com File Requirements: The file can be in .txt (text) or .csv (comma separated values) format (i.e. mylist.txt, mylist.csv) and either tab, comma, semicolon, or colon delimited. We find that a tab-delimited, text (.txt) file works best. If you have the data in a…
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Yahoo / AOL changes Sending Policy
Not surprisingly companies are always trying to find ways to protect their users from Spam and Phishing schemes, however, Yahoo and AOL made a change this week than can effect a lot of email marketing and notification services. They have changed their DMARC policy which means that emails sent from a third party system using…
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Blackrock Networks, Inc. and Constant Contact end old browser support
LOTS TO KNOW THIS WEEK END OF LIFE for Windows XP: On April 8, 2014, support and updates from Microsoft for Windows XP will no longer be available. Don't let your PC go unprotected. Time to upgrade your browser. On March 31st Constant Contact and Blackrock Networks, Inc. will stop supporting some older browser versions.…
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Do You Provide Stock Photos?
The Email Marketing system provides a Flickr search feature for use with our template editor.This search allows you to imbed images directly from Flickr via the drag and drop feature built into our editor. Each image will be properly attributed for legal purposes and are free to use. Click on the search tab on the…
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How to reduce your spam complaints by 75%
We have found that customers who place the unsubscribe link at the top of the email and make it very prominent and easy to see, often reduce their spam complaints by 75%. This reduction in complaints can easily make the difference between getting blocked and not getting blocked by the Internet Service Providers (ISPs). There…
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Email Marketing Autoresponders
BRN Email Marketing provides the very latest software for your email marketing needs. Our autoresponder feature creates automatic answers to emails sent to it. Autoresponders have the ability to provide information to prospective customers immediately as well as follow-up at preset time intervals. With the ability to send emails at predetermined times, you can increase…
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