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The Problem with Trying to Do Your Own Email Marketing

Last Updated on September 3, 2019 / Marketing / 2 minutes of reading

Web designers always bemoan online website creators like Wix and Squarespace for making it too easy to build a website and undercutting their own trade (and pricing). We’ve certainly battled with that at Harrelson Co over the years, especially given that our main client base is made of nonprofits, churches, small businesses, and generally those with very limited budgets. However, I’ve realized over the years that the clients who complain about invoice costs and threaten …

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Creepy GMail Ads In Your Inbox

Last Updated on July 19, 2013 / Marketing / 1 minute of reading

Well, this is really creepy (but an easy fix): New Gmail Inbox Features Ads That Look Like Emails, Above Promotional Email Subscriptions | MarketingLand: “If you’ve converted to the new Gmail inbox, you may have noticed in-line ads that resemble regular emails at the top of  your Promotions tab. These new native-style ads function as paid-for-placement email messages, and essentially circumvent standard email marketing practices. The ads do have a shaded background and ad symbol …

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Great Review of @Posterous

Last Updated on July 30, 2009 / Technology / 1 minute of reading

Years of building and maintaining my WordPress blog have resulted in my learning a lot about WordPress and getting a lot of grease under my fingernails. Weeks of using Posterous has resulted in a media-rich blog with several posts per week. Tell me which service is more powerful. via suntimes.com I started using Posterous primarily as a photo-blog back in September of ’08. However, it’s transitioned into my full time personal blog as I’ve changed …

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FriendFeed Catchup in GMail

Last Updated on July 26, 2009 / Technology / 1 minute of reading

I absolutely love FriendFeed's GMail IM integration. It's how I consume most of my FriendFeed content as well as lots from my favorite folks on Twitter that I have piped into FF via the Imaginary Friends (now Rooms) feature. So, if I miss a few hours and want to catch up on what is going on in the Valley or from the folks I follow (and left GMail open on my Macbook), I can just …

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AOL Mail Team Blows It Bigtime

Last Updated on November 1, 2008 / Marketing / 1 minute of reading

AOL is, on the whole, doing things right by its users and the web in general these days. However, the mail team blew it with this bone-headed post complaining about GMail and written on the level of a jealous 14 year old girl that didn’t make the cheerleading squad but wore the same outfit as the prom queen last Tuesday at the basketball game. Come on, AOL. You’re better than this. Don’t you have a …

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Google Gears and Delicious Now Support Firefox 3

Last Updated on June 11, 2008 / Marketing / 1 minute of reading

Thanks to Content Robot‘s @danarockel for the tip that Google Gears now works with Firefox 3. If you’re a big user of Google Docs, Google Reader, Zoho or RememberTheMilk, the Gears integration allows you to work in these apps while offline. Hopefully, we’ll see GMail and Google Calendar integrated with Gears very soon. When that happens, I’m basically 100% in the cloud since I still rely on a few desktop apps for getting work done …

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FriendFeed + GTalk = Twitter Alternative?

Last Updated on June 8, 2008 / Twitter / 1 minute of reading

So, I’m goofing around with possible Twitter clones and decided to leverage FriendFeed‘s aggregation of GTalk’s status update messages and see if that would work. Here’s what it looks like: Pretty nifty if you are using FriendFeed’s web service or using Twhirl to watch FriendFeed. Plus, there are comments and groupings ftw.

Cloud Computing IS the Future (Not the Web OS)

Last Updated on April 12, 2008 / Marketing / 2 minutes of reading

I talk a good deal about cloud computing. If you listen to the GeekCast podcast, you might here me arguing with Shawn Collins over our cloud-based future and how it will be a reality as soon as variables, such as ubiquitous highspeed internet connections are available and accessible here in the US as well as the continued maturation of “cloud” based web apps such as GMail or Google Docs, are made more reliable. I also …

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