5 Common Email Mistakes to Avoid
VerticalResponse provides tools and resources to help you create your emails and get them delivered to your subscribers inboxes. And, we pesonally approve every email sent out through our system. Yep, you heard...
4 Quick Ways to Give Back and Prosper!
It’s the season for giving so there’s not a better time for your business to give back. First of all, it’s just a good practice for any business. Secondly, it just might give you an upper hand to...
About.com Interview With VR’s Social Media Manager
Our Social Media Manager, Poppy Thorpe was asked to participate in an interview for About.com’s Online Business Section. I thought the interview was full of great email marketing and social media tips that...
Avoid These Gift Certificate Blunders
In light of the looming holiday season where many businesses will offer gift certificates both online and off, I’d like to mention two specific gift certificate-related blunders (imo) that happened to me...
Complement Your Holiday Emails with Direct Mail Postcards
According to a 2010 Retail Email Guide to the Holiday Season, more than 83% of online retailers increased their email volume during November and December of last year. Because competition is high for...
Oh No You Didn’t! How to Avoid Twitter Regret
Averaging 65 million tweets per day, information flies by quickly on Twitter. Until you make that dreaded blunder of a tweet gone wrong. We’ve all done it in a moment of being in a rush, frustration or even...
Why You Should Include an Opt-In Form in Your Email Messages
Every business is focused on building their lead lists, their customer base, their email marketing lists and their social media followers. And chances are that you’re sending out email campaigns. So you might...
How #Hashtags Can Work for You!
If you use Twitter, you have probably noticed those # signs, and you might be wondering what they are. They’re known as Hashtags. These are a user-generated device that organize tweets by a topic, theme,...
Helpful Blogging Advice – Write The Way You Talk!
I’ve blogged a lot about the importance of having a blog for your business (check out my post: Start Blogging! 10 Reasons Why You Think Time Wasted Might Be Time Well Spent), but the actual writing part seems...