Bill Dawson's Articles on Martech Zone
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Email Marketing & Automation
Emailium: Email Template Inspiration
Today marks the public beta of a new tool for email marketers and creative teams, Emailium, a database of email marketing campaigns. This online application catalogs public emails, and organizes them by Industries, Companies, or user-defined tags. How might this service be of use to you? Let’s look at a few scenarios: Creative Teams – When pressed for a new…
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Content Marketing
Be a Spam Samaritan!
Spam Samaritans not only use their email accounts to communicate, but also contribute to stamping out spam for others. Last weekend my mother-in-law was describing how she abandonend her Yahoo! email account and migrated to Gmail, because it was, “all full of SPAM and couldn’t be read.” What she didn’t realize was this behavior hurts Internet Service Providers (ISPs), marketers…
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Advertising Technology
Sometimes Marketing Coal Produces Diamonds
Marketers spend much of the Holidays being villainized and accused of commercializing the season. After watching my nieces monitor NORAD for Santa’s progress globally, I thought it might be worth reflecting on marketing’s positive contributions to the Holiday season. Although Santa Claus’s red and white garb had been commonplace for a few years, Haddon Sundblom solidified this version by creating…