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Email marketing tips, deliverability advice, and platform news for businesses in the firearm industry.

Email Signup Form WordPress Plugin: iContact, Interspire, MailChimp, GetResponse

Sometimes people find that WordPress doesn’t like advanced code like the optin form HTML code provided by many email marketing platforms. There are a variety of ways to embed the default form into your WordPress pages, posts, and widgets (try the Global Content Blocks plugin) but if you are looking for a shortcut to a well designed and attractive form this plugin could be good for you.

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The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 – Email Marketing Compliance

This law, signed in by President Bush in 2003 creates some specific guidelines as it relates to the sending of marketing related email. It is critical to any successful email marketing strategy to adhere to these guidelines as a minimum standard. Below is a summary as it is laid out on the Wikipedia page.

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Users Reach First for Tablets to Read and Send Email

The below graph by eMarketer.com shows that even for sending email users who own iPads reach for that device 48% of the time compared to only 41% of the time on their PCs or Macs. Perhaps more relevant to our blog readers are the numbers about reading email which suggest that iPad owners reach for their tablets 55% of the time and their mobile phones 10% of the time to read email.

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How to Correctly Embed a Link: Avoiding SPAM Filters

Recently we had a client whose email campaign was found in far too many SPAM folders for his comfort. When he reached out to discover what the issue had been we realized that we have never addressed this here on our blog. So for the benefit of all Email Marketing professionals please follow along below.

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