Posts Tagged "mailing lists"

Here’s a question to which we kinda already know the answer: I was asked this when I unsubscribed for an Intuit mailing list I hadn’t signed up for. I did start using QuickBooks online, which I’m mostly liking (despite my insane problems with their payroll service and cancelling it… including having to cancel payroll when […]

Ptype has a mailing list just for updates on our Axure training offerings. That means you’ll be among the first people to learn beyond-exciting things such as: When we are scheduling live workshops or webinars. We have an upcoming two-day Axure workshop in San Francisco on March 5 and 6. We will soon be announcing […]

Eeek, let’s write this a little better… If you are checking by default, then just let that say, “Yes, I agree to be added to your mailing list.” People who don’t want that will uncheck. Unless you were going for confusing.

Once upon a time, I played Words With Friends. For like a day. Zynga grabbed my email address from Facebook and put me on my mailing list. I didn’t opt in. So thing one, that sucks. Now, I get all kinds of stupid emails about all kinds of games I haven’t played and will never […]

This happened. How? Why? Which part of “unsubscribe me” makes it sound like I want to be on this list for 10 more days? How is it that your email system doesn’t email who’s on your list when it’s time to send? Does that mean your email list is sending to people who opted out […]

Download this free whitepaper. It’s never really free, is it. They always want your name and email so they can add you to a mailing list. Sometimes they’re honest about adding you to a mailing list, and sometimes it’s a surprise you get later. That also seems to assume that wanting to read your whitepaper […]

Companies put me on their mailing lists all the time without asking. I don’t mean spammers. I mean companies where I went to try them out. Maybe I liked their system and maybe I didn’t, but somehow, without opting in, I’m now on a mailing list. Many do the right thing and offer a one-click […]

There’s been a huge outcry about what Facebook is now doing with business/”fan” pages. This blog post covers it excellently. The short version is that Facebook is purposefully NOT showing all of your business posts to all of your fan base. You can expect maybe 15% or so to actually get your post in their […]

You want people to join your email mailing list. You want to email them stuff! When you hit Living Social and Groupon, they push to make sure you are on the email mailing list. But both have options to close the popup window demanding your email… so you CAN get away from it. Here’s a […]

I don’t know how I ended up on the Schwann’s email mailing list, but this is a screen shot of an email I got. Click to enlarge: Not sure I need to say much here other than FAIL. I’m not going to read this. Not sure who is. Not sure what this is optimised for.