The Admail.net Blog
Posts in the “news” category.
- 19 Mar 2024
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- Author: Robert Hicks & AI Content Generator
Create Customizable Templates for Effective Email Marketing
Effective email marketing is crucial for businesses to engage with their audience and drive sales. One of the key elements of a successful email campaign is the design and layout of the emails themselves. READ MORE
- 11 Dec 2023
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Admail: Elevating Email Marketing for Small Businesses
Admail offers an extensive knowledge base, a library of video user guides, and a friendly live customer support team to help businesses get the most out of their email marketing efforts. READ MORE
- 26 Jul 2023
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- Author: Robert Hicks
When is the best time to send my email?
The best time to send your email depends on your target audience, industry, and the goals of your email campaign. READ MORE
- 03 Apr 2023
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Can AI Generated Marketing Content Work for You?
I began by submitting to ChatGTP: Email marketing is the topic. What content are consumers of email marketing services responding to? Here are the results. READ MORE
- 23 Jan 2023
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- Author: Robert Hicks
How Admail Helps Businesses & Marketers Embed Video in Email Content
Admail is on the cutting edge of embedded video in email marketing. See how our proven solutions can help your business grow using the power of video marketing in your email campaigns. READ MORE
- 14 Apr 2020
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- Author: JoAnna Brown
Coronavirus Marketing: Best Practices For Your Brand
How you handle your brand’s engagement and communicate with your audience during this moment of uncertainty will stay in the minds of your customers. READ MORE
- 16 Mar 2020
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- Author: JoAnna Brown
SMS Marketing Services | SMS Platform To Increase Sales
Best SMS text marketing platform is the creative way to increase your business sales as it is the direct marketing campaign with great pricing options. READ MORE
- 06 Mar 2020
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- Author: JoAnna Brown
5 Ways To Reduce Customer Friction Points
Identify and solve friction points to make your e-commerce experience better for your customers. READ MORE
- 22 Jan 2020
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- Author: JoAnna Brown
CCPA Requirements and Compliance Simplified
A breakdown of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and what it means for businesses and consumers. READ MORE
- 12 Nov 2019
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Admail Updates Improve Holiday Marketing Email Design
The Admail.net team is delivering system updates just in time for your holiday marketing email campaigns. READ MORE
- 22 Aug 2019
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- Author: JoAnna Brown
How Marketing with Barcodes is Still Relevant
Today, it's difficult to perform any task without noticing a brand utilizing a barcode for marketing or promotions. From the cup you get going through the drive thru to the e-ticket you purchased for an upcoming concert, barcodes are becoming the universal language of a variety of companies. READ MORE
- 18 Aug 2017
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- Author: Mason Mordue
Rise of AI (Continued)
New uses for AI are coming out daily. Businesses should stay on top of this blossoming technology. READ MORE
- 11 Aug 2017
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- Author: Mason Mordue
Rise of AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Artificial Intelligence is making decisions for companies and people based on a series of calculations and statistics. Understanding how they can be used will help your business READ MORE
- 26 Apr 2017
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Best Practices for Testing Your Email Marketing
Know your audience, use sound testing methodologies, and use a variety of test ideas to make your campaigns more effective. READ MORE
- 12 Jan 2017
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- Author: Robert Hicks
2017 Email Trends and Requirements
Changing demands in email clients require special email marketing tools. READ MORE
- 13 Dec 2016
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- Author: Andrea Moulding
Troubles With Tracking
Click tracking in Admail’s AccuTrak tool is a great way to track the engagement of your subscribers, but what happens when the numbers don't add up? READ MORE
- 24 Mar 2015
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Email Marketing Continues To Make A Big Impact
Recently marketing experts have cited significant changes in the email marketing sector. From its role as a unique and specialized medium for marketing communications, emails have evolved to become an integral part of marketing campaigns across industries in about a decade and a half. Some of the factors that are contributing to the evolution of both email marketing and those that provide email marketing services are as follows: READ MORE
- 19 Feb 2015
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Creating Email with Responsive Design is Now Possible
Admail.net is releasing a beta version of its Email Builder with responsive design tools. READ MORE
- 04 Feb 2015
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Admail has a new sister company...
…Ad411.today offering search engine optimization, pay per click, web design, and additional online marketing. READ MORE
- 12 Jan 2015
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- Author: Ayaz Nanji
The Most Important Elements of an Email Campaign
Email marketers say having quality data/lists is the key to successful email campaigns, according to a recent report from Howling Mad. READ MORE
- 13 Oct 2014
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- Author: Robert Hicks
List Builder and Admail’s Database Target Filters
Many Admail.net customers have special data fields that help them target their customers within their database. To help customers who don’t have the time or financial resources for custom API development, Admail offers Target Filters, a tool specifically designed to query and distribute information to specific customers. READ MORE
- 13 Oct 2014
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- Author: John Pollard
7 Reasons to Encourage Subscribers to Reply to Your Emails
Mailbox providers are increasingly measuring the levels of engagement that subscribers have with your email in their filtering decisions. One of the best forms of engagement that a subscriber can have with you via email is a simple reply. Why a reply matters is that in the eyes of a mailbox provider a reply means the subscriber (in most cases) has a relationship with you as a sender which in turn helps the mailbox provider have more trust in your brand and email program. When a mailbox provider READ MORE
- 25 Sep 2014
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Some information and trivia for serious email marketers!
The first email ever was sent by Ray Tomlinson in late 1971. | 91% of consumers use email at least once a day. | In 2014, 247 billion emails are sent every day. READ MORE
- 15 Sep 2014
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Put Away Last Years Play Book…
Put away last years play book and get to know your customers! Each customer and campaign is different – what worked yesterday may not work today and vice versa. Touching base with your clients regularly and closing the feedback loop when it comes to performance are just some of many ways you can maintain engagement with your past, present and future clients. READ MORE
- 13 Aug 2014
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Gmail is making email marketers sweat again
Gmail is making email marketers sweat again. In the last 12 months alone, the introduction of Tabs caused all-out panic, image caching recalibrated open rate baselines, and grid view caused rendering concerns. Now Gmail is following up with a partial rollout in March of a highly visible native unsubscribe link with a wider rollout, which they announced yesterday. READ MORE
- 30 May 2014
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- Author: Thaddeus Quintin
Content Management and an Open Source Contribution
For several years, we used Wordpress as a Content Management System for the Admail blog and all of the customer facing content, like pricing, FAQs, contact info and our home page. We made that move when it become untenable to keep our content in the same codebase as our application. Moving all of that content to Wordpress allowed us to develop system features independently from blog posts, which was helpful. READ MORE
- 17 Sep 2012
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- Author: Dan Lukens
The Harvard Business Review: "Email Marketing is King."
In a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, an author outlines why he believes email marketing is still the king of the marketing world. READ MORE
- 21 Aug 2012
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- Author: Dan Lukens
Does HTML5 Bring Hope for Video in Email?
Video is a great tool for online marketing. It grabs audience attention and can deliver information in dynamic and exciting ways while requiring a minimal amount of effort on the part of the consumer. These reasons make it easy to understand why email marketers have been searching for a way to implement video effectively in email for years. Unfortunately, though many attempts have been made, even the most valiant efforts produced results that were unreliable at best. The technology hasn't been READ MORE
- 20 Apr 2012
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- Author: Dan Lukens
FTC 'Do Not Track' New Regulations
We've recently attended the DMA Conference in Washington D.C. The event was carried out to help marketers keep up to date with the changing legal landscape of the online marketing world. One focus of the event was the changing and growing FTC regulations concerning "Do Not Track." READ MORE
- 23 May 2011
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- Author: Dan Lukens
Admail at the National Restaurant Association Expo 2011
Check out the action from Chicago and the NRA show. Along with Admail.net, there are thousands of exhibitors and tens of thousands of attendees. READ MORE
- 18 Jan 2011
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- Author: Dan Lukens
At the PPAI EXPO 2011
Here's a few images captured at this year's PPAI EXPO. We really had a great time at the conference and met so many interesting people. READ MORE
- 01 Sep 2010
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- Author: Dan Lukens
Google Priority Inbox: How will it change email marketing?
Google has release their new feature named Priority Inbox. It has the potential of changing the way Gmail users view their email and affecting the success of your email campaigns. Learn the basics about Priority Inbox so you know how to use it to your advantage. READ MORE
- 15 Jun 2010
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- Author: Dan Lukens
Puerto Rican Day Parade & Digital Marketing Days Expo!
Admail.net is currently in New York City for the Digital Marketing Days Expo! We were lucky enough to see the Puerto Rican Day Parade and look how nice the booth looks! READ MORE
- 28 Apr 2010
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- Author: Dan Lukens
FundRaising Success Virtual Conference & Expo!
Join Admail.net and other great sponsors at the Fund Raising Success Virtual Conference and Expo. READ MORE
- 14 Apr 2010
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- Author: Dan Lukens
Improved Email Template Previews
A new Admail feature to help you get the most out of our email campaign system. You can now see larger previews of our email templates to help you selected the correct template for your message. READ MORE
- 24 Dec 2009
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- Author: Dan Lukens
Upcoming Holiday "Gifts" In Email Builder 2.0
Email Builder 2.0 is coming and its a holiday treat that all of our customers are bound to love! READ MORE
- 18 Nov 2009
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- Author: Dan Lukens
Best Practices: Honesty is the Best Policy!
Advertising requires honesty and this applies, by law, to mass mailing sent out to mail lists. If your business uses html mass email marketing don't forget that your reputation depends on your following Federal Trade Commission guidelines. By using common sense and best practices, along with Admail's email builder, you can produce an effective and business-driving bulk email campaign. READ MORE
- 13 Nov 2009
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- Author: Dan Lukens
Admail.net Continues To Grow, Recruits New Content Manager
At Admail.net customer service has always been number one. To maintain that quality and to provide their customers with an even higher level of support, Admail.net has hired Dan Lukens as their new Content Manager. READ MORE
- 11 Apr 2009
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Internet Explorer 8 Users "Just say No"
When using your Admail Email Builder Templates with Images - IE 8's default security setting will ask you "Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely" and the answer is "No". If you say yes the unsecured Images in your Template (photos, logos, etc) will not load and you will find yourself stuck! See sample screen shot below. READ MORE
- 04 Sep 2008
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- Author: Thaddeus Quintin
Let Me Count The Ways
A number of updates have been taken live over the past few weeks--we wanted to officially mention them before the next wave of updates comes. READ MORE
- 20 May 2008
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- Author: Thaddeus Quintin
Statistics
You may notice a few changes in your AccuTrak statistics pages. We'll give you a quick run through. READ MORE
- 07 Apr 2008
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Admail continues to provide superior delivery & service...
It has been a month since we completed the move to the new data center. Performance is outstanding. The electrical service was even tested when a tornado blew through Atlanta with no disruption of service. READ MORE
- 04 Apr 2008
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- Author: Alynn Gillespie
Admail.net Launches 8 New Interest Group Features
Admail.net's new interface includes a number of features that make it easier for all email marketers to use and sure to please power users. READ MORE
- 04 Dec 2007
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- Author: Robert Hicks
The Metropolitan Opera selects Admail.net
New York - The Metropolitan Opera Guild selected Admail.net as their mass email delivery system last week; also new to Admail's list of clients The Ocean County Public Library of New Jersey. READ MORE
- 21 Nov 2007
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- Author: Alynn Gillespie
DM News 2007 Edition of Essential Guide to E-Mail Marketing
I waited with anticipation for the DM News 2007 Essential Guide to E-Mail Marketing and they did not disappoint. The guide is packed with advice from industry experts and you'll find many articles on effective practices for reaching the consumer's inbox--beginning with building your list, relevancy of your message, targeting consumers, your creative, higher conversion rates, and much more. All this and in time for the holiday email campaigns! You can download the guide as a PDF file right READ MORE
- 15 Nov 2007
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- Author: Thaddeus Quintin
Surfin' Safari
While we were creating Email Builder, we realized that there were issues when running on Apple's Safari web browser. Overall, things worked, but the editing environment was limited (e.g. no bold, no italics, no formatting at all!) and when large templates were loaded, it encountered an error and Email Builder would cease functioning. READ MORE
- 05 Nov 2007
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- Author: Thaddeus Quintin
Interest Groups, Even More!
Did you notice? We launched the final two features of our new Interest Groups page! While they're much more subtle than the sweeping revisions we made earlier, these updates will please all of our power users. Without further ado, let me introduce them to you: READ MORE
- 22 Oct 2007
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- Author: Thaddeus Quintin
Interest Groups Reloaded
We've upgraded our Interest Group feature! If you have an Advantage plan, or an XP plan that includes Interest Groups, check it now! The new interface isn't all just flash and good looks--we've included a number of new features to make your life easier. Best of all, it all runs on one page so that all of your information is right at hand. READ MORE
- 30 Aug 2007
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- Author: Alynn Gillespie
Audited Sender Program
Is your email delivery mission critical? Is your customer base super sensitive? Improve in box delivery with our Audited Sender Program. READ MORE
- 28 Feb 2007
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Affiliate Email Marketing
First what is affiliate marketing? It is the use by one Web site of other Web sites or in this case emailers to help market the first site's products. Typically, revenue is shared by the affiliate merchant—the Web site or email marketer featuring an ad or content designed to drive traffic to another site (the advertiser's)--with the affiliate receiving a fee based on the amount of traffic generated or orders received. It is thought that Amazon.com created the first large scale affiliate READ MORE
- 10 Sep 2004
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- Author: Alynn Gillespie
CAN-SPAM Compliance in a Hormel® World
MX Logic reports that in July, CAN-SPAM compliance was less than 1 percent of all e-mail tested. Less than 1 percent! Granted, that's for all e-mail tested, including the really spammy stuff. But being CAN-SPAM compliant is not that difficult. If you're not in compliance. it's time to get there. It isn't that hard and will keep you from having to lay out a hefty retainer for a CAN-SPAM suit. READ MORE
- 10 Aug 2004
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- Author: Todd Paridon
More changes at Admail.net
The upgrading of the template section of the web site is complete. You are no longer limited to the amount of articles available in each template. READ MORE
- 15 Jun 2004
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- Author: Thaddeus Quintin
Upgrades for Demographic Target Filters
Requests have come in asking for more usability with our demographic target filters. Users of Admail.net's Advantage packages will now notice it is easier to manage and maintain your filters. READ MORE
- 14 Jun 2004
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- Author: Todd Paridon
List Downloads Are Now Available
At admail.net, we listen to your suggestions. As a result, new features are being added and others improved. One of the recent additions debuting this month is a new download section. READ MORE
- 15 Apr 2004
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- Author: Todd Paridon
Coming Soon... Increased Functionality for Interest Groups
Be on the lookout for additional functionality from your interest groups. We've upped the maximum allowable to 32 current interest groups and built in some new features. READ MORE
- 15 Mar 2004
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- Author: Todd Paridon
Client List Uploads Becoming More Versatile and Robust
Debuting the week of March 22, uploading your list of clients will become easier. If you have an Admail.net Advantage account, you will be able to upload your list into your account in a variety of ways, including pipe delimited, comma delimited and tab delimited format. READ MORE
- 15 Feb 2004
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- Author: Robert Hicks
New Features at admail.net
The programmers at Admail have been hard at work developing new features for the web site. READ MORE
- 15 Feb 2004
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- Author: Alynn Gillespie
Can-Spam Act... The Basics
The Can-Spam act has been in effect for a little over a month now, so how does this effect you? Well, as long as you play by the rules, it may end up benefiting you more than you know. This new bill supersedes all state laws, so if you are doing business in a state with tougher laws, things have just lightened up a bit. Also, by requiring all e-mail advertisers to include a functioning return address, a physical address for the organization, and a clearly stated opt-out, the law could help remove some of the stigma attached to e-mail marketing. READ MORE
- 20 Sep 2003
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- Author: Robert Hicks
Admail.net's New Web Site!
Admail.net launches a complete update to its email marketing website. New look, new tools, and easier than ever! READ MORE