Archive for the ‘Ask MailChimp’ Category
Monday, November 27th, 2006
I've gotten a lot of calls from people who just want to know how we made our online MailChimp demo.
I used Adobe Captivate. It's $599, and requires no Flash or programming experience whatsoever. That's a lot cheaper than what a good Flash developer would charge for a demo. A ...
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
Q: "We just sent an email campaign, and a few of our recipients called me up concerned that we're 'selling our list' to people. What gives?"
A: If you code your hyperlinks in your email a certain way, you could inadvertently trip phishing/scam alarms in some email programs...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Q: How do you actually measure email opens? Also how are
you able to individualise these opens? Also obviously
if people don't open their images this won't be tracked.
A: Opens are measured in HTML email with a tracking .gif. It's tiny, transparent, and virtually invisible to the recipient. When the image file ...
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