MailChimp Email Marketing Blog » email marketing lists and contests http://www.mailchimp.com/blog MailChimp, email marketing, and monkeys! Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:09:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Growing Your Email Subscriber List With Contests http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/growing-your-email-subscriber-list-with-contests/ http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/growing-your-email-subscriber-list-with-contests/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:20:14 +0000 Ben http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/growing-your-email-subscriber-list-with-contests/ practical-ecommerce-logo.pngJust wrote an article for Practical eCommerce on (The Perils of) Growing Your Email Subscriber List With Contests.

It’s written from an abuse-desk point of view, not a legal or “email marketing strateg-ery” point of view. I’ve had to shut down quite a few MailChimp customer accounts who grew their email lists from contests. Not that contests are bad. There are just a few pointers to keep in mind.

Speaking of Practical eCommerce, they just went through a huge website revamp, and it’s really impressive. If you’re a freelancer, web-developer, or vendor, you might want to try  their new online directory.

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