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Getting Added to Subscribers’ Address Books

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Last week, email expert Stefan Pollard at ClickZ posted an informative article about getting into your subscribers’ address books or on their contact lists.  This is one of the most simple and often overlooked tactics for improving email deliverability.

When your subscribers add you to their address book, they are essentially telling their ISP that they want to receive email from you, and in some cases it can even get your correspondence to show up with images turned ‘on’ by default and rendering correctly.  As Stefan notes,

“ISPs want to deliver only the e-mail their customers say they want to receive, so they check those personal whitelists when deciding whether to deliver, block, or direct to the spam folder your e-mail.”

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Microformats Supported in MailChimp

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

microformats-icon.pngEver heard of microformats? If not, you will soon. It’s basically a way to take information about people, places, or events, and make them recognizable to web browsers and applications so they can do something with it.

For example:

If you tag your contact information (using the hCard format), then someone clicking on it can instantly add you to their address book, or find you in Google Maps.

If you tag an event (using hCalendar), then someone clicking on (such as from eventful.com) it could automatically add it into their Google Calendar, or iCal.

Who’s using them, and how?

Microformats are being used more and more by sites like Eventful.com, and is already being supported by Yahoo and Microsoft, in Google Maps, and it’s built-in to Firefox 3.

The takeaway for MailChimp customers is that microformats have a lot of potential, so to help you keep your email marketing ahead of the curve, we automatically embed microformat code into your email campaign footers. You can expect even more microformat support in future MailChimp releases.

http://www.mailchimp.com/nonrestrictiveocean.php