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Denver Based Data-Dynamix, Inc. Appoints Tricia Etienne as Vice President of …

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Denver Based Data-Dynamix, Inc. Appoints Tricia Etienne as Vice President of Sales and Business Development

Data-Dynamix, Inc., a leading direct email marketing firm with clients across the country announced today the appointment of Tricia Etienne as Vice President of Sales and Business Development effective February 20, 2012. Etienne will be responsible for new partner acquisition focusing on the Media industry, including Newspaper, Radio and Television affiliates.

Denver, CO, February 05, 2012 –(PR.com)– Etienne is a strategic and innovative Senior Interactive Media Executive with over 15 years of professional experience in creating new multimedia solutions for major media organizations. “We are thrilled to appoint Etienne to this important Executive role. With her years of experience in the interactive advertising space, we are looking forward to continued growth and success in partnering with additional Media organizations to provide our partners with incremental digital revenue opportunities. We are confident Etienne will be a key asset to help our organization reach its goals,” said Brent Fankhauser, President of Data-Dynamix, Inc.

Etienne was most recently the Vice President of Advertising Verticals at the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, owned by Denver based Media News Group for the past two years. Prior to her role at the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, Etienne held several leadership positions for the past 16 years with Media News Group’s newspaper The Denver Post and Freedom Communications newspaper The Orange County Register. Etienne holds a Bachelors of Arts in Communications from the University of California Santa Barbara.

About Data-Dynamix, Inc. – Data-Dynamix is an experienced direct marketing firm specializing in List Brokerage including Postal and Opt-in 3rd party Email Lists, including custom proprietary solutions overlaid with over 700 selectable demographics, all Email lists are CAN-span compliant. Our partners include some of the largest corporations in the industry. Our team will work with you to help you select the best avenue to market your product or service offering. We will help you create and deploy specialized marketing messages across multiple mediums. Each of our service offerings are designed to add significant value to your marketing mix. Each campaign is executed in a manner that ensures our clients are as successful as possible in meeting their target ROI.

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MailChimp and Media Queries | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog

(author unknown) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:51:49 +0000

It’s no secret that mobile readership of email is skyrocketing. In May of 2011, Return Path released a study in which showed an 81% increase in mobile viewership over the prior 6-month period. Then, in September, Litmus released its own study which bore out many of the same conclusions.

Litmus’ number was a little higher: 150% over the previous 6 months. I don’t know what the margin of error is in either study, but even being conservative and splitting the difference between the two numbers nets you a healthy increase. Either way, these numbers show that people are overwhelmingly choosing to view email on their Androids, iPhones, and iPads, and that means finding a way to optimize email for smaller screens.

All of this is a long-winded way of saying that media queries are a way to optimize email for mobile devices, and MailChimp v6.8 now supports them in the normal campaign workflow.

Now, chances are that if you do code your own templates, you already know what media queries are, you stopped reading at “MailChimp v6.8 now supports them in the normal campaign workflow,” and have moved on to implementing media queries into your templates. For the rest, what follows is an overview of what a media query looks like, how to implement it into your code, and even how to set it up so that you can adjust the media query style rules within MailChimp’s campaign editor.

We’re starting with a simple, blank template…

A lightly-modified version of the “basic” template from MailChimp’s “basic layouts” library.

…and styling it with basic CSS:

The same template, after some styling and content.

If you’ve never worked with one, the idea behind a media query is basic: it’s pretty much a CSS stylesheet within a CSS stylesheet; a collection of CSS rulesets that are read and rendered when the trigger for the query is hit. Here’s what the opening lines of a media query look like:

The opening of the media query.

The media query contains two important components: “screen” and “max-device-width.” The “screen” component is the media type and the “only” is, as the W3C so eloquently puts it a keyword that’s “…used to hide style sheets from older user agents.” Whatever. The second component, within parentheses, is the actual query; the media feature (max-device-width), along with the trigger value (480px). In short, this media query says “These styles should only be used for screens, and only when the screen’s horizontal width is 480px or less.”

The W3C Article (or W3C Candidate Recommendation Document, if you’re feeling fancy) linked above lists out the other media features you can trigger on, but for the purposes of this email template, we’re only concerned with device-width.

While you can do all sorts of neat stuff with email-valid CSS, there are three things I’ll focus on: email width, header image width, and font sizes.

Since most emails are wider than 480px (the landscape width of the average device), most emails will trigger horizontal scrolling. For the sake of this post, we’ll assume we don’t want that. Thus, the two basic ways to change the width are by either setting a hard value like 300px for your email’s tables, or to set a hard upper limit with max-width, then set table widths to 100%. That’s what I’ve done here, targeting each table that gets its width set:

This method lets the email fill the viewport up to a limit of 600px.

Next, since the header image in this email is also 600px wide, we should scale it down in line with the email’s total width. The same method used above can be applied to the image (The vendor-specific style rule “-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;” is there to account for IE7?s inability to scale images down without making them look horrid):

The header image will fill adjust with the template, to the same limit of 600px.

Finally, we should increase readability on small screens, so bumping up the font sizes automatically is important. A good rule of thumb is a font size of at least 16px for your copy and 20px for your main headings. That might strike you as big, especially if you send tons and tons of content (which you shouldn’t). Our friends at Smashing Magazine posted an article that argues otherwise. The article isn’t specifically concerned with email, but it’s relevant and right. For this email, I’ve bumped the font size up to 18px:

An 18px font size allows for comfortable reading.

After adjusting font sizes in the preheader, body, and footer, and adjusting heading sizes, this is what the full media query looks like:

The full media query stylesheet for this email.

I’ve left one detail for last. If you look at the media query styles, you’ll notice I targeted my tables and table cells using an attribute selector ( table[id="templateContainer"]{…} ) instead of using the traditional CSS route ( table.templateContainer{…} ):

CSS attribute selectors

This method, discovered by Campaign Monitor, prevents Yahoo! Mail from reading the query styles and rendering them instead of the normal CSS.

Finally, here’s what the email looks like on both iPhone (4S) and Android (HTC Incredible):

Some basic media query CSS really helps produce a better mobile email experience.

Not bad, for such a small amount of work. You can even save yourself a bit more time by marking the CSS rules in your media query with MailChimp’s template language editable tags. This will allow you to edit the values of your CSS properties when inside the app’s campaign editor. Simply follow the same pattern already established by the template language:

Avoid digging into your code every time by making query styles editable in the app.

You can download and play around with the template I used right here. That’s all I’ve got. Time to dance.

Email Marketing for Sales Teams – Buyer Beware!

(author unknown) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:51:49 +0000

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Email Marketing for Sales Teams – Buyer Beware!

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Businesses that have a human to human sales interaction with other business customers can be somewhat traditional in their marketing approaches. Many B2B sales teams live and die by old school sales strategies – cold calling, networking and relationship building.

Those sales teams that choose to dive into the world of technology to improve their results usually start with a contact management system or Sales CRM, dabble with LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. and perhaps even try some modest email marketing.

The email marketing tends to be limited to something like a quarterly newsletter. The e-newsletter is a sort of toe in the water. It can be quite valuable for nurturing customers and prospects in industries where the universe of potential customers is limited and businesses rely on repeat business from the same customers over the years. However, a newsletter is not likely to generate tangible opportunity for sales people very often.

We just released an ebook called “Grow Sales with Emails, 7 Ways Sales Teams Win with Email Marketing” that provides some simple examples of how to start leveraging email marketing to grow sales, simply and affordably.

What’s worse, those bold enough to jump into the email marketing pool quickly learn that the $20/month email marketing service they signed up for gets very expensive when they start to send a lot of emails.

In the age of freemium, unlimited Internet access and cloud computing, it’s amazing to discover that almost all email marketing systems available today come with limitations that come as a surprise to the buyer and a serious hindrance to use in the real world.

How Many Emails Can You Send?

If a business has 1,000 customers they may want to send an email to them once a month. Plus, they typically have 250 prospects in their sales pipeline at any given time. After a few months, they may have built up a list of potential customers that’s easily 1,000 or more contacts and prospects typically get emailed more frequently so, within 3 months the overall email volume desired could be 3,000 to more than 10,000 emails.

And surprise! This type of volume puts your squarely into the premium category of most email marketing providers’ pricing structures. A business that starts off with the entry level package from Constant Contact, Swift Page, iContact, or Vertical Response will be face with upgrading to much more expensive packages.

Who Is In Charge of Email Marketing?

Plus, most of these systems are limited to one user. That means only one person on the staff can take advantage of the service. Adding access for another user can sometimes double the cost.

So, all of a sudden, if you’re going to make it work, there’s someone on the staff spending hours per week moving in information from the sales team, creating campaigns and managing them. For a sales driven business, there is still a great challenge in simply keeping the email marketing system lists up to date based on changes in client and prospect status and new leads as the come in.

The cost of the time invested is of course far greater than the email marketing system subscription.

Online Lead Generation Takes It to a New Level

For the growing number of businesses spending money to increase the visibility of their website online and in search engines and capture leads from the website, the challenges and limitations mushroom.

Constant Contact, Swift Page, Vertical Response, iContact and virtually all email marketing providers can capture leads from your website but, additional charges apply. In addition, most businesses investing in online lead generation quickly learn the value of on-going lead nurturing campaigns. Some of the vendors mentioned above have “auto-responder” capabilities but, there are additional charges and limitations apply.

Even far more expensive services such as Infusionsoft and Hubspot limit the number of emails in total that can be sent and the number of emails in an auto-responder sequence.

The message here is buyer beware. Know what your requirements will be 6 months or 2 years down the road and find a system that will meet those needs.

Opting Out of Your Email Marketing Service is NOT Easy

Selecting an email marketing provider is a long term commitment, even though most newbies don’t realize it. The reason is that it takes time to build up the Opt-In list (Recipients that have given the business permission to send them emails). Of course, this is extremely important to the business and to the email marketing service.

A business cannot simply discontinue service with one email marketing service, export their contact list, then import it into a new service and hit go. In most cases, the new email marketing provider will require the entire list to “Opt-In” again. This is a significant risk in many ways. It will be an annoyance at best to the recipient. It may result in a diminished opt-in list and it’s a big, time consuming hassle.

Taken together, the hidden risks in choosing an email marketing solution warrant careful research. For sales teams, you want tools the sales team can use, not software that requires time and skills you don’t have.

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