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How To Monitor Your Personal Brand In Seconds.

Here’s a great tool to monitor your personal brand in seconds. In a recent blog post Crafting Killer PR for Yourself In 5 Steps I talked about a tool called Topsy that lets you monitor Twitter for activity on any keyword or blog post. Having tried out the service I’m pretty impressed. There’s a ton of […]

Crafting Killer PR For Yourself In 5 Steps

Lisa Calhoun and her team at Write2Market are one of the most progressive tech PR agencies in Atlanta. I loved the seminar Lisa put on yesterday. Here’s what I took away: Crafting killer PR is all about positioning yourself correctly. Step 1: Set your Core Value What do we do / what do we want to do […]

7 Keys to Smart Personal Branding

My keys to smart personal branding. I use this list as a guide to the types of messages I send out through social media whether that’s email marketing, posting articles on LinkedIN or posting something on Twitter. It also drives a good deal of my content strategy for blogging. Show your passion and perseverance. Highlight your […]

How To Increase Open Rates With Gmail Inbox Tabs?

Google recently mixed things up again by introducing its Gmail Inbox tabs for prioritizing mail. Officially, they have done this to make email better for us but in reality it has set the cat amongst the pigeons because potentially it can harm open rates for the emails you send. So this begs the question. How To […]

What is the extra information I see next to a sender’s name in Gmail?

What is the extra information I see next to a sender’s name in Gmail? Gmail believes that by adding more information about the origin of a message, you can be better informed about who sent the message and can avoid confusion. For example, if someone fakes a message from a sender that you trust, like […]

Flashissue Gmail Content Marketing Features Close To Launch

Important: Flashissue feature launch is close – We’re within a few weeks of launching a ton of new features to Flashissue. Since we rolled out Flashissue last year, not only have we had 10,000 businesses start using the product but we’ve had a ton of really great feedback and requests for new features. So thanks […]

Security Risk of Display Images in a Gmail Email

We’re often asked at Flashissue what is the security risk of “displaying images” in a Gmail or other email client? As a general rule, it makes sense to turn off images by default because it prevents spammers from using images embedded in a message to confirm that they’ve found a real email address when someone actually […]

When You Shouldn’t Spend A Dime On Sales Or Marketing

Here’s an exert from the an interview in Forbes, with Matthew Bellows (MB), the CEO of Yesware an online email sales tool. His sentiments are good. Startup” method that’s so popular now? How do you know if your product is ready?” MB: Great question. No, seriously, there is a big emphasis in the startup literature […]

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15 Content Marketing Tips That’ll Make You Dance [infographic]

Whether you want to create an email newsletter, a blog post or you’re doing your social media thing, forget over analyzing and getting too hung up on keyword strategies, just create content that you know people will want to read. Have an opinion that is clearly yours and you can generate original content or use content […]

Rejected: Why does Gmail refuse to deliver my email?

In certain instances Google may refuse to deliver your email through Gmail because it thinks you are creating Spam. When this happens you will receive an email or a series of emails in your Gmail Inbox telling you that that your message has been Rejected: Open the email and you see the following body text: Clicking […]

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