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Verizon closed its $4.5 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s core business this week and with it came Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's resignation and news of layoffs.
Reuters news agency reported Verizon will slash at least 2,000 jobs as it integrates Yahoo into AOL, which Verizon bought two years ago.
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MailChimp is on a roll. Two months ago, it started offering its marketing automation tools for free. Now it's offering ecommerce solution PrestaShop consumers free integration with MailChimps marketing tools.
Paris-based PrestaShop is a free, open source ecommerce solution. The software is published under the Open Software License
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Holiday weekends aren't normally a time when vendors upgrade or release new products. However, this Memorial Day weekend, Google made an exception. It added a new Personal Tab to its search engine to help users find personal information more effectively.
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MailChimp is giving away the goods.
Namely, its automated marketing email capabilities — previously only available at extra cost — are now being offered gratis to all of its 15 million existing customers.
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Every marketing team worth its weight in retweets knows the value of email marketing. Even those who believe that email is dying a slow death admit that — for now at least — email marketing still works.
But for the naysayers, here’s where email marketing stands in 2017.
The Abridged Case for Email Marketing
Building an
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Microsoft started rolling out its Outlook Customer Manager (OCM) for general release this week, adding a few updates to what it had initially previewed last November.
The initial release provided an OCM iOS app and cloud-based customer relationship management solution designed for small businesses.
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Is email really a scourge that needs to be eradicated?
If you read the popular business press in the last few weeks, you just might think so.
A recent Wall Street Journal article, "Beware Collaboration-Tool Overload," quotes an enterprise IT manager boasting that by adopting the new Microsoft
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Campaign Monitor has acquired customer data platform provider Tagga in a deal designed to help users "democratize behavioral customer data."
Campaign Monitor, which has offices in Sydney, San Francisco, New York City and London, expects Tagga's technology to help it better leverage data within its email marketing platform. Terms
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The reports of the death of email are apparently exaggerated.
Email volume rose 14 percent in the last quarter of 2016 year-over-year, according to Experian, a Dublin-based global information services group.
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Over the past 12 years, Bryan Wade has built "the rocket ship of email" at ExactTarget and then "joined the mothership" at Salesforce, where he was most recently Chief Product Officer of Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
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What if your email audience always looked forward to encountering your brand in the inbox?
The idea of hitting the right notes with your subscribers shouldn’t feel too far off: In today’s marketing landscape, brands seek to cultivate genuine relationships with subscribers, often going to lengths to avoid sending repetitive,
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SendGrid, a customer communication platform that delivers more than 30 billion emails each month, just acquired email marketing automation startup Bizzy.
The acquisition announced gives the Denver-based email provider and MailChimp competitor a tool that leverages an algorithm to segment users based on purchase behaviors.
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Boston-based harmon.ie is taking steps to unify disconnected information from multiple cloud services, all within the Outlook inbox.
The company, which provides a suite of products to support the digital workplace, is sharpening its focus by pulling its existing Collage tool into Outlook, harmon.
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When it comes to email, Google's Gmail still holds a significantly larger marketshare than Microsoft's Outlook. But keep an eye on the Microsoft space.
Last July the company unveiled Focused Inbox, its answer to Gmail's Inbox, which separates important form non-important email.
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