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Privacy Shield & email marketing

It was a mistake to stipulate a deadline for the Article 29 Working Party to produce a replacement Safe Harbour after it was successfully challenged by Hanff, a law student, in the EU court. Email marketing, with its dependence on personal data, needed a clear and enforceable plan and not something cobbled together in a … READ MORE »

Safe Harbour is dead, long live . . .

Safe Harbour, the agreement between the USA and the EU allowing the transfer of personal data to the USA, was challenged in the European court and whilst it is never wise to précis a legal decision, in essence it said the USA did not have equivalent protection for personal data to that in the EU. … READ MORE »

European Data Protection Regulations

The European Commission has just published what is in effect a draft of the proposed European Data Protection Regulations (DPR), the replacement in many ways of the Data Protection Directive. It is not expected to become law until late 2017 at the earliest, and probably 2018. So why should anyone in email marketing bother about … READ MORE »

The European Data Protection Regulations

Is it anything to do with email marketing? The proposed European Data Protection Regulations (DPR), replaces the Data Protection Directive, and the change from Directive to Regulations is significant. It means that it does not require ratification by each individual member country. Once passed it become law. For a common market, having various regulations in … READ MORE »

Viral marketing emails

The major limitation to your email marketing campaign is that you can, by law, only send it to subscribers to your email marketing lists. This means that you will be missing a number of those who would be interested in the offer. You can either hope that subscribers will mention it to their friends or … READ MORE »

Why they forward a marketing email

The main limitation associated with email marketing is that we can only send to people who have already subscribed to our email marketing lists. We probably all believe that there must be hundreds of others out there who would be interested in our products if only we could contact them. There is a method of … READ MORE »

From Classic Editor to EasyEditor

Please note: Classic Editor will be fully retired and no longer available from Wednesday 2nd March 2016. Summary You can now convert 'classic' campaigns to EasyEditor campaigns automatically. This will allow campaigns to be edited using EasyEditor, and not the older Classic Editor. Note: This is a beta service. Due to the variability and complexity … READ MORE »

EasyEditor Overview

In our EasyEditor, templates are made up of groups of building blocks. A building block can be text, an image, a combination of an image and text, etc. These blocks can be just dragged and dropped onto your template. The available building blocks are displayed in the Build area on the left-hand side of your … READ MORE »

Deliverability – avoiding the pitfalls

We have covered various methods of avoiding the bogeyman of email marketing: spam filters. Don’t stop reading when I say that no one can be definitive. Everyone, and that includes me, is guessing to an extent. Experience helps, but when it starts to become useful, they change the rules. We can deduce some of the … READ MORE »

Deliverability and reputation

We’ve already explained how poor list control and the inclusion of certain words can affect deliverability rates in any email marketing campaign but there are other, more obscure causes of diversion to the spam folder. Reputation is critical as once you have been classed as spam, any slight warning sign will be given much more … READ MORE »

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