Posted in Email on July 8, 2007 | 19 Comments »
I say the more the merrier if you can support plenty of non-overlapping email newsletters or listservs on your church site, but, please, make sure you offer the holy trinity of email lists:
News and updates - Monthly reminders of the most important upcoming events at your church. You might go as frequently as weekly if [...]
Posted in Email on June 26, 2007 | No Comments »
After beginning some website design work discussions with Hirshorn Zuckerman Design Group, my office received some cool swag including a creative piece introducing the company with this email address on the back:
Hello@hzdg.com
Isn’t that a friendly way to start a conversation with a prospect? Imagine newcomers to your church having that kind of first impression. But [...]
Posted in Email on June 25, 2007 | No Comments »
“Hey, can you change [something or other] @stcharleschurch.org to point to this other email address?” No problem, I replied in an email, as I logged into our email system to quickly make the change to the email alias and copied the current recipient of that email address.
Except it turns out there was a problem: namely, [...]
Posted in Email on June 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Remember the unreadable Goodmail email with the blocked images that was an invitation to a webinar about, er, avoiding blocked images? If the poorly formed invitation didn’t scare you off, the presentation is available at:
http://www.goodmailsystems.com/docs/goodmail.pdf
and an
http://www.goodmailsystems.com/about/news_events_press/audio/
Those don’t look like particularly permanent URLs, do they? I’m hesitant to link there, wondering if I’ll have broken or [...]
