Thursday, 30 April 2009

Singing her song, all day long, on You tube

We were delighted to get our favourite singer, Jane Griffin, to guest on the Zucchini viral marketing campaign recently. She has kindly agreed to produce future campaigns for our clients and we are fortunate to have her. Take a listen by following this link Hey Big Spender You tube

iPerception and Bartley Group

Bartley Group, owners of Bristol SEAT and Bristol Skoda launched in 2008 into an incredibly challenging automotive industry which continues to be so. Specialising in two Volkswagen Group brands - SEAT and Skoda - Bartley Group required a new website to promote the business.
The functionality of the site needed to include a stock list function with multiple picture and flash video functionality. Visit the site at: bartleygroup.co.uk

Campaign skills required:

automotive marketing expertise
Web development skills include:
Project management
Web Technical skills
Flash animation
copy writing and content management
email campaign featuring animation

Tony Noble artist

Superb and inspiring, take a look at Tony Noble's website and email Tony with your commissions tony.noble3@ntlworld.com

Why does ISP block blind copy emails to multiple recipients

Technical issue: Blind copy emails to multiple recipients (over 20 dependent on Internet Service Provider (ISP) settings). Why does my ISP block them?

Scenario: So you or one of your members of staff - sales, customer service, accounts etc tries to send an email to a small number (under 100) of existing customers using html template or plain text email. You don't want to show the entire email list for data protection and confidentiality reasons. Therefore you utilise the blind copy email 'cheat' method as follows: To and from fields include your own email address and you import the email addresses into the blind copy field and send, If you do this with up to 20 addresses (approx.) no problem but then you get a message from your ISP saying that your messages cannot be delivered, Why?

Answer
The delivery of your e-mails is managed by the ISP (Internet Service Provider). So that they deliver emails as efficiently as possible they do not allow the sending of multiple emails to a number of email addresses (the quantity varies depending on your ISP, but can be as small as 20 addresses in some cases.) Contacting the ISP to request a higher limit is the solution, as each of them have different policies, and possibly different tariffs.

Issues
While you can send the email to yourself, and include the other emails in the Bcc field, it will mean that everyone else will get an email addressed to you and not them.

If you can only send twenty at a time and have 100 plus to send it is time consuming and
can end being more of a pain than it's worth (we've done it!)

Solutions
Through iPerception digital we have an online solution which makes it cost effective to broadcast multiple emails. Contact: mark.griffin@iperception.co.uk for further details.

Technical mayhem questions? Try emailing Christina and she'll do her best to help.
christina.doro@iperception.co.uk