I recently received a letter on important-looking letterhead from a company named “Domain Renewal Group” warning me that registration for the domain chillichocolatemarketing.com would be expiring shortly. You may yourself have received a letter like this.
It is a scam.
On 16 April, a few seconds after 11:28 PM, Adelaide was shaken by an earth tremor. Online discussion of this event began seconds later (the first Twitter posts are timestamped 11:28:10), conducted by people in Adelaide who were in front of their computers or holding smartphones as the ground shook.
A short and esoteric update for those of you coding your own email templates:
Gmail (and thus also Google Apps) has long frustrated email marketers with its lack of support for internal or external stylesheets, instead requiring inline CSS.
This behaviour seems to have changed slightly, with Gmail now requiring more explicit inline styles. If you’re interested in this sort of thing, read on for details!
At Chilli Chocolate Marketing we have one rule when it comes to computers: when in doubt, get a Mac. We’re undoubtedly in the minority though, as all recent studies show that Microsoft Windows still dominates the Australian corporate desktop.
Tech guru Renai LeMay of Delimiter recently asked a range of industry commentators – including yours truly – about the pros and cons of using Macs in the workplace.
We have completed a number of client projects lately that involved working with client Internet domains and domain names. In more than one case we have had to recover domains on behalf of clients who had lost control of them. For a domain name to be registered and used by your organisation, a number of [...]
Email has become one of the most important communications channels between a business and its audience. The Direct Marketing Association has estimated that every dollar spent on email marketing generates nearly $50 in return.
However, email’s not just about “selling stuff”! This is demonstrated by the way that we’re working with Hayes Knight SA to get the most out of email communications with its clients.
The search engine is by far the most effective tool for finding information on the Internet. (Does anyone remember life before Google?). When you are the bearer of the information, that means a search engine is the most effective tool you have for getting your information found. The art of tweaking a website so that [...]
In the course of our daily activities we see a lot of email addresses. And we are continually surprised at the number of people still using ISP-provided addresses (like “alice@bigpond.com”) or free webmail addresses (like “bob@hotmail.com” or “carol@yahoo.com.au”) for business communications. Your email is for promoting your business, not Bigpond or Hotmail or Yahoo! Relying [...]