Mortgage Think Tank

Or perhaps upgrade to a new version of wordpress. Its absurd the amount of comment spam that comes in. I just deleted 430 or so comments that were caught in the last 15 days! And right after I hit delete all, the refreshed page had one more that had just come in. That is absurd.

I’m not sure, but this might be coming in from a link on Activerain- so all that traffic I thought was legit might have been spambots!

Great article about marketers sending out email to clients/prospects, and how quickly recipients become fed up.

http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/e-mail-marketing/40335.html 

Microsoft Office 2007 has gotten a lot of attention for ribbons. I thought I wouldn’t like them, and I’m liking them more than I thought I would.

However, email marketers, wake up because Microsoft has effectively dumbed down the email client rendering engine, switching from IE to Word’s HTML rendering.

So what, what does that mean?

It means that your beautiful Animated Gif will no longer animate. It will be stuck, I suppose on Frame 1.

Might as well just use a JPEG.

For a great article on this topic, click here.

Publishers will need to adjust and actually think through their email design. It will make sense to adopt an approach that prism/penton has, where their email ads incorporate a text placement and image placement.

I’m not sure design and marketers ever thought this, but the first frame of your gif might be your LAST!