http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk Email Marketing Expertise Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:31:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everyone will tell you, you shouldn't send out a purely graphics based email campaign. Graphics aren't loaded by default in email clients so most people just click away or delete your email without ever even seeing your message. Or do they? We recently tested this theory by going against the grain and ... http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/html-email-versus-one-big-graphic/ As well as adapting the built in templates you can also upload your own HTML to LiveWire Campaign and send completely bespoke email campaigns to your customers. We’ll take a lot of the hard work out of creating your own custom HTML email because LiveWire takes care of the ‘tracking,’ unsubscribe’ ... http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/graphic-designers-and-marketers-upload-your-own-custom-html-emails/ There is no easy answer to this, it is potentially a very complex matter. The LiveWire Campaign Team do all we can to ensure the mail our system (our web servers and software) sends, is as unlikely as possible to be flagged as Spam as it can be. We comply with ... http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/why-do-campaigns-flag-up-as-spam-in-some-in-boxes/ We have redesigned the contacts section and made many improvements to the way you manage your contacts. A new button ‘manage contacts’ has replaced ‘View All Contacts’, ‘Add A Contact’ and ‘Add/Edit/Delete Contact Groups’ in the contacts section. You’ll find this a much more powerful tool for organising your contacts and ... http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/new-contact-section/ LiveWire Campaign usage continues to grow quickly, with more and more customers choosing LiveWire Campaign as their email marketing platform. This means that, once again, we have to increase the capacity of the system. Any delays you may have been experiencing over the last month or two during busy periods will ... http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/essential-maintenance-work-to-livewire-campaign/ First of all, let us apologise to any customers who have had difficulties uploading large contact lists over the last few weeks. We have now made some major improvements in performance, which should mean that most reasonable size contact lists ( http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/upload-contacts-functionality-improved/ OK, we admit it, LiveWire has been creaking a bit over recent weeks. It's become a victim of it's own success and usage has grown extremely rapidly. This has caused the system to slow at certain peak times so we are going to bring forward a scheduled upgrade of the ... http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/livewire-improvements-are-on-the-way/ We have made some changes to the contacts section that will allow you to delete groups of contacts from the contact group screen.   Previously you could remove a contacts membership from a “Contact Group”. You could also delete the “Contact Group” itself. However you could not delete the “Contact Group” and ... http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/new-contacts-group-contacts-delete-option/ The answer is categorically yes and I can prove it! Two years ago I was badly let down by the garage I was purchasing my new car from. Not only did they tell my that my car was actually months away from delivery only days away from the promised delivery date ... http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/does-email-marketing-still-work/ We have just presented our first online marketing workshop for enterprise4all in Preston, UK. As usual email marketing was one of the hot topics that the attendants wanted to know most about. E-mail marketing is still one of the most cost-effective ways of finding new clients and building a stronger relationship ... http://blog.livewirecampaign.co.uk/archives/get-some-online-potential/