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Maintaining Sending Reputation Takes Work (&Time)

Ron Dorsey,  Sr. Director, Lifecycle Marketing at Eargo , is somebody that I've known for years. A smart marketer who gets deliverability, and a nice guy to boot! Today he wrote and published a great article on Linkedin sharing his own experience identifying and addressing an annoying deliverability problem . Segmentation (and other issues) happen, no matter your best efforts! What reall…
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LinkedIn for list building: Still bad news

It's been just over five years since a particular goober harvested his LinkedIn contact list and spammed me and a bunch of other folks. Consider that the next time it happened, with somebody else doing it, was just now, I guess that means that it's safe to say that not…

LinkedIn Sued by Users

Ars Technica reports: "Four plaintiffs filed a class-action suit in US district court in San Jose on Friday claiming that LinkedIn used its member's identities without consent and broke into their third party e-mail accounts to send promotional e-mails to the members&#…

Change your LinkedIn Password

According to Return Path and Next Web , LinkedIn was hacked today and the bad guys were able to steal passwords for about 4% of their userbase, affecting approximately 6.5 million accounts. Are you one of that 4%? Let's not find out; go change your LinkedIn password as so…

How to Generate Leads with LinkedIn

I guess I’ve still got LinkedIn on the brain . In response to my complaint about being spammed by somebody due to harvesting of my email address from LinkedIn, the individual in question decided to aim a scattershot blob of tweets consisting of a whole bunch of old "B2B so…

LinkedIn: A list-building opportunity?

Wow! 500+ new subscribers! It seems an exciting and easy opportunity, doesn’t it? If you’re like me, you’ve got a big list of contacts that you’ve “linked up” with on social (business) networking site LinkedIn. So many email addresses! My suggestion, however, is to resist the u…