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        March 2008
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Optimization
Mobile Email Marketing Tips

By Stefan Pollard

The future of email marketing is here, and it's in your customers' hands.

Email marketing on mobile phones has been hovering like either fate or opportunity, depending on how you view it. Maybe you've embraced it already, because your customers are a mobile bunch. Or, maybe you think it's something you'll think about tomorrow, like Scarlett O'Hara.

Just a few years ago, the mobile Web was something that only the folks out on the bleeding edge of technology had to deal with. The iPhone, introduced in 2007, and other breeds of smart phones, have now put the Web squarely in millions of people's hands.  Click to Continue

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           Editor's Note

Dear <First Name> ,

With smart-phone sales surpassing laptop and PC sales, soon the inbox will be accessible from every pocket.

This month's Optimization column discusses design tactics for mobile email.

Stefan Pollard
Editor

Delivery Trends

Dispute Resolution: Resolving ISP Blocks

By Stefan Pollard

A good marketer can follow best practices for list acquisition, content creation and delivery, and appear on no major blocklists -- but still have ISP delivery problems. Resolving disputes can be time-consuming, as each ISP has its own set of rules governing how it delivers email.

The upside is, most ISPs communicate those rules clearly through bounce messages, feedback loops or dedicated support pages. My ClickZ column takes you through the steps needed not only to resolve disputes effectively but to help you understand ISPs and their decisions. Click to Continue

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           EmailLabs News

Lyris HQ's EmailLabs Named Leading ESP for Small-Midsize Business in Jupiter's 2008 Email Marketing Buyer's Guide

Lyris, Inc. Unveils All-Inclusive Seat-Based Pricing For Its Leading Online Marketing Suite

Lyris, Inc. Launches Lyris HQ - Integrated Marketing Platform

Stat Watch
Email to House List a Top Performer

Email marketing to a house list remains marketers' choice as a top online performer, according to MarketingSherpa's survey of ad:tech attendees:

Marketers' Choice as Top Online Performer
2006
2007
1. Email marketing to house list
47%
42%
2. Search engine optimization
45%
57%
3. Behavioral targeting
34%
44%
4. Contextual targeting
29%
21%
5. Paid search
34%
49%

Source: MarketingSherpa 2007 Year-End Survey of ad:tech Attendees
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Ask EmailLabs
How to Use Alt Text?

Question: I understand about using alt text to get my message across if a reader blocks images from downloading, but is there a limit on the number of words I should put in the text?

Answer: For most images, you should need only a few words to describe the image ... four or five, likely no more than 10. Try to describe both the image and what you want readers to do.  Click to Continue

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About EmailLabs
EmailLabs is a leading provider of high performance email marketing solutions to agencies, publishers and marketing, sales and customer service departments of middle-market and Global 2000 companies. The EmailLabs email marketing platform is provided as an ASP (Web-based) service, and is easily customized and integrated with a company's Web site, sales force automation and CRM technologies. The company provides email marketing solutions to more than 600 companies, including Nokia, Agilent, PalmSource and Jupitermedia. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., EmailLabs was founded in 1999 and is a marketing technology solution of Lyris, Inc. (OTCBB:JLHY).

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