Prime Blogger

In this tutorial, we will be using WordPress and Feedburner with a few plugins to create a simple Email Newsletter Service for your WordPress blog. You can track the performance of your newsletter by checking how many subscribers you have, how many clicks each link gets and much more.

Great idea if your budget is very low (or equal zero) or if you like to publish the news on your own server. I will try this later for sure!

While at Blog World Expo recently I recorded this video interview with Abby Johnson from Web Pro News. We covered a variety of topics including why email marketing is not dead – internet marketing for smart people – the new FTC regulations and touched on a new project I’m working on with Brian Clark and Chris Brogan.

Of course email marketing is still alive, I know companies are making millions of sales while sending emails.
There is one thing different from the early years: Your campaign need to be much better and must be interesting for the subscriber, otherwise it's better to safe the money!

Gmail has increased the maximum attachment size to 25 MB in June, but some people want to send larger files. Daniel wrote a thoughtful comment that explains why it's a bad idea to send huge files by email:

People who demand large message size limits rarely understand the limitations of the email transmission.

Because of the MIME encoding used when sending binary attachments, your files expand 33% when sent via email. In other words, a 15MB attachment requires 20MB plus the message text, plus message headers.

Note, If you're able to send 20MB attachments, will not say that the user on the other site is able to receive them ;)

A 10MB mail is big enough these days...

A US bank is suing Google for the identity of a Gmail user after a bank employee accidentally sent the user a file that included the names, addresses, tax IDs, and loan info for more than 1,300 of the bank’s customers. (...)

After a failed attempt to recall the email, the employee sent a second note to that wrong address, requesting that the confidential email be deleted before it was opened.

That's funny, a stupid bank employee makes a major mistakes and next the bank sues Google because they respect the privacy of their users.

I like that Google behaves like that, the bank is responsible for their mistake.