NZ investigating 8 companies in breach of spam laws
Companies marketing or promoting their services with email addresses purchased from database marketing companies risk breaking anti-spam law, the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs warned recently.
The Department is investigating eight companies that have used emails to market and promote their own goods with addresses purchased from the same company. The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act (UEM) prohibits commercial spam — email, instant messaging, SMS and MMS (text and image-based mobile phone messaging).
@ddayman to talk email deliverability at DMA 2010
Eloqua's Chief Deliverability and Privacy Officer to Speak at Direct Marketing Association's DMA2010 Conference Dennis Dayman, Expert in Email Deliverability and Privacy Issues. Eloqua today announced that its Chief Deliverability
United Arab Emirates TRA Launches New Anti-Spam Regulatory Policy
The new policy will be effective July 2010; consumers will receive messages from their service providers requesting their consent to receive SMS marketing messages
EMail Marketing Metrics: EEC sign first two ESP’s up to the SAME scheme
The standardisation of Email Metrics is something that EmailExpert throughly approves of and recently two ESP's have signed up to the EEC (Email Experience Council) scheme: SAME. The
Australian eServices Pty sells majority stake to Responsys
Whilst on my recent deliverability tour in Australia I was afforded the opportunity to spend some time with Simon O'Day the founder of Australia's largest ESP, the Eservices
Email list building with Twitter as Opt-in Pre-Sell and Trust Builder
Many online marketers, who use email marketing as their main source of revenue, wrongly assume that Twitter holds no relevancy for their operations. This is not true and
Aussie SMS anti-spam hotline launches
After several months of testing, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has officially launched its new spam reporting tool, Spam SMS, allowing Australians to report spam by
Email deliverability best practice seminar from DMA & Pivotal Veracity
The Direct Marketing Association has teamed up with Pivotal Veracity, Goodmail Systems and ClickMail to host a webinar on best practices in email marketing deliverability for the retail
MAAWG GSM Association Security Group meeting to be held in Spain
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group will host the GSMA Security Group at the MAAWG 19th General Meeting in Barcelona on June 8-10 with a multi-track event focusing on
Forget junkmail the new deliverability worry for email marketing is the graymail
Microsoft today announced some big changes for Windows Live/Hotmail which will have a massive impact on email marketing and the deliverability sector. Personally I think the true dawn
Facebook gets email deliverability sweetener from Microsoft
Nick O'Neill recently wrote a great piece about the Microsoft investment in Facebook at a $15 billion valuation, it explains several aspects surrounding the investment that many
Sender Reputation: 9 places to test for free
So you want to know what your sender reputation is? There are a number of online tools that will test your IP address and give you your reputation
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