The crew are moving office today so phones, email and twitter will probably not be answered / returned until tomorrow.
For the next few weeks you can still get us at the same numbers and post will be picked up at the old address.
The new address is:
The Mews,
Bettystown Cross,
Bettystown,
Co Meath,
Ireland
And we will have a new number for you shortly.
See you on the other side.
BEN is a new site from the team here showcasing beautiful email newsletter designs. Updated regularly it features email marketing from around the world. Great for when you are looking for a bit of inspiration.
I am giving three email marketing workshops over the next few weeks.
First we are doing a talk on Saturday 21st at Bizcamp Limerick.
An absolute beginners guide to Email Marketing.
Register for free here.
Next is a morning seminar in Donegal organised by the IIA and Donegal County Enterprise Board.
Date : 24 Mar 2009
Time : 8.30 - 11.00 am
Location : An Grianán Hotel, Speenogue, Burt, Co Donegal
Normal price per person : €0.00
I will be speaking alongside Michael Tunney of the Enterprise Board, Ewa Adach of Bluecube Interactive and Campbell Scott of IGOPeople.
More information and booking can be found on the IIA site.
And last but not least we have organised a special email workshop here in Drogheda in April.
Date : 02 April 2009
Time : 6.30 - 8.30 pm
Location : Chamber of Commerce, Dublin Rd, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Price per person : €95.00 - Limited space.
This is an in-depth workshop that is split into two parts.
First part covers all aspects of email marketing from the basics up to how to be an email pro.
The second part is where things get really interesting and why we need to keep the group small. The group will be split into two groups and we are going to select one business from each group and collectively workshop an email campaign for them. Everyone will be able to apply their newfound knowledge in a very practical way to a real business and real campaign.
You can book the Drogheda workshop by emailing me at alan@spoiltchild.com or phoning 041 9830152.
The two companies to be selected will be chosen from the first five people to book so book early.
Hope to see you at one of them and please come up and say hi.
Our new business cards arrived today from Moo and they look great! What we think makes them special is, instead of saying how great Toddle is, we let you say it instead. On the back of each card is a random quote from all the great reviews we got from the Tuesday push. I can’t wait to hand these out.
More about the Tuesday Push here.
Our Christmas Newsletter
Who said Christmas can’t come in February. What a lovely surprise to discover that our Christmas newsletter is runner up in Campaign Monitor’s annual Christmas email competition. Chuffed, we sure are.
Overall winner was Six Degrees Digital with Cattails Multimedia also receiving honourable mention.
Overall Winner Six Degrees
Runner Up Cattails Multimedia
Below is my presentation from the Netimperative Digital Roadshow – in the GUINNESS STOREHOUSE Dublin.
The talk was on
How to engage a two-way conversation
How to ensure the ultimate user experience
The talk is on websites in general but is as relevant if not more so to how you use email marketing and write your message.
Fred and Facundo over at Channelship grabbed me after the Netimperative conference last week to ask about Toddle for their Video blog.
They ask three questions:
What is Toddle?
How do you use it?
And what are the benifits for a business?
Thanks guys, it was great to meet you both.
As we wave goodbye to 2008 we wanted to thank everyone who has made Toddle such a success this year. Special mention to the amazing people who have used Toddle again and again, and have spread the word to friends and colleagues. Megga thank you to one and all.
The office reopens on January 5th after plenty of mince pies and festive cheer. Looking forward to working with you all in the New Year. In the meantime enjoy the break and Happy Holidays from the makers of Toddle.
Save a few trees this year and send your clients and subscribers a Christmas ecard.
We have released two Christmas email templates just in time for the holidays.
Christmas Wrapping Christmas Gift
As always these templates work great with Outlook, yahoo mail, hotmail, gmail etc…
Of course you can add some Christmas cheer to any of the existing newsletter templates by adding some seasonal images from the always great iStockPhoto.com for as little as $1 an image.
Here are a few of our favorite images. Just search for ‘Christmas’ or ‘Santa’
Click the image below to nominate Toddle for best User interface design.
You can vote once per day.
The 2008 Crunchies recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.
The Crunchies is co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch. Best of all, you the users get to choose who wins.
