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May 14, 2012
7 Tips For Effectively Managing Email Lists


From BtoBonline.com:

List management isn't sexy. Most people equate the activity with an annual dental cleaning: necessary, but not exactly fun. And yet a marketer's list is one of the single most valuable things it has, ranking right up there with an unlimited budget and million-dollar ideas. And yet one expert says that marketers aren't thinking about lists enough or are thinking about them in the wrong way.
April 12, 2012
How to Increase Email Response Rates


From MultiChannel Merchant: Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress, and other email marketing experts address the question: What are you doing to increase email response rates?
April 11, 2012
FreshAddress Launches SafeToSend™ Email Deliverability Solution


With the launch of SafeToSend™, FreshAddress solves email marketers' most pressing challenges: deliverability and performance. Available via real-time or batch processing, SafeToSend™ eliminates bouncing email addresses, corrects registration errors and flags toxic email addresses, such as spamtraps, for removal. The three-step process maximizes deliverability and email marketing ROI
April 10, 2012
FreshAddress Unveils 'SafeToSend' Hygiene Service


Database services firm FreshAddress today announced it has launched a new email deliverability service.

Dubbed SafeToSend, the service confirms whether an email address is valid, corrects mistyped entries, and screens for so-called toxic email addresses, such as spamtraps, honeypots and role accounts, according to FreshAddress.
January 31, 2012
Shocker: FreshAddress Goes Opt-In


In a significant about face, email append firm FreshAddress has switched its business model to opt-in based—or at least as opt-in based as its executives believe it can go and remain a viable company.

The move comes amid an increasing amount of scrutiny the practice of email-appending has been under in recent months.
January 01, 2012

Direct-mail heavy nonprofits apply an integrated approach


Direct mail has long been the prime channel for nonprofit organizations looking to raise funds, but as charities move into 2012 and beyond, marketers say marrying these messages with outreach through other media is becoming an essential part of the nonprofit marketing mix.
October 20, 2011

Establishing an effective email append strategy


Email append—the action of matching up email addresses from an outside source with contacts already in a database to market to them—has taken a beating in the press recently. However, experts maintain that, done correctly, email append, or e-appending, can provide benefits for both marketers and their customers. Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress Inc., and Mitch Rubin, president of email and database marketing company Applied Information Group, identified one “secret” and exposed one “lie” that will help marketers gain traction with an email append strategy.
August 15, 2011

Silos are Made to be Broken


More than ever, businesses are flooded with information. Purchase histories, demographics, credit data, direct mail info, behavioral characteristics and a variety of other customer information is being amassed in different silos throughout every business organization. The problem is that these data are being saved in various forms and places as well.
April 15, 2011

Email List Hygiene: Remove four kinds of bad addresses to improve deliverability


Your email database is the foundation of your email marketing. Haphazardly adding names can invite irrelevant subscribers and invalid email addresses — which weaken your foundation.

Inspired by our upcoming Optimization Summit, I went back to my notes from our recent Email Summit to reinforce what I learned about email deliverability. I found some great information on bad email addresses and list hygiene from an expert panel.

April 07, 2011

Groupon: What's Really Under the Hood?


Just a little over two years ago, Groupon sent out its first deal, a half-price offer for pizzas in the restaurant on the first floor of its building in Chicago. Today, having recently rejected Google’s offering of $5.3 billion to acquire the company, it is currently exploring an IPO some analysts are valuing at $10+ billion. With 50 million subscribers world-wide, Groupon is currently on a buying binge, trying to gobble up as many collective-buying clones as possible across the world in an effort to build scale and eliminate its competition.
April 04, 2011

How to Prevent an Email Security Breach


From MultiChannel Merchant
March 23, 2011

Ace Hardware Adds to its Email Database


Ace Hardware had a problem. It had 20 million members in its Ace Rewards loyalty program, but far fewer e-mail addresses than that because the program predated e-mail. That meant the retail chain hadn’t collected e-mail addresses for many of its members when they signed up for the program.

But, with the help of e-mail database vendor FreshAddress, the multichannel hardware retailer has found e-mail addresses for 25% of the members with missing e-mail addresses. Ace also found current addresses for more than half of its members that had changed e-mail addresses since they signed up.

March 01, 2011

Non-Latin Characters Available for Email Marketers
Email Essentials

From Chief Marketer Email Essentials
February 15, 2011

4 Things I Learned at the Email Evolution Conference
eM+C


I just got back from the 2011 Email Evolution ConferenceOpens in a new window in sunny South Beach. The fourth annual event, sponsored by the Direct Marketing Association's Email Experience CouncilOpens in a new window (EEC), didn't disappoint. I met many of my "virtual" contacts in person, did some networking, gathered some interesting content for our e-newsletters and acquired leads for future articles. There was a positive vibe about email in general at the event, with more than 500 attendees and exhibitors milling around the Eden Roc Resort. Here are four takeways from the conference:

February 10, 2011

Track Down 'Drive By' Website Visitors
Direct Marketing News


Capturing valuable data about potential customers who have shown enough interest to visit your website is crucial to succeed in today's industry.

Many marketing and e-commerce companies rely on traditional methods, such as providing information to ignite future sales and recommending other like-minded buyers, to entice “drive-by” visitors to return and purchase products. However, these methods don't always lead to ideal results.
February 02, 2011

2 Approaches to Facebook's 'Social Inbox'
Target Marketing Tipline


While marketers adjust to the merging of social networks and email platforms, they should keep an eye on the new messaging option from one of the biggest social media companies around—Facebook Messages debuted on Nov. 15.

The launch received much fanfare, but marketing vendors report that their clients aren't yet being impacted by the new platform. With that in mind, vendors interviewed for this story think marketers should be paying attention to the developments.
January 01, 2011
From Hotmale.com to Honeypots
7 successful strategies to build your opt-in email database
Target Marketing


Whether your business is B-to-B,
B-to-C or both, building an opt-in email database of your customers and prospects is of paramount importance. In the early days of the Internet, gaining
opt-in email addresses was easy -- people were excited to receive email...
December 28, 2010
An up-to-date email list can trump even Search Engine Marketing
Direct Marketing News


What could be better for an online marketer than being able to tell his or her boss that their company's keywords have propelled it to the No. 1 spot on Google?
September 28, 2010
The List Churn Epidemic: How to Diagnose, Treat and Immunize your Database
Direct Marketing News E-mail Insider


"Thirty percent of your house list changes their email addresses annually or becomes inactive." This familiar statistic refers to an infectious disease commonly known as "list churn." Every email database suffers from it.
September 27, 2010
Ten Tips for Getting the Most out of Your CRM System
eCRM Guide.com

Last month, eCRM Guide asked leading customer relationship management (CRM) software vendors NetSuite, Salesforce,com and SugarCRM for 10 of their top CRM tips. This month, we asked CRM users, business owners and executives what advice they had for colleagues looking to improve CRM adoption and get a positive return on their CRM investment...
August 05, 2010
Retailers fail to detect faulty e-mail registrations on websites
Internet Retailer


Online retailers do a poor job of weeding out invalid e-mails consumers register at web sites, dealing a blow to e-mail marketing plans and decreasing revenue, according to a recent study from FreshAddress, whose services help marketers keep their e-mail lists current and accurate.
July 14, 2010
It's All About Who You Know
DM News E-mail Marketing Weekly

As we know, email marketing is one of the most valued tools in direct marketing. But, with a high turnover rate in changes of email addresses, customers can fall into a black void, presenting a great challenge for companies who don't want to lose them.
July 13, 2010
Traditional Print Catalog Seller Goes Digital
B2B Magazine

Successories.com is a manufacturer and marketer of specialty products in the motivation and inspiration field. Perhaps its best-known products are those evocative posters, combined with inspirational sayings, that are ubiquitous in many offices.
June 16, 2010
E-mail Address Verification Helps SBLI Save More Leads
Target Marketing Tipline

Savings Bank Life Insurance of Massachusetts is a marketer's marketer: The century-old firm's direct sales force gets all of its leads from the marketing team.

October 01, 2009
"Building a File from Retail Names"
MultiChannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
September 15, 2009
"Building & Updating Your Email Database"
Journal of the DMA Non-Profit Federation

If you are responsible for maintaining your well deserved and valued relationships with your donors and advocates, you should step into the waters of building your email files with serious caution. With the available social networking opportunities exploding daily, it’s difficult to know how best to develop online relationships with your constituents without alienating them in the process.
July 31, 2009
"Here today, here tomorrow"
Internet Retailer

E-commerce has taken on added importance for retailers during the recession. And nearly 5,000 gathered in Boston for IRCE 2009 to learn how to better leverage the web in the coming recovery.
June 19, 2009
"How E-Retailers Can Avoid The E-Mail Spam Folder"
Internet Retailer

E-retailers spend a great deal of time and effort on developing captivating, creative e-mails. So it’s naturally frustrating when a merchant finds that many of its messages are being sent directly to the junk box. Austin Bliss, president of FreshAddress, offered tips on how e-retailers can avoid getting caught in the dreaded spam filter during his presentation at the Internet Retailer 2009 Conference & Exhibition...
June 09, 2009
"How One Mailer Switched to E-Mail and Thrived"
All About ROI

by Jodi Baier, Marketing Manager, FreshAddress
Could you survive the switch from direct mail to e-mail? FreshAddress client The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) did just that — and lived to tell about it at a session during the Annual Conference for Catalog & Multichannel Merchants (ACCM) in New Orleans last month...
June 04, 2009
"Cutco Cutlery sharpens its e-mail list to engage profitable customers
Internet Retailer

With millions of customers but e-mail addresses for less then 3% of them, Cutco Cutlery worked with FreshAddress to build its customer e-mail list and identify customers most likely to respond to marketing campaigns...
June 02, 2009
"Managing Email Addresses in B2B: How to Increase Email Coverage of Your Customer Base"
MarketingProfs

by Ruth Stevens
Most B2B companies have email addresses for only a fraction of their customers. What are the options for business marketers to increase their customer coverage via email? The cheapest and fastest route to jump-start your email-address collection is via data append. Best practice: select a reputable vendor, such as FreshAddress...
May 27, 2009
"Top 10 E-mail Appending Mistakes to Avoid"
e-Centric

by Jodi Baier, Marketing Manager, FreshAddress
E-mail appending—where a vendor attempts to match e-mail addresses in its database to postal addresses in a client company’s house file—is a quick and effective way to build an e-mail database. It can be a brilliant marketing tactic or a customer relations debacle. This article is a frank look at ten common mistakes made by marketers trying to grow their lists...
May 15, 2009
"Data And What Donors Don’t Know"
NonProfit Times

Data and its implications was the topic of an NPT Executive Session roundtable, held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Rita Allen, Manager, Nonprofit Group, FreshAddress, and other industry leaders offer key insights about data -- what's being collected, what’s being used, and future trends...
May 01, 2009
"eBeat"
eM+C

Austin Bliss, President of FreshAddress, gets back to email marketing basics...
March 13, 2009
"E-mail Still Vital, Despite a Social Media World
Mass High Tech

by Galen Moore
While online social media networks has surpassed e-mail use, e-mail remains a primary point of customer contact for many companies. Austin Bliss, President of FreshAddress, weighs in on e-mail database best practices...
February 01, 2009
"Operation Retention: How to Keep Your E-Mail Housefiles Healthy"
Target Marketing

by Austin Bliss
As a marketer, you work hard every day to grow your email list. Unfortunately, not all the data you gather is sound. And what happens over time? Even healthy lists begin to deteriorate. It’s up to YOU to keep your email housefiles healthy.
January 01, 2009
"Email: What’s Inside?"
DestinationCRM

by Jessica Tsai
There are several layers to effective email messaging. Delivery is the first one; getting customers to open and act on emails is another...
January 01, 2009
"Efficient B-to-B E-mail Marketing"
DIRECT

by Ruth P. Stevens
How can business marketers reach more of their customers by e-mail? The cheapest and fastest way to boost an e-mail address collection is data appending. For pennies per record, you can expect to append valid e-mail addresses to about 10% to 30% of your file. Some best practices: Select a reputable vendor, such as FreshAddress...
January 01, 2009
"Welcome to the Murky World of E-mail List Sales"
DIRECT

by Ken Magill
You're getting pitched on an e-mail appending deal and the price is spectacularly low, the promised match rate ridiculously high. Too good to be true? Yes, says Austin Bliss, president of appending firm FreshAddress...
December 30, 2008
"Of Drivable Airplanes, Hair-Raising, OLPC, Card-Counting, Black Silicon, & More: New England’s Top Innovation Stories of 2008"
xconomy

What did the New England innovation community devote itself to, struggle with, and just plain obsess over in 2008? ...the real story behind the movie 21 was among the top picks...
December 02, 2008
"Web Budgeting: What Makes Sense Right Now, Part 2 of 3"
Catalog Success

by Jim Coogan
E-mail marketing has become a major sales and profit driver for merchants. FreshAddress provides a full suite of e-mail list hygiene, e-mail change of address and e-mail append solutions for companies to build and update their e-mail address databases...
November 26, 2008
"FreshAddress Acquires E-mail Change of Address Business"
Newton TAB

FreshAddress, a Newton-based provider of permission-based email change of address services, has signed an agreement to purchase Return Path's ECOA business...
November 03, 2008
"FreshAddress and Return Path's ECOA Join Forces"
DestinationCRM.com

While the FreshAddress/Return Path deal seems to signify a focus on vendor specialization, there's a push toward consolidation in the market...
October 31, 2008
"FreshAddress Acquires E-mail Change of Address Assets from Return Path"
BtoB Magazine

by Chris Hosford
FreshAddress, a provider of permission-based e-mail change of address services, has signed an agreement to acquire those services from competitor Return Path...
October 31, 2008
"FreshAddress Buys E-mail Address-Change Service From Rival Return Path"
Internet Retailer

FreshAddress Inc. announced yesterday a deal to buy the e-mail updating service from rival Return Path. The deal combines the two leading e-mail change of address services, says Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress...
October 31, 2008
"FreshAddress acquires Return Path's e-mail change of address business"
DMNews

by Dianna Dilworth
FreshAddress, an e-mail change of address services firm, has signed an agreement to purchase Return Path's ECOA business in an undisclosed deal, a move to create a centralized database of consumer e-mail address updates...
October 30, 2008
"FreshAddress Acquires Return Path's ECOA Unit"
DIRECT

E-mail appending firm FreshAddress announced today it has signed an agreement to purchase deliverability concern Return Path’s e-mail change of address business....
October 30, 2008
"FreshAddress Acquires Email Change of Address (ECOA) Business Unit from Return Path"
SmartBrief

Acquisition consolidates worldwide email change of address services under one roof...
October 28, 2008
"The Secret to E-mail Success: No 'Garbage In; Garbage Out'"
DMNews Essential Marketing Guide

by Jodi Baier, Marketing Manager, FreshAddress
Jodi contributes insights related to the importance of continuously updating email lists and improving email validation (p.45)...
October 21, 2008
"'Tis the Season for Nonprofits: Prepare Your E-mail Database for Holiday Fundraising"
DMNews

by Rita Allen, Manager Nonprofit Group, FreshAddress
Does your nonprofit have low response rates? High bounce rates? Spam complaints? Is your organization at risk of being blacklisted by major ISPs? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, consider this the season to clean your data...
September 18, 2008
"Stat Source"
Retail Email Blog

Stat: The typical Internet retailer who emails its house list loses almost $7 million per year in net revenues due to invalid email entry on their websites, per a recent FreshAddress study...
September 07, 2008
"UNT Launches Six Degrees Campaign to Reconnect With Alumni, Friends
North Texas e-News

According to reports from Mass.-based FreshAddress, which holds patents for e-mail change-of-address technology, 30 percent of the U.S. population creates a new e-mail address each year...
September 04, 2008
"Avoid Stupid E-Mail Tricks"
BtoB Magazine

There are also some good commercial services that look for dead domains or addresses that don’t exist. FreshAddress is one such service...
August 26, 2008
"Shop.org Summit Hosts E-commerce Experts"
National Jeweler Network

E-commerce experts, including Austin Bliss of FreshAddress, will discuss and review the effectiveness of Website strategies during "Critic's Corner" sessions at Shop.org's Annual Summit...
August 21, 2008
"The Dummies Prove a Point"
MarketingProfs

How well does your subscription process handle improperly entered—or clearly malicious—email addresses? If the findings presented in a whitepaper by FreshAddress are any indication, the answer might be: not so well...
August 05, 2008
"Getting in the Inbox"
WebProNews

No one likes to be rejected, especially when it means your business is being rejected too. Austin Bliss of FreshAddress discusses problems with email deliverability and how to overcome it. Check out Austin’s advice in his WPN interview with Mike McDonald...
August 01, 2008
"Luck is for Losers"
INC Magazine

By Leigh Buchanan
What Bill Kaplan is accomplishing at FreshAddress draws on skills he mastered while running the MIT Blackjack teams. In this feature article, Kaplan explains his approach to business, based on 15 years of winning at blackjack…
July 17, 2008
"Study: E-mail registration errors costly for marketers"
BtoB Magazine

FreshAddress Inc., an e-mail database services provider, last week released its 2008 study assessing top e-tailers’ ability to catch e-mail registration errors....
July 11, 2008
"Study highlights importance of email validation systems for businesses"
Business Strata

According to FreshAddress, failure to block invalid emails during the registration process may mean that businesses are wasting their marketing budget on sending email marketing to non-existent destinations...
June 11, 2008
"Real-Time Email Address Validation: Build or Buy?"
CFO.com

by Bill Kaplan, CEO, and Jodi Baier, Marketing Manager, FreshAddress
Marketing and IT have spent countless hours on an email campaign and they're ready to let it fly. But are they? What's the surest, most cost-effective way to optimize landing pages with real-time email validation to verify and spell-check email entries? Build or buy?...
June 10, 2008
"FreshAddress Study Confirms Email Registration Errors Are Costing E-Tailers Millions"
Internet Retailer

When consumers enter invalid emails at the point of registration, e-tailers’ bottom line suffers; email address validation services are key to success...
June 01, 2008
"E-Appending Done Right"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
June 01, 2008
"Bloomingdale's to bag By Mail books"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
May 27, 2008
"Why I’m Not Blogging From the Email Insider Summit"
MediaPost's Email Insider

Email Diva, Melinda Krueger, reports on some key key takeaways from The Insider Summit, including how Fresh Address can update email addresses even when the physical address is unknown...
May 01, 2008
"E-mail Appending Examined"
Target Marketing

Dave Fallon, Internet marketing strategist at L-com Connectivity Products, recently partnered with FreshAddress and achieved a 22% lift in response to his company’s e-mail programs. Fallon discusses who should consider e-mail appending, best practices for choosing a provider, and appending etiquette...
April 27, 2008
"MIT Takes Harvard to School"
Boston Globe

Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress, leads a seminar at Harvard University designed to get students thinking about taking risks in business and beyond...
April 24, 2008
Kaplan, Muse of Film `21,' Uses Blackjack Theory at Work"
Bloomberg

Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress Inc., and a co-founder of the blackjack team upon which the recent movie "21'' was based, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about the film, parallels between his life and the movie, and the application of blackjack game theory in business...
April 23, 2008
"Live Interview With Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress"
WCVB-TV Boston

NewsCenter 5's Ed Harding chatted with Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress, about his role in the MIT Blackjack Team, which inspired the new hit movie, “21”...
April 11, 2008
"Bringing Down the House" with Bill Kaplan
NECN

A live interview with Bill Kaplan, FreshAddress CEO and founder / leader of the MIT Blackjack Team that inspired the New York Times best-seller "Bringing Down the House" and the new hit movie, "21"...
April 06, 2008
First Monday Briefing: 5 Questions
ABC News.com

An interview by Del Jones, USA TODAY, with Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress...
April 06, 2008
First Monday Briefing: 5 Questions
USA Today

An interview by Del Jones, USA TODAY, with Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress...
April 06, 2008
"House of Cards"
Boston Globe

By Drake Bennett
An in-depth look at the 2002 nonfiction bestseller Bringing Down the House, the crowd-pleasing, albeit embellished, story of the MIT Blackjack Team co-founded by FreshAddress CEO Bill Kaplan...
April 02, 2008
"From MIT Blackjack to E-Mail Databases: We Catch Up with the Other Micky Rosa'
xconomy

by Wade Roush
Judging from his past, Bill Kaplan no doubt thinks FreshAddress has better than house odds of eventually conquering the e-mail attrition problem...
April 01, 2008
"Newton Man Provides Inspiration for Kevin Spacey's Character in ‘21’
The Metrowest Daily News

by Chrissie Long
Not too many people know about Bill Kaplan’s (CEO of FreshAddress) card-playing past. He’s kept it a secret from his co-workers, friends and neighbors...
March 22, 2008
Killer StartUps.com

FreshAddress.com is a company that helps other companies keep their addresses updated. This site is well organized so you will find the information you need fast...
March 01, 2008
"eAnswers: Lists, Frequency, Organic Search"
eM+C

If you’re going to mail your entire list, you should look at a service to keep your records clean. FreshAddress is a good place to start...
March 01, 2008
"Spring Cleaning: Time to Tend to Your Email Database"
Journal of the DMA Nonprofit Federation

by Rita Allen, Nonprofit Group Manager at FreshAddress
December 01, 2007
"It's Not Your Daddy's Nonprofit Anymore"
Journal of the DMA Nonprofit Federation

by Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress
November 16, 2007
"Lazy PR People, or Improper E-mail Appends?"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
November 01, 2007
"The New Obstacles to Email Delivery"
Internet Retailer

by Don Davis
Challenges to e-mail delivery now focus on the sender and not the message. Retailers have to adopt new strategies to ensure a sparkling reputation...
October 24, 2007
'Best of DMA07"
Target Marketing

Target Marketing Group’s “Best of DMA07” coverage includes a podcast featuring Austin Bliss, President of FreshAddress, entitled "E-mail Marketing and Child Protection Laws"...
October 18, 2007
"Wall of Questions"
eec Blog

Before DMA07, the eec solicited questions from its members and subscribers, promising to recruit email experts to answer those questions. Austin Bliss, President of FreshAddress, is among those experts...
October 03, 2007
"Deliverability Wisdom from ClickZ Specifics Conference"
eec Blog

Based on what Chad White saw at the ClickZ Specifics: Email Marketing conference, deliverability remains the hot topic. Here is some of the wisdom that he jotted down...
October 01, 2007
"Straight-on e-mail"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
September 17, 2007
"Why Your E-mails Are Blacklisted"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
September 06, 2007
"Email Deliverability - Contributing Factors"
TheCenter@NCDM

Austin Bliss comments on interactive marketing and database management strategies. TheCenter@NCDM is a cutting-edge resource for e-marketers and an ideal laboratory for thought leaders to cook up the next great best practice in database marketing. Join in and openly interact with the community through blogs, articles, and InstaPolls...
September 06, 2007
"Don’t Lose Customers Before You Get Them: The Power of Email Address Validation"
TheCenter@NCDM

Austin Bliss comments on interactive marketing and database management strategies. TheCenter@NCDM is a cutting-edge resource for e-marketers and an ideal laboratory for thought leaders to cook up the next great best practice in database marketing. Join in and openly interact with the community through blogs, articles, and InstaPolls...
August 14, 2007
"Bill Kaplan of FreshAddress Discusses Counting Emails (And Counting Cards)"
Search, Marketing, & Musings: The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog

Bill Kaplan of FreshAddress talks about the future of email marketing, ECOA, misplacing $125,000 in cash, and hanging out with Kevin Spacey...
August 08, 2007
"West Marine’s Craig Ajeska on E-mail Hygiene"
Target Marketing

by Kate DeBevois
Craig Ajeska, director of database marketing for West Marine, a Watsonville, Calif.-based multichannel marketer of boating supplies and FreshAddress client, shares his insights on e-mail hygiene and accessing the inbox...
July 01, 2007
"How Fit Is Your E-mail Program?"
Target Marketing

COVER STORY:
by Hallie Mummert
The size of your e-mail file is not as important a measure of the health of your program as the engagement level of the file," states Austin Bliss, president of FreshAddress...

June 21, 2007
"Best practices get e-mail delivered: DM Days' panel"
DMNews

by Dianna Dilworth
A clean list, good content and good sending practices are the way to get into your customers inbox...

June 21, 2007
"Live From DMDNY: Be Relevant; Don't Look Spammy, Panelists Say"
DIRECT

by Ken Magill
Sending relevant massages and making sure e-mail messages don't look to an Internet service provider like they're spam are the keys to getting e-mail delivered...

June 20, 2007
"DMEF Recognizes Young Talent, Launches Donor Program"
DIRECT

by Richard H. Levey
Austin Bliss, President of FreshAddress, awarded the distinction of "Rising Star" by the DMEF...

June 13, 2007
"Avoid the Postal Hike Blues: Green Your Operations and Avoid the Postal Hike Blues With E-Mail Appending"
Journal of the DMA Nonprofit Federation

by Austin Bliss and Rita Allen
For charitable organizations, raising funds has become more difficult than ever...

June 04, 2007
"Bounce-proof Your E-mail Lists"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
May 17, 2007
"The Pre DM Days New York 07 Show,
Parts I & II"

Webmaster Radio

DMA’s vice president for interactive and emerging media Lou Mastria and DMA Group Show Director Paul McDonough host the Pre DM Days special for the upcoming New York show on June 19th through the 21st. Appearing on the program are FreshAddress President, Austin Bliss, among other leaders in the industry...
May 14, 2007
"Three Reasons (of Many) to Attend ACCM"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
April 02, 2007
"Avoid the Postal Hike Blues"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
January 25, 2007
"Value Of Email Address A Gap In Marketer's Toolkit"
MediaPost's Email Insider

by Austin Bliss and Stephanie Miller
If marketers can't establish clear ROI of our email file, how can we optimize the subscriber experience and obtain necessary resources? A new survey from the Email Experience Council's List Growth & Engagement Roundtable shows that only two out of five marketers know their cost to acquire an email address...

November 27, 2006
"Study: E-mail Addresses Need Validation"

Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
November 02, 2006
"The Triple Tragedy Of Typos"
MediaPost's Email Insider

by Austin Bliss
In most computer environments, people have become accustomed to technology rushing to their aid. Unfortunately, visitors to your Web site get none of this assistance when typing their email addresses...

October 18, 2006
"Protect Your E-mail Housefile Investment With NCOA"
Target Marketing

by Austin Bliss
You may already be familiar with NCOA for your postal addresses, a service that corrects and updates your snail-mail list. What you may not have known is that since 2000, this service also has been available to freshen your e-mail address lists...

October 12, 2006
"Snakes In Your Database"
MediaPost's Email Insider

by Bill Kaplan
While the movie "Snakes on a Plane" garnered most of the Internet buzz and fun this past summer, marketers are coming to realize that snakes in your database are no laughing matter either...

July 31, 2006
"To Append or Not to Append"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
June 06, 2006
"Three Strategies for E-mail List Hygiene"
Fundraising Success

by Natalie Hahn O'Flaherty
A clean e-mail list is essential for effective e-mail marketing and fundraising campaigns for several reasons...
April 19, 2006
"Email Addresses Found for 12 Percent on Snail Mail Lists"
MarketingVOX

Email appending services provider FreshAddress says it's possible to find email addresses for 5-12 percent of customer names on various offline mailing lists...
April 18, 2006
"Study: E-Mail Addresses Found For One In Eight Postal Addresses"
Mediapost's Online Media Daily

by Wendy Davis
E-mail marketing services company FreshAddress, Inc., based in Newton, Mass., intends to release data today showing that in the last year...

March 01, 2006
"Taking the Sting Out of Nondeliverable Email Addresses"
Outsourcing Journal

Studies indicate that about one-third of the email addresses to which a company sends marketing communications will bounce back as undeliverable over the course of a year. This is a huge problem for companies trying to stay in touch and increase revenue through email marketing...
February 06, 2006
"FreshAddress Adds Opt-In Email Appending"
Multichannel Merchant

From MultiChannel Merchant
January 25, 2006
"Retailers Fail at Email Address Validation"
Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices

by Chris Baggott
Hats off to the folks at FreshAddress for bringing to light an extremely important study on the costs & issues of bad email addresses...

January 24, 2006
"Study: E-Commerce Sites Flunk E-Mail Validation"
DMNews

by Kristen Bremner
E-tailers are slow to discover address entry errors that consumers commonly make when registering at Web sites...

December 19, 2005
"Where Do We Draw The Line?"
Mediapost's Email Insider

Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress, weighs in on the topic of unsolicited e-mail communications...
November 07, 2005
"Database Hygiene: Clean Is Good"

MediaPost's Email Insider

by David Baker
FreshAddress, Inc. CEO Bill Kaplan shares his thoughts on email appending and email change of address...

November 01, 2005
"Big Storms May Pinch DMers, Too"
DIRECT

FreshAddress decided to offer free e-mail appending and free change of address services to nonprofits during the (Katrina) emergency...
June 13, 2005
"Is Your E-Mail List Clean or Dirty?"
ClickZ Network

by Paul Soltoff
A basic reason your email may be not getting through is your database is dirty. The folks at FreshAddress, an email building and updating firm, shared some case histories illustrating how they've helped turn clients' dirty lists into clean, deliverable ones that produce results...
February 10, 2005
"FCC Protects Wireless Users From Spam"
B2B Magazine

FreshAddress, an e-mail marketing services provider, on Thursday announced it has already integrated the FCC’s Wireless Domain List into its e-mail address database solutions...
November 18, 2004
"FreshAddress Releases Append Rate Data"
B2B Magazine

by Kate Maddox
FreshAddress, an e-mail service provider based in Newton, Mass., released a report that found the average e-mail append match rate was 15.1% for commercial clients, compared with an e-mail append match rate of 10.3% for non-profit organizations....
October 27, 2004
"Ideas to Combat E-mail Bounces"

Target Marketing Tipline

by Irene Cherkassky
FreshAddress, Inc. President Austin C. Bliss shares his insights at the Direct Marketing Association Annual Conference...

April 27, 2004
"New Web politics: Social networking"
Philadelphia Inquirer

by Larry Fish
Politics and the Internet continue to work out their relationships, and this election year the buzz is about "social networking..."

February 02, 2004
"E-mail Database Provides a Fresh Take on Change-of-Address Information"
Mass High Tech

by Elizabeth Dinan
The "a-ha" moment for Austin Bliss (FreshAddress Founder) came in 1998 after he changed jobs and realized the move meant his long-time e-mail address was suddenly useless...
December 01, 2003
"Click Here to Send Marketing E-mail"

ABA Bank Marketing

COVER STORY:
by Janet Bigham Bernstel
FreshAddress, Inc. CEO Bill Kaplan offers extensive tips on how banks can bounceproof their email address lists...

July 02, 2003
"Email Marketing Opening New Doors"
Mediapost's OMMA Magazine

FreshAddress listed among select email service providers trying to simplify email marketing for businesses...
April 09, 2003
"Tips to Bounce-Proof Your E-Mail List"

The DMA Spotlight

by Bill Kaplan
The Direct Marketing Association features whitepaper by Bill Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress, Inc...

January 27, 2003
"Change in E-Mmail Riles Users"

The Boston Globe

by Peter J. Howe
President Austin Bliss interviewed on how FreshAddress.com's free services can help attbi.com users stay connected when forced to change their email addresses...

May 16, 2002
"How Useful Are ECOA Services?"

Opt-in News

by Clint Symons, Publisher
Interview with William Kaplan, CEO of FreshAddress, Inc...

April 18, 2002
"Company Helps Purge Invalid E-Mail Addresses"
iMedia Connection

E-mail change-of-address service (ECOA) can help companies maintain and maximize the value of their e-mail databases...
March 20, 2002
The Improper Bostonian

FreshAddress.com described as "a solution for those who have defunct e-mail addresses."...

February 19, 2002
"Melissa Data Teams with ECOA Service"

DMNews

by Kristen Bremner
December 14, 2001
"Bounces Eat Profits"
e-commerce guide.com

by Robyn Greenspan
FreshAddress provides a business solution designed to eliminate dead e-mail contacts and improve the deliverable rate. ...the process helps to "bounce-proof" your e-mail, resulting in more eyeballs per mailing...
December 07, 2001
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Dan Richman mentions FreshAddress.com as the email address change resource for the 130,000 Washington AT&T Broadband customers recently cut off by Excite @Home...

December 03, 2001
FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS

Maggie Overfelt recommends FreshAddress.com as one of "five websites not to miss"...

November 14, 2001
AIRS News

T. J. Ripley writes that FreshAddress.com "is handy for people who change their email addresses frequently or who have several old addresses they wish to consolidate..."

October 12, 2001
"How Fresh Are Opt-in Email Lists?"

Opt-in News

by Rodney Much

August 27, 2001
Mass High Tech

by Patricia Resende
Site sources change of e-mail addresses...

August 20, 2001
Mass High Tech

"FreshAddress Inc. of Newton, a change-of-e-mail-address service, has announced the addition of Game Revolution to its roster of FreshAddress Network Members..."

July 03, 2001
Realty Times

FreshAddress.com is selected as site of the day...

January 22, 2001
"What's Your FreshAddress?"

DigitalMASS.com

FreshAddress.com featured as the DigitalMASS Startup Spotlight...

January 08, 2001
ComputerUser.com

FreshAddress.com selected as Link of the Week. "When people change homes, jobs, schools, ISPs, or email accounts, it can be hard to stay in touch by email. This free email address registry has a feature called the FreshAddress Book that gives members automatic updates of the email addresses of their registered friends and associates..."

November 12, 2000
"Service Merges Old, New Addresses"

The Boston Globe

"Job-jumpers who leave old e-mail addresses in their wake - and colleagues wondering how to find them - might want to try a new online service, FreshAddress.com, where they can register both their old and new addresses..."

“Our ESP referred us to FreshAddress to clean our list. I was skeptical of email list hygiene at first, but afterwards I was very impressed with the positive effect the service had on our email deliverability rates. My account rep gave me excellent advice and was very helpful; he even responded to me while on vacation! I would definitely use FreshAddress again. ”

Steve Lawyer,
eCommerce Supervisor,
Brigham Young University Bookstore

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