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Some maintenance – evening of Monday 7th June

4. June 2010

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** Update :  maintenance was completed successfully, all services are running normally as of 22:36 ** We’ll be performing scheduled maintenance and upgrades this Monday evening (the 7th June), and this means that for a time, Sign-Up.to accounts will be unavailable.

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A spot of maintenance – evening of Sunday 21st March

19. March 2010

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We’ll be performing scheduled maintenance and upgrades this Sunday evening (the 21st March), and this means that for a time, Sign-Up.to accounts will be unavailable. The maintenance window will be from 6pm until midnight on Sunday 21st March.

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The Coffeeconomics of a tech company

11. February 2010

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As a rapidly growing tech company we have a number of ways that we measure our progress – there’s the typical revenue, profit and customer numbers but today I identified a new one – coffee consumption. Towards the end of 2009 I finally got fed up with the inability of anyone in our office to [...]

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IE6: 2001-2010?

2. February 2010

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Those who design and engineer web pages (and emails) have long been aware that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been something of a thorn in their side. Even basic layouts sometimes require a custom IE6 style sheet, and the kind of modern web features that the likes of Facebook now employ to bring responsive [...]

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A spot of downtime – evening of Sunday 4th October

2. October 2009

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I’m afraid to say we’re going to be massaging our servers this Sunday (4th October) evening, and this means that for a time, Sign-Up.to and associated systems will be unavailable. The maintenance window will be from 6pm until midnight.

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Create a consistent brand image across Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

3. September 2009

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One of the key elements of your Social Media Strategy should be creating a consistent brand image across all platforms. This is often a daunting task due to the various limitations of each platform but in this article I’m going to show you how a consistent image can be obtained easily. I’ll lead with Facebook [...]

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The UK Email Marketing Benchmark Report

26. August 2009

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It’s only natural to compare – we all want to know how we’re doing relative to everyone else! That’s why we’ve produced this, our first ever large-scale report on average email marketing performance for small to medium sized businesses in various UK industries. To view the full report click here

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Email Marketing Blog Roundup: Promotional Videos, Pennies, and Politics

21. August 2009

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Embedding video into emails is a topic you’ll see discussed on a semi-regular basis, so first up this week I’d like to share three great articles about embedding video: How to Embed Video in Email More On The Video Boom: Choosing The Best Content For Video In Email Video email: when to use it

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Death of an icon

12. August 2009

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On Thursday we’ll be releasing a number of updates to the user interface of the Capture (where you manage your data) and Create (where you build your email and SMS campaigns) sections. The updates are quite subtle but we hope that you’ll find that they make things quicker and easier to use. (Regular readers may [...]

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Using Google Page Speed for web app optimisation

9. August 2009

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Warning – if you’re not techie, you’ll probably want to skip the full article – here’s the conclusion: we’ve made Sign-Up.to run a bit faster for you. Still here? Read on!

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