Facebook emails

Ever since Facebook announced that they were going to providing an @facebook.com email address to every person on Facebook which wants one, I have been waiting for the invitation. I finally got one yesterday and signed up straight away.

After you sign up, you can email anybody directly by going to Facebook Messages and then typing in the email of the person you want to send the email to where you would normally enter your Facebook friend's name. You also have the option of attaching a file or taking a picture or video. However, I am not sure why, when I last tried it, the file attachment function was not working.

However, there are people who are harvesting people's emails by luring them to a fake Facebook email signup app. So be careful.

Watch out Gmail, Facebook mail is here.

MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2010

Just wanted to highlight an event which be of interest to marketers reading my blog. The MarketingSherpa’s 5th annual Email Summit 2010 will be held in Miami, Florida from January 20-22, 2010. This is their largest and most popular event.

The events seeks to help marketers expand their opt-in marketing skills across email, social media and mobile marketing.

The keynote speaker this year is Joseph Jaffe, a well known consultant and speaker on new marketing. He is the President of crayon, a consultancy company. He will be launching his new book 'Flip the Funnel'. All attendees will receive a free copy.

This month, readers of my blog can take advantage of the Early-Bird Specials (offer ends Oct. 31).
1.$1,295 on the price of Email Summit ticket. You save $400.
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Unlimited Storage with Yahoo! mail

It was Google, which broke away from the rest and offered us a gigantic, never before heard of, 1000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of free email storage with Gmail (or Google mail).


They were soon followed by Yahoo and later by Hotmail (Now Windows Live Hotmail).

However, whatever they did and how much they upgraded, Gmail was always one up. That is, until recently. Today I noticed that Yahoo! is offering UNLIMITED storage to both new and existing users. More information here.


Can't wait to see how Google and Microsoft are going to respond to that.

Opt in instead of spam

If you are going for email marketing, make sure you go for opt in marketing whereby subscribers decide they want to receive emails instead of sending unsolicited mails. Read my related post here.