AlphaGraphics Kansas City is working to help organizations boost the ROI of their direct mail campaigns by up to 46% with agMail+. Eight advanced technologies support direct mail and track response data across platforms in a single easy-to-use dashboard In today’s world of pandemics and political unrest, it is harder than ever to grab consumers’ attention. AlphaGraphics Kansas City is working to help organizations boost the ROI of their direct mail campaigns by up to 46% with agMail+. Eight advanced technologies support…

The inbox is now open for business. Gmail users can view real time product options and checkout from inside email, powered by Skipify Google and Skipify, inc., the frictionless commerce network, have teamed up to enable shopping, and purchasing, inside of Gmail. Email has historically been the highest-ROI marketing channel, and with online revenue growing at nearly 5x pre-COVID levels, email has never been more important to brands. But in our world where cars drive themselves, it still takes shoppers nearly two minutes…

San Francisco-based email management company, cloudHQ LLC, just released their latest Google Chrome extension, Email List Builder by cloudHQ.  In 3 clicks, it goes through your entire Gmail account, identifies all email addresses, and neatly organizes them into a Google Sheet.  For every email address found, cloudHQ provides an additional 20 profile data points associated with those email addresses to create an information-rich email list. A full email list builder has unlimited uses for small businesses. Among the first…

cloudHQ, an email management company based out of San Francisco, California, just launched a new product called Gmail Free Online Polls & Surveys by cloudHQ. This new service lets anyone using Gmail embed a poll or a survey directly in their email—which, according to their latest study, increases email response rates by 32%. We asked cloudHQ's CEO, Senad Dizdar, what made him want to take this direction. He responded: "We noticed a need for customer feedback. And whether that feedback is needed by customer service…

Xpressdocs Partners, Ltd, a Texas-based provider of tech-enabled direct marketing and brand management solutions announced the acquisition of Amazingmail, an Arizona-based provider of direct mail solutions. This acquisition, under which Amazingmail will operate as a 100% owned subsidiary of Xpressdocs, brings together two industry leaders specializing in high quality product offerings and cutting-edge marketing solutions.  The complementary nature of the companies’ service offerings creates numerous opportunities for…

Gmail is the fastest-growing and most actively used internet service provider (ISP), with over 1.2 billion users worldwide. What’s more, according to Yes Marketing data, Gmail accounts for 30 percent of all brands’ email subscribers — a number that has nearly doubled since 2013. Gmail’s dominance and constant innovation have redefined Email Marketing best practices and significantly impacted marketers’ ability to reach subscribers. Gmail is incredibly protective of its users. In fact, Gmail enforces high standards for…

New Tool Helps Both Mac and PC Gmail Users Streamline Their Inboxes By Showing Only Relevant Emails Kiwi for Gmail, the highly rated application that redefined the desktop G Suite experience, unveils the new Focus Filtered Inbox for Gmail. Its newest innovation delivers a powerful, dynamic inbox that can filter out email noise with a set of persistent filters you can mix, match, and flip on and off with a single click. The idea is to make it so that your inbox is always clear with just a short list of emails to work…

Although Gmail and Slack are great communications tools, they tend to complicate the file storage process. Before the introduction of these tools into the workplace, marketers faced the issue of employees harboring attachments in their inboxes without uploading them to a company drive. However, the integration of Gmail and Slack compounded this issue, causing employees to have attachments scattered across all three channels. This leads to employees lacking access to the latest file versions, disrupting other employees to…

Available in the Chrome Web Store, the Extension Lets Users Manage Their Contact Database Contactually, a customer relationship management platform for real estate professionals, announced its next step aimed at better integrating its CRM into its users' workflows. With the release of its latest Chrome browser extension for Gmail, real estate agents can now more easily access Contactually's features and update contacts—right within their Gmail account. "We wanted to provide the best aspects of Contactually's contact…

G Suite’s Current Gmail Version Add-Ons Are Getting the Compose Function. The Release Will Also Facilitate a Private Bridge Between Gmail and Other Enterprise Applications Such as Box, Atlassian, Etc. Finally, Google rewards the developer community by launching its much-awaited ‘Compose’ feature. Basically, ‘Compose’ allows developers to directly integrate their applications with Gmail. This enhances ease of access for G Suite's Gmail users when accessing information from third-party sources. The announcement comes as a…

Using Digitile is as Natural as a Google Search, But for Work Files, Reducing Clutter and Increasing Productivity To enhance the lives of professionals who use cloud-based business software platforms, Digitile has integrated Slack and Gmail functionality into its cross-platform search hub, joining Google Drive, GSuite, Dropbox and OneDrive. With Digitile, teams no longer need to switch applications, remember passwords, or search through various messaging threads to find files. The shared documents are organized in one…

Email AMPed-up It’s rare when something stirs up the attention of both email marketers and the tech community at large, but AMP for Gmail did just that. Seems there’s power in the Google name. Ever since the internet giant announced its expansion of AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) to Gmail, there’s been plenty of inside scuttlebutt amongst email industry insiders, as well as some open criticism of the idea. As a long-time B2B marketer, what struck me as most significant about the announcement was the larger…

StrategyBox, A Vancouver-based Customer Journey Mapping platform, is announcing a new partnership with Pattern89, an Indianapolis-based company that specializes in creative artificial intelligence (AI) to maximize digital ad performance. The partnership brings Pattern89’s industry first creative recommendations into StrategyBox’s market leading Customer Journey Mapping platform. As a result, Marketing teams can now leverage their own campaign data from 140+ platforms to measure marketing success and maximize sales from…

cloudHQ, the email management company based in Silicon Valley, has announced an update to one of its Google Chrome extensions that will make it easy for businesses to create Halloween marketing blasts to send their customers. The extension, entitled Gmail Email Template by cloudHQ, now allows users to create direct copies of their favorite emails and customize them for their own purposes. Small businesses offering Halloween sales and discounts packages will find this feature especially useful for saving time, energy, and…

Latest product release introduces new Free and Spicy offerings for revenue teams with more robust booking links than Calendly and the first ever meeting automation solution for reps, allowing teams to automate and track every buyer interaction in their CRM Chili Piper, the leader in Inbound Revenue Acceleration, announced the expansion of Chili Meetings, its meeting automation platform for revenue teams. Chili Piper has become synonymous with instant lead conversion, helping revenue teams double inbound conversion rates…

Today’s Daily MarTech Roundup covers the latest in Cloud, Marketing Analytics, Automation, Customer experience, AI, and ML announcements from Bango (E-Commerce), Dixa (Customer service), Softdocs (Content Management), Vonage (Unified Communications), and Postoplan (Social). Bango and BT Partnership Sees First Launch With BritBox Bango the global platform for data-driven commerce, announces it is powering bundled subscription services for BT, the UK’s leading telecommunications company. BT has selected the Bango Platform as…

Vegan food delivery business rethinks customer service to embrace a growing market opportunity whilst maintaining its relationship-based approach Dixa, the conversational customer service specialist, has announced that fast-growth subscription-based vegan food company, allplants, has implemented its integrated conversational customer service platform to meet rising customer demand. Using Dixa’s platform, allplants has seen considerable improvements to customer response and query handling times, as well as an increase in…

Just in time for the scariest night of the year, cloudHQ, the email management company based in Silicon Valley, has announced an update to one of its Google Chrome extensions that will make it easy for businesses to create Halloween marketing blasts to send their customers. The extension, entitled Gmail Email Templates by cloudHQ, now allows users to create direct copies of their favorite emails and customize them for their own purposes. Small businesses offering Halloween sales and discounts packages will find this…

New enterprise integrations deliver critical business insights and drive customer-centric decision-making Chorus.ai, the No. 1 Conversation Intelligence Platform for high growth Revenue teams, announced a major step toward bringing the power of Conversation Intelligence (CI) to every enterprise system, including a new API and integrations for Zapier and Slack. These product enhancements bring the power of CI into business intelligence tools like Tableau, Mode Analytics, and Looker, and workflows used by world-class Revenue…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0cPKgsjhxA Today's MarTech Video Interview features “Orange County 40 Under 40” awardee, Katherine Pond. Katherine Pond is the Vice President of Business Development at VIZIO, helping lead OTT distribution partnerships, content and IP licensing, and strategic partnerships. Since joining VIZIO in 2012, she has initiated, negotiated, and closed distribution, ad tech, and licensing deals across content, technology, advertising, and data verticals. Katherine manages partnerships across the…