Don't let those newsletter dates slip

Whenever we sit down with a client to plan a customer-contact campaign like an email newsletter to the client's database our campaigns are based around contact at three-monthly intervals. That frequency isn't chosen at random: 90 days is the magic number, and this is something backed up by decades of marketing research across a range of industries.

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Tech tip: Campaign Monitor subscription form for Wordpress/Woothemes

Many Wordpress themes from CMS theme agency Woothemes feature support for email newsletter service-provider Campaign Monitor in the form of a pretty "enter your e-mail address" widget. However, at present that widget adds only email addresses, not names -- and recording names is important. Here's how to get around that using some easily-tweaked tools to produce a slick-looking flexible subscription form that looks just as good as the native Woothemes widget.

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