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Email Footer Examples to Help You Finish Strong

“While it may come at the end, your email footer shouldn’t be an afterthought.

Email footers need to check certain boxes, but a well-crafted footer goes beyond. It contributes to your brand and engages your subscribers.

The goal is to provide essential information, adhere to regulations, and make sure your emails end on a high note.

You want to optimize every element of your email campaigns. These email footer examples will help you get the most out of any template — down to the last word and pixel.”

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10 Steps for Creating a Content Calendar for Your Brand

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“Have you worked out your content calendar for the year ahead yet?

I mean, we’re now three months in, so you’d want to have a plan in place. But with various elements competing for your attention, it also makes sense if you haven’t had a chance to lock it all in.

This could help. The team from Giraffe Social Media have put together a handy overview of how to create an effective social media content calendar, which could help you get your planning on track.”

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The 7 C’s of Social Media Marketing

“Looking for a simple way to structure your social media and digital content strategy?

This could help. The team from Adnorml have put together a “7 C’s” approach to social media management, which covers all the key elements using phonetic cues.

And while it doesn’t go into depth, each of these points will provide more insight for your approach, which could help you maximize your opportunities.”

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Should I Respond to Update Messages?

Maybe.  If the update notice is from a reputable company like Adobe Reader, Java, QuickBooks, etc.,  yes, do the update.  They are fixing bugs, updating security and improving the software.

If you don’t recognize the name of the software, do NOT respond or update. Call Your Computer Lady or your hardware tech to ask first.

Best option:  Take a screen shot of the message and email it to your adviser. That will give us all the details we need to give you a good answer.

How do I make a screen shot?

On your keyboard, there is a key titled “Print Screen.”  Press that key while the message is on your screen.  Now open a Word doc. Right click on your mouse to get a pop up menu and choose “Paste.”  This will paste the screen shot into Word. Save the document. Email it to YCL or your IT tech.

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Google Announces New Core Algorithm Update for Search

“Get ready for fluctuations in your Google Search traffic, with Google today announcing a new “core update” to its algorithms, aimed at reducing spam and low-quality results.

Which, in theory, should be a good thing, but you never know exactly how these things are going to play out.

First off, on low quality results, Google’s looking to expand on its low quality downranking project that it initially began testing back in 2022. That experiment was aimed at removing unhelpful results.

“For example, if you search for information about a new movie, you might have previously seen articles that aggregated reviews from other sites without adding perspectives beyond what’s available elsewhere. This isn’t very helpful if you’re expecting to read something new.”

Google’s been working to refine this process, and it’s now satisfied that it will work in full deployment.”

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Optimize your site with the accessibility checklist

Accessibility is making sure as many people as possible can use your site. Makes sense, right? After all, you’ve created a website because you want to reach your audience. And by following the checklist, you make sure you’re reaching everyone.

If you don’t, there might be people who can’t access information on your site. You’d be neglecting a huge part of your audience and in turn, missing out on a bunch of engagement and SEO opportunities. So, let’s get to work and check off these accessibility checks!

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Where Is My Email Stored?

Here’s the scenario. You write an email in Outlook and send it to your best friend. Your friend then opens the email in her Gmail account.

Where is the email stored?  In 4 places.

  1. Your Outlook (email management software) saves a copy in Sent Items.
  2. Your server (Cox, CenturyLink, Verizon, etc.) saves a copy in webmail Sent Items.
  3. Your friend’s server saves a copy in her webmail Inbox.
  4. Your friend’s Gmail (email management software) saves a copy in Inbox.

You can delete both of your copies if you want to. Delete from Outlook. Log into webmail and delete from webmail.

You can not delete your friend’s copies.

That’s why you always want to THINK before you hit SEND!

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The Ultimate Spam Trap Survival Guide: How to Stay Out of Spam

Email geeks, we see all the hard work you put into your email marketing campaigns. Once you have a great idea, there’s the copywriting, the design work, the coding, the endless back-and-forth editing, and then finally, the operational side of pulling lists or behavioral triggers and actually pressing, “Send.”

It’s a lot of work. Yet your beautiful email campaign may never actually reach the inbox. In fact, 70% of emails show at least one spam-related issue that could keep them from reaching the inbox. 😭

Email deliverability is a complicated, technical beast. While there are a few best practices that are tried-and-true to improve your deliverability (please, please don’t buy an email list!) it can be difficult to know what went wrong. While many factors affect your deliverability, spam traps are one of the biggest and most misunderstood of them all.

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How Can Cloud Services Protect Stored Data?

Cloud services have become an integral part of our daily lives, catering to various needs such as storage, computing resources, and application hosting. With the increasing amount of data being generated and stored in the cloud, data security has become a major concern for both individuals and businesses. In this document, we will discuss how cloud services protect stored data and provide a comprehensive understanding of the measures taken to ensure the security of our valuable information.

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Is It Really Necessary to Log Out of Online Accounts? Or Can I Just Close My Browser?

This is a question with a lot of maybe answers!! Let’s see if we can break it down so you can take the best actions possible.

Why?  Think for a moment how much information about you a hacker would have if they accessed your email account.  Bank info. Credit card processer for your business. Doctor info. Client information. Friends lists. Employee info. Employer info. Amazon account. Travel plans. Children’s schedules.

Public Computers

If you are using a public computer (library, hotel, etc.) ABSOLUTELY log out of every program, every time.  Best option: Don’t use a public computer ever for highly sensitive work like your bank, your doctor’s portal, Amazon.)

Your Family Computer / Shared Office Computer

You have multiple people sharing a computer. Yes! Log out of every program every time. Don’t take the risk of someone getting access to your accounts. They may not intend to mess things up but they could accidentally cause you big problems.

Your Personal Computer/Tablet/Phone

Should the devise be stolen, the thief can open it up and use any app that is open. Yes, you have a password to open the devise. Do you think a good hacker can’t get past your password? Don’t place any money on that bet!

And since when did you plan to lose your device? No, it’s one of those nasty accidents of life.

A hacker can also access your Internet connection and waylay the session cookie to get into the app. Some session cookies are predictable so hackers can generate possible cookies!  This is one of the common uses of malware on a computer. Even a friendly person using your wireless network can pick up on session cookies.

BEST Practice

Log out of every online software every time.

If you think logging in just takes tooooooo much time, use a Password Manager like Last Pass. It will autofill login information for you from a desktop, tablet or phone.

The Federal Trade Commission estimates that it can take approximately six months and 200 hours of work to recover from an identity theft. This estimation is based on the amount of work needed to follow the necessary steps to ensure the victim is not responsible for the debt incurred.

Don’t be a victim! Log out!

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