Bet you thought Christmas was over. Well, not for everybody ! Father Christmas has had to organise an extra round of deliveries to deliver some surprise presents from GraphicMail!
Congratulations go to…………..

Lee Chilvers, Simon Page, Linda Ellis, Kathy Knight, Luke Chisholm and The PixelZoo who have all won fantastic prizes in the GraphicMail 2009 Christmas competition which we ran on both Twitter & Facebook throughout December.

The first prize of an iPod Touch goes to Kathy Knight and the PIxelZoo

Additionally, we gave all our winners an email marketing boost this year with a free 6-months account and those who came second won a custom-made designer newsletter template.

We are looking to give away more free stuff in the future – so, for your chance to win, watch this space and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

GraphicMail is again proving to be one of the innovative email marketing people! Setting our lab rats free to mingle with the social crowd has paid off; they’ve found out that email marketing and social networking are the very best of friends!
As best friends always step out together, our developers are showing their newly found relationship through our footer.

What do we have on offer? Social widgets for the footer of your email campaign!

Maybe you are a member of a social network; maybe you are not, the fact is that most of your readers very probably are. Being members of virtual social groups such as Twitter and Facebook, gives them the ability to interact with “friends” and to exchange ideas, personal notes and review products, etc. It works like this : you add social widgets to the footer of your newsletter – then, when you send it out, your readers can forward it to their friends through their social network chosen from the following:  Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, DiggIt, Delicious and Google Bookmarks. They do this by clicking on the social network link in the footer, which then takes them to that network site. They then receive a prompt to sign in to their social network account, and the newsletter link (URL) can be pasted into their news headline or status line automatically – that’s it!

It’s a simple tool that will have a massive word-of-mouth effect for your business and products. What better way to advertise than to have your own clients recommend you to all of their friends, virtual or not!

Sounds great – but how easy is it to setup in your GraphicMail account?
It’s simple! Follow this route >>> Setup and Options >>> Header/Footer settings >>> from the dropdown, select “Email Footer” >>> click on the “Add social media links on all emails” and you’re done!

The major social network platforms are there now, but we will be adding more in the future.

Social networking is doing wonders for our brand. We now announce our promotions, new features, email marketing tips and more on Facebook and Twitter .

Because we want to assist you in building your reputation in the social sphere too and help you to experience additional online success, we have added this extra feature to the list of your footer customisation choices.

So……… Tweet away, join “The Book”, and Digg your article.

Follow GraphicMail on Twitter.  Get the latest updates! Be the first to hear about the cool, new features from our lab. Grab email marketing news, stats, fun, promotions, call outs and more - from a team of European birdies. Robin, Kookaburra and Common Loon will all be chirping and tweeting with and for you. GraphicMail is a song worth singing!!