With Halloween and Election Day behind us, many of us are doing a mad dash to gather Christmas wish lists and get our shopping done on time. Somewhere between running kids to soccer games and birthday parties and the Thanksgiving count down, I'm hoping to find an extra hour. That leaves little time to sort through the avalanche of email to find retailers' best shopping discounts,...

Read More About You've Got Mail...Way too Much Mail

We're interrupting the high-fives for a quick update: ZigMail has landed industry kudos for the second time this year by making the cut as a finalist for the Chicago Innovation Awards! Congrats to all the other finalists. You inspire us with your entrepreneurial spirit! Now it's time to get out the vote, and you don't need to be an Obama or Romney fan. ZigMail is up for the People's...

Read More About ZigMail Scores Again

[ Cross-posted from Storify ] Email isn't dead, it's just broken. If you're feeling as overwhelmed as I am, here are some tips I uncovered on my quest to dig out from the avalanche. “Could this be the end of email overload?” Conan O’Brien may have pokedfun at the flood of media coverage around this question, but for most of us, the constant barrage of emails isn't that funny. Media...

Read More About Are You on Email High Alert?

Ever sift through your personal email inbox and come across a great sale at Target, a sizzling handbag on Gilt.com or an unbeatable Click 'N Save deal from Southwest Airlines that you want to share? As creatures of habit, the natural thing to do is to hit the forward button - a pretty "old school" move in this age of social media. Much to the dismay of marketers, most of these email messages...

Read More About Your inbox as a waypoint (Road to DEMO)

Product is ready. Script is locked down. The stage is set for the wildest six minutes in ZigMail's history! The ZigMail team arrived in the SF Bay Area this weekend raring to go for the DEMO Spring 2012 conference in Santa Clara. Everyone's texting, calling, Facebooking and emailing to see what we're up to, but you'll just have to hang on and keep your eyes and ears peeled this Wednesday...

Read More About 99 down 1 to go (Road to DEMO)

There’s been a flurry of recent articles on the email overload problem and the strategies companies are taking to thwart it. We can all relate to that anxious feeling of picking up our iPhone, Android tablet, or firing up email on our laptop and thinking – gulp – “How many messages am I behind now.” Like clockwork, my personal inbox comes with just as many unread messages as yesterday. So much...

Read More About Drowning in email?

I’ve got a split personality. As both a consumer and marketing professional, I look at every advertisement, Facebook promotion, promoted Tweet and email campaign through a different lense. Critiquing subject lines? Guilty. Asking why I’d ever be interested in that offer? Guilty. This leads to some pretty heated arguments between me, the marketer, and me, the consumer. My dog must think I’m...

Read More About Does email marketing get a bad rap?

We're all abuzz about this great AdAge article that spotlights Zigmail's alpha launch as a solution "that aims to help consumers sort their personal emails from the messages sent by businesses and marketers." Hear what inspired one of our founders to take the leap into entrepreneurship by reading Cotton Delo's interview with former HP exec Richard Gerstein.

Read More About Ad Age Covers ZigMail's New Approach to Email

As I prepare for the holidays, an article about holiday email overload caught my eye. Dave Johnson at CBS MoneyWatch recommends four steps to guard against holiday email overload at work. It got me thinking about how those same rules might translate to the glut of email I get in my personal email accounts – my lifeline not only to family and friends, but all my transactional...

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