What is “View in Picture Bar”?
Jan 12 2009
I think that I have a lot of understanding and knowledge of industry terms, but this unsolicited (check out the footer of one time email) email threw in the term in the header about “Please push your “picture bar located directly under the Subject line.” Am I confused? Can anyone shed some light on this term?
I was thinking that maybe they meant that if images we not displayed that you could use the show images button in your email client. Maybe this is it, but I have never heard this term before the way that they wrote it.
The other thing that made me just plain angry was in the footer that this was a one time send, no way to unsubscribe and that if I did not want it I should just delete it. Pure crap IMHO. Sorry we sent this to you and we have ZERO relationship with you. Matter of fact you most likely have no clue who we are and that is just too bad. But we promise you will never get THIS SAME EMAIL from us again. You might get another one, but it will be totally different. Just so we are clear, this is not spam, just an email that you did not want, ask for, nor want. Well maybe you did, but we won’t send it to you again, so read it and make sure you don’t want to talk to us.
This is one of those emails sent by people that are clueless that drives our industry one step back for the three steps we are all trying to move forward.
Posted by Dylan Boyd at 8:46 AM
Published in Spam Emails, Worst Of Email on Monday, January 12th, 2009
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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January 12th, 2009 at 9:54 am
I’m fairly certain they are referring to the same button of which you mention, however, they seem to be mentioning it as it specifically applies to newer version of Outlook. In Outlook 2003, the download pictures button/feature is more of a gray bar across the email below the header area. It does seem silly to mention this feature, but only in specific terms to Outlook and not use something more generic that would apply to other email clients.
January 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
It seems like they are instructing people how to turn images on.
Reason #923,380 not to outsource your email to a non-English speaking country.
Spam Spam Spam
January 12th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I would agree. It is what I thought they were saying just an odd way to say it. Only reason to outsource is if you are localizing in that country. Native tongues are key.
January 12th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
For real, Tricia! Doesn’t this violate CAN-SPAN Act?
January 12th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I love how it says you are “just one click away from bringing your business to the next level”, yet the main call to action is a phone number. I wonder what kind of results this email received.
Today is your lucky day indeed.
-Kelly Lorenz @ Bronto Software
January 12th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
First off, why would you need a website when that’s one of eROI’s service offerings? I also like how the sub line reads that an associate referred them to you yet the email is not personalized at all. Not targeted, not relevant, not personalized….booooo, oh ya and all that about CAN-SPAM like you mentioned.
-Kelly
MindComet
January 12th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Right. Why would we need a website. This is just bad email all the way around.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I believe this is a great reason NOT to use this company for web development. They know nothing about the online space besides adding some content to the web.
-Greg
Email Marketing Consultant
January 13th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Dylan –
Not sure I can add any more value then your post (and reader comments) already did.
My question is for you directly: When are you going to start using Skitch (http://skitch.com/) so that you can draw straight lines to call our areas in your images?
Just asking.
dj at bronto
January 13th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
I will check out SKITCH so that I can make you happy. I find photoshop to have some challenges with the trackpad.
Thanks
January 13th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Just here to help you Dylan…
dj
January 13th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Downloaded and running. Will see how it works for me. Thanks DJ as we all need a little help from our “Friends”