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Email Marketing Mistakes That Will Frighten You

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All email marketers know that feeling right before (or after) clicking send: Did I make a mistake? There are few worse feelings than realizing an error right after an email is sent.

The good news is you aren’t alone in sending out an embarrassing or incorrect email. Always remember to put your email mistake in perspective. Misspell a word? At least you didn’t email the entire freshman applicant pool of more than 46K students, instead of just the 18K who were admitted to the University of California, San Diego. Use the wrong subject line? Not as bad as the New York University student who accidentally hit reply all on an email to 40K people.

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GDPR and AddThis: Your Questions Answered!

A big topic of conversation around the internet these days is GDPR. The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), is a new regulation with comprehensive privacy and security requirements intended to strengthen and unify data protection in the European Union.

The deadline for complying with GDPR is just around the corner (May 25, 2018!) and we want to make sure that all your questions are answered, so we’ve assembled some of the top inquiries we’ve heard from AddThis users:

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f8 2018 Recap

f8 2018 Recap

One of the things I love most about being a Product Manager is the opportunity and responsibility to keep tabs on industry news and developments. Having a good grasp of the digital publishing landscape – from emerging trends to competitive research – is critical to our ability to serve users well. When you’re in the sharing game, there are few better places to get a pulse on the industry than at Facebook’s annual developer’s conference, f8. And so, to f8 AddThis went.

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