Mitch Arnowitz

December 31, 2007

Brain time

We found out that my dad has inflamed fluid surrounding his brain. The Drs think this is being caused by 1 of 3 things.

Last week, we checked him into Johns Hopkins, a top notch medical institution. Good news is that hes responding to the steroid treatment. I still have high hopes of getting him well and moved along with my mother. I have spent 2 out of 3 New Years Eves at Hopkins Hospital! Healthcare workers in these hospitals are passionate, loyal and have really good temperments.

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Assisted vs Independent living

For the past 2 yrs, I've been the primary caregiver for my parents. My mom suffers from short term memory loss and my dad is getting older! My dad was recently in Md based Shady Grove Hospital with an outer ear infection that turned to dehydration. All around bad stuff.

I'm currently trying to get my dad well enough to move. The plan is to move him and my mom into an assisted living facility. There has been much dissention in the family and between my folks themselves on assisted living. I've come to learn about some of the misconceptions surrounding indie and assisted living. Some days, I'm ready to move in there myself! Now, the trick is to get them down there.

Getting them ready has become a full-time job. I'm trying to get them moved out of a house that they stayed in to long, deal with drs, legal issues and a thousand other things. The biggest challenge is working around my parents while at the same time watching them get older. You can almost double your time when working with the elderly. This leaves lots of time for memories.

Off to deal with the ongoing battle between one parent that wants to go to assisted living and the other one that doesn't.

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December 08, 2007

Summary or quick roll-up of turnkey email providers

As posted to AdMarketing:

As a quick recap to the recent question on local turnkey email providers, the following companies were mentioned:

http://www.mailermailer.com/
http://www.publicaster.com
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/
http://www.verticalresponse.com/
http://www.constantcontact.com/
http://www.icontact.com/
http://campaigner.com/
http://www.mailchimp.com/
http://www.aweber.com/
http://www.myemma.com/

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December 04, 2007

Bloglines problems

Is anyone else having a problem with Bloglines?? All of my feeds have disappeared!

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December 03, 2007

Turnkey email newsletters

As posted to AdMarketing list:

Hi all-

Not to long ago, I asked Mark Brownlow about e-mail newsletters and providers. Following is his response. Mark runs the well respected e-mail marketing Website and company Email Marketing Reports

(side note: when I looked into ASP's for our clients, I really liked myemma but the startup cost was alittle to high for us).
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As for low-end email services, I think it's hard to go very wrong with any of the usual choices.

I used Constant Contact for a while and it was fine for small lists. Then I got a nice offer from a bigger ESP as part of a sponsorship deal, so I left.

I see plenty written about low-end ESPs and the one that seems to have an awful lot of good word of mouth and very loyal customers is campaign monitor:

Another one with vocal and loyal customers is vertical response.

But I think you're safe with any of the following:constant contact, icontact, campaigner, mailchimp, aweber, emma, mailermailer

If you're looking to do more complex things in the future, maybe campaigner is a solid option since they have a souped-up enterprise version as well (campaigner pro).

Just check they have the basic features you're looking for. Most have a trial option so you can play with them. I'm working on a formal review of all these services, but it will take me a while now that college has started again (I lecture).

Let me know if you have any other questions - always happy to help.

Mark

Mark Brownlow
Email Marketing Reports
http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/
Paschinggasse 8/28
1170 Vienna
Austria
Tel: +43 1 484 1990

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