Posted on 21 September 2007. Tags: anti spam act, email delivery New Zealand, Email Marketing Law NZ, email marketing tips
I almost fell off my chair with laughter after reading this press release on scoop today. Below is an extract of the press release. “New Zealand’s largest printing services company, PMP NZ Limited, predicts the introduction of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act will boost an already buoyant unaddressed media market, and provide great opportunities for [...]
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Posted in Anti-SPAM Compliance NZ
Posted on 18 September 2007. Tags: anti spam act, dia, email delivery New Zealand, Email Marketing Law NZ, new zealand, nz
“The Government’s anti-spam team received 155 complaints from the public about spam e-mails during the first week that the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act was in force.” That’s quite a good effort when you think that most consumers would not even be aware of the NZ Anti-SPAM Act. The real effort for the DIA is determining [...]
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Posted in Anti-SPAM Compliance NZ
Posted on 10 September 2007. Tags: Email Marketing Law NZ, email marketing tips, email unsubscribe
“What information should I keep about consent and for how long? ” Below is the data our Mobilize Mail system captures for each subscriber. The subscriber data is kept in our system for as long as the client is with us. I recommend you keep the same amount of information as well – it might [...]
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Posted in Anti-SPAM Compliance NZ
Posted on 06 September 2007. Tags: email delivery New Zealand, Email Marketing Law NZ, email unsubscribe
Sending Opt-out Reconfirmation Emails No… No… No…!! You cannot send an email to your subscribers saying: If you do not wish to receive emails from “AMCE”, please reply and type UNSUBSCRIBE in the Subject Line. That is not getting consent!! That is called Opt-out and it is not permitted as stated in the Unsolicited Electronic [...]
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Posted in Anti-SPAM Compliance NZ
Posted on 03 September 2007. Tags: email delivery New Zealand, email marketing, Email Marketing Law NZ
On Friday we attended the Department of Internal Affair’s (DIA) workshop on the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007(Act). Running for a little over an hour the workshop covered the basics of what Spam is and how you may know you have come into contact with it (emails like: Nigerian Scams, Russian Brides, Degrees etc). The [...]
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Posted in Anti-SPAM Compliance NZ
Posted on 30 August 2007. Tags: dia, email delivery New Zealand, Email Marketing Law NZ, SPAM
I had an irate sales manager ring me up today wanting to confirm with me something she had heard on the sales grapevine. They had just won a great opportunity with a large organisation in New Zealand. A department within the organisation had signed up for a deal to be supplied with Product X from [...]
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Posted in Anti-SPAM Compliance NZ