Leverage Data Instantly with RapLeaf

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“Know thy customer” is a time-honored percept for success in the marketing world. The majority of marketers collect email addresses, but lack the additional data that can help you better communicate with those subscribers. Rapleaf helps you learn more about your customers. They provide demographic and lifestyle data (age, gender, marital status, income, etc., click here to see all) on US consumer email addresses. Is it worth the expense and effort? Short answer is yes. In a daily deals case study, segmentation and customization resulted in the following results: 30% … Continue reading

Check Email Address with JavaScript and Regular Expressions

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A while ago I put up a Password Strength Checker using JavaScript and Regular Expressions. On that same note, you can also check the structure of an email address utilizing the same methodology: If your form element has the id=emailaddress and you add a form onSubmit=”return checkEmail();”, this is a Javascript function that you can utilize to return an alert if the email address has a valid structure or not: <script language="javascript"> function checkEmail() { var email = document.getElementById(‘emailaddress’); var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/; if (!filter.test(email.value)) { alert(‘Please provide a valid … Continue reading

What Plugins am I Running (WordPress 2.3)

It’s been a while since I let everyone know what plugins I was running… and with the release of WordPress 2.3, I’ve done some housecleaning. Here are my active plugins now: Plugin Description Akismet Doesn’t everyone run Akismet? All in One SEO Pack Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. Audio player Highly configurable single track mp3 player. Bad Behavior Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site. This blocks spambots before they ever have to get processed by Akismet. Brian’s Latest Comments This shows an overview of the recently … Continue reading