Category Archives: General

Now an official MailChimp Expert

CarbonGraffiti is proud to be among a growing group of service providers listed on the all-new MailChimp Experts Directory. Now over 4 weeks old, the Directory is filling up fast, and looks to be the go-to place for thousands of MailChimp customers requiring services ranging from custom email design to API and ecommerce integration.

New site, new offering

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but CarbonGraffiti has finally been picked up, dusted off, reconfigured, rethought, rebranded, rewritten and repolished within an inch of its life. Not bad. Just 8 months late, then.

Introducing the Email Design Gallery

It’s been a busy 5 months since going full-time freelance, and there’s a lot of news coming soon, including a new website, new client announcements and much more. In the meantime however, I thought I’d announce a new side project that has finally seen the light of day. Introducing The Email Design Gallery at http://emaildesigngallery.com. [...]

So what is the future of Digital Marketing?

Having attended e-consultancy’s event on the ‘Future of Digital Marketing’ in June, if I’m being honest, it was the first time I’ve felt excited about digital marketing for a long time. Way back in February I attended the dire DMA show in Las Vegas, and subsequently wrote up a diatribe on why it and the [...]

Is digital marketing getting predictable?

What’s happening in digital marketing these days? Not much, so it seems. This past week I attended, albeit briefly, the TFM&A show in London. I normally love trade shows – the glitz, the glamour, the schwag – the buzz always gets me really inspired. This time it was all a bit different though. Maybe I’ve [...]

I got wrapped!

Walked in at 8:30 am to find my desk as one massive present. This is the stuff of legend and lore.

Can LinkedIn replace the paper CV?

The Curriculum Vitae. That all-important sheet or more of paper that represents your first ever point of contact with a potential employer. Your CV is an extension of your professional self and comprehensively consolidates and highlights your professional talents and accomplishments, as well as your skills, education, previous roles and abilities. But in today’s internet-powered [...]

I’m shortlisted for DiMAS Freelancer of the year award!

UPDATE: No, I didn’t win. But, being shortlisted out of 3 nominees for the whole South of England is fine by me. Not bad considering I’ve been in Brighton for only 1.6 years! The award night was great, you can see my pics on Flickr, or my videos on YouTube of the actual awards ceremony. [...]

Social Email marketing: It all goes social with Silverpop

Silverpop have just announced something pretty monumental for the email marketing industry: they’re the first major ESP to bring the next big thing in today’s marketing environment to the email marketing space – email marketing is going social. It was only a matter of time that email marketing and social media would collide (I’ve been [...]

Time to upgrade your Marketing, DMA

Last week I returned from the DMA show in Las Vegas (been busy!), which I attended on request from my boss as an opportunity to learn/adapt new technologies and ideas to be implemented back in the UK.