EmailFlyerAds, a service offering turnkey newsletters for real estate professionals with pre-written industry-specific content and dynamically generated property listings, has updated their offering with a mobile-friendly responsive design. Newsletters are now formatted properly regardless of what platform or device subscribers are using. 

A psychotherapist believes that the reason many people check email frequently - some more than 100 times per day - is a function of 'lottery brain,' the part of the brain that produces the thought, hope or belief that miracles can happen. When she asked people what they secrety hoped they would find in their email, their responses included the hope that an old sweetheard was trying to reconnect, an acknowledgement of a piece of good work done, a love letter from a spouse, a note of gratitude from a child, or news that a windfall of cash is owed to …

Over a third of marketers who participated in a recent survey by the American Marketing Association and Aquent report that their levels of job satisfaction increased in 2012, and 44% expect things to improve further in 2013. Aquent's VP of Marketing believes the optimism is a function of the challenging and rewarding experiences from working with increasingly sophisticated data. "Big changes like this can often cause people to be invigorated in their jobs. Marketers are now able to use data to predict customer behavior instead of just making guesses. They feel they'll be learning new skills, and that can be …

An email blunder mistakenly sent unintended emails - in some cases hundreds of them - to Mini USA's subscriber list. The auto brand swiftly apologized by sending its affected subscribers a package in the mail containing a can of spam, chocolate roses, duct tape along with a note of apology including a URL where forgiving subscribers can re-connect with the brand. The note explains that the duct tape is to help "fix things up" and closes with "We'd love to reconnect. If you'd like to link-up with us again, just visit miniusa.com/sorry."

Postcardly today launched an iOS app for its photo-to-postcard service. The service allows users to send a photo by email which the company converts into a physical postcard and mails to its recipient.