Paperless Post: Classy emails for thank yous and invitations
In the year 2000, people sent about 12 million daily emails. In 2010, the number of emails per day is 247 billion — an increase of about 20,000%! If you want your email to be noticed in all that mess, you have to do something different.
Give Paperless Post a try. Sign up for an account and you get 25 free “stamps” that allow you to send a cool, attention-getting email as an invitation, announcement or thank you. Your recipient receives an elegant email with an envelope they click to open. The invitations themselves are fun to open, and they have tons of templates and realistic-looking textured papers that look as handsome as something you get in the mail.
Paperless Post is not free, and there are several things about the system and the pricing that have made me hesitate to recommend it for business use. First, it’s a clumsy way to manage contacts and responses. Second, all their little extras (like envelope liners and your logo) can really add up. But I just had a great response when I sent a promotion about my speaking services to my professional association contacts, so I thought I’d share.
Watch this quick video to see how it works:
Online Invitations, Stationery, Announcements, and Save the Dates by Paperless Post
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TypeIt: Create that upside down “a” in your email
If you’re like me, a character with an accent mark or that “n” with the little hook at the end is a show stopper when I’m typing. I have to first remember where to look for the special characters key, and then I have to spend 5 minutes trying to get it right. And if it’s a foreign character? Fuhgettaboutit.
TypeIt.org helps you quickly type phonetic symbols to cut and paste into emails, documents and more.
Now if I could only remember which way the accent goes in voila.
See other font helpers here, such as Identifont, which helps you identify a mystery font.
TypeIt: IPA phonetic symbols and online keyboard
Contact Me — No, really this time
by Beth on March 24, 2010
in Beth Favorite, Free
Dear Cheapskate Freelancer readers,
My email system had a hitch in its git-a-long for the last couple of days, and the Contact Us form was shooting your valuable comments into cyberspace. It’s working now, so please feel free to contact me here or send me an email through scr.im (another cool free tool!): http://scr.im/bethz.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
