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I am on a few companies email lists (I am talking about legitimate blast emails from businesses).  It surprises me how many of them send out there blast emails in formats that are basically garbage to look at on the Blackberry.  I am not sure of what % of emails are looked at on Blackberries only but my bet is during the summer time if you are sending emails to higher end business people that % is probably more then 50%.
We are going to send out a “PhoneTag” summer special announcement to our customers tomorrow.  The emails will be in plain text, because I bet with my customers the % reading on Blackberries this week will be over 80%.
I took this picture over the weekend at Wholefoods.  When I saw the sign the first thing I thought about was Blackberry the mobile device and not the food…

I am on a few companies email lists (I am talking about legitimate blast emails from businesses).  It surprises me how many of them send out there blast emails in formats that are basically garbage to look at on the Blackberry.  I am not sure of what % of emails are looked at on Blackberries only but my bet is during the summer time if you are sending emails to higher end business people that % is probably more then 50%.

We are going to send out a “PhoneTag” summer special announcement to our customers tomorrow.  The emails will be in plain text, because I bet with my customers the % reading on Blackberries this week will be over 80%.

I took this picture over the weekend at Wholefoods.  When I saw the sign the first thing I thought about was Blackberry the mobile device and not the food…

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