Latest Entries from Alex
- Thu 17 May, 2012 Why I Hate Instagram A small warning for those who intend on reading further. This is highly opinionated and full of half-formed arguments. It's ...
- Mon 12 Mar, 2012 Are Parents Considering Their Child's Online Presence? Take a second and think back to when you were in primary school. Before classroom computers were abundant and before ...
- Fri 02 Mar, 2012 New office decor - QueryClick gets a lick of paint Now that the solvent hallucinations have subsided and the pungent paint fumes are beginning to dissipate, it's about time we ...
- Tue 14 Feb, 2012 CV and Résumé Design Help. How To Design Your CV Or Résumé Properly And Not Suck Every so often, I stumble upon a CV/Resume based blog post while trawling my design-blog RSS feeds. The post will ...
- Wed 01 Feb, 2012 Facebook is the new MySpace - The demise of Facebook has begun It doesn't seem so long ago that we were lauding the arrival of MySpace and hailing it as the mighty ...
- Mon 16 Jan, 2012 Playing Devil's Advocate. Question Everything I get consistently told that I'm a grouch. A stick-in-the-mud and around the festive season a Scrooge. In fact, it ...
- Wed 28 Dec, 2011 Email Marketing: What, Where and When? In November 2011 Alex presented a 45 minute talk on email marketing, covering everything from the current state, to limitations, ...
- Fri 25 Nov, 2011 QR Codes and Why They Suck Alex explores his sheer dismay at the apparent increase in QR code usage and explains why ultimately, they're a bad ...
- Tue 25 Oct, 2011 First in, last out, or "how to get bullied by your employer" The oft-quoted and, to an extent expected mantra from some employers (especially within agency culture) is contested by our lead ...
- Tue 27 Sep, 2011 Handling Fonts or Type Within An Email Anyone who has ever had to put an email together, will know that one of the big sticking points is ...
- Wed 14 Sep, 2011 5 Areas Where Your Email Marketing Campaign is Failing Since I've been the recipient of a few horrendous emails of late, I'd like to present a short list of ...
- Mon 05 Sep, 2011 Innovation Within Email Marketing: Fighting the Regression Alex reflects on email's limitations, and what we can do to push the boundaries of email marketing. I'm having the ...
- Fri 05 Aug, 2011 The Poster Must Sing - Inspiration from outside your comfort zone Towards the end of July I was lucky enough to be booked to DJ a couple of nights in Poland. ...
- Tue 12 Jul, 2011 Campaign Monitor Tags - what's new? A guide and reference for Campaign Monitor's new tags and template editor.
- Wed 29 Jun, 2011 Google's New Design When you live with someone for a while and all of a sudden, one day they come home with a ...
- Wed 13 Apr, 2011 Email Marketing Part 4: Oh boy, what did I just do? Lord of The Rings, a hearty backslapping, tears of joy and nan's disappointing Christmas presents. It can only be the ...
- Tue 08 Mar, 2011 Email Marketing Pt 3: Delivering the Piece de Resistance Pot Noodles, Amsterdam's red light district, Tron and pushing shiny buttons. It's part 3 of Alex's Guide To Email Marketing: ...
- Thu 17 Feb, 2011 Creating An Email Masterpiece The Outhere Brothers, David Blaine doing the moonwalk, Clown scalps being put in to orbit? It's all in Part 2 ...
- Tue 18 Jan, 2011 Welcome To The World Of Email Marketing QueryClick's lead designer and web developer, Alex Cowles, goes back to basics with email marketing...
