Cakemail launched!

By Heri Nov 5th 2007 in Business

So I was about to write a complete review of CakeMail when I saw that it was featured at WebWorkerDaily. WebWorkerDaily is part of Om Malik‘s blog network and should provide CakeMail with a lot of visibility.

Alistair Croll, who is also VP of marketing at Montreal-based coradiant explains why web designers and web agencies need a white labeling email campaigns software which can be extended. CakeMail in itself differentiates from other emailing software by the use of a central API, upon which other developers can extend. Alistair Croll gives an example of a Google maps mashup, where the campaign manager could see the geographical distribution of the emails, but it’s not hard to imagine other usages.

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WebWorkerDaily’s review is far more extensive than what I could have done, and I guess Alistair Croll is much more experimented than me on email campaings. One final thing that you have to check: it’s Francois Lane Bio, CEO of The Code Kitchen/CakeMail. I counted 6 web companies started by him since 1996, most of which there was a successful exit.

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