I recently came across Revolutionare's glooq and was very impressed by the marketing potential (for full disclosure purposes they are a client). This Israeli start up has a unique product that I believe can be an effective marketing tool for many companies, small business owners and even freelancers.
On average we send 1,000 emails a month (some of us unfortunately way more but that's for a different forum). These are mostly emails to people we know, people we do business with or intend to do business with. The bottom line is that in terms of delivery the emails make it into a "willing" Inbox.
Glooq took that idea and developed an application that allows us to add a graphic/banner to every email we send. Whether we send it from Outlook or other email clients the message can be used to develop out brand, promote a new service, a blog, trade show or anything else.
Let's face it, anyone who receives the email from us is going to take a minute to glance at the banner and that makes this tool a very effective marketing tool. Imagine now a company with 10, 100 or 1,000 employees sending out their glooq reinforced emails and you can see the potential.
International clients using the technology include: Audi, Holiday Inn, Motorola, Nissan, DHL and Konica Minolta as well as leading advertising agencies such as TBWA, DDB, and McCann Ericson. Revilutionare is headquartered in Israel and has partners in the UK, Portugal, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, France, Germany and others making a total of 20 countries around the world.
They are offering a Free 14 day trial at www.glooq.com, give it a shot!