Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the week : Unsubscribe

The term Unsubscribe is often used when one wants to cancel a service like receiving emails, offers or newsletters by removing his name from the mailing list that he had previously subscribed to. [Tweet this!] Related posts: 8 ways to reduce user unsubcription complaints Why a contact might still be receiving emails even after unsubscription? How to… Continue reading Term of the week : Unsubscribe

Thursday Management Series

Challenges faced while managing a team

People outside of project management think that, all a project manager does is write emails, conducts meetings and that’s it. But, the role of a project manager is really not what it looks like from the outside. He has many challenges to face on a daily basis. Some of the challenges or obstacles need to… Continue reading Challenges faced while managing a team

Wednesday Marketing Series

8 ways to reduce user unsubcription complaints

In one of my posts, we talked about reasons why a user could be still receiving emails even though he has opted out or has unsubscribed from it. These reasons can help you investigate and debug the issue, if you are caught in one. Facing these situations once in a while is fine. But if… Continue reading 8 ways to reduce user unsubcription complaints

Monday Technology Series

7 Reasons why your email may have bounced

A bounced email means that the email was never delivered to the recipient. Does it happen? Yes! Does it happen often? Yes, can happen often! Why does it happen? Well, let’s see the reasons- 1. Recipient mailbox is full or has exceeded his quota- An email will bounce until there is space for it in the… Continue reading 7 Reasons why your email may have bounced

Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the Week : Scrum

Scrum is a framework to implement agile methodology for product development. Scrum projects develop the product in iterations. These iterations are fixed-length and are called Sprints. The sprint could last a week, or two weeks or even a month. This can be decided by studying the nature of the project. Every sprint has an end that is called… Continue reading Term of the Week : Scrum

Thursday Management Series

Are your meetings effective? Really?

My experience with attending meetings has always been dreadful in the past. I have either caught myself sleeping with my eyes open or constantly checking my watch as if the time has paused. I have come out of meetings thinking why was this meeting called in the first place and did anyone really pay attention. There… Continue reading Are your meetings effective? Really?

Wednesday Marketing Series

Why a contact might still be receiving emails even after unsubscription?

While working on an email marketing platform, I did face users complaining about receiving emails even though they had unsubscribed from them. It is kind of an emergency situation that affects all the people involved, from senior management to the developers, who leave aside all their work and get down to tracking this user. While… Continue reading Why a contact might still be receiving emails even after unsubscription?

Tuesday Big Data Series

Understanding NameNode and DataNode in HDFS

HDFS has a master/slave architecture and is built-up of basically two kinds of nodes: NameNode (which acts as a Master) and DataNodes (which acts as slaves). NameNode and DataNode are pieces of software that are designed to run on commodity machines which typically run on a GNU/Linux operating system (OS). HDFS is built using Java language,… Continue reading Understanding NameNode and DataNode in HDFS

Monday Technology Series

Hard Bounce Vs. Soft Bounce

In the world of Email Marketing, not all emails make it to the recipient’s mail box. While some reach, few of them fail to make room for themselves. And, it is extremely important that you keep track of the emails that have not been delivered successfully. An email is said to be bounced when it is rejected… Continue reading Hard Bounce Vs. Soft Bounce