stefan69

Not many marketers perhaps in this thread, so here's mine.

Dynamics 365: millions of unwanted features that bloats the system. Very complex where it shouldn't be, poor search features... Could go on and on. On par with Salesforce in my opinion.

Marketo: entreprise software that was probably good 10 years ago. Nothing has changed since then. UX/UI is shameful. Landing page builder is just a joke. Not being able to write custom objects from a form defeats the purpose of using an advanced tool like this.

Also... Concur?

Or vinyls :)

So what happens to all these albums we've bought on the iTunes Store? Despite the money we've poured in, we are on the same level than the next kid who just joined the Apple Music streaming service last month? That will push people to reconsider their loyalty to the company and their service.

The only problem I have with Bandcamp is that there are already some many good artists / music on Spotify. It's hard to take a stab at a more "amateur" market - it's not like we are running out of pro musicians to listen to. It's a shame because Bandcamp is actually pretty cool.

This.

One workaround is to use disposable email addresses when signing up to anything online, like https://forward.cat

I suspect they would use different IP addresses for deliverability depending on a single or double opt-in subscription in order to manage that risk. That would be the sensible think to do at least.

Ditto.

As a marketer, one of the issues I run into is to subscribe someone, who filled a contact form on my website, to an email automation series (usually to nudge them towards taking an extra action while we scramble to get back to them). Problem is, once the user filled up the contact form to make an enquiry, he is unlikely to go to his/her inbox to confirm... a subscription link.

I do think double opt-in is the way forward (as outlaid in the article), but having that single opt-in option for some special cases is necessary from a business point-of-view.

Overall, pretty good compromise by Mailchimp.

Correct - they state you can still use double opt-in if you want to.