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Exclusive:  Windows Live Hotmail - Marketing Insights
Tues April 17th Sheraton Boston Hotel - Republic Ballroom
2:00 - 5:00 PM, followed by a private reception

Windows Live Hotmail presents a range of new opportunities and challenges for marketers.  Attend this no-charge* briefing for an opportunity to learn about the enhancements to Windows Live Hotmail that focus on advertising improvements, e-mail deliverability, open rates, user trust, and online confidence.  This briefing will include an overview of the new UI, optimization of the marketing opportunity, and the safety experience.   Attendees will learn how to leverage the audience of  over 265 million Windows Live Hotmail users and the new rules of deliverability.  In addition, the briefing will cover several other Microsoft technologies that online marketers need to consider when communicating with their customers.  See the agenda below for more details.

How to register - This is a no charge event for qualified advertisers and online marketers* 
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Why attend?

  • Receive an in-depth review of the Windows Live Hotmail experience

  • Complete overview of the tools, programs and processes related to deliverability into Windows Live Hotmail

  • Learn how your e-mails are treated in the new Microsoft e-mail clients like Outlook 2007

  • Understand how Internet Explorer 7 can help protect your brand

  • Receive an overview of the upcoming Microsoft releases that will impact your marketing programs in the future

Who should attend?
If you or your team is responsible for establishing and/or maintaining your organizations relationships with your customers (or on behalf of others via an agency relationships) via the online medium this briefing will be of high value.  Millions of consumers and businesses use Windows Live Hotmail and other Microsoft e-mail clients and we want to ensure that marketers have all the necessary information to successfully navigate the evolving rules of deliverability.

Agenda


1:00 - 2:00 Registration & Networking


Introduction - Welcome; Impact to deliverability customer satisfaction and ROI
Speaker: Craig Spiezle, Director Online Safety, Windows Live Platform


Introduction to Windows Live Hotmail

Speaker: Speaker:  Steve Bassler, Product Planner, Windows Live Hotmail

Windows Live Hotmail not only introduces brand new benefits to millions of users around the world.  It also introduces new and exciting opportunities for marketers.  We have spent a lot of time fine tuning Windows Live Hotmail to meet the needs of our dynamic and worldwide audience while providing a new and improved advertizing opportunity for marketers.  We will provide an overview of this new product and outline what the changes mean for marketers.  Topics to be covered include

  • Overview of Microsoft Safety Technologies 

  • Overview of Windows Live

  • Overview of Windows Live Hotmail


Optimizing e-mail deliverability into Windows Live Hotmail - Part 1
Speaker:
Brian Holdsworth, Senior Product Planner, Safety Technologies

The rules for deliverability are ever changing.  There are some key tenants that remain true, however on top of these numerous changes have swept the e-mail landscape making deliverability ever more challenging. This presents a big challenge to marketers trying to get their messages and basic transaction data to their customers.  The Windows Live Hotmail team has spent a lot of time on developing tools, programs, processes and content to aid senders getting their mail delivered to our users.  We will cover a wide variety of topics and provide prescriptive and actionable content on how to ensure the highest levels of deliverability within the new rules.  Topics to be covered include Sender Best practices The threat and protection evolves Naked IPs/Phishing Postmaster services and processes Sender ID Framework, reputation and whitelisting.

 
Optimizing e-mail deliverability into Windows Live Hotmail - Part II
Speaker: Kelly Sieben, Windows Live Escalation & Policy Manager  

In Part I best practices, industry standards, and the roadmap for future Microsoft safety technologies are discussed.  But even in ideal circumstances issues arise and senders find themselves running into deliverability problems.  In this session, Kelly will cover our escalation processes and content in detail to provide senders an inside look on how their escalations are handled and what they can do to ensure the quickest resolution.  In addition to covering Windows Live Hotmail, we will also cover Internet Explorer 7 escalation processes.

  • Windows Live Hotmail sender escalation processes/policies
  • Internet Explorer 7 anti-phishing escalation processes/policies


Networking Access
Join the presenters and your colleagues for refreshments and drinks.

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* Please note: All registrations are subject to pre-approval.

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 Attendees will learn the following;

  • Defend your brand and domain from online threats Protect your infrastructure from phishing, and zero-day exploits

  • Learn latest trends and best practices on Sender ID, DKIM and reputation systems

  • Harden your defenses and risks to your IP and employees privacy

  • Improve deliverability and click though of your email campaigns

  • Protect your consumers and improve their online confidence

  • Learn how you can help reduce spam, improving employee productivity


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