Despite all the talk and focus on social media marketing, email remains the most effective means of reaching customers. According to a recent Salesforce Study, nearly 70 percent of internet consumers prefer email as the method of communicating with businesses. The study also indicates that 80 percent of marketers feel email marketing is crucial to business success. But here's the challenge: according to econsultancy.com, more than 200 million emails go out every minute of every day. For an email message to make it through all that noise and reach its intended target, it needs to be backed by a well thought out marketing plan.

Okay so we routinely hear from people that have setup concrete5 on some cloud based web server and find it slow. My answer is routinely, "Well of course, what would you expect out of something called ‘the cloud' speed?"

The cloud makes a lot of sense to me if you have a huge number of small computing tasks. Need to store a load of data? Sure. Want to convert a kaballion images from one format to another? Perfect solution. Even if you've got a simple webapp that you want to be able to replicate a million times some morning when you get Dugg okay, as long as the app is pretty light weight and you design it with this in mind.