G. A. Wright Marketing will host a free breakfast seminar to present effective email marketing strategies on Wednesday, May 31, at 8 a.m. MDT. The featured speaker, Richard Fleck, director and general manager of strategic services from Epsilon Interactive, formerly DoubleClick, will provide data on the latest trends in email marketing that most effectively impact open rates, response volume and return on investment (ROI).

iHOUSE Web Solutions™, a division of CIS Data Systems™, Inc., and a leader in real estate web site design, hosting, and online marketing services, has launched its iHOUSE MarketReach email marketing system as a standalone service for all real estate agents and brokers. It had previously been available only to iHOUSE website customers. iHOUSE MarketReach is designed to help agents expand and manage their network of contacts by automating their promotional activities with a cost-effective and streamlined email solution.

Email Reaction, a leading UK provider of email marketing services and technology, will provide its hosted email management application to Help the Aged, a prominent charity fighting to free disadvantaged older people in the UK and overseas from poverty, isolation and neglect.

EmailLabs (www.emaillabs.com), the leader in high-performance email marketing technology and a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey Corporation (OTCBB:JLHY), announced today its largest sales quarter on record for the quarter ending March 31, 2006.

MailChimp, an online email marketing service created and managed by The Rocket Science Group, recently analyzed over 40 million emails sent from their customers and compared the subject lines from campaigns with the highest and lowest open rates. They discovered that campaigns with subject lines considered “boring” got open rates from 60-87%, while campaigns with slick, hard-sell subject lines got open rates between 1%-14%.