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I use standard images (three of them) linked to my Facebook, Testimonials, and Twitter - they do end up getting a lot of hits so I see the benefit in something like this. Not sure if I would go through the hassles of tracking email opens for my conversations with people though.

I also find that when the emails are coming back it is quite annoying to have all the image placeholders in the conversations.

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Agreed on having the standard icons in the footer. I do like the idea of being able to update the marketing message so if someone opens an old email - they are current with the brand message.

I also include my photograph in every outgoing message - a little corny, but it does help at subsequent networking events.

Good point. We tried doing something where if the same email thread was loading multiple banners we would only serve one - but good email services like GMail load an image once and then display it multiple times throughout the thread thus defeating our anti-annoyance measures :)

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