- Four Tips for E-Newsletter SuccessEmail Marketing
Whether you send e-newsletters on a weekly or monthly basis, it's a great way to connect with your customers and achieve a number of diverse goals. But is your newsletter ...
- Two Sure Ways to Make Your Email Copy SingEmail Marketing
In a post at Email Marketing Reports, Mark Brownlow presents a screenshot that looks like a page from a 19th-century novel: lengthy paragraphs filled with sentences of uniform length.
That, he ...
- How Miracle-Gro Uses Email to Grow Offline SalesEmail Marketing
"One click between email message and e-commerce is so ingrained for all of us—as both buyers and marketers—that it's almost nostalgic to think of using email solely to promote offline ...
- Four Ways to Improve Your Email CampaignsMarketing Analytics
If there's one piece of advice experts have for email marketers, it's to test, test and test again. To be sure you're getting everything you possibly can from your A/B ...
- Three Ways to Reach Readers Who'd Rather Be at the BeachEmail Marketing
During the hot summer months, email marketers often despair of subscribers whose minds are somewhere else. "So how can you make your email marketing messages matter to office workers counting ...
- How Chick-Fil-A's Email Offer Brought Customers Into Stores Email Marketing
In a post at the Bronto blog, Julie Waite says you may know Chick-Fil-A recently introduced a Spicy Chicken Sandwich. "What you may not have heard," she notes, "was that ...
- Three Ways to Get the Most From Triggered MessagesEmail Marketing
It's been a long time coming, writes Dylan Boyd at Email Wars, but with "new systems of marketing automation we are finally gaining ground to creating trigger-based campaigns on actions, ...
- Two Subject-Line Traps to AvoidEmail Marketing
If a subject line gets truncated on its way to your subscriber's inbox, cautions Mark Brownlow at Email Marketing Reports, it can do more than cause a "wry smile" or ...
- Why 'Spray and Pray' Email Marketing Doesn't WorkEmail Marketing
Your B2B email marketing program might have a good reason for sending a steady stream of one-size-fits-all messages to prospects. "The idea being that by keeping these folks exposed to ...
- Two Key Ways Email Can Boost Results in Other ChannelsEmail Marketing
"[O]nce you've created a regular email-communications program, or developed your smart auto-responders, are you remembering to strategically use email to strengthen and encourage relationships with your list members in other ...
- When Is It Time to Hire an ESP?Email Marketing
As your email-marketing program develops and expands—and your in-house technology struggles to keep up—you might decide to outsource tech tasks that no longer make for the best use of your ...
- One Easy Way to Make Your Emails More ReadableEmail Marketing
Writing at the Retail Email blog, Chad White offers some interesting facts about the Baby-Boomer generation. First, by 2015, nearly half of the US population will be age 50 or ...
- Three Ways to Make Email a Lead-Generation MachineB2B Marketing
"Social media is all the rage these days, and I'm in complete agreement that it should be part of your campaigns—but let's not overlook the power of email," writes Chad ...
- Four Email Must-Do Principles to Boost ResponseEmail Marketing
As email becomes ever more prominent in the typical marketing mix, we can expect a few slip-ups and oversights. According to Max Kalehoff—writing at the AttentionMax blog—telltale symptoms of lax ...
- Gain Icon Status OvernightEmail Marketing
"Adding social-media icons to your email campaigns … takes just a few seconds," writes Jim Hitch at the Emma blog, "but it can increase your reach and help you identify ...
- Baby, Please Don't GoEmail Marketing
When people click on your unsubscribe button, there's a good chance it takes them to a preference page where they can confirm the unsubscribe request, or adjust their subscription to ...
- This Won't Hurt a BitEmail Marketing
"My dentist is Dr. Matt Stohl of Foothill Dental," writes DJ Waldow in an article at MarketingProfs. "As an email-marketing nut, instead of critiquing how he administers Novocaine or how ...
- When Plain is GoodEmail Marketing
If we were to suggest plain text for your next email campaign, you'd probably laugh in our faces. "The superiority of HTML email to plain-text email for driving response has ...
- It's OK to Count Me In for NowEmail Marketing
"Responsible consumer marketers have adopted an 'opt-in' email policy for determining who receives their marketing messages," writes Ruth Stevens at the Harvard Business Review blog. Unless customers give ... permission ...
- Frankly, You're a DisappointmentEmail Marketing
As a longtime reader of GQ magazine, Dylan Boyd subscribed to The Hound—the magazine's recently launched email newsletter—with high expectations. "So as I opened the email and took a gander," ...
- It's All in How You Present YourselfEmail Marketing
"The basic method of gaining a subscriber is simply asking someone to sign up for your mailing list," writes David Godot in a Pro article at MarketingProfs. "If a customer ...
- Here's a Reality Check for YouEmail Marketing
"I receive email for very different reasons than others in my life," writes Kara Trivunovic at the Email Experience Council blog. "I subscribe to just about any email I can, ...
- It's a Tip, Not a CommandmentEmail Marketing
Just because something is currently labeled a best-practice doesn't mean it's written in stone, says DJ Waldow in an article at MarketingProfs. "[W]e can find and spit back best-practices for ...
- Return to SenderLead Generation
You probably protect your "real" email addresses—those where you receive emails from significant others, friends and colleagues—with the ferocity of a mother bear. You might give them to trusted sources ...
- I Told You It's Me, Not You!Email Marketing
Recently, a MarketingProfs colleague called his cable company with a request to stop service at his address. When asked for his reason, he explained that he was a highly satisfied ...