- Latest List-Growing StrategiesEmail Marketing
In cooperation with Ball State University and the Email Marketers Club, ExactTarget studied 18 methods used by marketers to build an email list. Among the results published in its 2009 ...
- Short, Sweet and Clicked-ThroughEmail Marketing
In a post at the DIRECT website, Ken Magill discusses the results of a survey conducted by MailerMailer. Among its more interesting findings: Subject lines containing up to 35 characters ...
- Get Them to Give a HootEmail Marketing
"Very few executives give a hoot about opens and clicks," says Stephanie Miller in a post at the Daily Fix blog. "In fact, very few marketers even look at their ...
- You Talkin' to Me?Social Media
Once in a while, a digital ad grabs you just like that. And one thing that really boosts its impact is if the person featured in it is—you. Read on:
Last year, to sell tickets ...
- The Three Rs of Recession MarketingMarketing in a Downturn
"There are three 'R' words—retention, repurchase and referral—that can help your company survive and thrive during the 'R' word that's plaguing our economy, the recession," says Deborah Eastman in a ...
- Subject: Rock On!Email Marketing
"A subject line … invites others into your email marketing open house," says Josh Nason in an article at MarketingProfs. "If you have something to sell or a message you ...
- Lights! Camera! Take Action!Email Marketing
It's a simple fact: We love watching online videos. In a post at the Digital Marketing blog, Eydie Cubarrubia cites Nielsen Online research that found 119 billion unique viewers watched 7 ...
- Think of It as a ClubEmail Marketing
You understand how email delivery works, but perhaps you have trouble explaining the process to your boss, a client or a colleague. If so, you're in luck. An entertaining post ...
- No Chocolate in the Peanut Butter!Email Marketing
"There are many similarities between social media marketing and email," says Ross Kramer in an article at MarketingProfs, "but they are two distinct marketing channels and they should be used ...
- Keep in Touch This Summer, OK?Email Marketing
As summer approaches, and your subscribers begin to go on holidays, you might wonder whether you should scale back your email campaigns. But in a post at the Email Experience ...
- No Peeking!Email Marketing
When you order a gift for someone, it's always disappointing if they discover what they're receiving ahead of time. This must have been a problem for L.L.Bean customers who share ...
- Green Facts for GreenbacksEmail Marketing
In the past, recessions have proven disastrous to the momentum of eco-conscious movements. But not this time. "There is a growing body of evidence that [green policies pay big] dividends," ...
- Keepin' It RealEmail Marketing
With the widespread use of technical lingo—words like segment, list, database—sometimes it's easy for email marketers to forget about the actual human being on the other side of the Send ...
- Just Ask the Man Who Owns OneEmail Marketing
You've probably made a practice of asking customers to review your products, but are you using their praise to its full advantage? "Recently," says Kelly Lorenz at the Bronto blog, ...
- Survey Says ...Email Marketing
When you receive an invitation to take a survey, are you more likely to click on a link labeled Take a brief survey, or one that says Take a 5-minute ...
- Baby, You Can Tweet My CarSocial Media
Last month, talk of Volvo invaded the blogosphere when the company embedded live Tweets into a YouTube banner ad for its XC60 model. The feed kept viewers abreast of live ...
- Conversionary TacticsEmail Marketing
While most retailers have experienced various degrees of tumult during this recession, the picture isn't entirely gloomy. A recent survey by Internet Retailer, for instance, shows many online-only businesses have ...
- They're Just Not That Into YouEmail Marketing
It's one of the oldest clichés in the book, and one of the most persistent: parents who assume everyone else will share an equally enraptured fascination with the accomplishments of ...
- Hello? Is There Anybody In There?Email Marketing
We hear lots of advice about maintaining a clean list, and much of it centers on how to handle subscribers who seem uninterested in your messages. At a certain point, ...
- The Seven-Second RuleEmail Marketing
When subscribers open email messages, you have about seven seconds to answer their most important question: "What's in it for me?" According to Steve Adams, the best way to prove ...
- Where Did They Go?!Email Marketing
If you've noticed an unusual drop in open rates for messages sent to Gmail accounts—and for B2C companies, this could represent a large percentage of subscribers—it's probably not your fault. ...
- Why Didn't I Think of That?Email Marketing
Whether creating content for email campaigns or newsletters, you might experience writer's block. Hey, it happens to the best of us. Sometimes, you just run out of ideas. But consider this: ...
- Time for Some Spring CleaningEmail Marketing
Spring is here, and Karen Talavera wants to clean house. "[N]ow is the perfect time for us to critically re-examine our programs, campaign processes, and messages with a fresh, unbiased ...
- BTW: We Should Meet IRLEmail Marketing
"For too long, too many marketers have underestimated the value of email's impact on offline retail," say Lisa Harmon and Alex Madison in a post at the Email Experience Council ...
- Working Miracles, One by OneEmail Marketing
"Now more than ever, the email channel in particular is being asked to contribute higher revenue," says Stephanie Miller in a post at the Daily Fix blog. "Yet, we all ...