There are a lot of tips for email marketing out there: segment your email list, use personalization, email only to people who know your brand, hygiene your email data, avoid spam keywords, create a thoughtful subject line, etc. All of this is great advice! However, a lot of these tips are related to your email… Read More Email Data Improvement with a Data Append
On Cyber Monday 2017, desktop e-commerce sales amounted to 3.36 billion US dollars, up from 2.67 billion US dollars in the previous year. This figure represents a 26% year-on-year growth. [source] That’s a lot of dough! Maybe it’s time for you to get serious about your holiday email marketing. The holidays are a time of… Read More Email Marketing Tips for a Piece of the Holiday Pie
Maybe I am just sentimental, but I am a sucker for a good romance movie. One of my particular favorites is You’ve Got Mail, a charming story of rival bookstore owners who fall in love through an exchange of anonymous emails. With every chime of “You’ve got mail,” from their AOL email inboxes, the couple… Read More Five Tips to Make Sure Your Subscribers Hear, “You’ve Got Mail”
One of the first things your consumers see when they receive an email from you is the subject line. Often, the subject line serves as the determining factor in your email being opened, deleted, or marked as spam. There are a lot of different strategies companies employ in their subject line copywriting; the results range… Read More The Art of Subject Line Copywriting
With the rise of the Thanos, the most tyrannical villain in the galaxy, the Avengers and our other favorite heroes joined forces to save the universe from certain destruction. Tasked with keeping the six Infinity Stones out of the grasps of Thanos, the Avengers faced their greatest challenge yet. While marketers don’t face Thanos and… Read More Email Marketing: Five Lessons From the Avengers
Isn’t it interesting that with so much talk about email—some good, some bad—our inboxes have an endless stream pouring into them every day! The sheer volume of email traffic worldwide is expected to grow 4% in 2018 from 269.0 to 281.1 billion emails. What does that mean for you? Your daily email inbox is going… Read More The Ultimate ANS Email Checklist
Please tell me I’m not alone! Each morning, I scan my email inbox for important emails. First, I look for familiar names. Names of family and friends and then colleagues or clients. Once I’ve done that, I scan for keywords or company names that pique my interest. I’m afraid to say that after that, I… Read More Email Marketing: Get Your Message Past the Noise
I know I’m not the only person who’s been hearing “data-driven” in business conversations all over. So I ask myself, “What progress are we as a marketing community making toward data-driven email?” With email technology at your fingertips, there are tools and tactics you can use to make your campaigns more effective. The three tips… Read More 3 Keys to Data-Driven Email
Keeping your customer email data clean and up-to-date can seem like a daunting task. However, it has never been more critical for email deliverability. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) do their best to protect clients from unwanted emails and spam. These ISPs determine whether your email ever makes it to the intended inbox. Email hygiene is… Read More Email Hygiene – Best Practices for Deliverability
Why do companies engage in email marketing? Easy. Email marketing is the digital marketing channel with the highest ROI, and it’s not close. While email marketing does work, you still need to know what you are doing to be successful. In their article “ 17 Reason You’re an Email Marketing Rookie,” SparkPost covers 17 misunderstandings and myths… Read More Don’t Be an Email Marketing Rookie