“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to building construction, the most archaic industry in the world.” My father, a graduate of the Purdue school of Building Construction Management, heard this phrase on one of his first days in class, and it has stuck in his mind ever since. Do you think this statement holds true today? In […]
Category Archives: Email Marketing
For many marketers, gaining new opt-ins to receive email marketing campaigns is a priority and major focus. It’s necessary to constantly grow emails lists as, inevitably, contacts change jobs, email addresses, and unfortunately, unsubscribe. However, once new opt-ins are captured they are more often than not thrown into the middle of a campaign instead of starting […]
With 78% of successful marketers saying marketing automation systems are most responsible for improving revenue contribution, it’s important to not only have a marketing automation platform, but to be able to effectively utilize that platform. So what exactly can you do to ensure you are automating your campaigns successfully? Below are a handful of tips […]
Email is the preferred method of commercial communication of 74% of all online adults and is preferred over direct mail by a margin of nearly five to one. So why do people unsubscribe from receiving your email communications? Unfortunately, there are some well known reasons why prospects and maybe even customers (gasp!) are clicking “unsubscribe” from […]
In a past life, I worked on an email campaign geared towards a very broad audience. Today, I would describe it as a batch and blast approach (shudder) but at the time, it was the directive our team of writers and designers was given by the powers above. The message was simple. In fact, it […]
The influx of smart phones and tablets means more and more consumers are accessing the Internet through these devices. Many marketers adapt to these situations by launching device specific apps that optimize the experience for the consumer. Side by side with these efforts, marketers also need to change their content delivery and engagement strategy to […]
I remember the day our weekly marketing report to the CEO of the company I first worked for included our email marketing statistics. Previously, we had reported on website visitors, calls to our 1-800 number, requests for more information via our landing pages and the number of new leads we had generated in the prior week. […]
Mobile devices are soaring in popularity, and this has its impact on email engagement and deliverability as well. More people are now opening their email and reading email messages from their mobile devices, rather than from immobile desktops or bulky laptops. In fact, according to Litmus, 47% of email is now opened on a mobile […]
In this day and age in marketing, it is vital to constantly be obtaining email addresses from contacts and prospects. While social media has evolved and created a variety of other platforms on which to market, email still remains the most prevalent. Email has three times as many user accounts as Facebook and Twitter combined! […]
The Direct Marketing Association has been advocating the value of email marketing for years, noting on average, for every dollar spent marketers see a return of more than $40. There are a number of reasons for this. Most notably, email offers the ability to not only reach a vast number of people, but also to […]