The all-pervasive nature of technology has forced colleges and universities to overhaul their systems and procedures, and embrace technology to remain competitive. One of the biggest impacts in technology within higher education is in marketing to prospective students. Flexibility Today’s youth are connected to the Internet practically every moment they are awake, and any communication […]
Category Archives: Email Marketing
The effectiveness of Big Data analytics depends on the purpose to which it is put to use. One way marketers can leverage big data is to improve personalization. With “batch-and-blast” emails, marketers can use Big Data to collect actionable insight on their prospects, to target, personalize, and time their campaigns better. Here are a few […]
Customer Lifecycle Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Email Marketing
Integrating Email and Social Media
Marketers traditionally tend to push their products or the brand through email. They may get a few conversions, but a fair amount of those emails invariably wind up in spam folders. When it comes to social media, the mass “blitzkrieg” approach may be counterproductive. Recipients generally view blanket marketing efforts as spam, or even outright offensive. […]
Facebook is testing a new feature called paid messaging. It will let users send a message directly to the inboxes of people outside of their network, starting with a cost of at least $1 per message. The price tag rises depending on the profile of the strangers you’re trying to reach. The higher the profile, […]
Data is part of the foundation of Lifecycle Marketing. If you’re not keeping track of your customers habits you’re missing key insights that can really help boost your marketing efforts. When a customer makes a purchase, an in-house analytic engine usually logs it in a sales-vs-time plot. These analytics provide marketers with information like peak […]
Customer Relationship Management, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation, Social Media
Integrating Email and Social Media Allow the Marketer to Reap Rich Dividends
While email is one of the most popular and effective channels for marketing communications, social media is one of the fastest growing channels for engaging prospects and customers. Integrating email and social media allows the marketer to reap rich dividends. Linking an email marketing campaign to an overall social media strategy can provide marketers with […]
Customer Lifecycle Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Email Marketing
Triggered Emails Increase Responses
In an age where competitive pressures and the obsession with ROI run supreme, marketers increasingly seek to do more with less. A direct result of such an approach is the use of automated marketing systems. Triggered messages, wherein the automated marketing system triggers an email to a prospect or customer when the prospect undertakes certain […]
While social media marketing continues to be all the rage, email marketing retains is relevance as the basic medium of communication and lead generation for most businesses. I feel that this will continue to hold true in 2013, but marketers will have to stay on top of the ever-churning trends to derive success from this […]
Among the many innovations in the b2b marketing landscape, email retains its relevance as the basic, most widespread and effective direct marketing channel. The Marketing Channel and Engagement Benchmark Survey conducted in September 2012 revealed that in 2013, marketers plan to invest in email as much as they did in 2012. However, email marketing itself is struggling […]
Conventional marketing wisdom places great value to “batch and blast” emails, wherein the marketer sends a generic email, usually unsolicited, to each prospect or customer in the list. Customers are now more informed and demand individual attention which has forced marketers to re-think this strategy. Marketers continue to use email as the basic tool to […]