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In the Inbox? Good Job! Now Use These 2 Tips to Get Your Email Opened!
(Updated March 29, 2018) You’ve jumped through all those hoops to get that email delivered to the inbox. That in and of itself is a feat, so good job on your email deliverability! But…now what? Now you’re depending on the recipient to open it. Otherwise, what’s the point? And just because you got it to the inbox doesn’t mean they will open it. A delivered email is not yet an effective email Just because your email […]
Email Marketing Best Practices: Work that Email Signup!
(This post was originally published 10 years ago, and sadly is as spot on today as it was in 2008.) Organizations ideally should talk their talk and walk their walk, right? We can cut some slack for all-volunteer organizations because they lack paid staff. But other associations and organizations do have the resources to be role models in their industries…and should, especially when it comes to email marketing best practices. Take for example an email marketing […]
ESP Email Marketing Features: What You Want vs. Why You Want Them
When organizations go shopping for a new email service provider or similar vendor, there’s often a disconnect between the email marketing features they want and the reasons behind wanting them. As a company that helps businesses to choose the vendor that is the best fit, we see this time and time again during the discovery process. When this happens—and no one recognizes it—the result is usually a poor fit, as the customer realizes the vendor they’ve […]
Email Marketing Worst Practices Still Prevail, as This LinkedIn Post Proves
This really happened… The following question was posted in a discussion group for email marketers: “I need to blast bulk emails on daily basis so suggest me some best email marketing tools.” As soon as I saw it, I thought, “Oh boy, that person is going to get lambasted for using not one, not two, but three dangerous words in this group: blast, bulk and daily.” I checked the comments on the post, fully expecting to […]
Content Marketing Infographic Shows Email Marketing Plays Crucial Role for Distribution
The folks at Skilled have created an impressive infographic on ways to use content marketing—55 ways to use content marketing, to be exact. The topic and all of the many noteworthy facts presented are interesting and useful on their own. But what really caught my eye is toward the end of the infographic as you scroll down. There you’ll find the information on how to disseminate that content marketing—and email marketing is a key component of […]
4 Months and Counting! Staying CASL Compliant Post July 1
Disclaimer: As we do every time we post about CASL, we encourage you to seek legal advice to ensure CASL compliance. This post is informational only and not intended to serve as legal advice or guidance. This summer, Canada’s strict anti-spam law will get stricter—and the risk of non-compliance will get riskier. The Canadian Anti Spam Law (CASL) was set up that way, to give marketers time—three years, to be exact—to be ready for compliance with […]
Just Published! The 2017 Guide to Finding an Email Service Provider (ESP)
Looking for the best ESP for your organization? Download the newly updated ESP selection guide. Every year, we take an in-depth look at the email marketing landscape to revise our annual ESP guide. As technologies and expectations change, the lens through which a marketer evaluates an ESP must also change. And that’s why we update this guide every year. Switching email service providers is costly, time-consuming and—quite honestly—a pain. Choosing an ESP for the long term […]
Email Is Not Dead—It’s Democratic
This insanely crazy presidential election is just about over, on November 8, and thank goodness. It has been a sad time in American politics, and for some, signals the demise of democracy, for reasons beyond the scope of this blog. But it got me thinking: You know what’s really democratic? Email! First off, no one died First, let’s obliterate some myths here, that relate to both American democracy and to email: No one and nothing has […]
Getting Into the Gray Areas With Email Analytics
Somewhere between the opens and the clicks is a wealth of email marketing data you need to be mining. You might call this the gray area, because it goes beyond the black and white of the simple email reporting of recent history. Yet it’s not actually gray, meaning it’s not hazy or unclear. Rather, in-depth email analytics—when done with the right tool—creates a crystal clear picture of your email marketing program, for each send and each […]