Is Your Email Marketing Offer Only “Good Enough”? Then Make It Great
Here’s one really important aspect to keep in mind when planning your next email marketing campaign, whether you’re on the email marketing team for a global brand or you’re the owner of a small mom-and-pop business: Have a great offer. Just because you think it’s a good idea, just because you would want it (or at least you want people to want it so you’ll make money), don’t assume the person getting your email necessarily wants […]
Email Marketing Consultants Offer B2B Holiday Email Marketing Advice
(Updated December 15, 2018) We are now into the time of year when email inboxes get even more crowded and cluttered. Retailers are emailing their lists more frequently in their zeal to tap into the holiday buying frenzy. What does that mean to the B2B email marketing team and its desired email marketing ROI? It means you suddenly have a lot more competition for attention in the inbox. At ClickMail, much of our work as email […]
Email Subject Lines: Tis the Season to Pay Attention!
(Updated December 1, 2018) Noticed anything different about your email inbox lately? For instance, maybe it’s even more crowded than usual? The holiday season is upon us…and so are the holiday email marketing campaigns. That means you can take a crash course in email marketing and who is doing what with their email subject lines. Whether the increase in emails pleases or annoys you, stop long enough at each email to pay attention to the email […]
It Takes More Than an ESP to Improve Email Deliverability
(Updated November 1, 2018) Although it’s 2018, I think we still suffer from confusion about how to improve email deliverability and the role of the email service provider (ESP) in doing so. At ClickMail, we help marketers choose the right ESP for their situation so I see this confusion firsthand when marketers hope switching ESPs will improve email deliverability. The ESP can make a difference, yes, but your choice of ESP is not the determining factor. […]
Would You Rather Test First or Apologize Later?
(Updated October 23, 2018) As an email technology vendor striving to help clients do a better job marketing, there are two points we tend to harp on because they are so important: relevancy and testing. And testing brings us to another point: avoiding the apology email. I’ve been in this industry for over 2 decades, and I’ve seen a lot of apology emails from companies that messed up. Sure, they send the apology, so that should make […]