Email Marketing & Email Marketing Automation

Email marketing and marketing automation products, solutions, tools, services, strategies, and best practices for businesses from the authors of Martech Zone.

  • What is a digital experience platform DXP)?

    What Is A Digital Experience Platform (DXP)?

    As we navigate deeper into the digital era, the competitive landscape is witnessing a significant shift. Businesses today don’t solely compete based on the quality of their products or services. Instead, they are increasingly focusing on delivering a seamless, personalized, and holistic digital customer experience. It’s here that Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs) come into play. What Are Digital Experience Platforms…

  • Lavendar: Using AI to Optimize Email Marketing and Sales Outreach Communications

    Lavender: AI-Powered Email Coach to Humanize Your Sales and Email Marketing

    With more than 347 billion emails sent each day, it’s clear that email has remained a business communication staple. The trouble is most emails are ineffective. When brands send the same exact message to hundreds of contacts, this problem is only amplified. Just look at cold sales emails—a 5% reply rate would make most teams elated. To stand out in…

  • What is an effective local marketing strategy?

    The Foundations Of An Effective Local Marketing Strategy

    We’re working with a SaaS provider that builds auto dealer websites. As they’re speaking to prospective dealerships, we have been analyzing their prospects’ online marketing presence to help them understand the gaps in their digital marketing strategy and how switching their site platform will assist in maximizing their return on investment (ROI). How Is A Local Marketing Strategy Different? Local and digital marketing…

  • What Is A Digital Marketing Strategy?

    What Is A Digital Marketing Strategy?

    A digital marketing strategy is a comprehensive plan to achieve specific marketing goals and objectives using various online channels, mediums, and technologies. It involves identifying target audiences, setting marketing objectives, and leveraging digital platforms and tools to engage, convert, upsell, and retain customers. A well-designed digital marketing strategy can help businesses build brand awareness, generate leads, increase sales, and improve…

  • Check Password Strength with JavaScript and Regular Expressions

    Check Password Strength with JavaScript or jQuery and Regular Expressions (With Server-Side Examples, Too!)

    I was doing some research on finding a good example of a Password Strength checker that uses JavaScript and Regular Expressions (Regex). In the application at my work, we do a post back to verify the password strength and it’s quite inconvenient for our users. What is Regex? A regular expression is a sequence of characters that define a search…

  • SaaS Company Sales and Marketing Budgets as a Percentage of Revenue

    How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend On Their Sales and Marketing Budgets As A Percent Of Revenue

    You may have seen our recent post on How To Create A Marketing Budget where we break down some methodologies and average budgets for companies. Most research organizations are around 10% to 11% marketing spend depending, of course, on a number of factors. What you may not realize, though, is that software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies typically spend more. There are a…

  • How to Create A Marketing Budget (Line Items and Checklist)

    How To Create A Marketing Budget: Methods, Line Items, Averages, and Considerations

    We recently had a newly launched company that asked us to provide a statement of work (SOW) that incorporated building and executing a strategy for high growth. We did quite a bit of analysis on their system, their competition, and their pricing, in order to set some expectations for their marketing budget and its allocation. After preliminary research, we brought…

  • PR Software with Journalist, Media, and Influencer Databases to Find and Pitch

    Media Relations Platforms To Find And Pitch Journalists and Influencers

    When we’re working with companies to assist in increasing their visibility online for building awareness and acquiring new customers, there are three general strategies that we recommend: Public Relations – pitching media outlets that already have a relationship with your target audience, whether it’s a traditional journalist and media outlet, or a publication (like Martech Zone) with an influencer operating…

  • Entrata Property Management Marketing

    Property Management Marketing: How Entrata Boosts Business Growth and Enhances Customer Experience

    Americans are increasingly choosing rental housing as the number of married couples with children decreases dramatically and millennials choose to be renters for mobility, comfort, and financial reasons. With the uptick in millennials saturating the rental market, it’s no surprise that recent studies have found that 74 percent of prospective apartment renters are taking to the internet using their mobile…

  • Equally AI ChatGPT for Web Accessibility WCAG ADA ARIA

    Equally AI: ChatGPT Is A Game Changer for Web Accessibility in 2023

    Web accessibility refers to the design and development of websites, applications, and digital content in a way that ensures they are usable by individuals with various abilities and disabilities. The goal is to provide equal access and opportunity to everyone, regardless of their physical, cognitive, or sensory limitations. ChatGPT The future of web accessibility is here, and it’s all thanks…