Articles Tagged email:
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Email Marketing & Automation
Internet Explorer Still Top Browser for Viewing Email
The folks at Litmus have released this infographic, Internet Explorer Still Top Choice for Web-Based Email. I think that always comes as a surprise to those of us in the online industry – who gravitate to Chrome and Safari, but we often lose sight of who our clients are and the corporate environment they’re in. This is where IE is…
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E-commerce and Retail
The Perfect Basket Abandonment Email
We recently shared an infographic that provided evidence that the faster a sales representative returns a call to a prospective client via the web, the higher conversion rate. Not surprisingly, along the same line of logic… the folks at SaleCycle have found that the faster you get a shopping cart abandonment email sent, the higher the conversion rate! There are…
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Marketing Infographics
How Speed Drives Sales Conversions
What if you could increase conversions by 391% by changing a single thing about your sales process? Leads360 has found the means to just that… by reducing the turnaround time it takes your sales person to contact the prospect. Sales enablement tools drive conversion rates by ensuring the processes are in place to contact and close your prospect when they’re…
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Email Marketing & Automation
An Email’s Journey to the Inbox
We were just discussing in a content marketing training webinar today with a national company how email design and email marketing performance has changed due to the way clients render as well as how mobile devices render email. With 30% of emails being read on a mobile device, it’s more important than ever to design your emails properly… and test…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Increase Your Email Productivity With Offline Mode
Most people who know me are aware of my love affair with Inbox Zero. First made popular by Merlin Mann, Inbox Zero is a method of managing your email and keeping your inbox empty. It’s a great email productivity system. I’ve taken the concepts, distilled them a bit further, and added a few new twists. I also teach educational sessions…
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Content Marketing
The Only Truly Global Email Service Provider
NOTE: Emailvision is now part of SmartFocus. While it’s true that our hometown heroes, ExactTarget, are now expanded into the United Kingdom and Australia, they’re still fairly limited to English-speaking countries. Earlier this year, we had the incredible opportunity to meet the talented leadership team of Emailvision. Centered in Clichy, France (just outside of Paris), Emailvision may truly be the…
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Email Marketing & Automation
No, Email Is NOT Dead!
I noticed this tweet from Chuck Gose yesterday. It referenced an article on the New York Times website called Email: Press Delete. Every so often, we all see these types of articles that make the cry that email is dead! and suggest that we should look at the habits of the younger generation to see how we will communicate in…
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Email Marketing & Automation
The Power of Personalization in Email Marketing
A bad email marketing program is like a really annoying sales person, but with a little effort and a lot of personalization you can turn email into your sales top-producer. Best of all, it's easy and inexpensive to do.
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Advertising Technology
It’s Not Getting Easier for Marketers
Key to many of the links I share and the posts I write on this blog is automation. The reason is simple… at one time, marketers could easily sway consumers with a brand, a logo, a jingle and some nice packaging (I admit that Apple is still great at this). Mediums were uni-directional. In other words, Marketers could tell the…
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Analytics & Testing
Don’t forget online in your offline marketing!
Online consumer behavior is becoming invaluable to online marketers, but has been primarily missed with respect to offline entities. Many companies who have retail stores, as well as online stores, treat the two audiences separately, missing an excellent opportunity to target and track the other. Advanced analytics applications such as WebTrends, Coremetrics, and Omniture have largely been treated as reporting…