Articles Tagged email:
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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…
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Email Marketing & Automation
It’s Time to Change Email Marketing Strategies when…
Your emails look like this: Perhaps a subject line more compelling and personalized instead of “ChangeThis: Issue 46” Perhaps some line breaks so that I don’t have to wrap as I read (I didn’t read it, it was impossible). Perhaps Multi-part MIME emails to send text to those who want a plain look, but HTML to those of us who…
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Email Marketing & Automation
The Dirty Secret of Email Service Providers and Internet Service Providers
There’s a dirty secret in the email marketing industry. It’s the elephant in the room that no one talks about. No one can talk about it for fear of retribution by the very people who are supposed to be policing our inboxes. SPAM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PERMISSION That’s right. You heard it right here. I’ll repeat it… SPAM…
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Email Marketing & Automation
American Airlines Shows How to Personalize Email Marketing Campaigns Effectively
Personalization is no longer a nice-to-have in email marketing—it’s a necessity. When executed well, it engages your audience, builds loyalty, and drives conversions. Airlines, for example, have an incredible opportunity to leverage the data they collect to create highly personalized email campaigns. Unfortunately, many fall short. American Airlines Take a recent experience I had with American Airlines as an example.…
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Content Marketing
RSS versus Email: A Marketing View
It’s a discussion that’s getting old, but with the advent of Outlook 2007 support for RSS – the online industry continues to make comparisons between RSS and email for online Marketing Communications (with SMS right around the corner). From a content management standpoint, a lot of Industry folks think of all of these as ‘output’ types. That’s a really ignorant…
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Email Marketing & Automation
When will CAN-SPAM evolve past email?
The FTC has shut down quite a few spammers lately. Spam is still a huge issue, I get hundreds of messages a day. I could filter the emails (I used to use MailWasher) but gave up. There are other alternatives – using a SPAM service that requires each person get authorized to email me, but I like being accessible. Now…
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Content Marketing
Indianapolis Colts
When I was unceremoniously terminated from my position as database marketing manager at the local newspaper, it was quite a relief. Having leadership within the newspaper industry that couldn’t comprehend how the Internet would transform human behavior was infuriating and frustrating… and I was tired of battling them every day. That said, getting fired as a single father is quite…
