Who is out there recommending that businesses such as The Teaching Company, Borders,and Barnes & Noble email buyers and club members every day? Is someone really suggesting that this is an acceptable way to treat their customers?
Just as there is not one ideal house, there is no one ideal email service provider. But how do you know which is the right one for your needs and budget? Keeping these five tenets in mind can help you select the best ESP for you (and maybe the best house too!).
Luke Lawson, Experian CheetahMail UK and United Mail Solutions UK, offers his predictions regarding email marketing for 2011.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) wanted to be able to create highly personalized transactional emails and lifecycle messaging for each of its seven brands on the fly. What’s more, it wanted to automate the process so that customers could receive the appropriate messages in as close to real-time as possible. Now that it integrated a new…
Email personalization is a great tactic. It’s a powerful tool for grabbing the recipient’s attention, talking to him directly, and showing you value him as a customer. But personalization can go horribly wrong. So before you begin, here are a few things to consider
Despite chatter about social media usurping it, email remains one of the most effective, and cost-effective, tools available to marketers. We asked several experts for their take on how email will continue to evolve and what it means to you.
One strength of email as a marketing tool is its measurability. But if you measure the effectiveness of your email campaigns in a vacuum, relying exclusively on standard medium-specific metrics such as open and clickthrough rates, you could be underestimating their effectiveness.
If a new direct mail campaign from Keurig is successful, 2011 will see consumers moving at a slightly peppier pace
As an email marketing professional, you obsess about maintaining and growing a database of responsive subscribers, ensuring that your emails make it through the myriad filters to their inboxes, and creating messages that are compelling enough to entice recipients to open them and respond. But you probably don’t worry too much about what happens once…
With roughly a week and a half before Christmas, it would be easy for marketers to feel their fates have been set. It would also be incorrect, according to Dennis Armbruster, managing partner at LoyaltyOne Consulting.
