Digital + Social

Permission to send e-mail newsletters to a consumer needs to be proactive and voluntary. The only correct way to get permission is by having people sign up with the understanding that they want to receive e-mail from you.

Responding to the tremendous buzz over RSS (Really Simply Syndication) a number of free sites on the Web have sprung up that completely automate the process of syndicating site content across the Web. In practice, this means that in a matter of minutes, you’re now able to tweak your site so that hotlinks to your company press releases and similar promotional materials can be sent to RSS readers across the Web.

Permission to send e-mail newsletters to a consumer needs to be proactive and voluntary. The only correct way to get permission is by having people sign up with the understanding that they want to receive e-mail from you.

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Video is an accepted part of online marketing, but there’s one area it has not yet penetrated: E-mail newsletters. Not yet, anyway. But IMN Inc., an e-mail service vendor, is working on a system that will soon allow marketers to present near-DVD quality videos in their e-zines

People are selfish when it comes to what e-mails they choose to spend their time reading, because time is precious in our pressure-filled society. Therefore, it’s not surprising that a study by ad agency Quris found that 80% of consumers stop reading e-mails they have signed up for because they deem them “irrelevant.”

Building your permission-based e-mail database begins with creating a strategy for e-mail address collection and, ultimately, your corresponding value-based e-mail communications program, says Deirdre Namur, vice president of creative services at e-mail solutions provider Bigfoot Interactive.

Marketers are people too. That may be why, when they think of e-mail, their thoughts so often center on the barriers to getting delivered. They fixate on CAN-SPAM compliance, and opt-in opportunities, and the filters that Internet service providers and e-mail services

E-mail delivery is only the first step in the marketing process. Getting opened is where the selling begins.

By Brian QuintonApr 6, 2005 11:22 AM Marketers are people too. That may be why, when they think of e-mail, their thoughts so often center on the barriers to getting delivered. They fixate on CAN-SPAM compliance, and opt-in opportunities, and the filters …