A serious and unprecedented pandemic calls for calm, reason, and realism. As leaders, it’s essential to remember that engaging in contingency planning and caring for our clients and employees should be our top priority. As global events continue to unfold, we felt it essential to gather our thought leaders together to guide and advise appropriate Read More Proactive Steps for Your Marketing Plans
Category: Email Strategies
The YOU in Team
The retail landscape has become more complicated over the years, but as direct marketers, our mission remains the same: to find a group of people that desires a set group of products or services and lead them to a place where they can learn more about them (a store, website, etc.). I call it “inviting Read More The YOU in Team
It Pays to Incorporate Segmentation
This year at our annual Integrated Marketing Summit, I taught a workshop discussing the ways retailers should incorporate segmentation to boost topline sales and increase bottom-line profits. Segmentation and relevancy would also help to counteract the continued decline in open and click-through rates as indicated in our annual benchmark report below. As the volume of Read More It Pays to Incorporate Segmentation
Using “Tried and True” Direct Marketing Tactics to Improve Email Performance
By most ROI analysis, email is one of the top ROI channels, but contributing to this high ROI figure is the very low cost of sending an email on a per customer basis. And that is part of the problem – ease and cost. I challenge you to think about this…. you are probably over-emailing Read More Using “Tried and True” Direct Marketing Tactics to Improve Email Performance
From My Inbox: Gentle Critique of an Email Marketing Program Resurrected, Part 1
From time to time I’ll pull a message from my inbox and do a walk-through of its pros and cons. These gentle critiques are intended to educate; I hope that the companies mentioned as well as readers will keep that top of mind. I received this email earlier this year from a long-time industry acquaintance we’ll Read More From My Inbox: Gentle Critique of an Email Marketing Program Resurrected, Part 1
Email Marketing Case Study: a 96% Increase in Revenue with 6 Tips for Preheader Text
Years ago I was obsessed with preheaders, aka snippets or autopreview text, and wrote about them in my ClickZ column. Back then I did a lot of testing of preheader copy and generated some great results for clients. Fast-forward to today. I still consider preheader text when I’m helping clients optimize their email efforts, but am no longer Read More Email Marketing Case Study: a 96% Increase in Revenue with 6 Tips for Preheader Text
From My Inbox: Gentle Critique of an Email Marketing Program Resurrected, Part 2
Last week I discussed some features and flaws of the below email I had received from an industry acquaintance: This week, it’s time to discuss how this email message might be improved. Use Descriptive Subject Lines. While the subject line “A scintillating start” (above) is intriguing and cute, it doesn’t provide any value to the reader. Read More From My Inbox: Gentle Critique of an Email Marketing Program Resurrected, Part 2
Online Cart Abandonment: 3 Disturbing Industry Statistics and 7 Tips for Successful Cart Reminder Programs
I had the pleasure of leading not one but two webinars last month on digital marketing for retailers. I always like to round out my case studies and practical advice with industry statistics. And what I learned about online cart abandonment surprised and disturbed me: 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned (Bronto/Magento Study) Shopping Read More Online Cart Abandonment: 3 Disturbing Industry Statistics and 7 Tips for Successful Cart Reminder Programs
3 Tips for Improving the ROI on Your Email Marketing Efforts
What’s the return-on-investment (ROI) for each of your organization’s marketing channels? According to the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing delivers a higher ROI than any other online or offline channel. And not by a little – by a lot! See the chart below – email marketing is delivering more than four times the ROI of Read More 3 Tips for Improving the ROI on Your Email Marketing Efforts