Okay, bodacious is a dated word but I’m old and it’s a good fit for my point: Marketers should be striving to master the basics before chasing the latest and greatest email trends that will make them bold, audacious, bodacious. Yet the…
In true twitter-style here’s a few small nuggets, in 140 characters, that encapsulate email deliverability in 2010.
What’s new under the deliverability sun? Apparently not much. The latest study by Return Path, tracking email deliverability rates worldwide, really doesn't tell us anything new. In fact, its true usefulness might be in helping us to stop worrying so much about…
Technology is growing so fast in our little email marketing world that it's easy to forget what an email is really about. Beyond the segmentation, timing, deliverability and design, an email is simply a collection of words. A message from you or…
We often talk about the content of your emails and how to use it. Today let's have a closer look at the reasons people signup for your email newsletter in the first place.After all, if you don't get people to sign up,…
Have you ever thought about what made you buy something from an email?Many emails get deleted every day because they don’t suit users’ wishes at the precise moment they are received. Because emailing is still the first marketing channel and subscribers get…
It's Cyber Monday as I type this. As I wade through the deluge of Cyber Monday emails that has been hitting my inbox since last week, on top of all of the brouhaha about Black Friday over the Thanksgiving weekend, I am…
It's hard to believe, but the busy holiday season is nearly here.In just another month catalog companies will start sending out the first holiday catalogs. Shortly after that the holiday emails will start hitting the market and for about two to three…
Besides the lack of personalization my true issue with Dylan’s email effort is the many the missed opportunities and regurgitated content. Besides the retail and consumer insight opportunities they should have also asked me to follow/fan them on the various social media…
We talk about spam all the time. We talk about it as consumers and we especially talk about it as email marketers. We get emails labeled as spam! And we all think we know spam when we see it. But it’s really…