What do you do when a friend or someone you just met asks you to send in your resume because they heard of a position that may interest you? Or they want to keep you in mind in case there is an…
Covid-19 hits, and boom, business life is turned upside down. Many of us have had to adjust to work from home. Others have been laid off. Our email community is hurting. We decided to launch a low-key program directed to the email…
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…
It's called a call to action. Not a hint to action. Not a suggestion. A call.So why is the world full of wimpy ones? You know, the wishy washy hints and suggestions that are definitely not calls to act.Maybe as a society,…
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…
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…