Posts Tagged ‘ email marketing ’

Are you optimizing the customer experience this holiday season?

With the holiday season fast approaching you need to make sure you are positioned to optimize the customer experience with an effective cross-channel approach. Consider these actions to enhance your holiday marketing strategy.[ READ MORE ]

Dare to be different? Test first!

So despite the findings included in my last blog post, (indicating that subject lines with uncommon discounts do not, on average, do as well as campaigns with traditional percentage discounts), you want to test them out for yourself? I don’t blame you! As marketers we all know that what doesn’t catch the eye of one [...][ READ MORE ]

Holiday email volume to increase 20% this season

You probably don’t need a crystal ball to know that this year, holiday email will grow. A lot. Experian Marketing Services’ CheetahMail predicts holiday email volume to increase up to 20 percent over last year. That’s a ton of email! We have seen volume increases of over 20% for both Q1 2011 and Q2 2011 [...][ READ MORE ]

Reaching the “New American Consumer” during the holiday season

One way marketers have responded to this new consumer behavior is evidenced by deeper discount offers being made within email campaigns throughout the holiday season. In email offers, 30% off is the new 20% off. Deeper discounts – of 50% or higher – also increased last year. This trend of higher offers should continue this season and start even sooner. Email marketers relied on heavy end-of-season discounts in 2010.[ READ MORE ]

Thinking of including unusual discounts in emails? It might be best to keep it simple

If you’ve been keeping a close eye on email offer and subject line trends over the last year, you may have noticed that ‘odd’ or unusual offers, such as 14 percent or 56 percent off, have started to appear more. The offers, such as ‘14% Off Limited Time Only!’, ‘Our weekly deal 71% off of [...][ READ MORE ]

Top five flash sales tips

Flash Sales are all the rage in email marketing right now — engaging customers more than most other types of sales and promotions. The number of daily deal companies continues to increase and traffic to Flash Sales websites increased more than 128 percent in June 2011 over June of last year according to Experian Hitwise. Flash Sales are more than timely offers.[ READ MORE ]

AllPosters.com emails have arrived

I’d like to share a short story about gmail, email, and deliverability success… Allposters.com (one of three Art.com brands) recently realized that a percentage (56%) of their Gmail subscribers were not receiving emails in their inbox. Working with their Email Service Provider (Experian CheetahMail ) Account team, they identified and implemented a series of initiatives [...][ READ MORE ]

What is a good email marketing strategy?

Experian QAS has four tips to help buisness to business email marketing strategy. To make your emails stand out: send them to a targeted list, have a catchy subject line, produce engaging content and allow readers to share the email.[ READ MORE ]

Managing deliverability risks with refer-a-friend programs

Refer-a–Friend programs can be incredibly beneficial, but it is important to do it correctly or run the risk of causing deliverability issues (and possible legal compliance issues as well). The key issues to manage are user and recipient consent, content transparency, and with referral incentives. Following best practices will can lead to strong organic list growth and increased revenue.[ READ MORE ]

The A,B,C’s of back-to-school email marketing trends today

A big part of a successful back-to-school email marketing program is knowing the best time to start promotions; what types of mailings will drive the most customer response; and how to capitalize on peak times of buying interest on a more granular, or product, level. [ READ MORE ]