Posts Tagged ‘ email marketing ’
Regardless of your feelings about the taste of Domino’s Pizza, you have to hand it to these guys – they do online checkout processes better than just about any company on the planet. We could all learn something from their CRM and online marketing initiatives. A few months ago, I had an eye-opening experience when [...][ READ MORE ]
I have been a fan of Southwest Airlines for years. They seem to truly want to please their customers and are always making changes to the way they work to make processes better. Some recent changes that they have made for the better include assigning a boarding range instead of everyone in the boarding group [...][ READ MORE ]
Share-with-your-network (SWYN) is a relatively new phenomenon in the email marketing space. SWYN includes links to social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg etc. Some email pundits believe that SWYN is slowly but surely putting an end to forward-to-a-friend (FTAF) functionality in email. I personally don’t believe this is the case. What is clear [...][ READ MORE ]
We’re honored to have a special guest blogger contributing to our site today: Chris Parkin from Omniture! Read on to hear Chris’ thoughts about the power of email and web analytics integrations. Email marketing continues to be a mainstay in online advertising, but a few trends are forcing marketers to be more disciplined in the [...][ READ MORE ]
This past hursday I received an email from Urban Outfitters made me positively giddy with excitement. Much to my delight, the email explained that Urban Outfitters was promoting an exclusive partnership with The Impossible Project, a group dedicated to preserving the legacy of Polaroid film. Best of all, the email explained that the two entities’ [...][ READ MORE ]
Email design starts from the top down. If you stop and think about it, it’s a logical statement – that’s how the email loads and is presented to the user. Therefore, what you want the user to see first should be placed at the top of the email to grab their attention and inspire interaction. [...][ READ MORE ]
Less than 4 days after our Creative Director, Steve Sharp, explained how to design emails to be width-compliant on this very site, something very strange began happening to my email inbox. Every so often I would open my new messages, just minding my own business, when the strangest, most eerie feeling would come over me. [...][ READ MORE ]
“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.” - Bill Gates on spam Every so often it is prudent to take a refresher on fundamental [...][ READ MORE ]
In the April 22nd issue of Clickz, Stephen Pollard urged marketers to follow established best practices and to reevaluate their ongoing strategy for addresses acquired via email append programs. I agree with many of Pollard’s comments about eAppend. Inherently, eAppend carries more risk than organic email capture methods, such as at point of sale or [...][ READ MORE ]
The question about whether double opt-in (confirmed consent) is an email best practice has been asked for the last 10 years. In Bill McCloskey’s recent ClickZ article he takes the strong position that double opt-in consent is no longer a best practice and should be discarded. In my view, McCloskey is correct – double opt-in [...][ READ MORE ]
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