From the perfectly timed follow-up email to the maddeningly unnecessary daily reminder, sending automated emails can be paradise or purgatory. Think about it. For every wonderfully executed welcome series you receive, you get twice as many cringe-worthy marketing emails. These four tips will help you create automated email campaigns that produce results. 1. Monitor [...]
Being stuck under contract with an inadequate email service provider (ESP) can leave marketers feeling as helpless as the castaways stuck on Gilligan’s Island. Baby boomers (and some Gen Xers and older Millennials that caught reruns of Gilligan's Island on Nick at Nite) recall the recurring theme of the show with Gilligan and the [...]
You don’t get a second chance to make the first impression a good impression. That’s why it’s so important for your email programs to start the customer relationship out on the right track. A welcome email series helps to begin building that relationship. When considering how to put together the strategy for a welcome [...]
How are you treating the unengaged subscribers on your email list? These inactive subscribers are still on your list so potentially have value. But they obviously aren’t responding to your email marketing the way you’d like. What can you do? First off, let’s define an unengaged subscriber, otherwise known as email non-responders. What is [...]
Think of the last time you didn't read your email for a day or so. When you did check, your inbox was probably filled with both opt-in messages as well as some junk email. Let's focus on those emails you opted in to receive, the ones from brands you had explicitly given permission to [...]
As an email marketer, you need to pay close attention when sending a welcome email. Remember, the welcome series is the first email content your email subscribers will have with your business. Making sure that interaction is relevant and meaningful is critical to the lifetime value of that subscriber. Pro Tip: To make sure [...]
As many of you know, a couple of years ago I was in Nepal with my daughter to trek to Mt. Everest Base Camp (EBC). Along the way, there were many trekkers who were going it alone without the help of a guide or Sherpa. But the Sherpas are there for a reason. They [...]
What happens after you receive your SOC 2 audit report? You’ve just used many resources – maybe even some that you were strapped to allocate – to go through a gap analysis, remediate the findings, and then begin the Type I and/or Type 2 audit. It’s a massive project that you should be proud [...]
Spending a few weeks on vacation and reading my fill of spy novels makes me reflect on my years in the online business. Spy novels and movies feature cool gadgets that work exactly when you need them, with the ability to adapt to any situation. Sounds like a perfect metaphor for online advertising/marketing. After [...]
There is a lot of talk about big data technology these days: Data Management...How do you possibly store, manage and derive intelligence from the flood of transient data and sources, online, offline, and market-level data? Analyzing volumes of data and types of data can be daunting for those not proclaimed as high-level data scientists. [...]
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