Email Automation

Bulking agent – how effective is a bulk email service?

There is a lot of evidence supporting the contention that the effectiveness of an email marketing campaign is improved if it is run in conjunction with other marketing methods, such as website, periodical adverts and even direct mail. Email lends itself to a whole range of marketing applications, all of which can be brought together … READ MORE »

Email newsletters – the bad news

If you are happy with the way your email marketing company is going but would like to increase the numbers on your email lists, what could be better than start a newsletter? It seems like a good idea. Why not give it a go? One reason to wait a bit might be that if you … READ MORE »

The Basic Offer

The offer in email marketing does not only mean the way you put products up for sale. Other goals can be the generation of leads to gain subscribers to your email list or to a newsletter. You could merely be collecting information from your subscribers or perhaps entrants to a prize draw. Whatever the purpose, … READ MORE »

Email Marketing Research

You must discover what your competitors and others engaged in email marketing are doing. You will be pleased to know that there is no need for expensive and illegal industrial espionage. All you have to do is subscribe to a few email lists. Create a number of email addresses to keep specifically for research purposes. … READ MORE »

What is the alternative?

Alt and Title Tags Moore’s Law states that the speed of processors will double every two years or so. It seems odd therefore that when designing in direct email marketing you have to consider systems which cannot, for various reasons, display images when reading emails. It can give the feeling of a retrograde step. If … READ MORE »

The Data Protection Act – an introduction

DPA: three initials to strike fear into the heart on anyone with a business which includes processing personal information, including email marketing. But in practice it is little more than a set of rules which would be sensible to comply with anyway. It strikes what many feel is a reasonable balance between the interests of … READ MORE »

Data controller and the email marketer

Data Controllers are defined by their responsibility, not by their job title. If a person makes certain decisions with regards to data then they are de facto Data Controllers regardless of job title. It should be understood that the Data Controller is the person responsible for how the personal data is processed. If this authority … READ MORE »

New email subscriber? What next?

After all the excitement of entering a new email address in your database you should take a deep breath. You need to calm down as your work has only just begun. You now have to realise the potential of that new customer. My experience is that when signing up for newsletters and email marketing the … READ MORE »

Campaign manager

It can be all too easy to get carried away with email marketing. It is so cheap to run that the temptation is to think that even if most of the effort gets no return then the outlay will be covered and a healthy ROI achieved. But the real cost of a poorly run email … READ MORE »

Email Marketing: One Sale is not enough

If someone asks you the way to the high street do you give them directions or suggest that Acacia Avenue is nearer? It is hard not to be prescriptive when something seems self-evident. But let me give it a go. It can be useful to use information you have on a customer or email prospect … READ MORE »

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