The essence of bulk email is in the first word. The more, as they say, the merrier or, to be more exact, the bigger the profit. However, what the higher number of subscribers gives you is the ability to predict with a considerable degree of accuracy their response to an email. You will have been … READ MORE »
After all the work in creating the email campaign you might feel that you are entitled to a bit of rest and recuperation and the local is your well earned destination. But you would be wrong. In any argument with regard to the benefits of email marketing compared to the use of post, once the … READ MORE »
Check-lists can be extremely useful in suggesting that you are actually getting somewhere without having to put too much effort into it. For instance, if you were running a campaign to obtain email addresses for an email marketing campaign then you could tick the box against Aims just by deciding that you want email addresses. … READ MORE »
In these blogs, the importance of repeated testing is often reinforced. Split-testing, also known as A/B testing, is the way of perfecting all forms of email communication, but particularly those used in email marketing. It can, should actually, be used for landing pages as well. It’s the most effective way of increasing ROI. Intuition can … READ MORE »
There was an interesting online article entitled ‘Essential services websites in UK should be accessible to all’. It’s not aimed specifically at email marketing but the problems identified, which include the fact that many people have problems accessing the internet and emails, give some useful information for us when targeting our emails. The article concentrates … READ MORE »
If reports are correct, not only has the response to Covid-19 given rise to a substantial increase in online sales, but there has been a significant rise in the number subscribing to email marketing lists. One bit of good news from 2020. Are you treating these new subscribers differently to the ones you gained during … READ MORE »
I recently spent what to me is a considerable sum of money on an IT item that was not essential, otherwise called a luxury, after it was pushed on a particularly convincing marketing email. I visited the FAQ page on the supplier’s website. I obviously wanted to ensure what I was buying was exactly what … READ MORE »
We need, first of all, to clarify what is meant by a squeeze page. It’s a landing page with the sole purpose of getting visitors to subscribe to an email marketing list or an enewsletter. The big difference between it and any other page which contains a sign-up form, is the word sole. It is … READ MORE »
Your website should be a source of leads and subscribers to your email marketing lists. So why clutter it with an About Us page? From what I’ve found when researching this article, most company websites have them. They are often beautifully laid out, the text generally inspired and the images well chosen. How irritating is … READ MORE »
We’ve all got About Us pages. We don’t know why. Visitors are few, and those that do wander into it are probably lost. Some are used to sell the company, but there’s little point if no one is reading. We are data-led in email marketing yet cheerfully ignore the returns. About Us pages in websites … READ MORE »