Tag: email marketing campaigns

Ways To Lose Email Subscribers – Fast

There are many ways to upset your email subscribers. But one surefire method? Make it painfully hard to reach you. This isn't theory – it's what happens when user experience (UX) is designed like a trap, and customer support vanishes into thin air. Want to create email marketing that effectively pushes people away? Of course not. … READ MORE »

Why Your Emails End Up in Spam?

You did everything right. You followed the spam laws. You got consent. You even triple-checked your footer. So why are your emails still vanishing into the black hole of the spam folder? Here's the uncomfortable truth: compliance doesn't equal deliverability. Just because you're playing by the rules doesn't mean the inbox gatekeepers are letting you in. … READ MORE »

Boost Your Email Campaign Productivity

Creating an email marketing campaign can feel like juggling batons while reciting Shakespeare – blindfolded. Between strategy, copy, visuals, segmentation and analytics, it's no wonder marketers fall into the trap of "busy work" instead of "smart work". You want to flip the script? These productivity tips will certainly help you build email campaigns faster and better, without … READ MORE »

Speed Up Email Campaign Image Search

The email copy is done. The CTA is strong. The layout looks epic. Now all that's missing from your email campaign is the image – the visual cue that stops the scroll and sells the click. Cue the great stock image safari. You open your favourite stock image site, type in a keyword, and suddenly you're knee-deep … READ MORE »

“How-To” Content That Powers Your Email

Do you want to run an email campaign that converts? Who wouldn't? That's the point after all, isn't it? But… don't stop at the CTA. Support it. Strengthen it. Back it up with "how to" content that tells people exactly what to do, when to do it, and why they'll love it. Because when subscribers click but … READ MORE »

Personalisation For Email Marketing Success

There’s a persistent rumour that price is the most important factor in email marketing. Make your product cheaper and the customers will flood to your door. Don’t believe it. It’s nothing more than a comforter for those who don’t really understand what email marketing is all about. It’s not that easy. You don’t pick a … READ MORE »

Interrogate The Statistics When Targeting

After seeing some of the recently reported statistics regarding the intention of purchasers in the near future, we might think the days of being able to sell luxury items are over, certainly in the short term and maybe even the medium. Reuters recently quoted the chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, who said, “The … READ MORE »

ASA Crackdown On Social Influencers

I’m a strong supporter of using lots of other methods of advertising in email marketing campaigns. I would have suggested you had lots to gain and nothing to lose. It appears I might have been wrong in one aspect. The ASA has become frustrated by the lack of response by certain social influencers to warnings … READ MORE »

There Are No Shortcuts To Success

You, like the rest of us, will be continually monitoring the returns from your email marketing campaigns, looking for that tell-tale drop that you will have to address as quickly as possible. You might consider, as most of us do, going online. A Google search for ‘best email subject lines’ returns a first page replete … READ MORE »

There Are Risks To Over-Egging Subject Lines

I sincerely hope it is obvious that I indulge in a great deal of research on email marketing, as well as other related forms of marketing. I actually enjoy researching. In fact, I get easily sidetracked and an hour or more can go past where I’ve wandered off onto other subjects just because I found … READ MORE »

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