Tag: email marketing lists

Will The High Street Ever Recover?

It would seem that most consumers feel that the high street has changed for ever and it will not return to what it was pre-Covid-19. In an online magazine, dated 23 January 2020, there was the headline, ‘With so many shops closing, will the UK high street ever recover?’ If you can remember back that … READ MORE »

Focus On Behaviour When Segmenting

Forming opinions of people on limited information can lead to predictions which are way off. My son used to play rugby, and his team, up until the current Covid-19 crisis, was doing well in its level four division and hoping to build for a crack at promotion. The players in the first IV, which included … READ MORE »

Is B2B Email Marketing Different From B2C?

I’ve recently read research which suggests that B2B marketing has nowhere near the success rate of B2C, showing a performance rating putting 75% in the bottom 20%. That should not be described as a success rate. Various reasons are put forward for this disappointing result, some of which are supported by even a cursory examination … READ MORE »

How To Re-Engage Lapsed Subscribers?

I know someone who works with a charity that tries to divert youths on the cusp of a life of crime. It is a worthy project, as I’m sure you will agree. The person in charge has described their intent as attempting to discover as much about each individual as possible and then to evolve … READ MORE »

Keep Your Data Up-To-Date

There was a small group of us youngsters around a table in the college canteen when the most flamboyantly dressed among us got up to go to class. A student said to the table at large, “He’s so cool. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks about the way he dresses.” She was wrong of course. … READ MORE »

Don’t Move Away From Double Opt-In

It has long been held that using double opt-in for subscribers to your email marketing list is the best way to ensure you have quality rather than quantity with addresses. While it might, in fact probably does, reduce the size of your list, it ensures that those on it are genuine subscribers and, more importantly … READ MORE »

Encourage Ideas Even If They’re Off-The-Wall

I used to work with a company where a mistake at middle management level could end a career. It was a deliberate policy, the hope being to ensure only those who never made errors were promoted. That’s not how it turned out. Those who ended up pristine were either the best at covering their mistakes … READ MORE »

The Key To Success Is To Give Something Away

There has been a trend in the emails and newsletters over recent weeks, particularly noticeable since the start of the New Year, that shows there might be a sense of desperation in some companies. I’m getting marketing emails that are nothing more than adverts for websites. In other words, I’m given lists of products but … READ MORE »

Percentage Reduction or Price Reduction?

According to a television news programme, one of the major high street retailers is considering doing away with percentages when referring to reductions in pricing. It was not over the whole range; just about 50%. A quick perusal of their website shows that they haven’t yet entered wholeheartedly into a review of their price reductions. … READ MORE »

How TV Crime Drama Can Negatively Affect Data

Television crime drama is frustrating for anybody in email marketing who has control of personal data as the myth that it cannot be shared is reinforced time and again as the police investigator comes up against the block of, ‘I can’t share that with you because of data protection.’ I sometimes feel the obligation to … READ MORE »

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