Tag: email marketing

Do Your Processes Encourage Abandon Carts?

If you were to list the blockages to success in an email marketing campaign you would probably put opening the email up near the top, then might come engaging your subscriber sufficiently for them to be convinced, and coming in third might well be clicking on the ‘Buy’ link. After all, when they get to … READ MORE »

Don’t Make Subscribers Calculate Prices

When at school, I was rather good at mental arithmetic. Totalling seven-figure columns was, if not easy, then required little effort on my behalf. I took part in inter-school competitions where my lack of speed held me back. It’s proved little use to me in any job I’ve had since. That is, until the advent … READ MORE »

Ask An Engaging Question In The Subject Line

I did other stuff before ending up in email marketing. I used to enjoy lessons about roles new to me, but some instructors were less than engaging. One wandered into our classroom and said, “Today we’re covering plates, markings, testing and inspection as defined in Part III of the Road Vehicles Construction and Use Regs, … 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 »

Is Sponsorship Good For Email Marketing?

One of the big selling points of email marketing is that the only significant outlay is in gaining subscribers. We must be the envy of those who are restricted to other methods of marketing when it comes to cost per sale but this can encourage the mind-set of being reluctant to spend. It’s a point … READ MORE »

Now Is The Time To Review You Welcome Emails

It is, unfortunately, common in email marketing: something that is a strength of our craft often has a significant weakness as well. Nothing is perfect. Automation saves us time, gives a precise response to certain triggers, and we can make assumptions on what the response is likely to be. Take welcome emails. Let’s start with … READ MORE »

Don’t Reject Plain Text Marketing Emails

We all love designing and planning our rather brilliant, in more ways than one, HTML email marketing campaigns, which is convenient as we have the statistics to prove our subscribers love receiving them just as much. With our free email marketing templates, it is easy to create a masterpiece. Not only that, both commentators and … READ MORE »

The ASA Focusses On Misleading Pricing

The Advertising Standards Agency could not be clearer in what they see as the adverts they will target. Recently, they have indulged themselves with actions against a number of advertisers where they believed the headline offer to be misleading. It is a warning for us in email marketing that risky behaviour needs to be thought … READ MORE »

Will Your Decision Making Change Post Covid?

Consumers are displaying higher confidence levels than anticipated, probably because of a feeling we are entering the final stages of post-Covid in this country. Whether the confidence is misplaced is open to argument. What is clear is that we should be taking advantage of the situation. We will have to make decisions based on little … READ MORE »

How To Write Impactive Email Marketing Copy

My English literature teacher did not like Ernest Hemingway. Even in those days, when he was all but eulogised, she found his machismo repellent and, as a hater of cruelty to animals, his love of bullfighting placed him, as far as she was concerned, beyond the pale. Yet she constantly praised his writing style. He … READ MORE »

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