Tag: email marketing

Images Have No Need To Be Pretty

Some years ago there was a push for digital, i.e. numerical, displays for speedometers in motor vehicles and to show just how cool you were, when in a pub you would tell your friends that you were doing 67 mph, and then just drifted into 69. There was no way a driver with one of … READ MORE »

What Has Dune To Do With Subject Lines?

Choosing the best subject line for an email marketing campaign is a critical decision. If you go for bland, you’ll upset none of your subscribers although, of course, you won’t interest any of them either. If your subscribers don’t open the email, all your efforts are wasted. An effective subject line can intrigue, engage, entice … READ MORE »

Limit The Errors In Your Email Campaign

You might think that by using the word ‘limit’ we are setting the bar much too low. Wouldn’t eradicate, eliminate, remove be better options? If my years of copywriting have taught me anything it is mistakes will happen. Errors can run the gamut, from wrong colour for the banner headline to a double entendre going … READ MORE »

Does Psychological Pricing Really Work?

It’s an accepted truism in email marketing that sticking a 9 or a 5 at the end of a price brings more customers than rounding up. No one argues with that basic fact and so we continue to knock off 1p or 5p. Ludicrously, when I sold my last house, the estate agent set the … READ MORE »

Be Careful When Using Transactional Emails

In case you are not familiar with the term, transactional emails are automated responses triggered by interactions with your company. This includes a whole range of emails, from the Welcome ones when somebody subscribes to your email marketing list to those which are sent following a purchase. Subjectively, the rate of use appears to be … READ MORE »

Get The Basics Right

It seems bizarre. You could imagine something like this on a targeted email marketing campaign, but the advert went out to everyone on social media. Beans on the Bix was retweeted 37,000 times, quoted over 68,000 times and received 131,000 likes. You will now appreciate why brand awareness increased by 40%, and, rather weirdly, there … READ MORE »

Asking the right email marketing questions

I’m no politician. However, if I’m asked how to stop customers unsubscribing from email marketing lists, I will answer a completely different question. It’s the one you really want the answer to. You can’t stop people unsubscribing. The legislation controlling email marketing is quite explicit on the point and requires us to facilitate those who … READ MORE »

Follow Orwell When Writing Your Copy

Whether we should conform to the rules of English grammar in our email marketing copy is a question that comes up time and again. We work within constraints not suffered by most writers, so rules, both explicit and accepted, might not help us in our requirements. We are not short of advice. Here’s some more. … READ MORE »

The Biggest Danger To Every Company

I attended – those were the days – a two-day seminar which was headlined as ways to avoid the habitual problems of SMEs. The various mistakes made by other companies were covered. It had particular relevance to email marketing as it focused on data security. Let me put you out of your misery with regards … READ MORE »

Delivery Times Might Replace Price

I’ve recently bought a luxury item. It’s not something I need. In fact, it’s something I could do without and not notice my loss but, in an uncharacteristic bout of generosity, I went for it. I obviously bought it via a company whose email marketing list I grace. I saw it via a click-through in … READ MORE »

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