Tag: Personalisation

Personal email marketing

We’ve mentioned personalising your email marketing campaigns before on these pages, but there is a further step you can take that can provide a number of benefits. It requires careful planning. To be personal means opening the details of your business, or even private, life to a limited extent. It is a big step and … READ MORE »

Speaking personally

One way of keeping subscribers to your email marketing lists happy is to build a relationship with them. Not as easy as it sounds of course, and it doesn’t sound easy. One way is to be personal. You will be familiar with those companies which have a ‘face’ on their marketing emails and perhaps on … READ MORE »

Relationship building in email marketing

There are many advantages to forming a relationship with those on your email marketing list but it can be difficult to break through the barrier of seller/buyer. Yet you know what to do to become closer to your customers as you do it in your work and social life every day. You try to be … READ MORE »

Dealing with unresponsive subscribers

One indicator of whether a company is serious about email marketing or not is to assess how they deal with those who do not respond to email marketing campaigns. The urge not to do anything about them in case the conclusion is they should be removed is a bit of a test after all the … READ MORE »

Getting up close and personal

I’ve got four children and four grandchildren. I’m not sure which group takes up most of my time overall, although the one with chickenpox has a clear lead at the moment. I enjoy looking after the kids but find it a bit of an effort, which tends to make it more worthwhile. What’s that got … READ MORE »

Personalisation and email marketing

Personalisation has been proved to be an effective marketing tool. If you build a working relationship with a customer, they are more likely to buy. Further, clicking the unsubscribe button becomes more difficult for them. Automated responses can be a simple way of making your email marketing campaign more personal and what better way than … READ MORE »

Email marketing & 7 steps to relationships

I was once taught how to form a relationship with those I would meet in the course of my then role. My role was to ensure their cooperation so as to elicit information, assistance or perhaps something that might cost them time and effort. It wasn’t in a sales oriented situation although the instructor was … READ MORE »

8 essential considerations for e-newsletters

Despite the prognostications of those in the know, e-newsletters, from now on email newsletters, are not in decline and, if anything, are more popular than ever. Before taking the plunge, here are some considerations. What is the point? For some companies, email newsletters are vanity projects, there to support the name and provide some gravitas. … READ MORE »

Multiple bespoke landing pages

It comes as a bit of an effort to suggest that you should try designing multiple landing pages. After all, extra effort in email marketing is something that I preach against. Doing just enough to get to the on top is my suggestion. The problem with having one landing page for an offer is that … READ MORE »

Blown to one corner of the world

We’ve had a wander around which details are needed for an effective database without being in any way specific. Perhaps now is the time to define the nature of the email data you need. The answer is simple enough: it varies. Whilst a common generic name for what we do could be called bulk email … READ MORE »

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