Tag: Personalisation

5 Ways to Get Personal in Email Marketing

Everyone agrees that personalising an email generates more sales and increases ROI. It is easy enough as a concept but with the high numbers on your email marketing lists, you cannot possibly treat everyone as an individual. However, there are simple steps you can take. 1. Call them by their preferred name A frequent question … READ MORE »

Personalisation Basics

Data Collection and Recording One of the most popular questions is what data to collect for email marketing software. For once the answer is simple and straightforward: as much as you can get. Become a hoarder, although within the limits of the Data Protection Act (DPA). Retain as much information as you can that will … READ MORE »

The Final Check

The planning is long over and the email is ready to send. Before clicking the button, one last check can stop you wasting your investment in the campaign. Read through the email putting yourself in the frame of mind of the type of subscriber that that particular section of your email marketing list is aimed … READ MORE »

Image and Copy Check-list

Before starting out in e-mail marketing you need to accept one thing: nothing sells itself. If it did it would not be on your shelves. The marketing e-mail depends to a great extent on the words and images that it contains. Before giving the nod to the latest design there are a number of checks … READ MORE »

Gender stereotyping is now cool

It used to be easy to tell women from men according to my grandfather. He said they were the ones who danced backwards. Times have changed and nowadays it is not that simple. So why do we bother to collect stats on subscribers based on gender with our email marketing software? There is a bus … READ MORE »

Email marketing’s biggest risk?

Email marketing is not, perhaps, the funniest of businesses so there is a certain temptation to enjoy other people’s disasters. There is only one thing to do with such temptation: give into it. Twenty years ago Hoover ran their ill-fated air miles promotion. It became notorious yet we have recently had the ‘biggest fresh soup … READ MORE »

Creating the email

The big fear of those new to email marketing seems to be the email itself. They feel that the creative process requires skills they do not posses and procedures they do not understand. The reality is somewhat different. There can be no argument: the design of the email is critical. It will have got past … READ MORE »

New email subscriber? What next?

After all the excitement of entering a new email address in your database you should take a deep breath. You need to calm down as your work has only just begun. You now have to realise the potential of that new customer. My experience is that when signing up for newsletters and email marketing the … READ MORE »

Campaign manager

It can be all too easy to get carried away with email marketing. It is so cheap to run that the temptation is to think that even if most of the effort gets no return then the outlay will be covered and a healthy ROI achieved. But the real cost of a poorly run email … READ MORE »

Redefinement: Do your customers love you?

The problem with rules is that they regulate. Cars mostly look the same nowadays not (only?) because coachwork designers have lost the art, but because constraining factors, such as the construction and use regulations, crash testing and the straightjacket of the laws of physics, especially as they apply to aerodynamics and limit their options. It … READ MORE »

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