Tag: subscribers

Testimonials

One thing we have to overcome with email marketing and online sales is that there is no face to face contact between you and your customers. They are being asked to part with a sum of money virtually on trust. How are they to know if you are worthy of it? With online sales garnered … READ MORE »

Getting testimonials noticed

Email marketing is all about efficient use of resources. You cut copy and then cut it again. Every little fact garnered from your email marketing software is used for targeting. So why do so many companies leave testimonials, surely the most effective form of self-promotion, on an obscure page on their websites? Do you check … READ MORE »

Problems with patches for security flaws

You will have read the recent reports of security flaws in Intel, AMD and ARM processors that could be exploited by hackers. Not the sort of news to reassure any company with email marketing lists. Full details can be found here, including comments by users. The ICO website explains the situation in less technical terms … READ MORE »

Protecting your email marketing lists

You will have read the report published this year by the Google Project Zero team on vulnerabilities that, it appears, all modern computers are subject to. Email marketing, and any other business that is dependent on personal data, is under threat. The names given to these vulnerabilities, Meltdown and Spectre, are hardly reassuring. Given that … READ MORE »

Selling holes with email marketing

I’ve recently been considering buying a car. The sales man was friendly, shook hands with me, asked where I’d come from and that was just about the total of what he did that was not connected directly with selling the car. The same went for the woman who came to assess the cost of the … READ MORE »

Indirect uses of email

Email marketing isn’t all about selling. The vast majority is, of course, but not all. The most popular way of using such emails to reduce churn, the most common being the ‘just checking in’ kind. I think I should make one thing clear though; I’m no fan of such emails, mainly because they don’t work. … READ MORE »

What to do when they stop responding?

There is something really irritating about some not replying as expected. It harks back to when I was just beyond the pimply youth age. There’s the phone call that doesn’t come, despite protestations of a lovely evening and a promise to call you. Not much I ever did seemed to be an answer then and … READ MORE »

What will 2018 bring for email marketing?

It is that time of year again when last year’s predictions for email marketing are reviewed and rated according to outcomes. There is danger in this as there is a temptation to take the safe option and predict that everything will be the same except more so. We all knew that mobiles would increase their … READ MORE »

Mobile email marketing & multi-tasking

I read a lot of statistics about marketing in general and email marketing in particular. I’ve noticed that there is a degree of variation in the results, as is only to be expected, and in any case any stats that don’t come through our email marketing software is of little interest. However, there are trends … READ MORE »

Putting people off buying

I subscribe to a variety of email marketing lists purely for research purposes; some professional, some not so much. I’ve occasionally bought an item and this means I share the frustrations of the buying public when I come across poor designs and procedures. It makes me wonder how these companies continue in business. It is … READ MORE »

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