Category Archives: Email Marketing

Why Subscribers Unsubscribe to Your Email Messages

As usual, the good folks at Marketing Sherpa give us the insight we need about why we’re losing email subscribers … You can’t do much about #5 – Situation Changed – but by making sure that you get #1 and … Continue reading

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Marketing Tactics to Use for Biggest B2C Payoff

Paid Search, SEO Email Marketing Aren’t all these tactics supposed to be dead?

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What Twitter and Marsha Egan Can Teach Us About Effective Email Communications

Twitter gives me 140 characters to make my point and capture an audience. Marsha Egan’s new book, Inbox Detox, provides several examples of (my description) email diaherrhea where correspondent’s go on for paragraphs and pages when a few succinct sentences … Continue reading

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Busiest Online Shopping Day? Monday, of Course!

Online retailers might want to take a look at Atlas Solutions’ Holiday Online Shopping Report: 2006-2007 when planning your advertising and promotional spend for the upcoming holiday season. A couple of things that stand out about online holiday shopping behavior: … Continue reading

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The Best Time to Send Email

I’ve now seen 2 email marketing authorities in the last 2 days cite 2 case studies saying that the best time to send your email marketing missives is on Tuesday. Marketing Sherpa & Mail Dog Papers (published by Mail Dog … Continue reading

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Keep Your Eye on the Prize on your Web Site’s Landing Pages

Dr. Ralph Wilson, internet marketing guru extraordinaire, in the January 22nd edition of Web Marketing Today reminds us that the more tightly we focus our landing page on the task at hand (sell something, get a lead, sign up a … Continue reading

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Keep Your Content On Topic

A post by Janine Popick, CEO at Vertical Response, on 10 things you should have on your marketing to-do list for 2008 reminded me of the importance of focus when blogging, sending your email newsletter (ezine) or any other customer-focused … Continue reading

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What Jay Jennings Can Teach You About Email Marketing

Jay Jennings is an internet marketing guy who sells a lot of products to folks who do internet marketing. I like him because he’s an ‘alt’ kind of a guy who doesn’t quite look what you’d expect an internet (or … Continue reading

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