If you’re a business owner, then you know that there are many different lead generation techniques out there. The strategy that works for one business may not work for the next, and many companies will stick with practices they know instead of taking a chance to try something new. As a result, sales often stagnate or decline. If your lead generatio...
In today’s email marketing world, we are inundated each week with articles and blogs on new statistics, trends and predictions. Typically the information you see will involve numbers on email engagement, frequency and optimization, but do you ever think about the more unusual stats that are sometimes shared? Even if at first they seem too weird to...
Spring has sprung, and "spring cleaning" is sure to be on the minds of many. Each year, several experts as well as the media share new statistics on the positive effects that tidying up and de-cluttering have on overall productivity. And if spring cleaning works in the home, why not try it at the office? Surely marketers have their share of clutter...
Success in today’s marketplace is dependent upon a strategic integration of various marketing approaches. In our last post, we explained 3 techniques that seem to stand out in regards to increasing sales and improving overall marketing efforts. In this post we will focus on perhaps the most effective of the 3: Email. If email isn’t on your list of...
Who doesn’t love infographics? They cleverly combine words and pictures to tell a story or present information in a concise and entertaining fashion. And, since visual content drives more engagement than plain text alone, infographics are incredibly valuable to marketers! While an infographic might not be the exact way you envisioned presenting yo...
With over 205 billion emails sent and received every day, email marketing remains one of the best ways to reach your customer. Despite the success of social media and mobile marketing during the past decade, email has not only survived, but it has managed to evolve and stand the test of time. To see for yourself, just read this report published by...
Marketers always seem to be changing their minds about the state of email marketing. Rumors that email is dead or at least on its way out have been circulating for quite some time now. But a quick look at the facts can easily put those rumors to rest. Email continues to be one of the most powerful tools for marketers. In fact, several studies actua...
While other marketing technologies seem to come and go, or struggle to really stick as a sustainable strategy, email marketing continues to be an effective and reliable solution for marketers everywhere. Still delivering the highest ROI of any marketing channel, email has proven itself to be an integral part of every successful marketing strategy....
Think of your favorite story. Why did you like it? How did it make you feel? What was it about the story that made you want to find out what happens at the end? Answering these questions can help you see the power of storytelling. Nothing makes us feel more emotionally connected to something than a story. They grip our attention, and the really goo...
When they want to know how well their email marketing campaigns are doing, marketers typically have a look at the open and click rates. As the names of these metrics suggest, the open rate tracks how many subscribers opened your email, while the click rate shows how many of those opens actually clicked through to the promotion or link that you feat...