We constantly get new tips on how to expand our mailing lists by attracting new subscribers from social media accounts. However, there are two sides to email-to-social-media integration, and you can engage your subscribers in other channels of communication too.
With the launch of our Facebook sign up form app, we’ve given you some technical info on how to embed a form on your fan page. Successful setup is merely the beginning. How to make it work for you? And how to incorporate it in your list building strategy? Here are a few tips. Read more
Everyone’s on the move in the summer – and that means new opportunities for you to add contacts to your email list. It’s a great way for beginning marketers in particular to “get their feet wet” and find out what words or tactics entice people to sign up to their newsletter. Plus it’s FREE! For you “old pros”, we’re happy to gently remind you of a few basics. Read more
Nowadays, one can easily purchase a database with over a million email addresses for about $300. What next? Just upload your list using an existing or new email marketing account, send the offer to these “fresh” leads and wait for the great results? Actually, NO, this isn’t the way it works.
The basis of any business is its customers. Whether you interact with them in a store, online, or by email, it’s about building trust and relationships with qualified prospects in order to sell your products and services. It’s not phony − it’s “sales”! For email marketers, the likelihood of closing sales depends largely Read more
Email targeting and audience segmentation is becoming mission-critical to winning the “inbox wars”! And consumers are certainly becoming more receptive to personalization and most forms of targeting, thanks in part to the Behavioral Targeting Standards Consortium. But what about YOU?!
Based on tips from our first Holiday “blogathon”, we ALL know now that targeting your Holiday email messages can increase open rates by 20% and almost double your CTR1 . But have you thought about the BEST way to use targeting and list segmentation for the holidays?
Should we do targeting a little different on Holiday perhaps? It’s certainly a unique season in many ways…
Our answer is “yes” and here’s why. Everyone wants to connect in more personal ways this time of year, even at the subscriber-relationship level. And many of us may be a bit tired or emotional as we plow through double the usual amount of promotional emails, until we just give up and execute the dreaded “select>all>delete’. Our point is, again, take care to personalize your subject line, titles, greetings and salutations, etc. and target your messages, but in a way that is practical and helpful to each of your target profiles. Don’t send too many messages, and avoid hype at all costs…rather be a valued shopping partner during this hectic holiday season. Here’s how:
Have you ever read the Privacy Policy when you create an email account with an ISP, or on Facebook and MySpace? Do you just skim the page, thinking it’s nothing really important or useful? Let’s consider an intriguing question published recently on news.com.au: Have you ever wondered what happens to your emails after you’re gone? How long are they active…and are they stored for awhile?
Now we’re not trying to be morbid, but we are very interested in email security and regulations, and we honestly didn’t know the answer. CAN someone send email from your account or read your private emails if you’re not around to object?
About three months ago, we were trying to convince you that confirmed opt-in option is much more effective than the unconfirmed opt-in when adding qualified subscribers to your lists. We gave you several important reasons to validate our point of view.
If the last blog post didn’t convince you, we hope the results of our latest analysis will help you understand how well confirmed opt-in works for real-life GetResponse customers, and put all serious arguments to rest.
Now, onto the study: we analyzed over 700M messages sent from GetResponse Pro accounts between August 1st and November 1st 2009, and compared certain “success” factors for confirmed opt-in and unconfirmed opt-in users. We thought we’d find improvements with confirmed opt-in, but the results amazed even us!
We really love sharing the latest news and feature updates with all of you − especially if it helps you market faster and smarter. Speaking of speed, we designed GetResponse to be as sleek as a Maserati and just as fast. Truthfully, our programmers say it’s only a bit slower than the speed of light.
Kidding aside, we enhanced 100s of existing features and added some amazing power features for 6.0, and we’ve been working just as hard to introduce our Super-Fast GetResponse. Now creating, editing and sending your messages will be easier, faster, and MUCH more efficient.
Check out the screen below to see GetResponse “before and after” speeds. This was measured and captured by some very serious technical types here, so this is no joke! See for yourself…
Log in to your GetResponse account and take it out for a test drive if you’re not already “experienced” at these speeds. We told you…GetResponse just keeps getting better!
