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.
Unless you’ve been offline for the last couple of months and avoided anything connected with marketing, you must’ve heard of QR (Quick Response) codes. They’re all over Mashable (click to see how they work), New York’s Central Park entertains visitors with them, and Calvin Klein Jeans has decided to replace the “old-school” billboards with scannable codes. Your email marketing can use QR codes to fuel lead generation, too, at no additional cost. Read more
Like it or not, there always comes a time when you need to advertise. Be it by email, newspapers, magazines, online, billboards, whatever channels you think might reach your audience. Then you just buy the media, craft the message and design, and there it is – your ad. What’s worrisome is that ads are usually expensive, but their effectiveness could be improved with some basic planning. So, back to the basics. Read more
The month of April was an extremely busy one as I took to the road for some great events. It included 23,000 km of airplane travel, 5 different airport, 1000 driving miles, and 3 great conferences. Here are some takeaways you may find interesting and useful in your email marketing strategies. Read more
Everyone talks about the “crash” kids experience after the presents have been opened, but not many of us adults talk about the post-Holiday blues we experience. Let’s be honest…after you’ve taken down the decorations and scooped all the best sales, it gets boring pretty fast. So why not perk everyone up with a contest or 2!! Read more
We’re back with more stats! So far, we’ve provided data that shows that Video emails and Confirmed Opt-in improve your campaign results. This time around, we’re demonstrating how personalization can influence results in several different ways.
Though most agree that email personalization is a good thing, there are varying views on how and when to use it. Some encourage you to personalize all your messages, no matter who you are sending it to . There are also voices warning that personalized emails may look like SPAM and end up in junk folders. Read more
We’d like to share some great news with you! Remember the special Holiday gift we prepared this year – Free Video Emails. Forever? All you needed to do was open or upgrade an account to get free video emails for the life of your account!
Well, the Holiday is over, and sadly, so is our Free Video Promotion. But the New Year is here, and we can’t wait to announce how many of you are using our video gift right now! So sit back and read carefully, as these are only a sampling of the stats!
Can you hear weird grinding noises!? With each passing day, they get louder and louder. Before 2009 comes to a screeching halt, we’d like to take a quick look back. It was an incredibly busy and challenging year, but we pulled through together! So let’s hit the rewind button back to the January 2009 and see how far we’ve come!
One of the purposes of this blog is to share email marketing tips with you, but we want to emphasize that every email marketer, business, and customer base is different, so best practices should act as guidelines only when designing your campaigns. This applies doubly to the question of email frequency.
If you do a quick search, you’ll probably end up with a pile of contradictions, so we’ve boiled down what most e-marketing bloggers, analysts and ESPs are recommending, with the ever-present exceptions! Read more
Surprise! We’re not talking about video email marketing − this is really about how to avoid SPAM using GetResponse Multimedia Studio!
Perhaps you read our previous posts on “SPAM – why did they do that” and “Build trust with the CAN-SPAM complaint footer”. Now we want to give you some useful tips on how to create and send emails with high-impact graphics, photos and, yes, video − AND avoid any hints of SPAM scandal!