Email Marketing Optimization

What tools do you use to measure the effectiveness of your email campaigns? Learn real-world methods for tracking, analyzing, and optimizing email campaigns to get the highest return on your investment. This column will give you a firsthand look at how other companies have managed to surpass sales forecasts by using email intelligently and strategically.

The Future Is Not One to One

Dec 22, 2011 - Focusing on the quality of your customer experience leads to the creation of truly effective, integrated campaigns regardless of whether they're batch and blast or one to one. Comments

First Impressions Really Do Count

Dec 8, 2011 - Five steps to a successful email welcome program. Comments

Social as a Broadcast Medium

Nov 10, 2011 - Is marketing on social networks still a two-way street between brands and consumers? Comments

This Is Personal!

Sep 15, 2011 - The inbox is an important part of your customer's life. Here are three suggestions on how to add value to your email communications. Comments

Email Logistics in Crisis Management

Sep 1, 2011 - Your crisis management plan must include the logistics of any email notifications to determine how the process will operate. Here are three key factors to consider. Comments

Why Is Deliverability Still an Issue for Marketers?

Jun 9, 2011 - It's up to marketers to make the effort to understand what are appropriate and acceptable deliverability standards and act accordingly. Comments

Retention Lifecycle Programs: Options and Considerations

May 26, 2011 - Four things post-conversion email can do for your brand and your email marketing success. Comments

8 Tactics to Optimize Welcome Email and Welcome Series

Apr 28, 2011 - Got new subscribers? Start here to build a relationship with them. Comments

Risk vs. Reward of ESPs

Apr 14, 2011 - Using an ESP has many benefits, such as the ability to utilize incredibly powerful systems and software. But such services also come with some security risks. Comments

Should You Use an E-mail Service Provider for Your Mobile Strategy?

Mar 17, 2011 - Pros and cons of using a single vendor for e-mail and mobile marketing. Comments

Achieve 'Repeatable Relevance' in 4 Steps

Mar 3, 2011 - The time you invest now to build repeatable relevance the right way will pay off with higher engagement for your future campaigns. Comments

Why Engagement Matters

Feb 17, 2011 - While consumers have gained control, that is not really what they're looking for in their brand relationships. They want to feel valued, efficiency, and trust. Comments

Priority Inbox and Overcrowding – How Can Your E-mail Stand Out?

Feb 3, 2011 - Four strategies to ensure your e-mail doesn't get lost with the rest of the marketing messages your customers receive every day. Comments

Predictions for Hotmail Active Views

Jan 20, 2011 - The value, shortcomings, and future of Active Views and what it means for e-mail marketing. Comments

Hotmail Active Views Revives E-mail Innovation in 2011

Jan 6, 2011 - Use dynamic content to keep e-mail messages up to date when the recipient opens it. Comments

Addressing E-mail Deliverability Is Simple

Dec 23, 2010 - Marketers must become more savvy and educated about the details of how e-mail delivery works, how reputation is monitored, and how behaviors affect delivery. Comments

Click-to-Open Ratio and Its Shortcomings

Dec 9, 2010 - Is click-through rate a better success metric for e-mail marketing campaigns? Comments

Marketers Unsubscribe Practices: Good, but not Great

Nov 11, 2010 - E-mail marketers are missing out on opportunities to retain, reengage, or learn from dissatisfied subscribers. Are you? Comments

E-mail Marketing Tool Changes Ads Based on Location, Time

Oct 18, 2010 - Ad creative is compiled dynamically based on where and when a subscriber opens the message. Comments

Death of Forward-to-a-Friend

Oct 14, 2010 - Inviting subscribers to share content with their friends and family in their trusted social networks is far more powerful than using forward-to-a-friend. Comments

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