How do you manage all your emails?
Email

How do you manage all your emails?

8y Mike O'Brien

How do you manage all your emails?

We all get a lot of email and we all have our own tricks for keeping our inboxes get out of hand. Here's how some leading industry figures handle thei...

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Why address validation is not enough for email marketers
Email

Why address validation is not enough for email marketers

8y Derek Harding

Why address validation is not enough for email mar...

Address validation confirms an email will go to a person but not whether it’s the right person and that makes a big difference. Read More...

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Four steps for winning the inbox with email automation
Automation

Four steps for winning the inbox with email automation

8y Cynthia Price

Four steps for winning the inbox with email automa...

Email automation is a strategy backed by strong metrics. It doesn't have much of a downside, either, as long as you don't overcomplicate things. Read ...

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Should brands ever use 'do not reply' email addresses?
Email

Should brands ever use 'do not reply' email addresses?

8y Graham Charlton

Should brands ever use 'do not reply' email addres...

No reply email addresses are a frequent source of irritation to consumers, but is there every a reason to use this on your emails?  In this post IR...

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Better email acquisition is key for big data success
Email

Better email acquisition is key for big data success

8y Idris Nagri

Better email acquisition is key for big data succe...

Big data and email marketing have a surprisingly symbiotic relationship, where each one makes the other better, something that will only increase in t...

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Four lessons B2C marketers can learn from B2B
B2C

Four lessons B2C marketers can learn from B2B

8y Susan Wall

Four lessons B2C marketers can learn from B2B

It's easy to think of customers as fish you can bait with discounts. It's also lazy. Marketers should adopt the B2B mentality of solving customers' pr...

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Personalized recommendations aren’t just for the big ecommerce marketers
Ecommerce

Personalized recommendations aren’t just for the big ecommerce marketers

8y Susan Wall

Personalized recommendations aren’t just for the b...

Amazon is well-known for sending emails just for you. But a business doesn't have to be Amazon-sized to successfully deploy the same strategy. Read Mo...

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How incremental innovation drives email evolution
Email

How incremental innovation drives email evolution

8y Idris Nagri

How incremental innovation drives email evolution

Instead of launching a fully-formed new program, try innovating in increments, where you make a series of small changes that eventually add up to some...

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Q&A: The Entertainer on growing email and multichannel revenues
Ecommerce

Q&A: The Entertainer on growing email and multichannel revenues

8y Graham Charlton

Q&A: The Entertainer on growing email and mult...

Toy retailer The Entertainer recently reported some impressive figures, including 120% growth in mobile sales and a tripling of its email revenue.  Ro...

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Six email marketing optimization tips from #ClickZChat
Advanced Email Marketing

Six email marketing optimization tips from #ClickZChat

8y Matt Owen

Six email marketing optimization tips from #ClickZ...

Email marketing is far from perfect. It often gets given short shrift when something new and shiny and… well… social comes along, and marketers strugg...

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Hey! Why are politicians’ emails so spammy?
Advanced Email Marketing

Hey! Why are politicians’ emails so spammy?

8y Parry Malm

Hey! Why are politicians’ emails so spammy?

Ever since Obama brought the sexy back to email marketing, email has been at the forefront of grassroots political fundraising strategies. We all rem...

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Not having DMARC can hurt but having it may hurt more
Advanced Email Marketing

Not having DMARC can hurt but having it may hurt more

8y Idris Nagri

Not having DMARC can hurt but having it may hurt m...

Properly implemented DMARC should not affect your deliverability. You can guess what I’m going to say next. Last month I wrote about how even if you a...

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Eight examples of excellent ecommerce emails
Email

Eight examples of excellent ecommerce emails

8y Mike O'Brien

Eight examples of excellent ecommerce emails

Inboxes are so crowded, how can a marketer stand out? Here are eight brands that cut through the noise with great emails. Also, we are all about allit...

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Why not having DMARC can still hurt your deliverability
Email

Why not having DMARC can still hurt your deliverability

8y Idris Nagri

Why not having DMARC can still hurt your deliverab...

In theory, having no DMARC record should have no impact on deliverability, but not everyone got that memo. Read More...

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How to use emojis in email subject lines without being a spammer
Advanced Email Marketing

How to use emojis in email subject lines without being a spammer

8y Parry Malm

How to use emojis in email subject lines without b...

Ah, emojis,  the pictorial representation of stuff in your subject lines. They’re cool, right? When they work, that is. Note: This blog post is writt...

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Study: 73% of 'millennials' prefer to contact brands via email
Ad Industry Metrics

Study: 73% of 'millennials' prefer to contact brands via email

8y Mike O'Brien

Study: 73% of 'millennials' prefer to contact bran...

Millennial consumers aren't seen as the biggest email users, but new research from Adestra finds that email is their preferred way to interact with br...

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A cleaned up email strategy can only get you so far
Advanced Email Marketing

A cleaned up email strategy can only get you so far

8y Kara Trivunovic

A cleaned up email strategy can only get you so fa...

In April 2015 there was an industry article about Stanley Steamer “cleaning up” its email and direct mail strategies. In the article they focus very s...

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Email marketing append: a primer
Advanced Email Marketing

Email marketing append: a primer

8y Jeanne Jennings

Email marketing append: a primer

Email marketing append is often sold as a quick way to grow your email list. But it’s important to look at the pros and cons before you move forward. ...

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Email marketing in 2020: plenty of waves of disruption
Email

Email marketing in 2020: plenty of waves of disruption

8y Simms Jenkins

Email marketing in 2020: plenty of waves of disrup...

While emerging messaging channels will come and go and occupy dominant niche channels (think Snapchat and YikYak), email will be the old battle axe th...

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How marketers can avoid poor customer service within the email industry
Email

How marketers can avoid poor customer service within the email industry

8y Idris Nagri

How marketers can avoid poor customer service with...

Customer service should be a core component of any business, but it has been on the decline in the email marketing industry. A lot that can be attribu...

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How to measure your customer service via email and social media
Analytics

How to measure your customer service via email and social media

8y Yuyu Chen

How to measure your customer service via email and...

Email and social media are two efficient channels to assess your customer satisfaction. Read More...

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Parry Malm on email automation and (lack of) ESP innovation
Automation

Parry Malm on email automation and (lack of) ESP innovation

8y Graham Charlton

Parry Malm on email automation and (lack of) ESP i...

Today sees the release of the ClickZ Digital Marketing Podcast series, featuring some of the experts who contributed to our Digital Trends 2016 report...

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Three tactics for building a better email marketing program for your B2B company
Email

Three tactics for building a better email marketing program for your B2B co...

8y Himanshu Sareen

Three tactics for building a better email marketin...

Content marketing done well should always incorporate an effective email marketing strategy. When it comes to building engagement with your target aud...

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Pairing email and social for success
Email

Pairing email and social for success

8y Susan Wall

Pairing email and social for success

Facebook’s $5.841 billion in Q4 revenue (a 51% jump vs. Q4 of ’14) is great for Facebook, but maybe not so great for online merchants. Even with Face...

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ClickZ cases the candidates: Email marketing
Email

ClickZ cases the candidates: Email marketing

8y Mike O'Brien

ClickZ cases the candidates: Email marketing

In this new series, ClickZ is going to look at different facets of digital marketing and analyze how the presidential candidates are using them. First...

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Is your email campaign breaking your brand promise?
Email

Is your email campaign breaking your brand promise?

8y Guest Writer

Is your email campaign breaking your brand promise...

Launching an engaging email campaign includes ensuring that the content correlates with and ultimately fulfills your brand promise. Read More...

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Why data is the best thing to happen to your email subject line
Email

Why data is the best thing to happen to your email subject line

8y Kara Trivunovic

Why data is the best thing to happen to your email...

One way to ensure email subject lines always generates engagement and catches the attention of subscribers is to use a data-driven creative campaign s...

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