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10 things email marketers need to know about Facebook Messages

As you have probably read already, Facebook has announced a complete revamp of its messaging service, Facebook Messages. With a host of new features, many email marketers are likely to be wondering what effect this new service has on the work they do.

I’ve pulled out the top ten things that any email marketer needs to know about Facebook Messages and what it means for them:

by Tink Taylor 23 November 2010 09:57am 5 comments

No, social media doesn't mean email marketing's dead

Is email marketing dead? Not according to Econsultancy's recently published Buyer's Guide, which predicts the market will have grown by an estimated 15% this year, to a total value of £336 million.

But there are many who still believe social media will devour email's slice of the pie, including Facebook's COO, Sheryl Sandburg. However, as the industry is approaching maturity, naturally the sector is changing according to developing user needs and increasingly sophisticated technology. The evidence indicates that email marketing is far from dead...

by Aliya Zaidi 09 November 2010 08:45am 5 comments

10 best practice tips for basket abandonment emails

Everyone is doing basket abandonment emails today… or so I thought. But I have just been proved wrong.

According to our research, less than 10% of the top 100 UK e-commerce sites (as defined by Hitwise) currently do basket abandonment emails, so I thought I would post the top 10 best practice learnings that we have had from the last decade...

by Matthew Kelleher 01 November 2010 10:15am 6 comments

Email marketing: How to make more of subscriber data

Email marketing is easy to get wrong and difficult to do well, yet many firms fail to use the data they’ve captured to target their messages more effectively.

This means that they are effectively choosing to work blind and use guesswork to increase their open and click-through rate, when they could be working with real facts and figures about their recipients instead.

by Kevin Gibbons 26 October 2010 10:13am 2 comments

Email marketers adopt snail mail tactics

Marketers employing snail mail tactics in their email marketing campaigns would normally expect to see mass-unsubscribe rates following their sent emails.

by Margaret Farmakis 23 August 2010 10:50am 2 comments

Study: Social sharing options increase email click-through rates. But marketers aren't taking advantage.

It should come as no surprise that social media links help people share and open emails more often. But marketers aren't taking advantage of that option.

According to a new study from email marketing provider GetResponse, offering at least three social options leads to 55% higher click-through rates. But only about half of email marketers are adding social elements to their emails.

by Meghan Keane 21 June 2010 18:17pm 4 comments

Study: Travel marketing emails are not making the most of subscriber data

The travel industry has long been a fan of email marketing, but according to a new survey from StrongMail, it looks like marketers are not taking advantage of the vast information they're collecting from their customers. According to the survey, 70% of travel companies don't track customer behavior or subscriber preferences to serve more useful marketing.

Considering that consumers who have willingly agreed to receive such emails are often looking for a place to spend their travel budget, marketers are leaving money on the table by not listening to what their customers are looking for.

by Meghan Keane 13 May 2010 18:00pm 0 comments

Publish, engage, sell with 'ethical bribes'

Leading marketers are investing in a NEW approach to creating sales and leads. Are you? Here's what it is and how you can.

by Jeff Molander 05 May 2010 09:03am 5 comments

Q&A: Nick Carter of ValuePetSupplies.com on infinite email ROI

nick carter, ValuePetSupplies.com What's "infinite email ROI"? Nick Carter, marketing and sales manager for ValuePetSupplies.com says it's making tens of thousands of dollars in revenue from a email campaign that cost him nothing. Literally nothing.

So we caught up with Nick to learn how he's regularly squeezing up to 7,000 ROI from his email campaigns, and made them 451 percent more efficient than paid search marketing. He told us, and also shared some pretty provocative thoughts on how coop ad dollars could be better used if re-allocated to online marketers and the vendors that serve them.

by Rebecca Lieb 13 January 2010 22:46pm 1 comment