While social media marketing may be exciting, flashy, and innovative, email is still king. Algorithms can be mercurial, and user patterns constantly change. But you have direct access to your audience if you have their email address. Here are seven pitfalls to avoid as you build out your email marketing strategy.
Your audience is interested in what you can help them to do. Show them that you understand what they're struggling with and that you have a solution.
Staying out of the spam folder is ultimately about treating your subscribers right. Here are 12 tips to help you avoid the spam folder and follow email best practices.
In the run-up to each release of iOS 14, 14.5 and 15, Armageddon (of some sort) is always predicted, but reality rarely matches our deepest marketing fears. Here are a few action steps you can take to recalibrate your email marketing expectations.
53% of email marketing professionals struggle with low click-through rates. Here's how to boost your email clicks.
For effective email marketing, you want to create simplicity in email marketing. Why? To help your customers burn less mental energy. There is a focus needed when you read anything, and depending on the way that piece is written, the more focus you may need. Take, for example, a textbook [...]
Whether you’re posting on social media, writing a newsletter, or thinking about new lead magnets, it helps to have a well of ideas you can draw from. But coming up with a steady stream of topics can be tough. That’s where it helps to have a variety of sources you [...]
When you have an idea for a campaign, from time to time, you may hear a colleague say, “We already tried that. It didn’t work.” But in advertising, if a campaign doesn’t produce the results you were expecting, that’s not always an indicator that it was a bad idea. Sometimes [...]
Email drip campaigns (also known as nurture campaigns) help you maximize the value of your ads by keeping leads warm and preparing them for your sales pitch. Part of the appeal of these automated campaigns is that you can “set it and forget it.” Once you’ve created a nurture campaign [...]
A lot of brands have an email newsletter of some kind. Maybe you email donors once a quarter to share stories about the people you’ve helped, thank your supporters, and ask for more donations. Or you share about product updates or new releases. That’s fine. But it’s just scratching the [...]