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.
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.
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 [...]
When it comes to best practices, the marketing world rarely experiences dramatic shifts. But every year, there are a handful of new insights we can use to better reach and engage our audiences. As you roll out your plans for this year, here are six stats to keep your marketing [...]
A lot of people have been asking us: can you embed videos in email? Unfortunately, it’s a yes-or-no question without a yes-or-no answer. Technically the answer is yes . . . but more accurately: sort of. You can use an HTML 5 code to add a video to your email, [...]
With fall just getting into swing, it might feel like you still have plenty of time to prepare for holiday sales and special promotions. But if you plan on increasing sales with holiday offers this year, you actually need to start preparing right now. Plenty of consumers make last-minute purchases [...]
It’s pretty common to open an email and see several calls-to-action (CTAs) with separate links taking you to separate pages. But if your emails are underperforming, it could be a sign that you are diluting your message with too many CTAs. The more CTAs you have, the more spread out [...]