Email Marketing

This article addresses one of the biggest challenges associated with e-mail marketing programs – establishing meaningful contact with customer targets in order to increase sales, while protecting and enhancing your brand. It illustrates that successful e-mail marketing designed to drive sales and build brands requires adopting a methodology that includes more precise prospect targeting, better permission-based models, a better overall consumer experience and better quality lists.

Email marketing provides a lot more flexibility as the delivery schedule isn't dependent on outside factors. However, just because email gives you instant access to your subscribers doesn't mean you can email them impulsively or impetuously. Your emails must follow a plan that is as well thought-out and deliberate as all of your other marketing initiatives in order to remain effective.

Updated strategies and actionable steps to help B2B and B2C marketers deliver integrated and measurable email marketing campaigns in today's quickly changing online landscape.

New ways to answer questions about the effectiveness of both traditional and interactive online marketing programs.

Email marketing should be considered a key component of a company’s overall marketing strategy. In the past many companies treated email marketing as an afterthought, failing to devote the talent and resources needed to affect an appreciable return on investment. To get the most out of an ongoing email marketing campaign, a quality team of knowledgeable professionals must be assembled.

Over the next few years, more and more people are expected to check their email on their smartphones, rather than their PCs. In this free whitepaper, you'll learn how the most common mobile operating systems render your HTML emails, and more importantly, what you can do now to optimize your email creative to keep your messages looking great, no matter where they're opened.

Email marketing service provider BlueHornet recently partnered with mobile marketing solutions provider SmartReply to develop an automated sign up process via mobile text messaging for email marketing communications. In this free case study, learn how Chuck E. Cheese's, a nationally recognized leader in full-service family entertainment and dining, used text messaging as a sign up method for their Chuck E-Club email program to grow their email list and increase engagement levels.

Every popular email client will display HTML content sent in email. However, not every email client has a "web standards" compliant HTML rendering engine. Therefore, the same email may render differently across different email clients. This whitepaper offers practical solutions to help designers, coders, and non-designers alike build a successful email that will render well across all email platforms.

The effectiveness of your targeting and personalization efforts are only as good as the data used to power them. This article will help you discover effective ways of collecting subscriber data -- allowing you to drive campaigns that evolve as your subscribers' preferences and behaviors change over time.

As you look ahead to 2008 for new opportunities to improve your email marketing efforts, we encourage you to look back for a minute, as well. Remember the “email is a courtship” metaphor and “one-to-one” techniques espoused by Seth Godin and others? Even as far back as 1999, those ideas resonated strongly with all of us because they were dead-on. Jump ahead to 2008, and it’s pretty obvious that marketers have failed to realize the potential in offering true relationship email marketing to customers.

This 19-page white paper includes before and after examples of rendering issues and fixes across top email programs. It makes specific coding recommendations you can use to improve the look and performance of your emails across every major email program, including Outlook 2007.

Applying opt-in email marketing strategies and best practices to transactional emails can be a win-win for customers and marketers. But the two types of communications are not the same. This white paper is written to help email marketers and online retailers understand: What sets transactional emails apart from commercial messages; how they must comply with all federal regulations; and where to take advantage of opportunities to optimize their transactional email program.

Every email marketer can use lifecycle techniques to drive greater online revenue and brand equity. Join the lifecycle email marketing experts from BlueHornet to learn which five components you should focus on to achieve the greatest success.

Your online brand reputation can affect many areas of email marketing, including acquisition strategy, list hygiene, delivery, and conversion rates. Join experts from BlueHornet's Deliverability & Privacy Services team and Pivotal Veracity to learn ways to assess and manage your online brand reputation more easily.

"Personal and Dynamic Email Campaigns" provides key metrics that emphasize the importance of personalizing and timing emails, and tips to use email as a relevant direct marketing tool. Download this presentation now!

BrightWave Marketing designed and executed a remarketing email campaign to help CoreNet Global, the world’s leading professional association for corporate real estate and workplace executives, promote its Annual Summit. Read this case study to find out about the changes made and their results.

Denison University utilizes a multi-faceted direct marketing program to communicate with their alumni and other key constituents. Email marketing has become a more important part of their development strategy in recent years due to the cost effectiveness, tracking capabilities and growing use of email and internet to contribute to the school’s Annual Fund.

In August 2007, EmailStatCenter.com launched its First Annual State of Email Metrics survey. Approximately 55% of respondents were from client side and 45% from agencies or ESPs. Download this study to find out what the email professionals want and need in the coming years.

The reality is that your subscriber relationship is very similar to any relationship. It starts with a date, doubts can occur, breakups may happen, or lifelong partnerships are made. As a marketer, these steps are all part of the lifecycle so it's important to be able to identify the phases and read the cues of your subscriber relationship.

Marketing professionals are no stranger to CAN-SPAM. However, we were a bit surprised this year after seeing the results of our CAN-SPAM quiz. While most people answered the majority of questions correctly, it is clear that some need a bit more help understanding what a transactional message is and how CAN-SPAM applies. So consider this a crash course.

All online retailers experience shopping cart abandonment. According to MarketingSherpa, shopping cart abandonment rates average around 52% for e-commerce sites. That's over half of your shoppers that disengage throughout the checkout process. What pain is caused during the checkout process that causes abandonment? It can be anything from the number of steps in your checkout process to your return/exchange policies.

Has your email marketing become stale? Are your respondents less engaged than they once were? It's not easy to isolate areas within your email marketing in need of improvement and give them a much-needed refresh.

When referring to email marketing, the terms "relevance"; and"engagement" have been more than overused, but unfortunately, the message doesn't seem to be hitting home to quite a few email marketers. In a web 2.0 savvy world, the need for email marketers to be smarter with their email marketing tactics becomes even more of a necessity.

Companies spend a great deal of time planning their offline activities, but often neglect the email marketing calendar. Many prefer that email marketing be more spontaneous, and in fact, do themselves an injustice.

As web analytics gains momentum, the question remains, "How do we make it actionable?" An ongoing challenge of the email marketer is translating valuable web data to create more relevant campaigns. Having the ability to take your email marketing/web analytics integration beyond traffic analysis, to gather specific data in real-time on your prospects and customers builds true relationship email marketing.