Email Marketing

Email marketing is one of the best performing marketing channels online. According to the DMA, for every dollar spent on email marketing, you can expect a return on investment of $43. But it's not as simple as sending an email to a list to get this sort of result.

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.

Whether you're new to email retargeting or a certified segmentation genius, Webtrends Email Exchange makes it easy to send timely, relevant and targeted emails based on your customers' web activity.

Lifecycle marketing is changing the way companies interact with prospects and customers through the email channel. This white paper explores five common questions and some ideas on how to jumpstart your lifecycle marketing efforts.

There's no reason overseeing and managing a million-plus subscriber email database should be a discombobulated and overbearing task. Start being an effective email marketer by creating a plan, brushing up on your skills, and cleaning house. Implementing these six simple tweaks will go a long way towards maximizing the return, response, and revenue from your email program.

TurboTax now uses CoTweet to interact with customers via Twitter, making it quicker and easier for the company to connect with its customers.

More than 7,000 organizations worldwide rely on ExactTarget's Interactive Marketing HubTM to drastically improve the effectiveness of their interactive marketing. From large enterprises to small businesses, we help customers take what's great about their marketing and make it better by integrating Email, Mobile, Social, and Sites using the world's first Interactive Marketing HubTM. The best part? Marketers can manage each aspect of their multi-channel marketing campaigns from a single interface.

It's become obvious that subscriber data is what fuels relevant communications. But with so much data in so many places, using the information you've gathered to help grow your business seems impossible without a solution that's easy to use, quick to implement, and simple to integrate with your interactive marketing system-unless you've invested in an integration from ExactTarget.

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.

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

As a marketer, you've heard about "leading-edge" organization that can solve your "mission-critical" business problems. But ExactTarget is different. We believe that results ultimately define success- not adjectives. So if you're ready to take your email, mobile, and social media marketing to the next level, read more to learn how ExactTarget can help you achieve real results.

Net Atlantic's whitepaper, "15 Trade Secrets of Email Service Providers" uncovers the details behind email service providers (ESPs) and their practices. It highlights the differences between an email marketing server and a static web server, the methods used to avoid SPAM, and how ESPs achieve and maintain high deliverability rates. Marketers should know these secrets before embarking on an email marketing strategy, or entering into a deal with an ESP.

Email marketing is continually evolving with the introduction of new technologies, regulations and consumer behavior. As an email marketer, you're charged with keeping track of these changes and making the appropriate adjustments to maximize the ROI of your email programs.

I realize everyone is telling you social media marketing is a unicorn, but maybe it's just a horse? Sure, social media marketing differs from the marketing we're used to in that it puts the company and our customers on the same-rather than opposing-teams. But beyond that, isn't social media similar to traditional channels that have come before it?

Net Atlantic's whitepaper, "Solutions for Email Subscriber Management" covers several ways to manage your subscribers to maximize deliverability, including permission options, suppression files, re-engagement campaigns, and more. Your relationship with your clients is the most important factor in your success. A good email service provider should provide you with the tools to help you engage your subscribers successfully.

Net Atlantic's "Total Engagement Marketing" e-book covers 10 ways you can improve email marketing response in 2010. Email marketing offers marketers the tools to manage multiple campaigns, create micro-segments, track the entire customer lifecycle, and automate email based on customer behavior. Net Atlantic delivers a vision for the next era of online marketing.

More than 2,000 organizations worldwide rely on ExactTarget's Integrated Solutions to drastically improve the effectiveness of their interactive marketing. From large enterprises to small businesses, we help customers take what's great about their marketing and make it better by integrating Email, Mobile, Social, and Sites with industry-leading solutions from Omniture.

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.

Video email is the best of three worlds, bringing together the immediacy of the internet, the precise control and metrics of direct mail, along with the visual appeal of television and YouTube. At its best it has the potential to double or triple the overall efficiency of your marketing program, but employed in the wrong way and it can turn off existing customers.

Return Path's recent research study found that 20% of email is not being delivered to the inbox despite reporting metrics that state the opposite. If 20% of your email goes undelivered, how much revenue are you losing? After looking at 131 ISPs in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany and APAC territories, one thing is clear - Deliverability and rendering failures are an ongoing challenge for marketers.

According to an Econsultancy survey conducted in association with ExactTarget of more than 1,000 marketers, the shift of marketing budgets from traditional channels to digital channels will continue to rise in 2010.

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.

Research shows that those who explicitly make New Year's resolutions are 10 times more likely to achieve their goals than those who don't. Lucky for you, we've come up with five resolutions that will be key to marketer success in 2010.