Email Marketing

Is it time for you to try new email templates, but you just don't have the resources to develop them yourself? Are you uncertain whether your designs are built to ensure delivery of your emails? Whether you are marketing to consumers or businesses, Lyris has tried and true email templates to help you upgrade your efforts and get better results without delay.

Net Atlantic's whitepaper, "11 Proven Ways to Grow Your Email Marketing List" helps email marketing and communications managers increase the number of list members who are actively engaged. A larger list of interested, opt-in leads is by far the best population for creating opportunities. Sending responsibly frequent email campaigns to your mailing list will improve your overall marketing ROI better than just about any other tactic.

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.

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.

Targeted and personal, no medium today is as effective at empowering marketers with the ability to reach out and connect with their customers on a real 1-to-1 level more than Email Marketing. This insightful White Paper provides 5 simple but powerful email tactics that will keep your customers coming back for more.

The benefits of addressing the image suppression issue are significant. A recent controlled study by SubscriberMail demonstrated the response improvements gained by optimizing an email message to have impact even when images are not displayed. In this study, an email message that was not optimized for image suppression was sent to a test panel of approximately 50,000 subscribers. Simultaneously, a panel of similar makeup received a version of the same message optimized for non-graphical display. Compared to the non-optimized version, the optimized version saw an 87 percent increase in clicks.

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.

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.

This white paper provides a number of well-tested, organic methods for email acquisition – giving marketers actionable insight to attract and retain a loyal, profitable subscriber base. Download it now.

If your opt-out process asks list members to provide a reason for the unsubscribe, are you listening to what they are saying? It can be silly, or downright filthy, but it can also provide valuable insight into the good and bad of your email marketing practices.

Using Web Analytics data to trigger email messages can produce amazing results.  Find out why marketers should be jumping on this opportunity.

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.

Insider information pertaining to deliverability changes affecting email sent to Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and Gmail. Find out how authentication, domain reputation and user engagement metrics will affect your email delivery in 2010. It's not all about your IP's anymore!

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.

B2B marketers, like their B2C colleagues, have diligently worked at perfecting the art of shaping customer and prospect perceptions. They have years of experience developing precisely targeted communications comprised of finely tuned content directed at the specific audiences they want to influence. Traditional brand marketing requires the engineering of messages that engender the right impressions about the company’s products in the marketplace. The traditional art of branding has grown and flourished for many years. But that’s all begun to change.

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.

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.

While email marketing is clearly effective, marketers are being called upon to do a better job of engaging recipients, communicating with them and learning what messages they actually look forward to receiving. And a key step in this process is to take measure of your customers and prospects. Learn more today!

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.

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

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.

Whether you're in the market for a new ESP now or want to see how your current one stacks up, you'll find this whitepaper an invaluable resource. This whitepaper will help you take a thoughtful, informed approach to your ESP selection or comparison to your existing solution, so you can compare apples-to-oranges and still make a wise choice.

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.

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.