Marketing

Email is still the workhorse of digital marketing. In fact, the number of emails sent and received per day total over 205 billion, according to The Radicati Group Email Statistics Report. There are no other marketing channels as effective and efficient as email — but there still might be a use for email your team is overlooking: employee email. Your employees interact with prospective customers, current customers, job candidates, partners, vendors, and industry influencers daily on a …

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Through email, you individually address people who have different wants, needs, habits and relationships with your company. When you put it in this context, as opposed to thinking of email as a lever to drive more money from a homogeneous existing customer base, it becomes more of a human medium. This is not to say that you shouldn’t focus on driving the money, but how you execute it could be improved. Start with the brand …

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With kids back in school, email marketing campaigns have moved away from end-of-summer deals and backpack wish lists and switched over to the holidays. The holiday season seems to get earlier every year, so it’s important for email marketers to get a head start on what is going to resonate with consumers. During the last holiday season, my employer tracked almost 8 billion emails and found that brands sent 14.5 percent (registration required) more emails to subscribers during the …

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How do we reach hyper-personalization? Columnist Scott Heimes believes building an email-based app, along with great content and timing, is key to earning email readers’ loyalty.”For years, email marketing has been circling around an ideal center without ever reaching it. That center has become known as “hyper-personalization.” Yes, the sought-after email “segment of one,” the email marketer’s Holy Grail — the perfect email campaign. Call it what you will, but hyper-personalization is now the gravitational …

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Content Marketing Institute’s latest survey aims to better understand how content marketers are managing their content strategy.”According to Content Marketing Institute’s latest survey of marketers, learning how to better use their content management marketing technology is posing a significant challenge for marketers. Sixty-six percent of the marketers polled claimed “How to better use technology to mange content as a business asset” as their greatest educational need in regard to content management. It was the most …

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As marketers find more innovative ways to attract audiences, video has become a meaningful part of the strategic conversation.” As marketers find more innovative ways to attract audiences, video has become a meaningful part of the strategic conversation. Video is long past the status of an “up-and-coming” marketing tactic. It’s here, and it’s an increasingly powerful way to communicate your brand story, explain your value proposition, and build relationships with your customers and prospects. The most …

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Columnist Jose Cebrian believes that to get the most out of marketing technology, you need to hire the right people who can help you use it to its fullest.People-based marketing is grounded in the ability to really know the person to whom you are marketing. It’s not a new concept. From its earliest days with the postal service through its evolution into telemarketing, email, SMS and push, it has evolved. Now, marketers have the ability …

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