Marketing Cloud Alternatives: When You Want Features, Not Headaches
For all those marketers searching for marketing cloud alternatives, it’s a bit confusing, right? I mean, we’re talking about huge Fortune 100 companies that have been around for years and are so well-known that people make memes about using them. Yet marketers have experienced so many headaches that they are actively seeking out marketing cloud alternatives instead. I suspect it’s because marketers want to be able to do what the big marketing clouds promise without having to work so hard and pay so much to do so. They want the features, but they do not want the headaches that come with implementing or using those features. And they’re at the point when they realize they need [...]
Email Trends: 13 Email Marketing Trends Predictions for 2021
2020 SUCKED (1 Star ⭐) 2020 was a year of consolidation and regurgitation in the email industry. Companies merged, were bought, and even changed names, while the industry managed to talk about the same stuff that we were talking about 10-15 years ago. The operative words in the industry were personalization, automation, and the "New Normal." While 2020 did suck, it quickly reminded us that pivoting our strategies was not a bad thing, and those that were quick and agile faired far better than those that just followed. Email Marketing Trends Predictions In 2021, more of the same will happen across the industry. Companies will consolidate, and "personalization" will be a hot topic of many posts [...]
3 Techniques to Enhance Your Email Messaging Focus
How can you ensure that your email marketing efforts continue to resonate with your subscribers? Focus on three key techniques that will make sure you humanize, harmonize, and empathize with your audience. No matter what type of business you’re running, it’s vital to understand the importance of creating relationships with your subscribers. After all, these people are the lifeblood of your company; if they feel valued and appreciated, they’ll likely respond by telling their friends about your brand or purchasing more products from you in the future! Email volume will continue to break all sorts of records in the next few years. Brands must be aware that they are not just competing with competitors, but almost [...]
Do Welcome Emails Need Unsubscribe Links?
At iPost, we get a lot of questions about welcome emails, the purpose of welcome emails, and whether you should include an unsubscribe link or not in your welcome email to make it easier for people to leave your email list. Some email marketers even say that if you don’t include an unsubscribe link, you’re killing your list. But do welcome emails need an unsubscribe link? And why does it matter? Let’s talk about it! What is required in my welcome emails? Pro-tip, one of the greatest misconceptions of welcome emails is that they are transactional and, therefore, not subject to Can-Spam compliance of having an email opt-out in them. While accurate in concept, treating a [...]
9 Bad Email Tactics to Avoid
By now, you have been inundated with blog posts, webinars, and whitepapers that show all of the good email tactics you can employ in Q4 to end 2020 on a high note for revenue in your digital marketing program. If we wanted to conform to everyone else with a uniform marketing tactic, we would, but given our unique approach to hitting send in the modern-day ESP is slightly different from most, we thought a more direct approach would be best. Bad Email Tactic Examples: Tactic #1 Never employ a COO strategy! Like a COI (confirmed opt-in), don't create an email that your email list must click on to opt-out of your email program. Tactic #2 OOPS. [...]
Improve Your Email Marketing Results Right Now
Quick! What’s the best way to improve your email marketing right now? Grow your list? Send more emails? Change vendors? Use emojis in your subject line? The answer is…none of the above. What's The Best Way to Improve Your Email Marketing Results? The reality is, the best way to improve your email campaigns right now is with your words. Your email copywriting in digital marketing is something you can improve today to drive higher open rates, CTRs and ROI. Look at your own email inbox: How many marketing emails stand out and get your attention, pique your interest, and compel you to act? Not many, right? And that’s your opportunity, your competitive edge, when you learn [...]
What Are The Reticent Subscribers
Whether the number of email subscribers in your email list is 5,000 or 15,000,000, there is a lurking set of email addresses that no one wants to talk about it. They are Reticent Subscribers. These email addresses can be a gold mine or a sinkhole. Believe it or not, you, as an email marketer, can control at least part of where they end up. First things first, the Merriam-Webster reticent definition: reticent adjective ret·i·cent | \ ˈre-tə-sənt \ Definition of reticent 1: inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech. Reticent Subscribers Reticent subscribers are the quiet ones that you have no idea what they are thinking about your brand's email program. These subscribers are people who have signed up, engaged, and [...]
What You Need to Know About Email Frequency
Sending too much email to subscribers can increase unsubscribes, spam complaints, and generally annoy the people on your list. However, not sending enough can be an even greater risk. Best Tip: Watch your email frequency & follow our 9 Email Marketing Trends. Why Email Frequency Matters: When you send too much, recipients are more likely to not want to see your messages anymore. More and more people unsubscribe which results in diminishing returns for your email marketing strategy. When that happens, it’s hard (and expensive) to get back into their email inboxes. And if you send too little email, you may be missing out on revenue or referrals. The key is to understand what a customer [...]
The Value of Unopened Email
Unopened Emails Don't Suck. Email Marketers live for open rates. They make us feel good and provide a directional metric on the performance of the campaign. While we all want every single email opened and engaged with, the reality is that it will never happen. However, an unopened email does provide a fair amount of value to the programs we run. Embrace The Unopened Emails in Your Email Campaigns Part 1: Deleted Unopened Emails in Email Campaigns Subscribers who delete an unopened email are exposed to your brand via the From line. Exposure like this can keep your company tangentially top of mind and might even prompt them to engage with you in offline or other [...]
Introducing a New Email Campaign Type: Re-Welcome Email
THE NEW DORMANTS: I would like to introduce you to Sara and Bob, the new dormants. They are email subscribers you acquired several months ago via an aggressive and expensive digital marketing campaign. We have several points of valuable data on Sara and Bob that were captured during the sign-up process and have been sending them 3 emails a week for months. The problem is that they have not converted. In fact, they haven't engaged with your email program for 9 weeks despite our amazing creative and offers. The new dormants are subscribers who have signed up in the last 3-9 months to email marketing campaigns and have not converted, and their email engagement has gradually [...]
Enterprise Email Marketing Software & Good Strategy = Email ROI
If you’ve invested in an enterprise email marketing software solution as a better fit for your increasingly complex email marketing needs, you’re probably taking advantage of many of the email marketing tools now available to you. Hopefully, your email service provider is also providing helpful email marketing tips. But that software alone is not enough to generate the higher email ROI you seek. You must still develop your email marketing strategy and work your way through the stages required for each individual customer to get your emails delivered, opened, and acted upon. Beyond the enterprise ESP, you still need: Content Relevance Engagement Deliverability Inbox placement Finally... Email ROI Targeted Emails Start with Good Content If your [...]
Migrating to a New Enterprise ESP? 7 Tips for a Painless ESP Switch
If you’re an email marketer switching to a new enterprise ESP, you might think the hardest part was choosing that new ESP. Yes, that was a challenge, I’m sure, because you had several qualified email service providers to choose from. But the work isn’t done yet. Because now you face the migration from the old to the new ESP. That migration doesn’t have to be a painful experience, however. Here are 7 tips to help make the switch to your new enterprise ESP painless. Tip 1: Gather your data before you go. By data, we mean your actual data (email and more), your content, your automations/logic and your past performance data. Your actual data is probably [...]
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