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Top Email Subject Lines In June 2021
Best June email subject lines We love writing email subject lines. We love testing them. We love to be surprised when what we think will work doesn’t. We also love when an email we didn't expect to take off gets incredible email open rates. Effective Email at its best! We love good emails at iPost. (please don’t get [...]
How Many Email Links Should I Have? How to Link an Email.
How many email links should I have? Email marketing is one of the most cost-effective ways to generate and nurture leads. But how many links should you include in your emails? Don't be fooled by the common belief that more email links will increase your click-through rate (CTR). In this post, we'll go over how many evergreen email links [...]
Testing an email is a waste of time.
Testing an email is a waste of time. I am sick of the words “test it” in email marketing. For the last 15 years, it seems that you cannot go a week without reading an article about the value of testing in email. Thought leaders, content marketers, vendors, and agencies have all banged the drum of just [...]
Thank you Apple, we L.O.V.E. MPP!
Apple delivered the email marketing community a gift at the WWDC this past week, and we at iPost cannot be more excited. In case you haven’t heard, Apple will be releasing “Mail Privacy Protection” MPP later this year with iOS15, iPadOS15, watchOS8, and macOS Monterey. Here is what we know so far about Mail Privacy Protection (MPP): IP addresses [...]
Email delivery vs Email deliverability
In email marketing, email delivery and email deliverability are two entirely different things when it comes to running an email program. Unfortunately, they are often used interchangeably, and it causes some confusion amongst non-email people around your organization. So how do you distinguish email delivery and deliverability? Email Delivery Delivery simply means that the email you just sent was [...]
Amazing Email Subject Lines May 2021
It's fair to say that email subject lines are one of the most important components of an email. What do email subscribers see first in their email inbox? The email subject line! If your email subject line is not amazing, then your digital marketing efforts could be falling short. In this post, we reveal amazing subject line examples. We [...]
Memorial Day iPost will be closed in observance
On Monday, May 31st, the offices of iPost will be closed in observance of Memorial Day here in the United States. Memorial Day (formally known as Decoration Day) is typically known as the start of Summer. It is often observed on the last Monday with family and friends either at picnics, sporting events, or other gatherings. However, given the [...]
Chapter 2: Don’t treat members the same way as non members in email.
Welcome to Chapter 2 of the new series at iPost called "Don't do this, do that," where some of the best minds in email marketing will use dozens of years of both client, agency, and ESP experience to guide you the email marketer with pragmatic advice. This chapter is strictly for Associations where members and non-members are your audiences. [...]
Enterprise Email Marketing Tools Can Lead to Excess – Beware!
It's August 2020 and our scales are showing the effects of the extra food and alcohol consumed while staying home. People now refer to their pandemic pounds and the quarantine 15. We have fattened our curves while flattening the curve. The extra calories are understandable. We’ve been stressed out, seeking comfort and baking bread. We’ve found solace in the kitchen, but our waistlines have paid a price. And that’s the nice thing about weight gain, right? You can see the direct correlation between calories in and pounds on—or alternatively calories avoided and pounds lost. As someone using enterprise email marketing tools, you can use a similar direct correlation to find out if you’re over messaging your [...]
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 [...]
Restaurant Email Marketing – Restaurant Email Segmentation
Email marketing for restaurants—it’s a numbers game. But they have to be the right numbers in the right sequence. Improving email ROI for your restaurant isn’t about simply upping customer email numbers, meaning getting more names on your email list so you can send more email campaigns and therefore drive more customers to your business. How do you improve the ROI of email marketing for restaurant owners? Start by increasing the restaurant email segmentation. Do this, by increasing the segments you send to, not the total number of emails on your list. Instead of increasing your list by 1,000 names per month, segmenting means increasing the number of segments you send to. Segment your email list [...]
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 [...]
Franchise Marketing Agency Tip: Use Data and Analysis for a Better Customer Experience (Updated October 2021)
Relevance has revolutionized both the franchise email marketing industry and franchise marketing systems. It has franchise marketing companies moving us away from the batch-and-blast of old and on to the path toward one-to-one email messaging. Relevancy always matters. No one can afford not to be relevant to at least some degree. And it is the franchises that provide the most relevant, targeted email content that will most likely win and keep a customer’s business. Relevancy has also evolved as technology has enabled gathering and analyzing ever more data about each customer. That means franchise email marketing has also evolved to provide a much better customer experience at the inbox. For example, a restaurant franchise might send [...]
Effective Restaurant Marketing: Your Restaurant Email Deliverability Isn’t Good (Yet)
Effective Restaurant Marketing: Your Restaurant Email Deliverability Isn't Good (Yet) On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, how would you rank the deliverability rate of your restaurant email marketing? Deliverability often doesn’t get a 10—either in importance or performance—because many digital marketing gurus often think deliverability ends with clicking the send button. Yet there is much more to it than that, and business owners have much to be gained by both learning more about deliverability and taking steps to continuously improve it in order to improve your restaurant email marketing. The Difference Between Emails Sent and Emails Delivered Let’s start with a common misconception: the difference between emails sent [...]
Segment Your Audience Based on Behavioral Data
As an email marketer, you’re probably segmenting your audiences, but are you segmenting based on online behavioral data? If not, you are missing out on lost revenue. And you’re spending more money than you need to with your enterprise ESP. Behavioral segmentation can help you improve opens and click through open rates (CTORs) as well as enhance the overall customer journey and increase your inbox placement rate. It can lead to additional subscriber engagement and loyalty. Use your enterprise ESP to Capture Behavioral Data Points Behavioral data is data that tells you more. And when you identify which of your subscribers go beyond just opening and clicking, you can take the next step to send that [...]
How an ESP with Relational Data Lets You Put All Your Customer Info to Use
As you know, the amount of ESP data gathered now is staggering and grows at a rate that speeds up daily. For marketers, this stored data can be a goldmine…if they can put that data to use. Sadly, many can’t because they don’t use an ESP with relational data. That means precious information about their customers which uniquely identifies countless marketing opportunities sits unused and their email marketing falls short as a result. Data has made possible actual personalization, but making it possible and making it real are two different things. The evolution of Personalization Personalization used to mean using a recipient’s name in the email subject line or starting an email with Dear _______. Email [...]
How to Be a Trusted Partner
In business school, aspiring marketers are taught to focus on customer acquisition and customer retention, meaning loyalty. But without establishing trust, there is little chance of loyalty or repeat customers. Trust is the most overlooked—and possibly most important—factor when it comes to customer retention. Trust is not something to be gained from a single marketing technique or data point. Trust is earned! Trust between organizations or people comes from a relationship and it builds over time, with every interaction and touchpoint. Your goal is to become that trusted partner. You want your business to be more than just another vendor. What makes someone a trusted partner? A trusted partner is someone you can bounce ideas off, [...]
COVID-19 – We’re here to help…
We’re here to help...With these unprecedented times - where COVID-19 is impacting everyone on a personal and business level, our thoughts are with those that have been impacted by this outbreak, especially those that are sick. In our modest attempt to help support the email industry, we would like to offer 1 Million free emails and waived set up fees to those organizations impacted by Covid-19. For more information, or to speak to someone about this, please contact us. Have you been impacted?
How to Win Back Lost Customers Using Email
Building a solid subscriber list is hard. Keeping a subscriber engaged is even harder. No matter how hard we work to get people to sign up for our email lists, subscriber attrition and abandoned carts are an ongoing challenge for email marketers. Customers abandon email programs for a variety of reasons. They might experience a life or job change that makes a brand irrelevant. They might suffer from list fatigue. They might be over-subscribed and getting too many emails from too many brands. We can’t know the reasons, so we must put programs in place to decrease attrition and minimize its impact on revenues. Automated win-back Automated win-back email or re-engagement programs provide a cost-effective way [...]
iPost Announces First-Ever In-Platform Email Integration with Campaign- Genius
SAN MATEO, CALIF., March 12, 2020 Marketers can now build emails with dynamic content from Campaign-Genius within the iPost email marketing platform iPost, an enterprise email marketing and automation provider, today announced a technology integration with Campaign-Genius, a dynamic content and visual automation platform for email, CRM, messaging and web. iPost is the first email service provider (ESP) to offer user access to Campaign-Genius directly through its platform. iPost users now have dynamic-content tools and millions of visual resources to use when building campaigns in the iPost drag and drop email design environment. "With this addition, iPost puts the 'native language' of online — visual content — at the fingertips of email marketers,” said Matthew Dunn, Founder of Campaign-Genius. "The [...]
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