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Casino Email Marketing Tip – Leverage Player ID Instead of Email Address
In this casino email marketing tip video, we'll show you how iPost allows you to leverage player ID instead of email address when sending casino email marketing messages. Casino Email Marketing Tip - Leverage Player ID Instead of Email Address https://youtu.be/LyAZdp9idPI Using PlayerID in Casino Marketing By using player ID, you'll be able to target your casino email marketing messages specifically [...]
Email Never Sleeps Season 1 Finale: Final Thoughts of 2022
This is episode 15 of Email Never Sleeps, the email marketing podcast. What is Email Never Sleeps? Email Never Sleeps is a vidcast/podcast to discuss real pragmatic email marketing strategy and allow the listener to gain valuable insight. Episode Topic: Final Thoughts, Season 1 Finale Apply To Be A Guest for Season 2! Are you heavily involved in [...]
The 21 Do’s & Don’ts for Franchisors in Email Marketing
Introduction This 21 do’s and don’ts for Franchisors in Email Marketing post is undoubtedly not meant to be an exhaustive list but should serve as a guidepost for your programmatic email efforts. This post is all about you, the Franchisor, and actions in your email program to create awareness, nurture and convert people/subscribers interested in becoming a Franchisee. [...]
Email Never Sleeps Episode 14: Email Frequency Best Practices For 2023
This is episode 14 of Email Never Sleeps, the email marketing podcast. Watch this video to learn about email marketing sending frequency best practices and advice for 2023. This email-related video should help you fundamentally understand that as a marketer, you must spend some time to truly understand your customers. What is Email Never Sleeps? Email Never Sleeps [...]
8 Email Marketing Trends For 2023
Email marketing, at its core, seems easy, but to do it well or even best in class is hard work. Email marketing trends have come and gone and boomeranged again during my 22-year career, making deciding and writing about trends difficult. In researching this post, I saw posts from 2018-2022 in which organizations rehashed the same trends repeatedly, without [...]
Email Never Sleeps Episode 13: What the modern marketing agency needs to do to align themselves in email marketing
This is episode 13 of Email Never Sleeps, the email marketing podcast. Watch this video to learn about how modern marketing agencies can better align themselves in email marketing for 2023. This Email related video should help you learn as a marketing agency, that you don't always need to have all answers or hire employees for every niche [...]
Email Never Sleeps Episode 12: How to Check Your Email Reputation
This is episode 12 of Email Never Sleeps, the email marketing podcast. Watch this video to learn about email best practices for your checking your email reputation. This Email Reputation video should help you learn email marketing best practices and give you advice on where you should start if you are new to checking out your email reputation. [...]
Maximizing Casino Email Marketing Campaigns in 2023: Best Practices and Strategies
Casino Email Marketing Campaign– how do you manage an email marketing campaign? How do you control what gets emailed and when? What about customer tracking and follow-up? Check out our tips on managing your email marketing campaigns in 2023 to ensure you don’t miss out on important revenue opportunities. 3 Types of Emails You Need As we move into [...]
Email Marketing For Franchise Development
Connecting with your audience and developing the franchise are extremely important for growth in the franchise industry. All successful franchises use email marketing and automation tools for franchise development. When you think of franchise development, you don’t often think about how email marketing can influence the process. However, a well-executed and timely franchise email marketing campaign to potential franchisees can carry a ton of weight in strengthening brand awareness. Franchise development needs to have email marketing as a part of their foundation for growth and this post will explore how you can accomplish that. TYPES OF PROGRAMS IN FRANCHISE EMAIL MARKETING In the Franchise world, email marketing can essentially be used for three different purposes: Franchise [...]
Real Time Dynamic Data for Marketing Emails
Using dynamic data in marketing emails is a standard, at this point in 2022. Blog posts and articles are saturated with practices about it, and virtually everyone in the industry uses some type of personal dynamic information associated with their contacts to provide better communication and to improve the quality of the user experience. It’s a given and we at iPost, like so many others, have been using it for decades. That’s why today we want to take the discussion a step further: using real time dynamic data in your emails to fuel business growth and improve your email messaging. Image Source: makeameme.org What Real-Time Dynamic Data is (and what it isn’t) Dynamic data, sometimes also known [...]
Email Marketing Strategy vs Tactics
EMAIL STRATEGY AND EMAIL TACTICS ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. You will often hear the words strategies and tactics used interchangeably in the email marketing world, but they could not be any further apart. I have been asked many times to create a “strategy” when in reality, what was being asked for was a list of “tactics” to achieve the goal for many types of marketing campaigns. As email marketers, we all need to be aligned on what these email marketing strategies and email marketing tactics actually mean and the effect that they will have. If your long-term vision is to have success with your “strategy” then there needs to be a clear separation between words and [...]
9 Current Email Marketing Trends For 2023
Updated May 2023 Email Marketing is competitive. Brands compete for inbox attention, and marketers are as busy as ever. In my 21 year career in email, I have always read about and watched the current email marketing trends that shape our industry, and for 2023, I thought I would give the email world a bit of the Andrew Kordek vision on email marketing trends that should be top of mind in 2023. Please understand that mileage will vary on these trends, depending on what vertical your brand is in and your major corporate initiatives for 2023. Trend #1 - Stop It With Apple's Mail Privacy Protection It’s time to stop talking, blogging, webcasting, and solutions for [...]
Casino Marketing 101: 4 Ways to Generate More Casino Advertising Revenue
An important source of a casino’s income is the advertising and marketing efforts they put forth. This means that every dollar spent on casino advertising has to pay off big time in order to be worthwhile. Don’t worry - there are plenty of casino advertising strategies you can use to generate more casino revenue with your limited resources. 1) Do It Yourself One of our favorite ways to generate casino advertising revenue is by focusing on an area where you can win big—the search engines. The easiest way to accomplish that is by focusing on SEO, or search engine optimization. The obvious benefit of SEO is when your website or business ranks highly on Google and [...]
Casino Marketing 101: 3 Types of Emails EVERY Casino Needs
The competition for email inbox attention is at an all-time high these days, and there is nothing more important in today’s marketing mix than the effective use of email marketing for player development. The modern player demands personalized experiences, choice, a humanized tone, and most importantly, the ability to be heard and educated about your brand differentiators. As a casino marketer, you want to accomplish things like increase wallet share, measure spend, communicate across channels, leverage data, and, most importantly, create an experience like no other for player development. Let’s be clear, as a casino marketer, you have a tall order to fill, and you are not only competing for inbox attention from your competitors but [...]
Casino Marketing 101: What is Casino Marketing?
Any aspiring casino marketer would do well to ask the question, What is casino marketing? What are the main functions of casino marketing? Who are the people in charge of making sure casinos attract the attention it needs? What are the winning casino marketing strategies? By answering these questions and more, you can gain a solid grasp on how to best advertise your gambling establishment in order to attract both high-rollers and casual gamblers alike. What is Casino Marketing? One of many things that must be kept in mind when you’re exploring casino marketing strategies is what exactly should you market. The easy answer to that question would be everything, but let’s dig a little deeper [...]
2021 Gaming & Gambling Industry Conferences Recap Las Vegas
I recently attended two industry-specific conferences, both in Las Vegas. First was the Multi-unit Franchise Conference (MUFC) followed two weeks later at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E). It was nice to get out and start seeing people face to face. It’s funny that a franchise-related event and a casino/gaming event could have so much in common. Industry Conferences Recap The over-arching theme from both conferences was the need for engagement. At the MUFC 2021 event, it was around the franchisor wanting to determine which prospective franchisee is more likely to buy a franchise location. They are wanting an automated process to separate the wheat from the chaff for those who raise their hand to learn more [...]
The Importance of Email Marketing for 2023
Updated May 2023 The importance of email marketing has skyrocketed in the past few years, and it’s only going to continue growing in the coming years. With this increased importance, though, comes increased competition. That’s why it’s important to make sure you’re putting in your best efforts with your email marketing campaigns now in order to stay ahead of the curve in 2023 and beyond. We’ll go over all this and more to help you understand the value of email marketing in 2023 and which marketing tools you need to use to make it work for you. People Still Use Email Although many people have been led to believe that email is dead, those who understand [...]
Benchmarking for Email Marketing
Welcome to a new digital marketing 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 to help improve your marketing strategy. This week's article is about Benchmarking. What Is Benchmarking? First, let's start with some definitions. According to Wikipedia, "Benchmarking is the practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies." Benchmark is defined as an object, such as a ruler or standard, used as a measure of size, accuracy, or quality. So if you're comparing yourself to [...]
The Best Day And Time To Send Email
In this article, we will discuss how to choose the best day and time for marketing emails and how to create an ideal schedule for your unique audience. We show you new ways to find unique email transmission times that work best for your business. And we'll give you tips on how to determine the best days and times to send your newsletters, along with recommendations on how to improve your overall email marketing strategy. [Sources: 3, 4, 14] As a marketing e-mailer, it is your responsibility to do your research, test different dates and times, and draw your own conclusions about what works and what doesn't. Use of an email provider that allows you to [...]
14 Best Black Friday Email Subject Lines Examples
Calling all high-level email marketers. Are you ready to boost your email open rates and revenue this holiday season with some of the best Black Friday email subject lines out there? Your subject lines are about to reach next-level status. This holiday season, our team at iPost wants to make sure you communicate your Black Friday deals more effectively in your email campaigns. Businesses are already preparing their sales and tightening things up for Black Friday launches. You probably are, too! Am I right? This post will show you: The best subject lines for Black Friday Black Friday and Cyber Monday email examples Show you how to use email library websites for inspiration Black Friday Email Subject [...]
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