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 [...]
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 [...]
I am not afraid to admit it, I love email marketing. I love email so much that the picture of the license plate above is mine. I have spent the last 20 years of my career in email marketing, making email fun for brands that I have worked with and for. The Fun - [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
