A big part of the eec's mission is empowering the email marketing community to create better email; but what does "better" really mean? Respectful, subscriber-centric, valued, memorable and responsive if not also . . . creatively remarkable! There's a mountain of detailed information about design and coding hacks, tips, tactics...
New Orleans is on high alert! Thankfully not due to a hurricane. Instead, a month from now a force even more powerful will descend on the Big Easy: over 500 email marketers converging for three days of education, networking, insight and fun at the 10th Annual Email Evolution Conference. The...
From the perfectly timed follow-up email to the maddeningly unnecessary daily reminder, automated emails can be paradise or purgatory. Think about it: for every wonderfully executed welcome series’ you’ve received, you’ve waded through twice as many cringe-worthy campaigns. Ensure that YOUR email automation is flawless with these four steps, courtesy of...
Globalization affects eec members in a number of ways. Needing to manage marketing compliance rules across multiple jurisdictions is one such impact. Managing blind spots with how channel-specific rules impact cross-channel efforts is another. There is one blind spot in particular that deserves attention from retailers operating in Canada -- sending...
With the recent release of iOS 10 comes a new “feature” to the native mail app – a grey bar at the top of every email that tells consumers if an email message is from a mailing list, with a link to easily unsubscribe. This isn’t the first time Apple...
We email marketers seem to have more and more approaches to help us understand how emails are performing. However, some of these methods may not always be measuring what you may be thinking they measure. It is extremely important to make sure that the data that is being returned is...
Relevant, data-driven emails deliver superior results to generic blast emails. This is gospel at digital agency Whereoware, and our devotion to email personalization was again validated when we won the Best or Most Innovative Use of Automation or Triggers in the 2016 EEC Email Marketing Program Awards. Our EEC award...
Email is the best marketing channel out there. It drives more leads, conversions, and revenue for the business than any other distribution channel. 66 percent of consumers make a purchase directly after receiving an email marketing message and 72 percent of customers rate email as the most preferred method of...
We've all heard a version of the old adage "it's cheaper to retain a current customer than it is to gain a new one" and that's true. But another truth is that you will never retain every single customer, no matter how great your loyalty program or customer service department...
A successful campaign is one that excites your subscribers and makes them want to take action. These types of campaigns may not have the highest open or click rates, but they're a win for your business. One campaign that not only won the hearts and minds of customers, but was...
Email marketing is more than a mysterious channel that magically churns heaps of ROI. While it may seem that way from the distance of other channels, for those in the email trenches, getting noticed in the inbox, let alone transforming an email into conversion, is not alchemy. It takes solid...
In last week’s eec webinar, Email Marketing: For Humans!, Alessandra Souers from JibJab took us through how her company has significantly improved its email program’s click-through rates, conversion rates, and ultimately revenue by inserting its customers’ faces (uploaded by the customers into their own accounts) directly into images in...
Let's face it: email marketing is hard. Marketers in this field have a host of challenges, from building lists and acquiring customers, to creating compelling content that engages those subscribers, to testing and measuring ways to convert those subscribers into loyal customers that keep coming back for more. Whether you're just starting out in...
For the fourth consecutive year, BlueHornet surveyed consumers to discover how they interact and perceive marketing email – as digital marketing continues its nonstop evolution. (For a deeper dive, check out our Consumer Views of Email Marketing 2015 report.) Our panel this year was a whopping 63% bigger, and our survey...
