Email Strategy

My Life as an Email Entrepreneur: My Final Article.

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Last week, Rising Media, the company I partner with to produce the Email Innovations Summit, acquired Only Influencers, the Email Marketing Community I created in 2010. I will be transitioning the company over the next 6 months and then retiring for good from this industry that has been so good to...
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Jason Klein
Thank you for sharing your inspiring story and for being a support and champion for all those who labor in the world of email. The... Read More
Wednesday, 04 September 2019 15:41
Guest — Kristin Hersant
My sentiments exactly. Congratulations on a retirement well earned, Bill! You will be missed - and always remembered - in the emai... Read More
Saturday, 07 September 2019 03:09
Guest — Zack P
Best of luck to you Bill! Thank you for all you have done! Hopefully margaritas and boat days await.
Wednesday, 04 September 2019 16:33
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Kao: Agency-side vs Brand-side - Which is Better?

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Have you previously considered moving between the agency-side to the brand-side? Or vice-versa? Having made the switch a few times myself (most recently back to agency), I wanted to share two of the biggest thoughts I have when considering both. If you are having similar thoughts, hopefully these help provide a...
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Email Round Table Discussion: Is it time to shift our focus from email open rates

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Jenna Tiffany:  I’m excited to hear everyone’s thoughts on this week’s discussion topic: Is it time to shift our focus from email open rates?  Interested to hear everyone’s experience and the challenge in moving away from relying heavily on email open rates when defining email marketing success.  If you missed my...
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Quist: Powerful Email Reactivation Hack Anyone Can Use

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Current Best Practice When it comes to your inactive subscribers, best practitioners have always advocated that you stop mailing them. Following this advice will have the immediate effect of improving your open rates without you having to do anything difficult like write better subject lines or improve your content and/or creative....
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Great overview and stats, Dela! There's one critical piece of the puzzle that's missing, however. Based on our work at FreshAddre... Read More
Wednesday, 31 July 2019 18:43
Guest — Tejas Pitkar
Hi Dela Quist, Interesting post. Some very good points on changing up the campaigns and testing them to check for new unique open... Read More
Saturday, 19 October 2019 05:15
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Unboxing eDataSource’s Inbox Tracker

Way back in 2004 when eDataSource first launched, it was conceived of as a competitive email tracking tool, the first of its kind. But they quickly discovered that clients really had no insight or intelligence into their own email campaigns, let alone their competitors. There was certainly no 3rd party monitoring...
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Pay: Innovate Your Mindset to Reimagine Your Marketing

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Last month's opportunity to deliver the opening keynote address at the fourth annual Email Innovation Summit helped me bring together many of the principles that have guided me in my own marketing journey. What I've learned is that it's not enough just to focus on innovation. We also must help marketers...
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Sharma: Why Personalization Must Evolve in the Visual Era

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Ask ten different marketers to define personalization, and you’ll likely get ten different answers. Personalization in marketing has become a catch-all term—a grab bag of endless tactics that includes name merge tags, behavioral targeting, email triggers, content recommendations and so on. Traditionally, these tactics have also been pigeonholed into different industries...
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Thank you for sharing a great article. It has inspired me to think more about images and the story they are telling. What are some... Read More
Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:18
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Tiffany: Marketing metrics – is it time to shift our focus from open rates?

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Performance analysis is an absolutely vital aspect of any strategy. I may even go so far as to say that it’s the most important aspect. It’s what keeps you attuned to the pulse of your market, tells you what’s going down well and what’s less appealing. It’s how you weed out...
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Vernhout: Upping your Email Game with BIMI!

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Every year for just a couple of days, I listen to some of the best minds in email share their experiences, guidance, and grievances over the email industry at the Email Innovations Summit in Las Vegas. Topics range from selecting your next email service provider (ESP), RFP best practices, privacy, design,...
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OI Discussion: Artificial Intelligence in Email Marketing

Jenna Tiffany:  It's a pleasure to host another OI discussion with a topic that I’m sure all of you will have thoughts on as well as experiences to share.  Artificial Intelligence in email marketing So let's start with, have you used AI in your email marketing activities? What did you learn...
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IT’S ALL IN THE TELL. The power of vendor storytelling to brands.

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I’ve recently been working on two interesting projects which have put me either side of the brand and vendor perspective. Having worked agency, vendor and client side it’s a very useful juxtaposition from which to develop my own consultancy delivery experience. Project 1. I’ve been working with a marketing platform solution...
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Rodriguez: The Difference Between Accessibility and Inclusion in Email Marketing

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Over the last few years, the email industry has been increasingly focused on accessibility. That’s a good thing, especially considering that such a large percentage of the world’s population suffers from some sort of disability, whether it’s permanent or temporary. For example, the World Health Organization counts around 1.3 billion people...
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Tiffany: Artificial Intelligence in Email Marketing

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2017 was probably AI’s breakout year in email marketing. It's from then on that I started to witness the results that AI can bring to the channel primarily when used in combination with Machine Learning and Automation. Change has been rapid and ongoing since then, and it doesn’t look like slowing...
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Jennings: Does Your Email Marketing Program Align WIth Your Customer Lifecycle?

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How well does your email marketing program align with your customer’s lifecycle? Put another way, are you practicing lifecycle marketing? This is one of the first things I investigate when I’m working with a new client, because often the answer provides the basis for recommendations to boost performance (which is the...
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At the Crossroads of Email and UX: Five Optimization Factors Beyond Design

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The Nielsen Norman defines User Experience (UX) as “encompassing all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the company, its services, and its products”. They sum it up with this kernel of wisdom: “the first requirement for an exemplary user experience is to meet the exact needs of the customer, without fuss...
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great article, Karen! This issue is not discussed often enough..
Wednesday, 15 May 2019 14:27
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OI Discussion: Relevancy

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(The following is a recent discussion on the Only Influencers discussion list led by Kate Barrett. Join Only Influencers to be part of the discussion) Kate Barrett Hi everyone! I have the absolute pleasure of leading the discussion this week and I’m so excited to see what we all come up...
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Next Generation Marketers Want Answers Not Stats

Living in the world of open rates, click rates and funnel driven conversion stats? I get it, we have to report on performance, but when do you get to do the really cool things in marketing? What happened to discovery and exploration? Why are we still looking at bar charts and...
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Are Email Marketers Missing Their Share of the $41.1 Billion Advertising Spend?

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As the world of digital advertising and marketing has planted its stake firmly in the ground in support of “NATIVE” (Sponsored) Advertising, the consumers have made it clear that they support the move. The line between online content written by journalists and story-like ads that are paid for by specific corporations...
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Such great content. I have struggled with the best way to leverage email marketing. I don't want to alienate, but instead I want t... Read More
Thursday, 25 April 2019 15:53
Guest — Jaime Jay
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing. Knowing what advertising works and what does not is on ongoing battle for me. Reading this peaks... Read More
Thursday, 25 April 2019 17:15
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Marriott: Who Should Be the Key Decision-makers in Your Next ESP RFP?

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Much has changed in the world of email marketing in the last 15 years.  Volumes are up, revenues are up, CPMs are down-and those are just a few of the big changes in the industry.  But one of the biggest changes is in the nature of the vendor/client relationships themselves. Specifically,...
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Kate Barrett: Reviewing our Relevancy: How Can Marketers Evolve to Keep Up with Entitled Consumers?

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The recent DMA 2019 Marketer Tracker Report reported that only 14% of consumers think that over half of the emails an organisation sends are relevant to them as individuals.  But maybe more shockingly, only 55% of marketers think that more than half of all the emails they send are relevant. So...
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