Email should form a part of every business’s local search marketing strategy. Return on investment from email has continued to grow: $40 for every $1 in 2017. The holidays are an especially important time to send emails. It’s your chance to remind customers of your brand when they’re in a buying mood and offer incentives to encourage […]
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Not many people like to journey alone, least of all your customers when making purchase decisions. And while personalization has been topping the to-do lists of a lot of online marketers, many are drawing the line at the easiest personalization tactics — like adding names to automated emails — and then calling it done. Although email
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The old-style homepage that serves the same content to one and all is dead in this era of website personalization. These days, the key to generating maximum conversions from your website lies in presenting the most relevant content to individual users. Marketers and webmasters are continuously improving the UX of their sites in order to
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Consumers receive marketing information on a plethora of channels, with email remaining one of the most effective. It is the most highly ranked marketing channel for return on investment, with three in four marketers rating it as either ‘excellent’ or ‘good’. With 80% of consumers being more likely to make a purchase from a retailer that tailors offers to
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We’ve all been there. Standing in a cocktail bar with some great friends, talking about email strategy. When the topic of open rates comes up, you excuse yourself because you just know that your sad average of 8% simply won’t stack up. Jerry always comes in over 20% after all. We may not be able
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! “Popular is the last thing smart business people should want to be.” At least that’s the firmly held belief of Erika Napoletano, author of the forthcoming book The Power of Unpopular, and this week’s guest on Marketing Smarts. But whatever
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! “When we talk about marketing to women, we often assume that all women are mothers,” Melanie Notkin told me during this week’s episode of Marketing Smarts. In fact, she said, 47% of women age 44 or younger are childless. We’ve
A few weeks ago, I polled more than 2,500 of our subscribers to find out if they were using automation tools in their email marketing. Sixty-two percent said, “nope.” That got me wondering, “Why the heck not?” After all, automation can increase leads, conversions, and revenue, and it can save you time. The stats prove
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Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! “Buyer personas don’t work if you make stuff up,” Adele Revella told me during this week’s episode of Marketing Smarts. “They work if you listen to customers first.” That the creation and use of robust buyer personas can play an
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! This week on Marketing Smarts, I interview Tim Suther, chief marketing and strategy officer for Acxiom, a firm that Tim referred to as “the original Big Data company”; FRONTLINE called it “one of the biggest companies you’ve never heard of.”
