If the very purpose of technology is to make our lives easier and allow us to work smarter, why do most email marketers use technologies that do the exact opposite?
It’s time to break out of the Email Death Spiral and advance your marketing program with the next generation of email marketing technology.
This guide explores exactly what your team needs to know to prepare for a successful change and how to best evaluate this next generation of email marketing technology, including:
Understanding the next generation of email marketing technology
Determining when it’s time for a change
Prioritizing value with a proof of concept
Approaching the ESP selection process
Securing buy-in for the change
Building a successful retail marketing program around your new ESP
Creating a foundation for long term success
This report highlights the strategic value of a next generation web content management system integrated with lead scoring, email marketing, customer relationship management, and web analytics. The report links the technology and practices of Best-in-Class organizations to engage customers, provide personalized experiences and manage the lead lifecycle.
This guide offers insight into the WCM technology choices available today, discusses some of the requirements both IT and business users should consider when selecting a WCM solution, and includes advice for ensuring a successful evaluation process.
This whitepaper discusses the need to target outcomes and focus on building a complete, 360-degree view of your customers -- who they are, where they came from, what they do, and how you can best meet their needs.
The rise of social media is intrinsically connected to email, which was itself the first social network. Email marketers must leverage this complementary channel to expand their reach beyond the email list, realizing the power of viral marketing in the social web.
The growing trend towards insourcing marketing and transactional email is being driven by businesses that are looking for ways to improve their email programs, increase data security and lower costs. When evaluating whether it makes more sense to leverage an on-premise or outsourced solution, it's important to understand how the traditional arguments have changed.
eCommerce Marketers who want to exploit the full potential of e-mail should develop plans to consistently grow their permission-based e-mail lists of customers and prospects. This allows them to build loyalty and promote cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.
With more than three decades in the hotel marketplace, Grupo Posadas operates more than 104 hotels and 19,042 rooms in 50 beach and city destinations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. It's brands include AQUA, Fiesta Americana Grand, Fiesta Americana, Lat 19°, Caesar Park and Caesar Business, making Posadas the leading Mexican hotel operator in Latin America. Posadas selected Neolane's enterprise marketing software to improve segmentation and deliver consistent, personalized customer communications across e-mail and direct mail channels, while streamlining campaign management within its loyalty programs.
Lifecycle marketing is changing the way companies interact with prospects and customers through the email channel. This white paper explores five common questions and some ideas on how to jumpstart your lifecycle marketing efforts.
There's no reason overseeing and managing a million-plus subscriber email database should be a discombobulated and overbearing task. Start being an effective email marketer by creating a plan, brushing up on your skills, and cleaning house. Implementing these six simple tweaks will go a long way towards maximizing the return, response, and revenue from your email program.
Email marketing is one of the best performing marketing channels online. According to the DMA, for every dollar spent on email marketing, you can expect a return on investment of $43. But it's not as simple as sending an email to a list to get this sort of result.
At 12:33 EDT on May 3, 1978, Gary Thuerk sent an
email that later earned him the title “Father of Spam”
(although understandably, he prefers to be called the
“Father of E-marketing”). Thuerk, then a marketing
manager for computer company Digital Equipment
Corporation, sent a mass email inviting recipients to
one of two West Coast product demos for a new line
of computers.1
If you’re wondering whether you should really prioritize email
in your marketing—especially when new channels continually
emerge—consider this: 91 percent of marketing executives agree
that email is their most effective channel.1
Clearly, email isn’t just
here to stay, it’s the mainstay. And with the ability to personalize
and contextualize messages, upgrade mobile campaigns, and
better understand customer needs, email marketing has evolved
into a stronger and smarter version of its former self.
Download Putting Email Marketing in Context to learn:
- How to overcome common challenges of personalisation and email
- Best practices for implementing contextual email on a low budget
- How to measure the effect of your contextual marketing campaigns
Financial Times showcased user-generated content with a live social feed in their emails. Check out our new eBook here and learn how contextual marketing can benefit your company with our top tips and tactics.
Want to get better results with email? Grab our Email Marketing Guide for Financial Services. Gain insight on email campaigns, content strategies and tactics used by successful brands, plus advice from our team of experts.
45% of emails are opened after an offer expires. See how Wyndham Hotels used a countdown timer to drive post-sale bookings and learn how to build best-in-class contextual email campaigns. Get our tips and tactics on building emails that see real results.
Origins drove foot traffic to their stores using emails with geo-targeted store maps. See their campaign in our new guide and learn how to build best-in-class contextual email campaigns. Get our tips and tactics on building emails that see real results.
33% of brands kick off holiday campaigns in October, and most of them are planning now. Grab our latest report and learn how to leverage the biggest holiday trends, including triggered emails and user-generated content.
Want to see the email campaigns used by the top travel and hospitality brands? The Travel & Hospitality Email Marketer’s Playbook is packed with content strategies, tactics and expert advice to elevate your email results.
HotelTonight increased conversions by 250% with location-targeted offers. Find out how they did it and discover other best-in-class examples in this season’s Inkredible 5 eBook.
