Tweet{lang: ‘en-GB’}Developing a good email marketing strategy can be a daunting task. To help you get some perspective, here are 3 key stages to keep you on track. Develop a customer centric communications strategy. I know this can be a bit of an overused statement, but to make the email channel work in the modern [...]

Tweet{lang: ‘en-GB’}I’ve got to admit, I don’t like spam. Not just professionally, it really gets my goat personally as well. It’s not that I’m a particularly sensitive soul when it comes to email communications, but I just don’t like being sent stuff I haven’t asked for. Ok, I acknowledge that most of the downright illegal [...]

Tweet{lang: ‘en-GB’}One of the contentions that surround email marketing at the moment is the issue of when you retire an email address. Leading up to Christmas, when the heat is on, ambitious sales targets tempt even cautious marketers to push out the boat and send to everyone. If an email list is causing deliverability issues, [...]

Tweet{lang: ‘en-GB’}There’s no doubt there is a change afoot in the email marketing industry. Despite  all the best practice mantras (“must segment more”, “this year we won’t look like spammers”)  it is becoming plainly clear there is a divide growing between those who have stuck to their New Year resolutions and those who have not. [...]

Tweet{lang: ‘en-GB’}There have been many announcements over the last few months regarding the various types of inbox filtering being deployed by various webmail clients. At first they look pretty harmless, with the rules that the ISP’s intend to use ranging from the ambiguous, to the algorithmic detail. If you take the metrics that Google claim [...]

Tweet{lang: ‘en-GB’}I’m often asked about the right frequency to mail an email list and the risks involved in getting it wrong. I’m not surprised really. As a revenue driving channel, email seems to be going from strength to strength; It also seems to be gaining extra points now and as media attribution modelling is becoming [...]