After the email council has spent hours in the DMA offices at the monthly council meetings there is occasionally the need to move across the road to the pub where discussions (both email and non email related) can be quite interesting. One topic that came up is how quickly email marketing is still evolving. However it was also noted that some key fundamentals stay basically the same. The article below was first published in the DMA newsletters in 2008 (a million years ago in the land of digital) However nearly all the points still stand today.

Tweet{lang: ‘en-GB’}Once you are maximising your own customer and prospect data (gathered from your website) then the next step is to look at how to utilise other data to get the full benefit from your email marketing strategy. In order to do this effectively you need to make sure you:  Are clear on the target [...]