by editor , David Baker on Mar 31, 2:01 AM
In last week's Email Insider, I talked about testing creative in emails, but didn't give enough attention to the copy or power of the words. So, I asked my lead content strategist to give you her perspective on testing this area of the equation to balance my opinion.
by Loren McDonald on Mar 27, 2:00 AM
My last Email Insider column ("What's the Best Frequency? Who Cares!") drew this reaction from Eytan Abrahams of SourceMedia: "As a publisher, I stopped reading after this line: 'If you are a publisher, this is still a reasonable question.' (OK, so I did read the whole article ...). What is the magic answer for publishers to this question?" We all want that magic answer, Eytan! For publishers, the frequency drivers are different than those for marketers:
by Aaron Smith on Mar 26, 11:45 AM
Last week I wrote about how email is such a tiny slice of the cross-channel marketing pie, and that it's up to those of us working in the kitchen to cook something up to get a bigger cut. In the coming weeks, I'll explore strategies and tactics we can use to simultaneously improve program performance, delight recipients, and raise the channel's profile.
by daniel.c , Melinda Krueger on Mar 25, 2:00 AM
Dear Email Diva: I am looking for any research that shows the level of registration of consumers when given an opportunity to opt out vs. no opportunity to opt out, with the exception of not pressing the submit button. In a perfect world, we would be able to generate white list data and have a high conversion rate. Are the two points mutually exclusive?
by editor , David Baker on Mar 24, 1:30 PM
What makes great email creative? Is it the design, format, use of images -- or do you simply roll it all up into what you call a good customer experience?
by Aaron Smith on Mar 20, 2:00 AM
Email has been around for a while now, and for many, it works well. The ROI is great and that's that. Marketers in new media are like kids in a candy store. Once they've sampled malt balls, they move on to taffy pulls. Email is like grandma's oatmeal cookies: reliably tasty, but easy to forget when you're sucking on a gobstopper.
by Chad White on Mar 19, 2:00 AM
At DMA Annual last year, I had a guy drop by the Email Experience Council's booth and start asking questions about us. I gave him the big picture and told him that if he really wanted to see what we were all about, he should go to our homepage and subscribe to our free weekly newsletter. His response really struck me. He said, "Whoa, another email newsletter? I get too much email as it is."
by daniel.c , Melinda Krueger on Mar 18, 2:00 AM
Dear Email Diva: I understand the provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act, but it seems this does not prohibit the sending of an unsolicited email as long as you comply with the rest of the law. Is this true?
by editor , David Baker on Mar 17, 2:00 AM
Today's column is themed with the Webinar that Datran Media and Avenue A|Razorfish are hosting tomorrow, March 18, entitled "Email Delivery Systems: Build, Buy or Rent?" I've written several articles on this subject since 2005. One article was entitled "How to Select an Email Service Provider"; another, "Email Isn't Free." Each spoke to pieces of the decisions marketers are facing today in choosing the optimal technology for their consumer-facing email.
by Loren McDonald on Mar 13, 2:00 AM
One question that email marketers continue to ask all the time is "How often should I email my subscribers?"If you are a publisher, this is still a reasonable question. But for most other businesses, it's so last-century, so old-school, so Web-1.0, so... you get the picture. The better, though more complicated, question might be: "What demographics, preferences and behaviors can I use to drive a continuous program that maximizes the lifetime value of my customers?"