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Memorial Day Email and SMS Marketing Best Practices

SmartBug Media

But what are the best practices to get opens, clicks, and conversions? You can also use your subject lines to relay that sense of urgency to help increase open rates. According to Pew Research Center, 85 percent of Americans own a smartphone —up from just 35 percent in 2011. Start with a compelling subject line.

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Mobile-Optimization Basics for Email

BenchmarkONE

Recent trends show us that mobile open rates are only likely to increase. Since 2011, they’ve grown by more than 100 percent , with pretty consistent growth year after year. Your body copy should be clear and engaging, providing just enough information to inspire a click. And with nearly 1.7 Pay Mind to Body Copy Length.

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B2B Email Benchmarks: Answers Vary Widely

Customer Experience Matrix

This leads to different questions than I used to get, including the ever-popular “what’s a reasonable response rate for our emails?” Silverpop is also the only study to give both bounce and unsubscribe rates – the others give one or the other. These vary pretty widely, especially for open rates. Here is the U.S.

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A Checklist for 2012 Content Marketing Plans

Writing on the Web

I’ve been reviewing my 2011 blog posts, email broadcasts, videos , and taking stock. Here’s a checklist for reviewing your 2011 content marketing results so you can know where to spend your time and energy in 2012: What were your most effective blog posts in terms of numbers of page views? What about you? Happy writing!

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Did This National Restaurant Chain Put Too Much Love Into the Like?

Convince & Convert

A national restaurant chain sends one MILLION emails offering $10 worth of free food, and is overjoyed when 34,000 of those recipients clicks one button called “like&# on the same day the email was received? average, based on Comscore’s findings to that effect in May, 2011). of the Facebook-using email openers.

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Aberdeen Shows How to Do Email Marketing Right

The Effective Marketer

If you have just started your 2011 campaigns after battling the budget process, I bet you can definitely see some relation to your own company. Content personalization is not an easy task but according to the research it will likely give you a 38% better open rate and 86% greater click-through rate than non-personalized email messages.

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How to Devise a Strategic Email Marketing Plan for 2011

Hubspot

2011 is quickly approaching and you need to gain a clear understanding of what your new email marketing plan will look like. How are you going to meet your new goals in 2011? To get us started now, here are some ways to devise a strategic email marketing plan for 2011: Explore Top Challenges. What have you had most trouble with?