Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Not sending relevant and timely messages If you continue to only send email blasts on a schedule that you dictate to your email subscribers, you risk massive list attrition, damaging your overall email deliverability and a loss of sales and sales opportunities. If you’re having trouble with this concept, skip down to #4.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I’m still getting the hang of holding my 2 month old son while I check my emails or read a book. In my definition for this post, I’m referring to a process that automatically delivers highly targeted emails to prospects or customers in a specific time frame via a marketing automation platform. Are any of you out there new fathers?

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

It can consist of a sales or call center rep calling a prospect over a period of time or a series of emails sent by marketing. This makes it easier for marketing as messages can be delivered in a timely and consistent manner without a marketing person manually sending out the email each time.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2009

I've just got off the treadmill and getting ready to turn in and received an email from a Canada's largest retail drug store - Shoppers Drug Mart or "Shoppers" for short. This email may have cut it 1999 but will be deleted or never make the inbox in 2009. Typically email recipients will block anything with the word "free".

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

If you have a call to action that is directed at the same landing page more then one time in your email, what is the best way to track which link received the most unique clicks? As a best practice, it's VERY important to: Have more then one link in your email to the desired landing page. Here is the original URL: https://h30406.www3.hp.com/campaigns/2008/events/poweritdown/index.php

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Anything Goes Marketing

JUNE 29, 2009

Together, these make up a personalization playbook that you may want to keep in mind when you plan and execute your future campaign: Email / direct mail merge fields : This is the bottom of the pyramid in terms of personalization. Adding someone’s “first name” to an email is the least that you can do these days.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

I have a great email marketing tip for everyone this week based on a real email campaign. As part of this campaign, an email was sent out to all customers asking them to fill out a survey. The first email used a generic personalization method. Why were response rates so high the second time around?

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2007

While there is a big push these days to get to the true ROI of your online marketing campaigns, we don't seem to be there yet. According to a Penton Media Custom Research study commissioned by PROMO Magazine , click-throughs and response rates are still mostly used to measure the success of marketing campaigns. Happy marketing!

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Should you or should you not place a survey (form) in your email? It's a known fact that forms in emails will not render properly in Outlook 2007 and Hotmail but you may find an increase in conversions for forms directly in the email. This email goes beyond adding forms to your email.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 11, 2007

Are you looking at different ways to evaluate your email effectiveness? There are few different ways that you can evaluate email usability, effectiveness and ROI. I've found a few email tools and resources that you may find useful. Do you actually measure your overall email effectiveness in terms of ROI?

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

or support a "Save the Whales" campaign. Reuse your email newsletters by ensuring they are posted on your website. This is a simple one but it's surprising how many e-newsletters remain only in email format. With an RSS feed, you can promote in your email footers and it can be re-used by other bloggers and companies.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2007

This type of reporting can guide marketers to determine which campaigns and channels are more successful then others by tying marketing initiatives to closed deals. What about the other marketing channels like email and my website? The same goes for email. Closed loop marketing seems easy eh?

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 7, 2008

I was just reading a good article on Marketing Sherpa that outlines " 4 Ways to Fix Misspelled Email Addresses ". I really liked one of the ideas which involves displaying the email address to the web visitor as part of a second step in the registration process. Tags: landing pages email marketing Marketing Sherpa.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 27, 2008

I've finally had the chance to go through a number of email newsletters and reports and I wanted to highlight some interesting email tips. The average open and click-through rates for non personalized emails were 15.86% and 2.09% respectively while the averages for personalized emails were 18% and 5.02%.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 3, 2007

Have you ever created a webinar campaign that had a finally tuned list that was directed at a specific vertical, spent days getting the emails just right, deployed the emails on time, had a good amount of registrations but only had 2 people actually listen in? It's easy if you have a good topic and a well thought out campaign.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 4, 2010

When you have the right data you can laser focus your marketing efforts and achieve a higher response from your marketing campaigns. This past week, I read about a fantastic approach from Avid that makes it easy for email subscribers to customize the email content they receive from Avid as well as let Avid know what they are interested in.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JUNE 22, 2008

From that conference, combined with a very good study on email tactics in retail I've been inspired to write a post on this topic. To go back to my last point on that newsletter sign up - should this be a simple email only form or should you have a link that directs web visitors to a newsletter sign up page? What's in it for me?

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 20, 2006

Have enough work writing one email to your customers or prospects? Try having to write muliple messages for one email campaign!! Welcome to the world of dynamic email content. customer vs. prospect), dynamic content in emails is taking persoanlziation up a notch. Do you use dynamic email content?

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

If you're into testing and deliverability tips for your email marketing campaigns, here are two things that you can try right now: If you use one of those "Click here to view the email as a web page" in the top of your email, try removing it. In fact, remove all of that extra text in the email header.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 20, 2006

I have to admit that I was a bit excited when I saw this article on Imedia written by Wendy Roth with the headline " Email Marketing: What to Measure " as I just went through some internal discussions on this same topic. I never though that email should actually be delivered. Hey Wendy - Are you sure about that? They don't?

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Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 18, 2007

Many B2B marketers today are either slashing their direct mail budgets or drastically changing the focus of these campaigns to make them more targeted. Most likely the answer is cost as well as the belief that everyone reads and has easy access to email. I like to read a white paper on actual paper! Why did we stop doing this?

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Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2007

How to Incorporate Video and Email In a recent article on ClickZ called Testing, Testing, Testing. Karen Gedney reported that Bulldog Solutions started adding video highlights to their emails. When you receive the email, you can click on the video screenshot and the video opens in a new window. Looks difficult?

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 14, 2007

Database deadbeats are what I refer to those contacts who are in your database but are really useless - they don't return to your website, open your emails, register for webinars or buy your products anymore. Tags: email marketing. They take up room and bring your response rates down. Why do I Need to do Anything?

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

If you read Anne Holland's weekly email newsletter, you will typically hear her preaching to e-marketers to TEST, TEST, TEST. Just for fun I went to the home page and saw the article: How to Test Email Landing Pages (More Easily). :) Testing in e-marketing is definitely important in terms of getting the most bang for your buck.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2007

When comparing B2B marketing to B2C, many see B2B as having very generic campaigns that lack the excitement and creativity of B2C. B2B Marketing is Boring B2B marketers tend to use the same marketing tactics over and over again such as direct mail, email, paid search, telemarketing, and live events to name just a few. Translator.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2008

The following was posted on MarketingProfs : Landing Page Critique For Agency's Ppc Campaign Posted By: melissa on 10/10/2008 5:23 PM (CST) 125 Points Hello, We are running a PPC campaign for a full-service marketing agency, and trying to decide on the best landing page for the promotion.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 28, 2006

In a recent article in MarketingSherpa , Sony Ericsson's Agnes Gawel reveals that for their global e-newsletter campaigns, they typically don't worry about ethnically appropriate images for each of their regions: "It's based on local feedback. Sometimes, you don't need to go too crazy to ensure that evrything is perfect for yourt campaigns.

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Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 20, 2006

When your email subscribers fo the unthinkable (hey - you worked hard on that campaign) and hit the unsubscribe link do you let them off easy or is it a tearful goodbye? Perhaps you were sending too many emails or they weer no longer relevant to this person.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 9, 2008

As we move into a new week there are some interesting trends and technology enhancements that will start to change the way that B2B companies use email. For those that are thinking "email is email - how can it change?", You may recall I blogged about a concept called the Blogletter (combo of email newsletter and blog posts).

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

Thinking about a new marketing campaign to promote a new product? Why not consider doing a video that could be used as a TV ad, website video, posted on YouTube , added to your business blog, linked to from emails and advertised in magazines and print material. Sounds difficult eh? Keep all options open. What do you think?

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Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2006

Good tip over on ClickZ in an article called " When an E-Mail Marketing Campaign Goes Bad ". Try breaking out your email list based on the source of your list. In this way, you can determine where you should focus your marketing dollars on as your email opens and click-throughs will tell you what was successful and what wasn't.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When it comes to preparing an email to promote an upcoming event, all you can think about is the date of the event that is looming and your eager boss that has not seen the invite go out yet. This obviously depends on the nature of your email but this is typically a major objective for marketers. Have you been here before?

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2007

I've been reading a few articles lately about how some user-generated content ad campaigns such as the one that Dove ran called Dove Cream Oil Body Wash Ad Contest "failed" as it wasn't well received by the YouTube community. My dad has since emailed the link to anyone he has ever known with an email address. Post it on YouTube!

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 3, 2006

Check out this email on MarketingProfs (they have a great little marketing forum BTW). The email is completely ridiculous! Here's the thing: the marketing campaign worked becuase we're talking about it right now! Maybe this is a new type of email marketing that has begun. The mice in my head are starting to move.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 12, 2007

Many B2B marketers ask these questions daily: We have this great website, we use email, we use search - what else can we do? Besides name and email, choose your registrations carefully! 56% of users use business email addresses but 46% use non-business email addresses.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

If you send out email regularly, getting a few extra opens is always a good thing. I had read a good case study a while back at Marketing Sherpa that mentioned that you may want to try writing emails that contain some good information at the top of the email as this will seen in the AutoPreview in Outlook.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 7, 2007

This too is obvious to some marketers but was one of the better "insights" and demonstrated the strengths in combining different marketing channels such as email, direct mail and follow up calling. While it's easy to generate a list and blast out an email and wait for the responses to roll in, this obviously can't be your only tactic.

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