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

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 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

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. I focused my research this week on how I can help my customers build out a demand waterfall as defined by the smart people over at SiriusDecisions. Reuse your email newsletters by ensuring they are posted on your website. Create marketing campaigns that can be reused.

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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? Query strings can help out there as well! The same goes for email.

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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. Let’s get to some possible ideas that will help you improve the way that you collect information from your subscribers. How did Avid do this?

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2008

I'm always looking to help out marketers with their landing pages ever since I went to the Marketing Experiments Landing Page Workshop earlier this year (yes, it was in Florida and no, I didn't just go to the beach!). Send them a follow up email with another call to action and see if they are interested. Good luck!!

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. person for help.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 21, 2010

Have a look at these and see if you’re company is following them: Easy Access to Customer Support : This is a no-brainer yet there are many companies out there that make you jump through many hoops to get the help you need. While Wind provides the ability to email them, I’ve called them each time. Enhance customer communication.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2009

I’ve already written a post on tips for using Twitter and email marketing but I wanted to take this to another level. It also includes links to prominent Eloqua Tweeps that will help build your Twitter brand. Once you sign up at Twitpic, you’ll get an email address that you can email your pics to from your phone.

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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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Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2006

What if you are having a bad week or day and are fed up with the ridiculous time involved in maintaining your website, low web traffic, rising costs of AdWords and failed conversion rates from your email campaigns? Send one last email blast. Notice how we have used consistent branding between email and your website.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 5, 2006

Marketing Sherpa put out another great article on viral campaigns. Their tips are deadly (in a good way - just like "viral" campaigns). Getting your customers to be your advocates is always a great idea but sometimes they need a kick in the ass so a viral campaign can help out. I suggest checking it out.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 3, 2006

Herre's a good article on Click Z about how to create a good " consumer-generated media " campaign. How can you turn these people into advocates and help the spread the message about the great work you are doing? How can you turn these people into advocates and help the spread the message about the great work you are doing?

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2006

Larry Chase at Web Digest for Marketers is an amazing source for marketers looking for tools to assist in email marketing, search marketing, surveys - you name it! Google Conversion Tracking : This is a newer feature that allows you to track your conversion rate (sales or form submissions) for all of your paid search campaigns.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2007

Cutting Through the PR Crap - Blogs Can Help While Goodyear may be saying that it set a sales record in Q4 2006 , it's obvious that a 3 month strike that ended on December 28, 2006 really hurt the company in Q4 2006 and continues to do damage in the first quarter of 2007. Creating a blog is another weapon to help you do this.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

While Old Spice is still trying to make itself look like the cool, "in" brand to appeal to a younger demographic, it's recently launched a new campaign that embraces that old, stuffy, "that's the type of stuff that my dad used in the dark ages" feeling that we all know. Email addresses are required when you leave a comment.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

At Eloqua Experience, there was a focus on helping marketers better understand the different aspects of social media, how to better leverage social media, and why they need to leverage it. EE09 rhonda : #EE09 marketers shld work w/ the sales team to help define a qualified lead for scoring. Only as good as your sales team buy-in.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 17, 2009

megheuer # sds09 megheuer : Sales is protective of customers and late-stage deals; marketing needs give options, not mandates, to help at this stage # sds09 @tjaros jblock : 72% of B2B orgs can segment the customers and prospects in their marketing database. sds09 Sales/Marketing Funnel stharris : # sds09 Most case studies are after purchase.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

By autoresponder email, I mean the confirmation email that a registrant immediately receives when they fill out a form on a website. The Evolution of the Autoresponder Email Let's start with the evolution of the autoresponder. The Traditional Email Autoresponder Thanks for registering. Email Autoresponder 1.0

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