Marketing Strategy

Top 9 Tips to Land Your Messaging in Inboxes and Boost Email Marketing Campaign Performance

Top 9 Tips to Land Your Messaging in Inboxes and Boost Email Marketing Campaign Performance

Email marketing campaigns are a popular sales and marketing tool for many reasons, most notably its relatively low cost and high impact. Yet, organizations and businesses are missing out on these benefits with a simple issue: emails that don’t end up in inboxes. This is a common concern among marketers who see hard and soft email bounces limiting their campaign’s efficacy.

Email platforms have become more sophisticated about their junk and spam email filtering in the past few years. Recent stats show that as many as 53% of emails end up in the recipient’s spam folder, guaranteeing these messages will never be read.

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The How and Why of the Automated Journey Outreach Campaign

The How and Why of the Automated Journey Outreach Campaign

Customer expectations have changed rapidly over the past two years. Your customers expect more personalization, more relevant messaging, and outreach campaigns that speak directly to what they want and how what you’re providing or selling fills their needs.

These changes have made marketing automation and the automated customer journey increasingly crucial to gaining and retaining clients or organization members. Are you utilizing this powerful outreach campaign approach to grow your customer or member engagement?

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Creating an Email Marketing Campaign in Six Steps

Creating an Email Marketing Campaign in Six Steps

Email marketing campaigns don’t get the attention they deserve. Though more recent communication tech, like texting and live chats, certainly bring benefits, email remains one of the most effective marketing methods. In fact, some research shows it has a 4,200% ROI – now that’s effective.

But, to gain such high returns on your email marketing campaigns, you need to put thought into how they’re deployed. One size does not fit all, and your team needs to consider how to craft the right messaging, send it at the right time, and keep improving each campaign to reach your goals.
Here are a few steps to get you started:

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Apple Mail iOS 15 Update: How it Affects Your Email Marketing Campaigns

Apple Mail iOS 15 Update: How it Affects Your Email Marketing Campaigns

In late September, Apple announced the release of its iOS 15 update, a seemingly innocuous occurrence. However, this update introduced a new provision allowing Apple mail users to disable email open tracking, called Mail Privacy Protection (MPP). While this is a win for consumer privacy, it poses a challenge for email marketing campaigns across the globe.

Essentially, through MPP, Apple gives its mail users the option to disable all email tracking. Those users include anyone with an Apple mail (.me) address and anyone opening mail through the Apple mail app (i.e., those forwarding Gmail or business email accounts).

With close to one-third of all emails going through Apple’s mail client, this update will affect all email marketers.

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How to Make Your Email Marketing Campaign Succeed in 7 Steps

How to Make Your Email Marketing Campaign Succeed in 7 Steps

If you’re uninformed, discovering how to make your email marketing campaign succeed can be time-consuming and stressful. You know you have a great product or service, but you can’t engage contacts to learn more. How can you cut through the noise?
With many of your prospects receiving dozens of promotional emails each week, your message needs to make an impact. Follow these steps to get there.

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Building Business Development, the Right Way: Part II

Building Business Development, the Right Way: Part II

In part one of this two-part post on building business development, Director of Business Development Jeff Tillar looked at how to secure a solid development foundation. Quality data and effective tools, along with market intelligence, are the base of a thriving business. But you need to use that data and those tools in the right way to achieve your development goals.
Step 3: Optimize Messaging and KPIs
After you gather the market intelligence you need to understand your target industry, take what you learned and develop multiple outreach campaigns. Each of these campaigns should target a different opportunity segment. Execute these campaigns to validate what you learned from your market research, getting real results to your hypothesis on prospect pain points and preferences.

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