In simple terms email marketing is the use of email to promote products and/or services. We here at mailPDQ believe a better understanding of email marketing helps a business to build a relationship with its potential customers and current customers. We are aware that email marketing is just one segment of Digital Marketing which also …
Why send mass emails
For some growing businesses email marketing is seen as a chore, a question why send mass emails, surely they just get junked don’t they? Words we often hear – but does this have ‘legs’ is it true… Well here at mailPDQ we believe that communication and engaging with the right people demonstrates your business to …
Email Marketing customer journey
We are often asked about the customer journey, a business asks “what happens if we give you our data, what do you then do” So lets use this post to explain the customer journey from a recent email campaign we ran for a new client. Firstly this client came to us as a result of …
5 Golden Steps to create a Sales Email Newsletter
Writing any kind of email newsletter can seem a hard task, writing one that converts can seem even harder making sure that its gets conversions, so these are our five golden steps to create a winning sales email newsletter. There are 5 Golden Steps to creating a Sales Email Newsletter: Subject Line – this is …
A/B Testing for modern email marketing
When a business has its email marketing strategy sorted the best way to see how each part of the strategy performs is to utilize A/B split testing and as you would expect mailPDQ allows you to do just that. This split testing allows you to test a multitude of differing variables, you’ll want to test things …
What makes a great email?
This is a question we are often asked, as though some form of ‘great’ will by default lead to a conversion/action by the recipient. So what is the secret what make a great email? Well we’d have to say in our experience it is a collection of different actions that when rolled into one email …
How to get your emails opened and read
So you build a great email, send it to the right audience yet they haven’t opened it, why you may ask, well we think this can be split into three reasons why… It hasn’t been seen yet, maybe the recipient is just busy It has been ignored Its been seen and deleted without even being …
Sentences you shouldn’t include in an email campaign
When we’re called into businesses to review previous business email marketing campaigns we often see one’s that just fail and the business owners can’t see why. They can’t understand that a recipient isn’t going to spend the whole day reading and replying to all the emails they’ve received, they have more important things to do. So …
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Your 2017 Email Marketing Strategy
With the year rapidly coming to a close, it’s time to start considering your 2017 email marketing strategy, if you haven’t already done so. Those gurus who prematurely announced the demise of email marketing as an effective marketing strategy, are now being forced to acknowledge that it’s still the real workhorse of marketing, especially in …
6 top email marketing tips for Christmas
Christmas is coming is your business ready for the challenge of what should be the best time of the year if you’re a retailer. In some cases Christmas can be the make or break for a business, they need the surge in Christmas trading to make the real profit. With so much at stake for …
Simple Marketing Automation for your business
We have been working with growing businesses for many years and we’ve followed trends, seen stuff grow, seen the next big thing and helped all our customers get on board so we now can deliver powerful technology that is cost-effective and easy to use. We know that simple marketing automation is helping so many businesses …
Email Automation what is it?
We’ve written previously about regular email newsletters and even standalone one-off campaigns that you create and send to a whole list of people in one go with a call to action (CTA). This differs from using email automation as with this the campaign is set up once only and then it automatically is sent to …