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 …
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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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 …
Why categorizing your business data is best practice
When you’re just starting out with your own small business, you might be tempted to keep all of your data in one or two files for the sake of convenience. This includes your sales records, leads, clients, prospects, and anything else that is related to your business. Unfortunately for the many business owners out there …
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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 …
5 tips for improving your email sign up forms
We know that great email marketing is one of the most effective digital channels of growing your business online and increasing engagement. As we have said in numerous previous updates, the starting point for great email marketing is a great data list of contacts and this data list is grown using effective email sign up …
Content ideas for email marketing and your next campaign
The old adage content is king has never altered but often we are faced with customers asking us ‘what can we write about, i don’t know what to say’. This update all about content ideas for email marketing and may help answer that question…. There are so many opportunities to build and engage your audience …
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Email Marketing tips for Small Businesses
Email marketing is an easy way for small businesses to communicate and build loyalty and trust with their customers. Previously, direct marketing was incredibly expensive and only feasible for large businesses but, over the last few years we have seen a dramatic change and these are our Email Marketing tips for Small Businesses The cost of …
Your 2016 Email Marketing Strategy
Whether you are choosing to give up smoking, go to the gym or spend more time with loved ones, many people will come up with a few New Year’s resolutions for their personal lives. But, how many businesses make resolutions too? No where near as many, I’m sure you would agree. However, New Year is …
How to get great business data
Having great business data is a key element of any strong email marketing campaign and it is often overlooked. You can have the best campaign that is let down by poor data so your results are similarly poor. This overall isn’t surprising as lets face it when planning any campaign you have so much to …
Five things businesses can do better with data
We’ve written previously about the value in the data that every business has, so now you’ve found your business data what you can do with it that makes it work harder for you? These are our five top tips for making your business data work harder. 1. Know your customers better than they know themselves You …
Resuscitating inactive subscribers on your email marketing campaigns
Resuscitating inactive subscribers on your email marketing campaigns has to be a primary task for any active email marketer. You should be bearing in mind that deliverability is a key part of any active and ongoing email marketing campaign and that on average around 24% of emails sent are blocked/none delivered and this rate is increasing, so …
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