Summer is here, and while many are heading off on holiday, your business shouldn’t take a break online. With the challenging business outlook in the UK at the moment, it’s never been more important to ensure your business profile is the best it can be. The businesses that stay visible, active, and connected with their …
Navigating the New Gmail Guidelines: A Roadmap for Effective Email Marketing
Recently, Gmail has rolled out some major updates to enhance user experience and privacy, these will affect any email marketing campaigns you’re planning moving forward. Here’s your guide to navigating the new Gmail guidelines for effective email marketing in 2024. 1. Respect User Privacy: Gmail emphasizes the importance of respecting user privacy. Ensure that your …
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What Makes an Effective Email Marketing Campaign?
An email is often the primary mode of contact for engaging new business. A recent study out of the UK that analyzed email marketing campaigns for small to medium enterprises (SME) found an average open rate of 24.88% with a click-through rate of 4.06%. That’s pretty good. The question, however, is how do you get …
Email Marketing Strategy for 2018
So 2017 is nearly over and its just the right time to have a think about your 2018 email marketing strategy if you haven’t already done so. As is the case pretty much every year those that gleefully announce the death of email marketing as an effective part of your overal digital strategy, are yet …
What is Email Marketing?
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 …
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 …
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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4 Tips to grow your Sales pipeline using Automated Messages
For any growing business sales pipeline management is crucial and this starts from getting customer enquiries to then closing sales deals faster. Having an organised sales funnel not only makes sales prospecting for more effective, it also makes it much more efficient as your more likely to be working on leads that are likely to …
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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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Sales Automation best practices
Using Sales Automation or a full customer relationship management system gives you the ability to better stay in tune with the needs of your customers. It also harnesses the power of data gathering, outreach, social media and can be coordinated with all of the functions of your business such as accounting, budgeting and forecasting, sales and …