Let’s be quite clear from the start, Social media activity does not directly improve your business website SEO ranking, however, the content you share and the links you share directly increase your brand exposure. Taken cumulatively these do add up over time and influence SEO in these five key areas. A far wider distribution of …
Three top reasons why you should go business networking
As we return to some kind of normality this is when business networking becomes critical for any growing business. But what’s it all about and why should you go to any of the numerous well run business networking events? Well, we’ve been attending networking events for years and also we have run our own business …
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Why is Google My Business Important for SEO?
In the early days, having a recognizable sign for your story was important to bring in customers. In the modern-day, the internet has quickly become the customer’s thoroughfare, and your businesses’ online presence is the new shopfront. With easy internet accessibility in the hands of almost every customer, it’s no surprise that a missing Google …
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 …
Summer Email Marketing Strategies
As an email marketer, you may feel tempted to relax and not put in as much effort over the summer months. After all, much of your customer base is vacationing and spending more time with family during this season that goes all too quickly. However, you can’t afford to lose momentum with your email marketing …
Five Easter Email Marketing Strategies for your business
According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), online Easter spending in 2017 reached almost $5 billion, setting a 14-year record for online sales during an Easter holiday season. Candy, food, apparel, gifts, flowers, décor, greeting cards, and balloons top consumer’s buying lists every Easter. Email marketing strategies that cater to these wants (or, needs, in …
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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 …
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 …