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Enough of the Jargon!

When it comes to email marketing, there’s loads of terminology that we e-marketers use. However, my preferred buzz word may be different to yours.  For example: I say use the words ‘suppression list’ but you may use the words say ‘blocked list’.  Both mean exactly the same thing – basically a list of people not […]

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Live Unsubscribe Examples

In this post we will delve into examples of live preference centres and unsubscribe pages to see what we can learn from what’s currently out there. Groupon First up is Groupon’s preference centre. There are a lot of positives here, but those very positives can be construed as negatives, depending on the audience.   Off […]

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Double Opt-In vs Single Opt-In

Do you know the difference between a single and double opt-in process?  Which one should you use to win new email subscribers?  Read on for our guidance. Single Opt-In So, this is basically a sign-up process where a user does not need to verify that they signed up to receive email campaigns.  The user submits […]

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Can I Read My Emails on an Apple Watch?

So now we have something else to read emails on – the Apple Watch has arrived and the Smart Watch era is well and truly here! So is it a smaller iPhone strapped to your wrist?  Kind of.  It’s basically another device that notifications are pushed to and that includes texts, tweets, Facebook messages and […]

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Still Sending Marketing Messages Through Outlook?

Professional marketers you may be surprised to know that there are still a substantial portion of people who are absolutely resolute that they can achieve email marketing success by sending mass emails through their internal email system. In such discussions, phrases such as “it’s free” and “does the job” seem to be the standard response […]

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Progressive Profiling

Three Ways to Resolve This As email marketers we are always talking about the need to send targeted, relevant content to improve our email marketing . But this is based on the assumption that we have the information to do that. Well what if you don’t? What steps can you take to improve the quality of […]

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Lead Nurturing

We invest a considerable amount of budget on email marketing and would like to see a good ROI. In this two part article we will focus on the process of lead nurturing through email marketing (www.campaignmaster.co.uk) with the aim of ultimately boosting your ROI. What Is Lead Nurturing? Lead nurturing is the concept of building a […]

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Email Marketing: Design – Do’s & Don’ts

I personally receive a lot of emails on a daily basis and I use my commute to work as the perfect time to trawl through these. I am generally interested in the content of all the emails I receive so I do take the time to read through the majority of them. However, the minority […]

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Managing Email Marketing Unsubscribes

Concerned about your email unsubscribe rates? Email marketers expect a certain level of depreciation in their database, but at what stage should you take a step back and do something about your dwindling list? In this blog we are going to take you through the world of email unsubscribes. It’s not as daunting as it […]

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