Chris Marriott is the President & Founder of Email Connect, a consultancy focused exclusively on the ESP vendor selection process. He is a recognized expert in the process of connecting leading brands with the right marketing technology partners and platforms.
Prior to founding Email Connect, Chris served as a tenured executive at Acxiom, leading and building its Global Digital and Email Agency Services team into one of the industry’s top services providers.
He is a regular columnist on email marketing and the RFP process, and is an adviser to several emerging marketing technology companies including AudiencePoint and Shotzr.
Follow and connect with Chris on LinkedIn; he is also on Twitter.
The team at Email Connect spends our days working with leading brands to help them through the ESP vendor selection process. But when the sun goes down (OK, sometimes even before that) we become consumers and email subscribers like everyone else. Because of the business we are in, individually and collectively...
Much has changed in the world of email marketing in the last 15 years. Volumes are up, revenues are up, CPMs are down-and those are just a few of the big changes in the industry. But one of the biggest changes is in the nature of the vendor/client relationships themselves. Specifically,...
At Marketing Democracy we’re all about email marketing. We work with some of the biggest email marketers in the industry helping them navigate the complex and critical ESP vendor selection process. But when we’re done for the day guiding our clients, we revert to being consumers and email subscribers like everyone...
We’ve all watched CPMs for email drop dramatically over the last five years. But it seems that no matter how low CPMs go, marketers keep pushing for lower pricing. If this keeps up, it won’t be too long before ESPs will have to pay marketers to send their emails in order...
RFPs have real consequences for your company, and possibly for your job. Here’s a list of 4 of the most common mistakes we’ve encountered when being be hired to salvage an email RFP.
For as long as marketers have been using email, email subscriber acquisition has been an important element of successful programs. The larger an email list, the greater the revenue opportunity. The more addresses a marketer acquires, the better chance he or she has of bringing on some great new customers.
The following are the results of a recent poll by Marketing Democracy and Only Influencers: what are marketers opt-in practices following an Online Purchase:
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the letters “RFP”? Chances are it isn’t something good—unless, of course, you work at The Relevancy Group. We love RFPs and helping our clients manage the process and get great deals. But for the rest of the email world on both the buy side and the sell side these three letters come with a lot of baggage. Why is that?