OI Turns 6: A Year End Review and Where We are Headed in 2017

OI Turns 6: A Year End Review and Where We are Headed in 2017

It is that time of year again. The week before the Labor Day weekend when Email Marketers are away on vacation, clinging to their last grasp of summer, and all my blog writers are laying on the beach sipping My Ties. So every year, it is my turn to take the blogger reins and talk about my thoughts and dreams about where Only Influencers is headed next year.

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The Friday Pitches: August Edition

The Friday Pitches: August Edition

Every Friday the members of Only Influencers get to pitch their new products and services. Here is a sample from the last month.

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Jack Wrigley: How to “Sleigh” Your Competitors This Holiday Season

Jack Wrigley: How to “Sleigh” Your Competitors This Holiday Season

As the holiday spending frenzy approaches, digital marketers should have a multi-point plan to capitalize on the busiest season of the year. If you don’t, you’re leaving money on the table. Consumers are the most active and spend the most money during the holidays.

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Dela Quist: What the Clinton and Trump Campaigns Teach Us About Deliverability

Dela Quist: What the Clinton and Trump Campaigns Teach Us About Deliverability

It’s been just over a year since EEC 2015 and the panel on deliverability during which some of the largest inbox providers gave the audience some valuable insights into their definitions of engagement and how that relates to inbox placement. For those of you who missed that panel and are new to this debate Massimo Arrigoni wrote a very good summary on the Mail Up blog. What excited me most about the information the inbox providers shared was, for the first time since I got involved in email marketing we had valuable information direct from the horse’s mouth on what mail service providers really look at.

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LiveIntentional Weekly: The LiveIntent Integration with LiveRamp

LiveIntentional Weekly: The LiveIntent Integration with LiveRamp

Ever wish your cookies were actually people?

Not the yum-yum type cookies, but the cookies that you use to identify and target consumers across different channels like Third Party Web Sites, Search, and Social Networks.

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Jeanne Jennings: 3 Tips for Improving the Effectiveness of Your Email Newsletter

Jeanne Jennings: 3 Tips for Improving the Effectiveness of Your Email Newsletter

In case you missed it, using email newsletters to do content marketing is a thing. But not everyone is finding it to be effective. Many times the issue is the quality of the content. Here’s a brief overview of the situation along with 3 tips to help you elevate your content!

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FulcrumTech

FulcrumTech

FulcrumTech is a full-service email-marketing agency that has a strong reputation for helping clients realize significant increases in their email-marketing ROI.

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Revenue Automation

Revenue Automation

Revenue Automation (RA) is an IBM Silverpop partner and digital marketing agency. We specialize in data-driven email, marketing automation and data integrations.

RA serves business-to-consumer marketing executives by providing the following support services:

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LiveIntentional Weekly: What Google’s ‘My Activities’ Page Means for Brands

LiveIntentional Weekly: What Google’s ‘My Activities’ Page Means
for Brands

Lost in all the hullaballoo in recent weeks over Pokémon Go was the news that Google recently made available a ‘My Activity’ page, which makes it possible for people to see all the information Google has related to their user login.

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Kristy LaPlante: Who’s the real winner: Pokémon, or Email?

Kristy LaPlante: Who’s the real winner: Pokémon, or Email?

By now, you’ve played Pokémon Go. And if you haven’t, you’ve witnessed someone who is playing it.

Welcome to the world of mainstream augmented reality. Before we dig deeper into the implications of Pokémon Go to Email Marketing – and yes, there are several – let’s begin with a complete understanding of what augmented reality is and how it came to be.

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Email Can Help Make Pokemon Go a Long Term Success

Email Can Help Make Pokemon Go a Long Term Success

Pokemon Go became the top downloaded and top grossing app when it was released three weeks ago. It already has more Daily Active Users (DAUs) than Twitter, and there’s probably much more to come —Niantic, the developer, has hinted at features that will involve bricks-and-mortar stores and may drive even more usage. In short, Pokemon Go is a massive hit.

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Latest Email Innovations: July Edition

Every Friday, Email Vendors get to pitch the OI membership on their latest tool or service. Below is the best pitches for the last 30 days:

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Ellen Watkins: 3 Life Changing Results from Writing for the OI Blog

Ellen Watkins: 3 Life Changing Results from Writing for the OI Blog

The simple email announcement came across my desk. All kinds of thoughts raced through my head and I considered all aspects of it in a matter of seconds. Do it! Don’t do it. Ack! Reach out and try. Move beyond your cube walls. This is an example of what you’ve been looking to do. What happens if peers and current leadership find out? What will it bring? What will it hurt? You’re not good enough. You are good enough. What will you say? You’ll figure it out somehow. And, in a split second I made a gut-decision and said yes to being one of the first contributors to the OI blog.

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A Tale of Two Emails (and a Call to Arms)

A Tale of Two Emails (and a Call to Arms)

I recently signed up for two very different email lists, Pottery Barn and Chubbies. Why on earth would I add more email to my already exploding inbox? In the case of Pottery Barn, it’s because I want some new towels for my guest bathroom and I was hunting for a discount code. In the case of Chubbies, it’s because I heard from a co-worker that their emails were hilarious, and I wanted to see them for myself.

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5 Things to think about when choosing your next ESP

5 Things to think about when choosing your next ESP

Having been on both the brand and vendor side – and having been part of multiple decisions to evaluate and/or change ESPs (hint – it’s not as hard as your current vendor makes it seem…nor as easy as your new vendor claims), I’m surprised by how many mismatches between client and vendor still happen. It’s the biggest reason for account churn – bad fit between the client and vendor.

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LiveIntentional Weekly: How to be the ‘Jon Snow’ of Marketers

LiveIntentional Weekly: How to be the ‘Jon Snow’ of Marketers

The Relevancy Group’s “State of Identity Management Report” recently revealed that when it comes to driving actual revenue, deterministic data pays like a Lannister.

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Derek Harding: Brexit and Email Marketing

Derek Harding: Brexit and Email Marketing

The UK’s vote to leave the European Union, aka Brexit, came as a shock to many, including a good number who voted for it. In the aftermath many are wondering both what happens now and what the impact will be.

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LiveIntentional Weekly: Why Microsoft Thinks LinkedIn is Worth $26.3B

LiveIntentional Weekly: Why Microsoft Thinks LinkedIn is Worth
$26.3B

In a story we’re breaking just now, Microsoft has acquired B2B social platform LinkedIn for the mind-numbing sum of $26.2 billion dollars.

Just to put that in perspective, with 26.2 billion dollars, you could buy the Chicago Cubs…. 26 times. That’s about 2.7 trillion years of losing.

That’s why this week, Only Influencer’s partner LiveIntent is taking a look at what it is about LinkedIn that Microsoft thinks is worth all those dolla-dolla-bills, y’all.

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How Machine Learning Takes Email Marketing to New Heights

How Machine Learning Takes Email Marketing to New Heights

The possibilities and potential for machine learning never fail to amaze me, whether they could make my personal life easier (now my kitchen appliances can talk to each other, but do I want to know what they're saying about me?) or open up new vistas for email marketers.

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The Latest Email Innovations: June Edition

Every Friday the Only Influencers membership gets to pitch the OI community on their latest innovations and services. Here is a roundup of some of the latest tools, services, and innovations coming out of the email industry.

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