2015 Retention Marketing Survey

2015 Retention Marketing Survey

How Retailers Large and Small Can More Effectively Retain Customers

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Friday Pitch: Alchemy Worx New Seasonal Case Study

Friday Pitch: Alchemy Worx New Seasonal Case Study

I would like to announce the launch of a new seasonal case study by Alchemy Worx and promote our new “off the shelf” automated campaigns aimed at anyone who would like to implement a seasonal campaign, but is short on either inspiration, resource or constrained by internal lead times.

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Friday Pitch: Maropost Leads

Friday Pitch: Maropost Leads

All right, Influencers...here we go. From the great minds at Maropost!

This week, Facebook released lead ads, allowing advertisers to add users to their email database with only two clicks. Maropost is one of six companies in the world who were part of the initial integration launch - we're calling our integration Maropost Leads. 

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How Much Does Email Marketing Cost?

How Much Does Email Marketing Cost?

How much does email marketing cost and what are the factors in determining the price of a campaign? Responding to that question is similar to answering, “How much does a house cost?” The answer depends on a number of factors. These key factors drive the cost of implementing an effective email campaign.

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LiveIntentional Weekly: How to Survive the Ad-Block Apocalypse

LiveIntentional Weekly: How to Survive the Ad-Block Apocalypse

With the use of ad blocking software increasing to over 41% in the past year alone and several ad-blocking apps appearing in the top 10 within the Apple Store, the digital world has officially pressed the “Panic!” button on ad blocking.

This week, Only Influencer’s partner LiveIntent outlines how you can survive the ad block apocalypse without having to resort to cannibalism. (Unless that’s your thing. No judgement.)

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Friday Pitch Day Winner: Wylei's A/B testing Product

Friday Pitch Day Winner: Wylei's A/B testing Product

Good morning, everyone. Very excited to introduce Wylei's core machine learning-driven A/B testing product to the group. Would love to connect off list with anyone who has any feedback or wants to learn more.

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Friday Pitch Day: Email Marketing Software Buyer's Guide Released

Friday Pitch Day: Email Marketing Software Buyer's Guide Released

I am very proud to finally be able to reveal what we have been working on since Feb. of this year. Bruno Florence, Torsten Schwarz, Gabriele Braun and I created something I think unseen in our market, quite EPIC. Below more details and some stats, if you have any questions, or like to know more, feel free to shoot me an email jvrijn@emailmonday.com.  

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How to Change ESP's, Part 2

How to Change ESP's, Part 2

Email is central to many companies, so transitioning to a new email service provider (ESP) is a large project that will touch many departments at the company. This is Part II of a guide of how to change ESPs, from beginning to end, from the perspective of a brand-side marketer who was heavily involved in managing one ESP change and lightly involved in another.

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What Constitutes Good Multi-channel Communication

What Constitutes Good Multi-channel Communication

Someone just asked me which companies I think are leading the way with multi-channel communications at present. Which I think is an interesting question and quite difficult to answer without being subjective. It also begs the question what constitutes good multi-channel communication?

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Shaw + Scott 2015 Holiday Guide

Shaw + Scott 2015 Holiday Guide

Nothing can take the joy out of the holidays faster than a messy marketing plan. We've worked up a plan to make sure your holidays are both joyful—and profitable—this year. Download our 2015 Holiday Guide and open up tips, tools, and tricks to make sure you get what you want this season … sanity, revenue, and rest.

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LiveIntentional Weekly: What’s a ‘Walled Garden’?

LiveIntentional Weekly: What’s a ‘Walled Garden’?

Verizon, in an effort to better position itself against fellow ad tech giants Facebook and Google, is reportedly taking The Donald approach to its data and building a HUGE wall around it, creating what is commonly referred to in the industry as a “Walled Garden.”

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How to Use Content Marketing to Generate More Leads and Revenue

How to Use Content Marketing to Generate More Leads and Revenue

After answering a frequently asked question in a website blog post, businessman Marcus Sheridan generated more than $1.7 million in fiberglass pool sales. Find out what that question was and how it may play an important part in the success of your content-marketing strategy.

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How to Change ESP's Part 1

How to Change ESP's Part 1

Email is central to many companies, so transitioning to a new email service provider (ESP) is a large project that will touch many departments at the company. This is Part I of a guide of how to change ESPs, from beginning to end, from the perspective of a brand-side marketer who...

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Friday Pitch Day: SuretyMail Instant Help

Friday Pitch Day: SuretyMail Instant Help

I'm very pleased to announce that SuretyMail has rolled our instant help service; this is a service for email senders who are having a delivery problem with which they want help, but who are not certified through us (our certification customers of course get this sort of help included with the cost of certification). Through SuretyMail's instant delivery help service, anyone can get immediate help with any deliverability problem they may be having.

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Colleen Kazemi

Colleen Kazemi

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Areas of expertise include: building global operations and professional service teams, email campaign strategy, deliverability, content and social media strategy and execution, original content development, partnership development, marketing and sales program development, customer acquisition and retention, and staffing and production best-practices.

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LiveIntentional Weekly: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Email Habits But Were Afraid to Ask

LiveIntentional Weekly: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Email Habits But Were Afraid to Ask

A new report from Adobe has revealed that people spend an average 6.3 hours a day checking email, and that the majority of them do it everywhere from the bed to bathroom.

This week, Only Influencer’s partner LiveIntent these findings in perspective and explore an area of growth opportunity for the email industry.

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LiveIntentional Weekly: 2015 Holiday Retail Preview

LiveIntentional Weekly: 2015 Holiday Retail Preview

It’s the official end to summer and retailers and hard-core shoppers everywhere are already digging in to prepare for the 2015 Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend, so we’re going to pretend September and October don’t exist and dive right into our special Holiday 2015 Preview.

This week, we’re highlighting the hottest tech and trends that you need to know about to deliver on the biggest shopping weekend of the year.

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The Robots Are Coming: Drip Marketing at it's Worst

The Robots Are Coming: Drip Marketing at it's Worst

I say automation, you think robotic, right?

No wonder. Experienced marketers and consumers alike receive corporate-heavy copy in their messages nowadays. Dry, humorless, stiff, computerized. Or the pendulum swings the other way with over-the-top witticisms and personality that tries too hard. Canned humor gets nowhere.

To strike a balance between robotic and over-friendly in your drip marketing campaigns is difficult, especially trying to let your usual brand voice have a weigh in, too. It isn’t impossible, though.

There are a few strategies that will help you craft conversational, concise copy that doesn’t sound like it came from a machine.

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If Back to School Emails Were Reviewed by “The Breakfast Club”

If Back to School Emails Were Reviewed by “The Breakfast Club”

Welcome to the soft-launch of the Autumn season, hard launching September 23rd. Also known to yanks as Fall, it’s not simply a change of seasons, it marks the beginning of many things - The beginning of the end as Winter approaches. (This feeling is especially strong in Chicagoans.) For pagans and ghouls, the launch into the Samhain/Halloween/Harvest season and a spookfest for any reason. For others, likely who happen to be (suddlenly overjoyed) parents, it’s back to school for the kids (hoorah!). Then, there’s the Email Marketer. Back to School marks another sales season which makes us happy and provides an opportunity to send MORE EMAIL!

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What Your Drip Messages Are Missing (You Might Be Surprised)

What Your Drip Messages Are Missing (You Might Be Surprised)

In a past Only Influencers article Automated Marketing: Drip vs. Nurture, the author argues that there are drip campaigns and there are nurture campaigns.

I wouldn’t necessarily argue that point, but I would take a different perspective.

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