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Small business email marketing is a valuable tool to reach customers, build relationships, and promote their brands. In fact, email marketing has an impressive ROI of $36 for every $1 spent. With our six-step guide, any small business can devise a successful campaign without needing in-depth knowledge or expertise. We'll help you create tailored content for your audience with the goal of making connections and driving sales. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3! https://unsplash.com/photos/uGcDWKN91Fs 1. Identify your target audience Email marketing is all about understanding your customers and tailoring messages that hit the mark. Creating buyer personas to identify target audience demographics, behaviors, and preferences helps ensure effective outreach with successful outcomes! Taking the time upfront to pinpoint ideal customer needs ...

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Despite the pandemic's effect, Email marketing continues to be one of the most popular mediums of communicating with your customer. Brands are considering this medium as features like loyalty programs and advanced analytics give them essential clues into their buyer's history. Despite highly effective marketing emails, most brands are not yet getting their desired results. With the decrease in interpersonal encounters, the ROI should have been increased, but in reality, we have seen that email marketing is lacking in conversion rate. This significant issue is that marketers are not correctly targeting email marketing by sending out personalized emails. Properly targeting customers is a complex thing and has minute intricacies. Therefore, below we list some of the practical steps for ...

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Technology has made significant strides over the last few years, but the tactics used for email phishing haven’t changed all that much. Many of the old strategies still work, and as the saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” During Bee Token’s initial coin offering (ICO) in 2018, a scammer pretended to be a member of the Bee team, sending emails to would-be investors and instructing them to deposit ETH into crypto wallets under their control, supposedly in return for Bee Tokens. The scammer ended up collecting $1 million. The attacker’s tactic was, in short:  Pretend to be someone that victims trust.  Trick victims into handing over something of value. Four years later, in 2022, the same technique is being ...

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How Can Email Marketing Help You Make More Money As An Affiliate? standard

Email marketing is not just lower in cost compared to other mainstream marketing methods. It can also help you reach a global audience. Email marketing provides the best Return On Investment (ROI) from any sales or marketing channel.  But what role does email marketing play in the world of an affiliate? How does this form of marketing help affiliates make more money? This article will discuss how to utilize email marketing to boost your affiliate earnings. We’ll look at effective email sequences and discuss email copywriting tips to help you get more clicks to sales pages. Use Email Sequences to Keep The Party Going Understanding your buyers' journey is key if you're looking to increase your revenue. The buyer's journey consists of three ...

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Email marketing remains the marketing strategy with the highest ROI for both B2B and B2C businesses. Of course, the first step to gaining this ROI is to get your audience to open your emails. Hence, marketers focus on the open rate metric because, without an email open, you won’t get a CTA click and conversion.  I will share seven tips to improve your email open rates and hence your overall conversion rate. But let’s start with a quick review of the relevance of email marketing in e-commerce.  1. Segment Your List Segmenting your email list lets you split your audience into smaller homogenous groups with similar needs and wants. Some common ways to segment your mailing list include: Subscriber demographic (age, gender, ...

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Start-up without emails is difficult to envision a future. Because email has the privilege to target audiences and to promote the businesses in cost-effective ways to grow revenue, you can deliver some exceptional anticipated and relevant messages to people and thus gradually gain the prospect's trust. If you're on the fence about using email, then here we are mentioning some terrific uses of email marketing that can work wonders for any enterprise. One of the Fastest Ways to Engage Customers Emails are opened within the first hour as they are time-sensitive. If any enterprises use email marketing in their workforce, it is a perfect sure-fire way to promote their services faster. Without wanting to annoy your customer's emails can be the best ...

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Phishing. Advertising. Scams. Inappropriate content. Everybody has been on the receiving end of spam emails, but nobody wants it. It clogs your inbox, makes it difficult to find important emails, and potentially puts your computer, finances, or identity at risk. The good news is that you don’t just have to accept spam as part of everyday modern life. Follow these tips for how to reduce the amount of spam you receive and regain control of your inbox. Use a Spam Filter The most efficient way of stopping spam is to use a spam filter, which does the legwork for you. They scan incoming emails, checking the sender information and any attachments against known threats, automatically deleting or sending those it flags ...

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Email marketing is the top avenue for digital marketers, whether driving sales efforts or client engagement is concerned. One question that stays common across roundtable discussions for a decade and over Zoom calls these days is: Whether to choose plain text or HTML emails. As the marketers continue to discuss the pros and cons of both of them, HTML email templates come out as apparent winners due to good aesthetics, but decision making is more complicated. Today, I am going to share an apple to apple comparison to make things clear for you once and for all. What Is A Plain Text Email As the name indicates, plain text emails are simple messages without any color or design enhancements. They use ...

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CCPA

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was effective on January 1st, 2020. It outlines new standards for data collection and the penalty if businesses do not follow these standards. How does this affect marketers? Well, the way marketers use personal information has changed. What is CCPA? As stated by the Marketing Profs, “the law is meant to protect consumers’ personal information as well as increase the transparency of how the personal data of California residents is being used.” What Marketers Need to Do At the highest level Understand how personal data is being used to serve your customers Ensure your team has a clear understand on the law Make sure CCPA responsibilities are delegated within your organization Within the marketing team If you’re providing discounts ...

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6 email content tips

The American Marketing Association’s (AMA) publication, Marketing News, recently included the results of an informal poll that identified four tactics marketers plan to stop using in 2019. Guess what tactic wasn’t on the list? Email marketing. It remains a staple for marketers across all types of industries. Email marketing still provides companies with solid returns. So it’s worth looking at some metrics compiled by MailChimp that will give you a comparison for how your campaigns are doing against national averages. Plus, you can compare customer engagement for open, clickthrough, delivery, and unsubscribe rates within your sector. Audiences’ today are bombarded with emails – in both the B2B and B2C sector. Understanding what your email subscribers want from you is highly important. There are general findings that show audiences prefer relevant, ...

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Email Marketing Automation

Email marketing needs to be all about automation in 2019. Why? Because small business owners need it as part of their marketing mix and they need to handle it in a way that saves them time. Research drives this point home as a 2019 Infusionsoft Small Business Marketing Trends Report found more small business owners reported their biggest challenge they face when it comes to marketing is a lack of time and resources compared to last year. Additionally, the U.S. Small Business Administration notes an incredible two-thirds of small business owners and entrepreneurs are personally responsible for three or more areas of their business, including marketing. Technology Trends While it would seem that advancements in technology and tools would be time ...

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Email Trends

Email keeps evolving despite naysayers’ warnings that it is going away. Every year email continues to be ranked as an important tool marketers turn to for communicating with prospects and customers. Email marketing progresses as more data points, technology and insights provide a deeper understanding that marketers can channel into their strategies. With over 2.8 billion people worldwide using email as a digital communications tool, it’s worth marketers’ time to stay on top of the latest trends. Both small and large businesses report positive ROI with each of their email dollars bringing in an average return of $44. This is why email beats out every other platform in turns of performance over the past years. Clearly, there is a tremendous opportunity ...

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Email Marketing

Email marketing remains one of the few media where you can engage with customers who signed up to communicate with you and are truly interested in your company. Reaching an audience who has agreed to receive your messages is becoming more and more rare these days. While social media is a necessary marketing channel, you’re not necessarily reaching people who are always interested in you. This makes email marketing an important tool. A recent State of Email Marketing in 2018 survey report by Clutch looks at how and why companies utilize email communication. Taking a look at the results might help other companies consider objectives that fit their organization as well. Almost three-quarters of businesses across most industries utilize email ...

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Direct Mail part 2

If you’ve found direct mail working well for your company, you may be ready to expand your reach and attain more prospects through a rented mailing list. The two overall categories of rented lists are complied lists and response lists. For most businesses response-bases lists will be the way to go. So let’s focus our efforts on what you need to know about this type of list. A rented list is complied of individuals who have responded, inquired, or purchased in the past from a company with similar products and services as yours. There are five overall subcategories for rented lists: Inquiry – these people have responded to an offer maybe viewed on TV, from a display ad, radio announcement or ...

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Inbound Marketing Primer

The term “inbound marketing” originated on Hubspot years ago, but it’s still critical for marketers today. You earn the customer or consumer’s interest, often in a more targeted way, rather than blasting it to the masses via traditional marketing. 4 Phases in the Buying Process There are 4 phases in the a typical buying process: (1) attract, (2) convert, (3) close, (4) delight. The first step involves attracting strangers to your website, turning them into visitors. Then, in turn, interested visitors are turned into leads. You then attempt to close those leads, turning them into customers. Keep customers happy, and they’ll promote for you. Image Source: https://www.hubspot.com/inbound-marketing Step 1: Attract The best ways to attract new visitors include: blogging, SEO, and social media. Blogging ...

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Okay, so hopefully by now you understand that data is crucial above all else. What else do we have in store for you? Crafting your brand story, implementing AI, and settling the debate on whether or not you should emojis and gifs in your emails. Tell a Story Discounts and promotions may encourage one-time sales, but creating a personal relationship with your customers is what will keep them loyal and with you for the long haul. Use your email as a storytelling technique. Give them a behind-the-scenes look at your business, talk about its roots and day-to-day, highlight its employees and customers, talk about company values, and describe any of your community-related activities. Humanizing your business breaks down the wall between ...

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Email is still going strong in 2018, so how can you best utilize it? In Part 1, we’ll explore how to best use data - a cornerstone for all of your email marketing (and beyond). Then we’ll break down 3 other important lessons in Part 2. Data’s (Still) Your Best Friend Data is so easy to gather and its benefits can’t be denied. You’re better able to determine which emails work, which don’t, and why. You can easily segment your marketing and create a strategy more tailored to your customers individually. Here’s some of the best ways you can gather and use data. Define and Segment Your Audience You’ll likely gather three types of important audience information: demographic, geographic, and behavioral. Use this ...

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Email Marketing

Email marketing. Some may consider this to be old-school already. But we’re here to tell you, it’s alive and well and you should be doing it too. While it may not be the shiny new toy on the shelf, email marketing has a proven track record of consistently working. It is an affordable tool that more times than not provides a better ROI than Google AdWords and Facebook ads. For small businesses and start-ups in particular, it’s become a lifeline to growing their business. According to Forrester data, small businesses allocate about 10 percent of their marketing budgets on email marketing, which totaled approximately $2.8 billion in 2017. That’s a good thing because Forrester also reports that consumer email attitudes ...

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email marketing best practices

Our last blog discussed forming email strategy goals and a target audience. Here, we’ll re-visit 5 of our best practices from 2014, because the same ideas ring true today: (1) strategic subject lines, (2) avoiding spam filters, (3) calls-to-action, (4) mobile-optimizing, and (5) personalization. We’ve ramped it up with some current stats and facts. Use Strategic Subject Line Keywords To start, subject lines are the first thing customers see, so if you want a customer to open your email, it’s important to carefully craft a good subject. Focusing on subject line keywords, we take a look at how 6 common keywords perform: “You” – opened 5% less than those without “Free” – opened 10% more than those without “Quick” – opened ...

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Email Marketing Strategy

Don’t be so quick to blame email marketing for your woes. It may not be email itself, but rather, how you send email. Email open-rates may be underwhelming, but email has a ROI of 3800%, higher than any other digital form of marketing. So clearly, email can be very successful. What’s important is what you do with it. Your first step is to identify who your audience is. Identify Your Target Audience In order for your campaigns to be successful, they need to be clearly targeted. Use these questions to identify who you are sending to: What is your ideal subscriber like? Think demographics. Are they male or female? How old are they? Are they married or single? Do they have kids? ...

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email marketing examples

Email marketing may not be the flashiest or newest form of digital marketing, but it’s tried and true and still extremely effective. One potential challenge, however, is making your email stand out. Consumers filter through their emails every day, clicking only what interests them, and ignoring or deleting the rest. How can you avoid being filtered out? Check out these 5 great examples of email marketing. 1. Personalize like Poncho. Poncho provides customizable emails that are both cute and clever. it offers updates on your commute and weather, complete with short bits of text and gifs. They’ll even tell you how it will affect your hair that day. Overall, a great way to provide personalized emails to subscribers. 2. Do more with transactional ...

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One of the most important changes in marketing is coming to an inbox near you.  No, it’s not Content Marketing World in September, or one of the thousands of emails from your LinkedIn Groups.  No, this upcoming change could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars if improperly planned.  This act, the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), was created with users in mind, and hopes to reduce the amount of unsolicited Email in Canadian inboxes from British Columbia to Newfoundland.  How can you prevent fines and penalties as a result of CASL? What is the Canadian Anti-Spam Law (CASL)? The Canadian Anti-Spam Law is Canada's law prohibiting the distribution of unsolicited and unrelated email, passed in December 2010 and, following a Governor in ...

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Email marketing, proves time and time again to be one of the most effective avenues in digital marketing. We gathered information from industry experts in email marketing to bring you the following 2014 Email Marketing Facts, Figures, Statistics, and Best Practices. A special thanks to FlightMedia, who brought together the “Ultimate Guide to Mastering Email Marketing in 2014,” we would like to share the best practices in email marketing for this year. We took the facts and statistics from this post and developed them into a simple B2B Friendly blog that will hopefully change the way you look at email marketing. The most recent averages from all 2013 Email Benchmark Reports (with an analysis of over 2.5 Billion emails) reports ...

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As referenced in our last blog, Email Marketing Basics, email marketing is still growing in use, and can be effective in reaching otherwise elusive prospects, and extremely measurable. But like all marketing tactics, there are email best practice techniques to realize the best return on your marketing investment (MROI). To support your success with email, the Modern Marketing University shares 6 Email Essentials for Successful Campaigns including email list development, email design, email software and email service providers, email timing and frequency, email testing and campaign measurement. 1) The Email List The foundation of any email (even direct mail) campaign or program is the list. Obviously, home-grown customer lists have the highest potential for opening, followed by opt-in email lists from a variety of your own ...

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