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Tips To Prove Your Email Marketing's Success

According to a recent report, it has been discovered that "... nearly 20% of email marketers have no clue how their email marketing campaigns perform" - a startling figure given that financial directo...

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DIY Email Marketing - 5 Things You Must Do

Like any other channel you choose to build from scratch, a 'do-it-yourself' approach to email marketing is liable to backfire if you don't make the proper checks before hand, as a recent privacy blund...

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Sales Teams Under Greater Pressure to Perform

Could you be doing more to help your sales teams reach their targets? The 15th Annual Sales Optimisation Study by CSO Insight has shown that less than 59% of all sales reps met their targets in 2008,...

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More Than 4 out of 5 Directors Support Email Marketing

A poll of 1,000 finance directors across the UK has discovered that more than four out of five support an increased investment in marketing platforms, including email marketing, despite the recession....

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Preview Panes Are a Window of Opportunity

Imagine the situation: first thing on a Monday morning, hundreds of thousands of people are scrolling through their inboxes to see what they might have missed over the weekend. Your email marketing me...

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Optimise Email Marketing Content To Increase Your Sales

Our new white paper on improving email campaign success, 'Optimise Email Content for Increased Sales in Five Easy Steps' is now available for you to download in our white papers section. In this pap...

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E-commerce Makes the High Street 'Green' With Envy

If you sell items popularly bought as gifts, e-commerce might just be the way to boost your sales figures and ‘green’ credentials at the same time. E-commerce continues to expand in spite of the ...

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Email Marketing Has to Be More Engaging Than Ever

Merkle's recent View from the Inbox 2009 study has revealed that 59% spend at least 20 minutes every week with permission-based email marketing. But how many emails have to compete for subscribers' at...

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Hidden Selling Opportunities in Email Marketing

Are you missing a valuable opportunity to sell to subscribers in your email marketing? Quite possibly, because a recent report from Return Path's Professional Services Group has shown 58% of retailers...

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CRM's Key to the Future Through Customer Insight

In a speech delivered at the Gartner CRM summit in London, Gartner Fellow, Mark Raskino commented, ‘In the last recession you can see companies that made mistakes by sticking with data they had.’...

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Is It Time To Give Up On Your Prospects?

When is it ever right to give up on a prospect? If you've been sending consistent email marketing campaigns to them for over several months with no response then maybe the best thing would be to cut y...

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Putting Excitement Back Into Email Marketing

"Email is the tightest link ever forged between buyer and seller." So said Engauge Chairman, Stan Rapp at this year's Email Evolution Conference, the highest form of praise any medium can receive in...

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5 Tips to Get Your Ecommerce Site to the Top

With on-line retail predicted to expand by 6% and reach an estimated value of £56bn by 2014, ecommerce site owners will be considering how to maximise the amount of traffic their websites receive. Re...

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Update: DMA Email Marketing Benchmarking Report

More useful information for marketing managers has been published by the DMA, following on from the figures reported in our last blog post about email marketing strategies in Q2 2008. It appears tha...

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