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Innovative Email Strategies: Bulletproofing and Bake-offs

When it comes to email marketing, the best thing for merchants to test 10 years ago was the subject line, according to Ryan Urban, director of acquisition for men’s apparel merchant Bonobos. ...

Triggered Email Messaging in Five Easy Steps

Here are five steps to getting triggered email marketing right. ...

Email Marketing Shift Drives Double-Digit Direct Growth for Cuddledown

Home goods and apparel merchant Cuddledown decided that, when it comes to email marketing during the holiday season, more was more. By emailing its list on a more-frequent basis and creating special offers for certain segments of its list, Cuddledown helped to grow its fourth-quarter direct sales by 53% over 2009....

Take Action on Inactive E-mail Segments

No matter how great your acquisition strategy, it’s a sad fact that response rates for e-mail marketing campaigns begin to drop almost immediately once a consumer joins a list. ...

Keeping your co-reg clean

Is co-registration a good way to build a database? Well, it can certainly be an efficient way to start and grow a file, according to the experts. But...

Maintain your good name

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts may not care about having a bad reputation, but for e-mail marketers, reputation has a specific meaning crucial to the deliverability of their messages. And many merchants are not even aware of this....

E-mail Lists Are Not Overpriced

Not every reader is going to agree with everything in Lists & Data Strategies. Find out what one vendor thinks about David Kanter's argument that e-mail lists are overpriced....

Oh, behave!

In the not-so-recent past, marketers treated e-mail as an electronic version of mass media, blasting the same message to their entire audience. If marketers...

Building up your e-mail file

Ask any multichannel merchant what its biggest e-mail marketing challenges are, and growing the e-mail file will certainly be one of the first topics...

The New Conversion Tool: Triggered E-Mails

It’s one thing to get people to sign up for your e-mail. It’s another to turn them into customers. But you can do it by sending triggered messages. ...

When less equals More

At some point, every marketer has asked this question: If I send more e-mail, can I expect a greater return? Conceptually, more e-mail means more eyeballs,...

How to Increase Value in Credit Card Transaction Data

Nearly one in three consumer purchases in the U.S. is made with a payment card—credit, debit or prepaid. And $40 of every $100 spent by shoppers is in a form other than cash or check. That means you can learn a great deal about your customers at the point of sale....

The Hunt for E-mail Relevance

The secret to relevant e-mail marketing is no secret at all: It begins with understanding your customer through the data you have gathered. And the most valuable data of all may be the activity information you gather every time you send an e-mail. But are you doing this? Many marketers ...

Oh, No: It’s Those Dwindling Keycode Collection Rates

1997. Ten years ago. It seems like only yesterday. Seinfeld was still producing new episodes. The U.S. dollar was actually stronger than the euro. (Wait, what’s a euro? It wasn’t even invented yet). Oh, and catalogers could actually make marketing decisions with—get this—raw response data. ...

No Sweat: The Benefits of Triggered E-mail

E-mail is easy on the budget. But are you taking full advantage of it? Are you, for example, sending triggered messages—the kind that can go out while you’re sleeping at night? ...

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GLOSSARY

When an industry term is on the tip of your tongue, or when you come across jargon that's new to you, the words and definitions you need may well be right here. Go to the email marketing glossary.

PRIMER

Whether you're just getting started or you need a refresher, the articles below can help you get back to basics.



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