As an email marketer, I’m sure you’ve read and heard all sorts of ideas in regards to the relationship between social media and email. Some say the advent of social media means the end of email marketing. Others see the two as allies, working together in tandem. Most of it is hearsay, with little facts [...]

Email has gone from being a simple case of making sure your newsletter ends up in the inbox, to making sure it’s optimized for a wide variety of types of inboxes. Mobile computing is growing at a feverous pace, with various platforms which must be optimized for if experts expect their newsletters to be opened. [...]

Email dying? Newsletters a thing of the past? Not according to the latest developments in the social media world. I was hanging out with a friend recently, who was checking his social network profiles. Was he directly visiting the sites and logging in each time? No, he was looking through his email. In many ways, [...]

Video email, social media, and personalization are all trends which look to be picking up steam going into 2010.GetResponse, an email marketing platform developer conducted a study to discover trends in email marketing. If you’d like to check out the full survey, you can find ithere.

Chris Marriott, of iMediaConnection haswritten a very interesting article regarding email newsletters. Marriot tests the minds of his readers by hypothesizing what would happen if the email newsletter became extinct, and what would marketers do without the platform. His ideas led me to think of not necessarily the death of the email newsletter, but how [...]

As an email marketer, it is vital to continually push boundaries and keep your campaigns fresh. Your clients and readers want to be wowed, and sometimes that means thinking outside of the box. Or in the case of Options Media Group Holdings (OPMG), purchasing an app from another company who thinks outside the box for [...]

At the end of every year, it’s inevitable that a slew of awards are given out. In 2009, there were even more so with the turning of the decade. Econsultancy , a group known for digital marketing and e-commerce devised their own list of awards for those in the industry. They’re called ‘Innovation Awards’. Over [...]

If only newsletter emails could be as simple as ‘send email to user’ — ‘user opens email’. It could happen; if the world were perfect and there wasn’t such a thing as spam, trojans, or viruses. Unfortunately, we don’t live in that sort of world so it then becomes vital to know your stuff. Here’s [...]

I can’t help but roll my eyes whenever I hear ‘Email is dying’. This thought generally stems from social media experts who think they’ve stumbled onto the next big thing. I’m not downplaying the significance of social media, however email is here to stay. Judging from Campaigner.com’s latest survey, small businesses still find plenty of [...]

Discussing the evolution of the internet, I believe all of us could really ‘wax poetic’ on Dylan’s ‘Times They Are A Changin’. While many marketers are scratching their heads over how to embrace social media, this could be the opportunity you need to face it head on. Just be sure you know what you’re doing. [...]