Online marketing doesn’t only include optimizing your website for increased performance in search engine result pages and using pay per click and other paid efforts to target the right market or even display advertising, blogging, social media marketing and the like; managing the contacts and the customers/users you already have can be an extremely efficient, [...]

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 [...]

If you have any connection with web analytics then, I am sure, you have heard about the bounce rates (see Bounce Rate Demystified and Typical Bounce Rates). A lot of analysts and a few web analytics tools are obsessed with the bounce rates. High bounce rate is considered bad. If you are one of those who is obsessed [...]

Toyota and their advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi must have thought they were onto something huge when they launched a series of emails last year. And then this week, AdAge reports, they were slapped with a lawsuit by one of their subscribers/victims. The plaintiff in this case was enrolled in the email marketing campaign when [...]

I hope you have heard the famous words of John Wanamaker “I know half of my advertising is wasted, I just don’t know which half.”
Today the phrase should be something like “Half my Advertising is wasted because I do not advertise responsibly” or “Half of my advertising is wasted; I can stop that but [...]

Successful email marketers who take their cues from customer behavior by segmenting email messages achieve an average email deliverability rate of 90.2 percent according to a recent report by the Aberdeen Group.

If you’re looking for an easy and inexpensive way to market your business, you should consider article marketing. Articles are, hands down, one of the most powerful low-cost marketing tools out there. Partly because they let you share your expertise with lots of people and give them a taste of what you do…And partly [...]

The graph below illustrates a point I’ve often wondered about  email marketing – too many people who do it seem wholly without care about who they’re reaching out to.

One thing that should always be a focus of you marketing campaign is developing long term visitors and customers by creating an email marketing campaign.
I have been absent from this blog for about a bit because I have been working on a project that I have kept secret until the day it was finished. [...]