Declaring things dead is nothing new. Every day someone declares something dead. For example, in 2007 many people were declaring page views and even web analytics dead. Well here we are three years later and neither of those is dead yet.

Email ain’t dead yet.
When they wake up, 59% of consumers check their email account before anything else online, according to new research from ExactTarget (disclosure: client), in a sweeping survey of 400+ Americans. (play with the data in the super cool interactive tool below)

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. [...]

Online marketing firm, Market Wise, has launched the Email Newsletter Resource Center (ENRC) offering best practices information to email publishers, advertisers, and writers.

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, [...]

Contrary to what some people have been yelling about email marketing being dead (they’ve been saying this for a few years now), it is very much alive. I love getting messages in my email box that are relevant to my wants and needs — note the keyword here is relevant. And you probably do too. [...]

In past articles I talked about using Google’s URL builder to track traffic from paid search channels outside Adwords (like MSN and Yahoo for example.)

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]