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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]