Over the years I’ve discovered that many email marketers perform email marketing as their job, yet they don’t use many of the basic principles of marketing that other channels, both online and offline, use. It seems many email marketers are not actually focused on marketing at all, but instead simply emphasize creating and sending. Now… keep reading →
It sounds obvious but so many of us forget to focus on the objective whatever we are working on, an email campaign, a newsletter series or a solus email. If you state your intent from the off, your path and destination (usually to conversion) are set. It often helps me to think of my objective… keep reading →
Humans are lazy by nature. I don’t believe that’s a surprise to many of you, but how many marketers actually use this knowledge to their advantage? Think about it. How many of us know that we have multiple options for buying certain products, yet we gravitate to the brand that provides the easiest checkout or… keep reading →
Let me start by saying I’m a big fan of best practices for email – when they are actually useful. But over the years I’ve come to question some of the tactics touted as being best practices, as I feel they don’t reflect the current landscape of email marketing. Best practices generally begin as a… keep reading →