Better Built Than Bought – How to Build Your Email Marketing List

Buying an email list may seem like a great short-cut for growing your email marketing reach, but the chances of doing so successfully are small, and the potential damage is not. Here’s why.

   

First though, why should we even care about email marketing right now? Because email marketing, despite lacking the sex appeal of social media and even SEO, is still one of the most effective marketing techniques available. (According to Campaign Monitor, email is 6 times more likely to get a clickthrough than is Twitter. McKinsey says that email is 40 times more effective for customer acquisition than Facebook.)

How to Build a Successful Influencer Marketing Campaign

Influencer marketing has become one of the most widely used strategies across all industries, with 84% of marketers planning at least one collaboration this year; but many are still experimenting with what works and what doesn’t, and how to get the most out of their campaigns. Whether you’re new to influencer marketing or simply want to maximize your return, here’s how to approach your campaign with an ROI-focused mindset.

The Best Days to Send Email Campaigns and Other Email Marketing Tips

Reportedly, 83 percent of marketers consider email their primary lead generation channel. While email marketing can be a cost-effective way to reach new prospects and stay in touch with existing customers, its popularity as a marketing tactic demands that you understand how to optimize your email campaigns in order to cut through the clutter. 

7 Tips to Running a Successful Email Marketing Campaign

Every day, 205 billion emails are sent and received. Inboxes are fit to bursting. It's safe to say email is a tough game, but there are still ways to win.

1. Expert copy

If your copy isn't up to scratch, your click-through rate is going to sink way down. So it's very important to hire copywriters that are capable of creating expert copy for your marketing emails. Consumers are used to receiving marketing emails, in fact, they're sick of receiving so many. In order to stand out in their inboxes, your copy has to be clever, engaging and more importantly persuasive, convincing readers to hit your call to action button.

How to Build an Extraordinary Marketing Campaign

These days, marketers are on an aggressive quest for attention. Attention for their brand, their products, their expertise. To get it, they often ditch their long-term strategy for the new shiny toy, from social media trends and channels to alternative targeting tactics and SEO tricks.

The Surprisingly Best Times to Send Your Email Marketing Campaigns

Long-standing advice amongst email marketers when asked, “When is the best time to send email?” has always been, “Tuesday through Thursday morning, between 8 and 10am.” Sure, it’s common knowledge throughout the industry that people tend to open their email in the mornings, but “the times, they are a-changin’,” as Bob Dylan would say. Let’s visit some current email marketing trends that are creating shifts in open rates, and how they’ll impact your next email send.

4 B2B Marketing Tips for Running Successful PPC Campaigns

When I joined Marketo three years ago, I had previous experience running paid search campaigns at a B2C company. However, I quickly realized that pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns for typical B2B products are very different from those for B2C.