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The Plain Truth: Winning Email Tactics (BtoB Online)
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Posted: 05/24/2009
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It’s no surprise that marketers looking for high-impact email solutions take maximum advantage of Web technology to reach their audiences. Simply put, that means incorporating plain text e-mails into the marketing mix. While flashy HTML e-mails are great attention-grabbers and response-trackers, they aren’t always accessible to every user. The first rule of thumb: key content should be viewable without scrolling. Keeping offers, calls to action, brand identity and deadlines/time markers all at-a-glance is likely to increase your impact. While you can legally send unsolicited emails to anyone in the US without asking permission, it’s vital to keep your communications targeted and provide opt-outs. E-mail offers an easy, effective, affordable way to stay connected and build strong, lasting relationships with your customers.
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Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications
Topic:
Marketing Communications
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Global,
North America
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Business to Business
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Crutchfield Optimizes First Impression (MarketingVOX)
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Posted: 05/13/2009
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This case study explores how online retailers can turn the average welcome email into a powerful conversion driving tool. A Retail Welcome Email Benchmark study estimates that only 76% of the biggest online retailers are even utilizing a welcome email—which is not to assume that the ones being sent are effective. The welcome email can be used to educate the recipient about your brand and what benefits they receive as a subscriber. In the case of Crutchfield, an online electronics retailer, they transformed their welcome email from a text only email to one that highlighted the differentiating factors of their brand. The redesign added images and was more consistent with the look of the newsletters recipients would receive. Crutchfield’s approach represents a changing trend with up to 89% of retailers sending HTML welcome emails, up 11% from 2007.
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Industry:
Retail & Products
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Content Strategy,
Creative & Design,
E-Commerce,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Consumer
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Web Analytics Key to Performance (Target Marketing)
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Posted: 05/13/2009
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Carol Ott, director of e-commerce finance and web analytics, of the San Diego based company PETCO gets a fond feeling when she considers how web analytics serve her company. In a discussion with Target Marketing she explains why following the complete picture of customer behavior online can more clearly gauge marketing ROI than first and last click. She emphasizes the importance of continuous assessments and optimization of online programs to stay on top of and adjust to the constant changes in customer behavior. This combined with benchmarks and key performance indicators will help companies evaluate their success.
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Industry:
Retail & Products
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
E-Commerce,
Experience & Interaction
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Global
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Business to Consumer
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Social Networks Growing Popularity (CRM Daily)
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Posted: 04/22/2009
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According to Nielsen, social networks and blogs are quickly becoming the most prevalent uses of the web at three times the rate of search and e-mail. Nielsen also notes that social-computing sites like blogs and social networks are visited by over 67% of the worldwide online population and represent 1 out of every 11 minutes of activity online globally. As the social networks become more varied, they are also growing to be more mobile with 19% of mobile device users in the US state they use their phones for social networking and as many as 3 million mobile users were regularly texting Facebook at the close of 2008. The statistics prove that social networks are now and will continue to be an essential part of the online experience globally.
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Industry:
Retail & Products,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Content Strategy,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Consumer,
Peer Groups & Communities
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Salesforce.com Expands Service Cloud to Include Tweets (CRM Daily)
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Posted: 04/22/2009
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As the popularity of Twitter increases companies are struggling for a way to participate in exchanges on Twitter. To address this, Salesforce.com added Twitter to its Service Cloud as a way for their clients to track, search, and even respond to customer discussions among Twitter’s 8 million users with tweets. The service allows companies to sift through millions of tweets and uncover conversations related to their brand or significant to their industry. They can then monitor all related replies to the original post and even use the Service Cloud to direct the appropriate replies back to the original poster. Since launching the service in January Salesforce.com has experienced impressive uptake of the service verifying that this approach symbolizes where customer feedback and response is headed.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer,
Peer Groups & Communities
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