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The Four Things I Learned from Malcolm Gladwell
When I heard that Malcolm Gladwell was speaking at the email marketing conference I was going to, I was really excited. I really love his books and was intrigued about what he would say to a crowd of 1,300 email marketers.
The ExactTarget conference tagline was “Success by Design,” which was perfect for Malcolm to speak about since his recent book is Outliers: The Story of Success.
How (and why) to plan for interactive marketing
The exponential growth of internet adoption among businesses and consumers provides tremendous opportunity for marketers. According to Forrester Research, advertisers will spend $25.8b on interactive marketing in 2009, and that number is expected to rise over the next five years to $55b, representing 21 percent of all marketing expenditures. The primary reason for this massive growth is that interactive marketing provides more efficient ways to reach prospective customers than more traditional advertising vehicles.
Challenges always accompany opportunities, however, and interactive marketing is no exception. Here are five steps to successfully plan your interactive marketing for 2010:
1. Understand. Before you develop and execute your interactive marketing plan, embark on a mission to understand who your target market is and how they behave online. Create a few prototypical customers and create a quick model about the
The Importance of Links in Emails
Including and utilizing links within your email marketing campaigns is important to guarantee that your links are working for you — that they are investigating what your readers like and helping you generate new content — all while maintaining your email’s charm.
Once you’ve crossed the biggest hurdle of getting someone to open your email, continuing to keep their attention is facilitated by the quality of the content and the information provided within external links. (For more information about the Five Stages of Viewing an email click here)
5 Elements That Make or Break Your Email
No matter how brilliant the message you created, it is likely that less than half of your email recipients will actually open it. With those odds, you need an attention-getting strategy.
Email inboxes are more crowded than ever, so be sure your email stands out among all the others. Emails need to be succinct and compelling every step of the way. Even worse than being ignored, is being pegged as spam, since you won't get any future messages through.
Tackling the Mobile Community Through Email
More and more people are checking their email on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices. Like the automobile and television set before them, smartphones will likely become more popular and affordable until almost everyone has one. The question on many marketers' minds: how is the mobile trend affecting our business and marketing emails?