Take the guesswork out of your email campaigns and lose the silly mistakes that are costing you money – these straightforward email marketing tips and tactics show you what you should be doing …and what you shouldn’t! Rae Steinbach shines a spotlight on an effective and more lucrative use of the channel.
Despite cultural and economic differences, new research shows consumers around the world take a similarly pragmatic approach to sharing their data. Jed Mole analyses the results of the study into how the global customer perceives data collection, how they view their data privacy and the value they place on their data use.
With disruption continuing in all areas of marketing, transparency is the key driver of this change – the industry must reinvent the advertising model around ethically driven business practices, says Ben Humphry. The problem is twofold: marketers question visability and viewability and complain they are in the dark about ad buying results (were they great or were they faked?); meanwhile consumers fear they are being commoditised via their data . . . so resort to ad-blocking. Trust is eroding on both sides. Thus, adtech ethics must shift from concern to action – here’s how.
Are you using a real-time conversational channel – the live chat facility – for your visitor’s journey through your website? Marie Sagarzazu discusses when to use it for best effect and how it can enhance or hinder the customer experience. Make sure you can spot the difference and act accordingly.
Learn how to play the branding game, says Kubi Springer – empower your team with a strong strategy and the skills to implement it. Here are her key branding lessons to help you maximise your ROI and make your brand as exciting as a World Cup victory.
Since GDPR came into force and with ever-tightening rules surrounding data collection and the data user, marketers are being urged to be more ethical, less intrusive. But Ardi Kolah argues that the issue is not about marketers’ sensitivity – or the lack of it – but with our own deepening digital trust.
Research by Acquia has exposed a huge gap between digital strategies and their execution, with senior marketers in large organisations being blindly optimistic and setting unrealistic expectations for their company’s digital ability. But Sylvia Jensen believes it’s not just a lack of skills or budget holding large organisations back, it’s also not having the right technology in place. She says brands need to be embedding digital within the culture of the business, rather than viewing it simply as a ‘tool’.
How often do you monitor data relevant to your customer service? Do you know how good your customer service metrics are . . . have you measured them? How well do your teams perform when it comes to customer care – keeping them happy, dealing with complaints, upselling, cross-selling, responding quickly to their enquiries? Are your employees pulling their weight and helping to retain your precious customers? Rafferty Gifford shows how you can track their performance.
Dreams of lifting the World Cup 2018 have been dashed for England fans . . . but the event has been a winner for the Football Association’s email programme, which recorded a hugely successful uplift. Guy Hanson charts how sentiment and outside influences affect email performance stats.
Segment lists and watch results rocket! Here’s how – the GMA has partnered with Demand Exchange to bring you this report from Act-On, which tells how to do just that.
Marketers have noted a 760% increase in revenue from segmented campaigns, according to Campaign Monitor. And those are the results we all aim for from our email marketing efforts.
But as well as much better open rates and increased revenue, segmenting lists allows you to have smarter, more personalised and highly relevant conversations with customers and prospects – based on who they are and how they are engaged with your product or service.
Segmenting your database allows you to use a variety of factors, determining to whom to send one-off emails (about sales or events etc), or routine emails (such as newsletters), or when a prospect should be added to an automated program. Creating segments takes time, but the effort will pay off!