
2014 In Email Marketing Columns: Marketing Land’s Top 10
Email is one of the most established forms of digital marketing, but that doesn’t mean it’s boring or stagnant. In fact, this year saw a...

E-Mail Study: Call It Black Friday Or Cyber Monday, But Don’t Use “Cyber Week”
Major retailers that sent out holiday e-mail marketing campaigns with the phrase “Cyber Week” in their subject lines got a proverbial...

3 Ways Mobile Shopping & Email Marketing Help Win The Holidays & Beyond
It’s been a big holiday season so far for online shoppers, with over 20% growth in sales this year vs. the holidays in 2013 according to...

The Road To Email Design Superstardom & A Look Into The Future
Last month, I explored some of the most innovatively-designed emails of 2014, which included sliding carousels, videos, progressive...

The Email Year In Review: Data, Data Breaches & Multi-Screen Consumers
This past year has seen a lot of activity in the email landscape. The biggest influencer was Google, which launched new products to offer...

Thinking Outside The Box: 4 Emails You Should Be Sending This Holiday Season
During the holidays, most marketers seem to forget that email isn’t about yelling, it’s about listening. Segmenting, for example, is...

2014 Black Friday & Cyber Monday E-Commerce Report: Online Orders Up 15.7% Over Last Year
According to the National Retail Federation, in-store sales for the holiday weekend proved disappointing, but that doesn’t appear to be...

Find Marketing Flaws By Conducting An Email & Conversion Optimization Audit
For many marketers, the success of any campaign is determined simply by the bottom line: expenses of the campaign vs. revenues generated....

Best Practice Pros: How Groupon Manages Its Email Programs
Last month, we took a long look at LinkedIn, exploring how it uses email as a key component of creating, sustaining and driving...

5 Emails Pushing The Boundaries Of HTML & CSS
I recently participated on a panel of email designers, hackers and entrepreneurs that discussed the many difficulties that email...

Why Reputation Matters In Email Marketing & How You Can Change Yours
When is the last time you cursed the amount of spam reaching your personal inbox? If you are using one of the major webmail providers...

Collect Customer Reviews Right From The Gmail Inbox
Did you know you can ask customers to submit a review right from their Gmail inboxes? If you’re a Gmail user you’ve probably seen the...

Post-Conversion CRO: Optimizing For Customer Retention
The customer journey does not end when your visitor completes your desired action — and neither should your conversion optimization...

Best Practice Pros: How LinkedIn Manages Its Email Programs
At my company, Message Systems, we’ve had the good fortune to work with clients that are among the most effective industry experts at...

Bigger Companies Should Take Note Of These Great Emails From Startups
I’ve been receiving a lot of emails from startups recently and notice they are surprisingly good at email design. So, let’s take a look...

Email Marketers: Take Your List And Check It Twice
The winter holidays are a few weeks away, but as most marketers know, now is the time to finalize the detail work to optimize your...

Marketers, You’re Thinking About Loyalty Programs All Wrong, And Other Consumer Disconnects [S
It’s a common refrain that consumers are moving faster and changing habits more quickly than marketers can keep pace with. We’ve seen it...

How To Turn Prospect Priorities Into Email Sales Ammunition
No matter how good your product or service is, the key to a strong business is to attract new customers and keep current customers coming...

Why Timely Data Trumps Big Data In Email & Mobile Marketing
By their very nature, email and mobile marketing campaigns produce large amounts of data. This information can be a gold mine for knowing...
























