After nearly 20 years in the industry, it still astonishes me to find how many email marketers aren’t doing everything they can – legally! – to acquire high-quality subscribers. Investing time and money in the subscription process just makes business sense. A healthy, growing and active email list gives you a competitive advantage. It costs… keep reading →
Email marketing is a brand’s best opportunity to encourage customers to stay loyal and spend more. But, Preparing for GDPR: The State of Retail Email Subscribe Forms in 2018, a new research report by UK email consultancy Holistic Email Marketing and in partnership with marketing-technology provider Pure360, found many brands pay scant attention to the… keep reading →
Double Opt-in is not a requirement of GDPR. Providing evidence of consent is, and DOI just one of the many ways you can provide evidence. MailChimp have changed to being to Single Opt-in (SOI) after being Double Opt-in (DOI) for many years. An interesting move and one I see the logic in. Since the news… keep reading →
Why take a customer-first approach? “When all you have is a hammer; every problem looks like a nail.” This version of a famous quote, attributed variously to Abraham Maslow and Mark Twain, refers to what happens when you limit your focus too narrowly on your own objectives without considering the best way to solve a… keep reading →
We went to Marketing Week Live last Thursday 9th March and had a ball! Kath Pay’s presentation, “3 Steps to Increasing Your Email Marketing Conversions”, spoke on increasing your email marketing results as a taster for Econsultancy’s training course on email marketing. We had great feedback and here are some of the tweets from the session, highlighting some… keep reading →