Everyone talks about lifecycle marketing – but is it still a useful strategy for email marketers? This is a controversial topic, especially because we know how well email aligns with points in the customer lifecycle. A blue-ribbon panel of email experts debated this concept fearlessly during Holistic Email Marketing’s recent discussion, Email & More …… keep reading →
The Holistic team and I discovered something unexpected recently while analysing activity in a client’s customer database. This surprising information shed new light on how we segment customers and how we message them based on what our data is telling us. Although our programme is still a work in progress, I’m sharing my thinking with… keep reading →
If your emails regularly miss the inbox, it’s likely that ISPs are flagging problem addresses in your database and blocking emails to those addresses or sending them to the spam folder. Because customers generally open only the emails they see in their inboxes, we need to persuade an ISP’s automated filters that you’re a reputable… keep reading →
As email marketers, we know we need to personalize the messages we send our subscribers and customers. I can’t think of a single statistic, case study or survey that claims an email program made up of one-to-everyone campaigns outperforms personalization. Instead, you’ll find statistics like these: 72% of customers will engage only with personalized messages… keep reading →
In a previous post (When “One to Everyone” Email Messages Make Sense), I urged you to send “catch-all” campaigns to scoop up customers and subscribers who do not fit your segmentation criteria or triggered touchpoints. I am by no means saying that you should scrap your highly personalised campaigns for the customers you know well.… keep reading →