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 →
They aren’t the same, and if you get it wrong, you’ll leave money on the table. What’s the one thing you would do to make more money from your email program? Your first thought might be to add an automation platform, invest in new email designs, maybe even switch ESPs. But all of those cost… keep reading →
Last week I attended emailexpert‘s Inbox Expo summit in Valencia, Spain. It was an amazing event set in a beautiful location and brought together some of the greatest email minds from across the globe. The event was a chance for all email marketers to get together to share, discuss and debate not just our successes… 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 →