Tag Archives: Email campaigns

4 Tips to Brighten Your Holiday Campaign

With the holidays in full swing and a shopping season incomparable to any other point of the year, it’s a priority to be the most recognized and talked about holiday campaign—The Rudolph of all reindeers, or the WestJet of all airlines. No one wants to get lost in the New York blizzard-sized heaps of holiday campaigns, […]

8 Simple Things That Quickly Lead to Customer Loyalty & Retention

I can’t think of a single company that couldn’t improve their customer relations and loyalty programs.  True, there are amazing examples of world-class customer programs out there.  From Zappos to Zingerman’s, there’s plenty to observe and emulate. But generally, I find that companies either completely under-invest in the customer side of marketing (vs. acquisition marketing), […]

TweetChat: One to One Messaging or Batch and Blast?

The Direct Marketing Association has been advocating the value of email marketing for years, noting on average, for every dollar spent marketers see a return of more than $40. There are a number of reasons for this. Most notably, email offers the ability to not only reach a vast number of people, but also to […]

Embracing Customer Differences with Lifecycle Marketing

Difference makes the world go around. I frequently remind myself this world would be very boring place if we were all the same. Lifecycle marketing strives to recognize, accept and celebrate customer differences. Long gone are the days where it’s considered sensible to market with blind eyes, assuming all customers want the same information, at […]

Canada’s New Anti-Spam Law

Last week, a bunch of articles and blog posts were published on Canada’s new anti-spam legislation. Some authors provided analysis of the new law and others lamented the new rules by which organizations must adhere to when marketing their goods and services within Canada. Of course, this law is more concerning to those of us […]

Do you use email?

What better way to celebrate Halloween than by discussing the scariest question I’ve ever heard in my years of working with technology and higher education… “Do you use email?” (Insert screams of terror here) I typically create marketing content on customer lifecycle marketing, marketing automation, lead scoring, email marketing, campaign management, big data, and the […]

Five Tips for Successful Email Engagement in a Multi Device World

Email, despite the challenges, remains one of the best ways to reach out to customers. However, this does not mean email delivery doesn’t have to change with the times to stay relevant. One of the biggest challenges today is cross-channel optimization, considering recipients now access emails from many devices ranging from desktops to smartphones and everything […]

The Cost of an Email Address

These days it seems like everyone has at least one email address. I have three I check on a regular basis. Which email address I provide to someone has a lot to do with their relationship with me. If it’s a business relationship, they get my Right On Interactive address, a personal relationship my Gmail […]

Changes to Gmail and the impact on email marketing

If you are a Gmail user, you may have noticed a new tab format rolled out earlier this summer. The new format separates received emails into categories and allows the user to see new emails at a glance within each category. This better allows the user to read their emails at their convenience. In the […]

Need for an Integrated Marketing Approach

Email marketing is still at the heart of most marketing communication plans. In addition, most brands have gone social as the popularity of social media grows year over year, with customers increasingly using different social media channels daily. Not to mention, dekstops and laptops are giving way to mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones. […]