Tag Archives: Subscribers

The Need for an Email Preference Center

email preference center

Email is the preferred method of commercial communication of 74% of all online adults and is preferred over direct mail by a margin of nearly five to one. So why do people unsubscribe from receiving your email communications? Unfortunately, there are some well known reasons why prospects and maybe even customers (gasp!) are clicking “unsubscribe” from […]

Improving Open Rates for Email Marketing Campaigns

improving open rates

I remember the day our weekly marketing report to the CEO of the company I first worked for included our email marketing statistics. Previously, we had reported on website visitors, calls to our 1-800 number, requests for more information via our landing pages and the number of new leads we had generated in the prior week. […]

Email Content Relevancy: Why Triggered Content is More Effective

Batch and blast is dying. Many companies, unfortunately, haven’t realized this yet. But as the number of promotional email campaigns sent out by retailers increases, the need for specific, relevant, and triggered content will only increase. “Retailers sent each of their subscribers 177 promotional email campaigns on average last year, up 16 percent from 2010,” […]