Email Marketing

We’re a month into 2020 so what better time than to look back at the holiday shopping seasons of 2019 to inform our strategy over the course of the next 11 months. This year, like any other, some email marketing practices won the clicks of millions of holiday shoppers, while others drove users away. But

Transactional and triggered emails (e.g., ‘welcome emails’) are on the rise, but senders are not investing enough in the technology behind them to maintain consistent deliverability, engagement and quality, according to findings from SparkPost’s 2020 Benchmark Report. Transactional emails are a critical element of the customer experience. Whether it’s a confirmation email with a receipt,

Email marketing is the first and oldest online marketing strategy. Long before Mark Zuckerberg was even a twinkle in his parents’ eyes, businesses realized that email was a great way to turn contacts into customers. And, in the more than four decades since the first email marketing campaign, a lot has changed in the marketing

Email marketing isn’t dead — it’s evolving. New advances to email technologies are driving changes to how consumers read and engage with email, and email marketers are reimagining the ways we can create emails and leverage the inbox. Join me, Jen Cannon, with our special guest speaker April Mullen, director of strategic insights at SparkPost

Email optimization and deliverability go hand-in-hand when it comes to sending emails, and that’s why MarTech Today created the very first resource for marketing professionals that encompasses the elements of both. The Periodic Table of Email Optimization and Deliverability is a comprehensive resource designed to guide you through the different elements required to keep your

Emails have a short life. But many don’t have a life at all, according to a recent Adobe survey – into attitudes toward email. Amongst the many insights and data we unearthed, two that stood out for me are opened and read, which means 75% of everything you send is ignored. And when they are

Mailchimp has released its first annual report since 2016, highlighting a number of key milestones for the email platform turned all-in-one marketing platform. The company claims a 60.51% share of the email industry, supporting over 12 million customers. Its closest competitor comes in at only 9.52%. Why we care Mailchimp — along with a number

Whew! Q4 is over! Everybody, take a breath and fill up your free time (hee-hee) with all the 2020 predictions and prognostications that are rolling in. I don’t put much stock in these trend lists because I don’t know what will happen in the next month, let alone the coming year.  Their greatest value is

Email service provider Campaign Monitor has released its annual global email benchmarks report, offering marketers a glimpse into email marketing performance across industries. Government organizations topped the list as having the highest open rates of over 30% —  an increase of nearly 11% over the course of 2019.  The Automotive and Aerospace industry had the

It’s easy to find yourself bogged down in the day-to-day rush of developing and sending email campaigns. Implementing a few simple processes can help your team identify efficiencies and opportunities you might not see when you are in the weeds. Subscribe to your own emails. Mary Sohn, a member of the industry group Women of

As we come to the close of a decade of unprecedented, rapid technological innovation for modern businesses — and everyday life — email continues to thrive as an essential method of communication. We wanted to know what email marketers are really thinking about as we step into the next decade, so I put out a

Marketing automation platforms form the backbone of marketing operations, increasingly serving as sophisticated marketing orchestration platforms. A range of platforms is available to marketers depending on their firm’s size, budget and level of digital marketing sophistication. The more basic functions of marketing automation have become somewhat commoditized, so platform vendors mostly look to differentiate their

It has been a heck of a year for email marketers – not just professionally but for the industry at large. I’ve worked with an amazing collection of clients from disparate industries, from a direct-mail firm to a massive health care business to start-ups and established businesses. They all have one thing in common: a

I’m tired of people giving email marketing a bad rap. Because despite claims that email is dead, 33% of consumers say they used it more frequently in 2019 than last year.  And by the end of 2019, it’s estimated that marketers in the U.S. will have spent $350 million on email advertising.  With so much

Email marketing and analytics provider Twilio SendGrid has published its third Global Email Benchmark Report, with a portion of the study dedicated to analyzing email recipients and senders. The report found that 95% of Gen Z and Millennial respondents stated that their personal email — notably not their work email — is essential to their

Brick-and-mortar shops aren’t the only things that are overcrowded these days. While the countdown to Christmas is quickly winding down, many email marketers are consistently pumping out reminders to their subscribers and customers that their seasonal deals are ending soon. But an overflowing inbox can sometimes work against us. Email is a top channel for