Tuesday, November 19, 2013

B2C Email Marketing: Myths and Realities of Responsive Design and the Mobile Inbox

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Myths and Realities of Responsive Design and the Mobile Inbox
Jim Davidson  |  B2C Email Marketing  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
New Gmail inbox The first few lines of this article will be buzzy and may cause your eyes to roll, but I'm here to take some of the panic and confusion away from what has become a much discussed topic for email marketers: responsive design and the mobile inbox. You have probably seen the stats from Litmus that nearly half of all emails (48 percent) are currently opened on a mobile device. Custora reports that mobile e-commerce purchases increased by 48 percent on Black Friday and 30 percent on Cyber...


E-mail Marketing Industry Benchmarks: Highest Open Rate in Q1 2013 Since 2006
Jeanne Jennings  |  Email Marketing  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
jjennings-clickz-ctor-101513a The Q2 2013 E-mail Trends and Benchmarks Report was released by Epsilon earlier this month and it showed some interesting trends. The first quarter of this year saw the highest average open rate (31.3 percent) since at least 2006. It was also the largest quarter-over-quarter jump (14 percent) in opens that we've seen. In second quarter, the open rate dropped but it's still the second highest we've seen (28.5 percent), suggesting that the upward trend in open rates will continue....


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Margaret Farmakis  |  Email Marketing Optimization  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
mobile-email When I think of what email marketers really want, I'm tempted to paraphrase Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street, substituting "greed" for "more." More is good. Marketers want customers to purchase more and prospects to engage more; they want more email subscribers on their lists; they want more data to work with from more sources; they want more brand recognition than their competition. This might be somewhat of an oversimplification, but ultimately, the "more" that every marketer...


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Katrina Conn  |  Advanced Email Marketing  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
circle-intent The everyday life of consumers is being transformed. Thanks to the mobile devices glued to their hips, consumers are able to access information and take action online anywhere, anytime. Understanding the behaviors that result from being constantly connected is crucial to reaching and engaging today's on-the-go consumers at their exact time and place of need. The ability to do that – to create consumer experiences that leverage a contextual understanding of the consumer's present...


HTML5 Email – Are We Ready?
Stephen Hay  |  Email Marketing  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
html5 Is your email performance, opening and click through rates, slowly but surely declining? Do your customers just not seem interested anymore? Has email marketing lost its sparkle? If the answer to some or all of those questions is yes, it might be time to move to HTML5. What’s that? Without going into too much detail, HTML5 is latest generation of the language which powers almost every web page on the planet. Like most new things, it offers significant benefits and advantages...



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