How Drip Marketing works over time Drip Campaigns are a tactical subset of Marketing Automation. They work to increase loyalty, turn prospects into customers and strengthen your brand and engagement. In contrary to an event triggered mail that can be just a single sense and respond message, drip campaigns always are series of emails deployed […]

Working in email can sometimes seem like a thankless task sending out millions of emails to millions of people in the hope a small fraction of the receivers open them and then a small fraction of those openers actually click and buy something. Yes you can simplify email marketing down to something as basic as […]

Welcome to the second instalment of my email analysis series! For this weeks review, I’ve picked out a Homebase email from my inbox. To view the full email click here. First Impressions My first impressions of this email were very good. I enjoy the Homebase colour scheme, the contrast of the orange and green works […]

I have lost count of the number of times I have spoken to email marketing managers who  have said something along the lines of…”I’m not sure we should be sending basket abandonment emails, it feels a bit big brother to me” and the look of horror when I suggest not only should they be doing […]

Having lots of information about your customers can be a great thing in the email marketing world – you can segment and target for better results, recognise patterns and generally be smarter with the way you approach your marketing. But, on the downside, it can make the structure of your data very complex, particularly when […]

In February, the M3AAWG (Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group) released version 3.0 of their “Sender Best Common Practices”, the first time this document has been updated since 2011. This document is primarily aimed at delivery and compliance professionals at ESPs (Email Service Providers), but there’s a lot of important information and guidelines which […]