Maximising your data to its full potential

Posted by Mel Jewell
April 12, 2021April 12, 2021

So, you’ve built up a substantial mailing list from newsletter signups or customers, and you regularly send out your emails to them. Job done? Not even close. The next step is to evaluate if you are maximising the full potential of your database, and if not, consider factoring this into your future email marketing strategies. Ensure your database is clean There are a few things to consider in ensuring your data is clean, and you’ll want to whip your database into shape before setting your sights on any further marketing escapades. One place to start is that people can make mistakes when manually entering email addresses, so you can run a process on the data to clean up any typos.…

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Is it time to review your email strategy?

Posted by Tony Macpherson
August 28, 2019August 28, 2019

We all have an email strategy, whether it be sending regular newsletters or sales offers or more sophisticated automation programs catering for a range of content, personalisation and triggers. The digital world is fast moving and always changing, so a regular review of how you’re using emails to communicate with your customers and subscribers can help keep engagement levels high. Here are the some of the more common email communications and processes that should be regularly reviewed. TMI on sign up If your proposition requires more information from subscribers, such as a membership or access to resources with a value, consider a two stage sign-up process – the first is a quick and easy ‘add me to your email list’…

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Will you still love me tomorrow – how to use post-sales automated emails

Posted by Tony Macpherson
October 19, 2016

As email marketers, we all know it’s the channel that gives the best ROI and the emails which get the best open rates are ones sent after the transaction is complete. These include automated order confirmations and delivery notifications so it’s important to get right them right. Tinder culture In a world where retailers are a click away from a competitor, it’s tempting to keep jumping to the next option in the hope you’ll find a better deal. Most customers now have the attention span of around eight seconds so making sure you deliver them the right content immediately is critical to reduce distractions from a myriad of online things they can do. Today’s promotional environment has made shoppers highly…

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Make a marketing form in three easy steps

Posted by Mel Jewell
September 30, 2016September 30, 2016

HTML forms are a great way to collect information online and then store it in a database for future use. For the technically minded you can set a form up on a website / webpage and then, through some server-side scripting, e.g. PHP, save the captured information in a database and do with it what you will. At the same time as storing the information you can also trigger events, such as sending a confirmation or welcome email. But what about those that may not have the technical or time resources for such a web development project? Well, our emailing platform has the perfect solution – an in-built Form tool that can implement either a sign-up form or an opt-out…

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Basket Abandonment

Posted by Mike Parry
May 29, 2015June 1, 2015

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 them but where possible, they should be sending browse abandonment emails as well. If you are a traditional retailer and someone walks into one of your outlets and picks up and looks at the same item say 3 or 4 times then you would expect your sales staff to engage them in a conversation about the product and attempt to sell it to them. Well,…

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