How Brands Use Email to Engage Customers at Every Stage of the Life Cycle
In the era of the connected consumer, marketing has become more competitive and challenging than ever. Today’s consumers are better informed and more empowered, and they expect a personalized experience at every stage of the customer life cycle. This is why email has become the #1 channel for delivering offers, information, and…
6 Keys to a Successful Welcome Email Experience
You’ve honed your email signup appeal language to entice people to subscribe. You’ve created a signup form that minimizes friction. You’ve placed that form on your website, in your mobile app, on your Facebook page, and in other places where your customers and potential customers will see them. And—success—people are subscribing. Now…
Build Smarter Emails with These 5 Blueprints
Transforming your emails can be a daunting task. Sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start, and sometimes the gap between where you are and where you want to be just seems too large to leap. In 5 Blueprints for Building Smarter Emails, we discuss how to make impactful, incremental improvements to…
Fall Edition of the Email Marketer’s Holiday Planning Checklist
Hopefully you spent your summer doing some big picture strategic planning for the holiday season. Now that we’re into October, it’s time to get more serious and more focused to the execution of holiday campaigns. In the second of my 3-part Holiday Planning Checklist for Internet Retailer Magazine, I advise retailers to:…
Email Subscriber Lifecycle Strategies from the Swipe File
To maximize the value of an email relationship, you need to cater to your subscribers’ needs and wants throughout their entire subscriber lifecycle. My presentation at Connections today talked about the six stages of the subscriber lifestyle and shared research, advice, and examples pertaining to each stage. Here’s my slide deck, followed…
Email Marketing Rules


