Fabulous Marketing Finds from Around the Web: 2/25/2011

Howdy blog readers, and welcome to Friday! Here in San Francisco we are gearing up for a cold weekend, and maaaaybe, just MAYBE, a dusting of SNOW! I know, to all our midwest-east coast friends this is hardly a big deal, but snow hasn’t hit sea level in the Bay Area since the 1970′s. Here’s a picture [...]

Email Marketing Tip #38: Branding Your Emails

It’s no surprise that when given the choice shoppers will go with the website or name they recognize. So how do you increase your branding to be part of those chosen as trusted businesses? Start with your email marketing! Consistently using custom or ESP provided HTML templates make it easy to create and brand professional-looking [...]

The Good Side of SPAM

Food is a very popular topic of conversation here at the Topica office. Between “where should we go for lunch” and “what are you making for dinner”, there’s also our obsession with the television show Top Chef, especially now that all our favorites are back for the all star season (and- SPOILER ALERT- we’re still [...]

Fabulous Marketing Finds from Around the Web: 2/18/2011

Howdy blog readers, and happy Friday + long President’s Day weekend! Before we jump into 3 days of weekend fun, we’ve got some fabulous marketing finds to share with you: Social Marketing: Increasing interaction with Cheezburger’s huge audience From Marketing Sherpa, learn how the Cheezburger Network (which includes hilarious websites such as the FAIL blog [...]

Email Marketing Tip #37: Subject Line No-No’s

We talk a lot about subject lines here on the Topica blog, but that’s just because they are so vitally important for your email marketing success! As the first thing your subscriber sees, the subject line is responsible for the open of your email campaign and hopefully the eventual click or sale. It can also be responsible for [...]

Fabulous Marketing Finds from Around the Web: 2/11/2011

Woot woot, it’s Friday! We hope you all have some fantastic weekend plans lined up with friends or loved ones, but before you hit the slopes, the sun, or a cozy spot on the couch we’ve got these fabulous marketing finds to share: Facebook Pages Get More Interesting Facebook gave their pages for businesses an [...]

Science of Email Marketing Takeaways

Today a few members of the Topica team listened in on an awesome webinar hosted by the folks over at Hubspot called The Science of Email Marketing. Hubspot compiled statistics from over 9 billion email newsletters as well as information from surveys and focus groups to bring us some key takeaways about how subscribers react [...]

Email Marketing Tip #36: Bringing New Subscribers Up to Speed

As we mentioned in last week’s tip, failing to acknowledge your new subscribers is bad business.  If your subscribers have put forth the effort to sign up for your newsletter, the least that you can do is send them a “Welcome” message (notice the emphasis on “least”). What you should be doing is bringing your [...]

Fabulous Marketing Finds from Around the Web: 2/4/2011

Howdy blog readers, and happy Friday! The weather outside has been pretty frightful this week for many of you (and even chilly temps in SF!), so I think we can all agree on a big TGIF!! But before we throw in the towel on the work week and get our Super Bowl pants on, we’ve [...]

Email Marketing Tip #35: Welcoming Your Subscribers With Open Arms

When someone signs up for your newsletter, they have taken initiative and expressed an explicit interest in your business or organization. Not responding to this action by failing to reach out to them is a huge mistake. This is an especially big mistake if you don’t send weekly or daily newsletters and your new subscriber [...]

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