Favorite Valentine’s Day Email Marketing Subject Lines

Love is in the air, and especially for email marketers! Whether you love or hate Valentine’s Day, you can use the upcoming holiday to expand your email marketing by creating campaigns with catchy subject lines that will get your emails opened. Here are some of my favorite subject lines that landed in my inbox this [...]

5 Secrets of a Successful Email Marketing Campaign

Hey blog readers! Happy Wednesday. This is a blog post we wrote that was originally posted on Rapleaf’s blog, a company located about a block and a half from us in downtown San Francisco! Rapleaf helps those utilizing email marketing to send more relevant, targeted campaigns by providing valuable demographic information for their subscribers. You can check out the original [...]

“5 Content Marketing Strategies For Small Business” via Mashable.com

“Toot-toot!” Yeah, we’re tooting our own horn a bit today, but we’re pretty stoked for this fab mention in this post on Mashable.com titled 5 Content Marketing Strategies for Small Business, AND it has some great advice from several other marketing gurus on how small businesses can create amazing content for their blog, website, or social media outlets- [...]

Email Marketing Tip #51: Improve Results with Testing

For successful and ROI-driven email marketing, reporting capabilities are a key factor for campaign optimization. So how can you leverage open rates, click rates, and subscriber-level detail to optimize your newsletters and email offers? Testing remains the key to improving results with each delivery. Here are just a few techniques you can use to test [...]

Email Marketing Tip #50: When Less is More

We’ve all heard this saying before whether in fashion (make-up, jewelry), in writing (“show don’t tell”), in art or advertising. But what about email marketing? Is this saying ever applicable to your email strategy? We think so, and here are 4 examples of when less can be more in your email campaigns to prove it: [...]

Fabulous Marketing Finds from Around the Web: 3/18/2011

Welcome to Friday, blog readers! We missed last week’s Friday Fabulous Finds to get in an email marketing tip for you, but we’re back in full force today. Let’s get started: #HelpJapan: Do’s and Don’ts for Brands The images and stories of the devastation in Japan have been heartbreaking, but there are many ways to [...]

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 [...]

Email Marketing 101: More Info on Color and Why I Was Wrong

It takes a strong person to admit they’re wrong- so it’s no wonder I hold the office record for most push-ups in a minute*. You may remember a Topica blog post from back in October on basic color principles and how we as email marketers can use them to enhance our campaigns. It’s been one [...]

Email Marketing Tip #24: From Your Subscribers’ Perspective

A strong approach to forging any relationship is to put yourself in the other person’s shoes and to consider things from their perspective, and your email subscribers are no different! Let’s break down your subscribers’ email marketing campaign experience into their two main choices and how as marketers you can impact their actions: Should I [...]

What to Write About When You Have Nothing to Write About: 6 Tips for Creating Content

Producing enough content for an active email newsletter or blog (or both!) can be a daunting task. When I first started this blog back in May, that was my biggest hesitation. (Am I going to have enough to write about? Where am I going to find the time to write multiple times a week? How will [...]

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