Email Marketing Tip #45: Optimizing for Mobile Devices

It’s no surprise that smartphone use is on the rise, but did you know that 20% of all email is now read via mobile devices according to a recent study by the digital direct marketing firm Knotice? This is one-fifth of your subscriber base, and if you aren’t optimizing for mobile you are cutting out [...]

Using QR Codes in your Email Marketing and Beyond

The first time you saw a small, pixelated, 1-inch square box on a print advertisement, was your first thought that the printer had made a mistake? Or perhaps you figured you needed to get your eyes checked? Now we are seeing them in more and more print ads in magazines, newspapers, and even billboards- but what are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fabulous Marketing Finds from Around the Web: 10/1/2010

Happy Friday, blog readers- and welome to October! San Francisco hit record high temperatures this week (almost 90 degrees!) but we hope everyone not on the west coast is enjoying the cozy autumn weather (or at least staying dry, for those in the east). Get set for loads of email marketing/marketing/social media goodness from the [...]

4 Reasons Why you should Send Plain Text with your HTML

“Why even bother sending plain text with my HTML message?” This is a question our support team receives on a daily basis- and with the influx of smart phones and snazzy HTML messages, it can seem like an unnecessary piece of your email marketing. Also, there is the fear that subscribers will receive the text [...]

Combining Social Media with Email Marketing

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, you’ve probably heard about social media giant Facebook. Last month Facebook hit a major milestone: 500 million active users on their social networking site. Quite a feat for a site that has only been around for 6 years (founded in 2004) and originally started [...]

Fabulous Marketing Finds from Around the Web: 7/30/10

It’s Friday!! And you know what that means- time to recap all the great marketing articles that have been zooming around the web this week. There seems to have been an extra focus on social media, so hopefully this will help anyone just getting their Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn feet wet. Let’s dive right in: Facebook [...]

Mobile Email Marketing Challenges and Answers

The online world is evolving- or maybe, it already has.  According to new statistics almost every single American uses a cell phone (91% to be exact!).  That’s over 285 million people with over 285 million phones.  Recent predictions say that by Christmas 2011 more than half of these phones will be smart phones, with mobile [...]

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