Twitterati Says Email Isn’t Dead Yet – 6 Findings

  • June 8th, 2009 | Written By: Jason Baer
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Every conference I’ve been at, and at least 10 blog posts I’ve read this year have proclaimed the death of email.
Social network messaging, and its 1:1 relevancy and real-time immediacy will inexorably make email the Edsel of digital communication, goes the theory.
It’s not true. Firstly, this isn’t a zero sum game. The notion that social [...]

Sloths Die. Why I Want My Guacamole NOW

  • April 29th, 2009 | Written By: Jason Baer
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Is your email list acquisition program too slow?
If you’re going to ask consumers to divulge personal information in exchange for a special offer, the chances that your customers will participate go up dramatically if you fulfill your end of the bargain with haste.
If I sign up to download a Webinar, I get access to [...]

Cross-Pollinate Search and Email

  • February 11th, 2009 | Written By: Jason Baer
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Email marketing and search marketing have often been looked at as being at opposite ends of the digital marketing spectrum. Email used as a loyalty and retention tool, with search used as an acquisition tactic.
But that thinking prevents the results from those marketing efforts informing and improving one another, and the opportunities in that regard [...]

Social Media Adds Viral Frosting to the Email Cake

  • February 5th, 2009 | Written By: Jason Baer
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Are you enabling your email subscribers to spread your message via social media?
Call it Forward to a Friend 2.0. Call it the inevitable marriage of two sides of the customer relationship coin. Call it the next big thing in email marketing.
The hand-wringing in the email community about the impact of social media is audible, like [...]

3 Absurdly Simple Ways to Tie Together Social Media and Email

  • December 10th, 2008 | Written By: Jason Baer
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Increasingly, active email marketers are wondering how they can engage with their subscribers in social media.
It’s a bit scary, because most email is still of the “batch and blast” variety, and that dog will not hunt in social media, where the marketing is conversational and the name of the game is relevance.
But, assuming [...]

Red Robin’s Email Program Has a Broken Wing

  • October 30th, 2008 | Written By: Jason Baer
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By all accounts, Red Robin is very successful restaurant chain. With hundreds of locations nation-wide and well-deserved plaudits for their Unbridled Acts customer service program, Red Robin has it together. (try the Bonzai Burger, Bruschetta Chicken Burger, and the Tower of Onion Rings).
But the Red Robin customer loyalty messaging program is far less than it should [...]

Email Unsubscribes – Embrace Those Who Reject You

  • October 27th, 2008 | Written By: Jason Baer
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A long-standing “success metric” in email marketing is the unsubscribe ratio. Like telling children that their pet fish is “just sleeping” the “unsubscribe ratio” is a euphemism.
Your unsubscribe ratio is the percentage of people who receive your email that have gotten so tired or frustrated with your program that they simply can’t take it any [...]