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 [...]

Are New Customers Killing Your Company?

  • April 15th, 2009 | Written By: Jason Baer
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(Originally written for MarketingProfs MPdailyfix blog)
I’m sure you’ve heard the maxim that it costs a lot more to get a new customer than it does to retain an existing customer. It makes perfect sense, right? So why is it that we spend so much time and money in violation of that credo?
At the recent Email [...]

Beth Harte – The Twitter 20 Interview About Marketing and Social Media

  • March 24th, 2009 | Written By: Jason Baer
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Beth Harte has been dispensing solid, effective marketing advice to companies and students for more than a decade. Now, her killer blog (The Harte of Marketing) and her wisdom-filled Tweets have increased her reach and influence geometrically. That’s a positive development, as her students at Immaculata University and the folks in Philadelphia shouldn’t have her [...]

Don’t Put the Social Media Cart Before the Horse

  • February 24th, 2009 | Written By: Jason Baer
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Are you eschewing the basics to focus on social media?
At two recent conferences where I spoke (Online Marketing Summit and Email Evolutions) there were several discussions about the confluence of email and social media.
Thinking about email and social media concurrently is healthy – and appropriate. Both are best used as customer retention and brand [...]

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 [...]