Even though every so often someone will come out and proclaim the death of it, email is still standing strong. Despite all the messaging apps, chat bots, and social media, email remains relevant, especially in the business world. If we were to take a look at the numbers, we would be able to see that over 269 billion were sent and received in 2017 alone, and that number is … [Read more...]
Email marketing is incredibly effective, which explains why more than 80% of business to business and business to consumer firms use it. Email newsletter design has a major impact on your click-through rates and conversion rates. Some design choices affect the rate messages are opened, while others cause people to delete the message and block you as spam. Here are seven … [Read more...]
Email marketing still has one of the biggest Return on Investment (ROI) when compared to other marketing strategies, with an expected average return of $32 for every dollar spent. This is mainly because of the low costs of creating email lists and sending out emails, which makes it one of the cheapest and fastest ways to increase your company’s reach and ROI. In fact, the … [Read more...]
One of the biggest obstacles I’ve faced as a solopreneur is marketing. Because I didn’t know much about business ownership before deciding to write for a living, I had only envisioned days sitting at my computer, doling out article after article. It never even entered my mind that I’d have to spend a decent amount of my time also getting people to hire me. However, I quickly … [Read more...]
Ever wondered how many emails are sent on a daily basis? What would you guess the number to be? Millions? Billions? Try 196 billion emails. That’s a lot of information flying around cyberspace, isn’t it? Emails have become an integral part of our day-to-day lives and the way we do business. Is it any surprise, then, that email marketing has become a mainstay for many … [Read more...]
Brick-and-mortar businesses face a fundamental change to the way they must operate. Why? Because the world has gone digital, and businesses today are being driven by the likes of Amazon and ever-evolving customer shopping behaviors. This has put a massive strain on brick-and-mortar businesses who need to adapt to survive. Here are several tips that brick-and-mortar … [Read more...]
E-commerce has been the force that’s driving brick-and-mortar stores down. The closure of a couple of the well-known brands is not helping disprove this idea either. It has been a solution for some other retail giants to also implement e-commerce in their strategies so that they can stay relevant. Aside from just offering online channels to your customers, there is another … [Read more...]
As a small business (or even a one-man-band solopreneur) you may not have the budget to outsource all of your marketing efforts. Which means that you may have to take on the brunt of the task by yourself. So, what tools do you need in order to make a do-it-yourself approach to marketing work for your business? Free SEO Tools Doing your own marketing means having to cut a … [Read more...]
All marketers exploit some sort of psychological mechanism in their activities. Essentially, they manipulate human nature to get the desired results. Email marketing campaigns don’t represent an exception in that regard, but it still seems like only 30% of email receivers actually fall for these tricks. This fact suggests that it’s not easy to win over customers using simple … [Read more...]
In the past, most marketing experts addressed their customers as one massive demographic in order to cut costs and thus create a better ROI. Unfortunately, this kind of solution doesn’t seem to have as great of an effect in 2017. Therefore, the cost-effectiveness of traditional marketing is no longer what it used to be. Today, in order to reach out to your consumers in the … [Read more...]
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