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Email Marketing

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Hubspot recently released an extensive study on how email marketing can be effective. There is a great deal of terrific information in the document, but some of the highlights are here. My favorite point of the study is that people believe they handle email differently than they do. Years ago there was a study where people asked managers how they would like to receive information. Overwhelmingly they indicated phone calls. But in reality, they didn’t return the phone calls. They did read email. With this study people indicated they prefer lots of pictures in their emails. In reality, it was found that more pictures caused the email to be ignored. Over half of the respondents use email filters in addition to spam filters so they have help determining which emails they should read. It was also determined that while email is still opened on desktops/laptops, […] Continue reading

Filed Under: Marketing, Technology Tagged With: click throughs, email, hubspot, Marketing

Email Subjects

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How do you organize your email? I’m surprised by how many people don’t, but at some level, everyone chooses what to open and what to delete. Obviously, that happens based on two things: who the email is from and what the subject says. If you are like me, you get a ton of email from people you don’t know so that eliminates option one. Which brings us to the subject line. I received an email today that said, “The Best Deal of the Year – $75 off”. Okay – sounds good I guess. Who’s it from? A company I don’t need. Delete. Next? But can’t you hear the person in the office complaining about their open rate? Who WOULDN’T want $75??? Why won’t they just open the email? Because you’ve given me no reason to look further. Because of my past experience with your company, […] Continue reading

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: email, Marketing, subjects

What the Heck is a Guru?

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I spoke recently and was introduced as a “guru”. I mentioned to a friend how odd that sounded and she agreed – it is a word that has been overused and overdone to death. I appreciate the person introducing me trying to make me sound like I know what I am talking about, but giving me goofy titles like “guru” or “goddess” (another one I’ve gotten lately) is just over the top. So then I was watching Next Food Network Star and they had a task to describe the food they were eating. They couldn’t use descriptors like “awesome” and “delicious” because they don’t mean anything. And I realized, that was my issue with these titles people give others (or worse – give themselves). They don’t mean anything. Being a “guru” of something doesn’t give you any idea of my qualifications or my abilities. It […] Continue reading

Filed Under: Management, Marketing, References Tagged With: guru, introductions, referrals, substance

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