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Driving Traffic to your Website and Increasing Subscriber Lists

By Email Marketing, How To Guides

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Driving Traffic to your Website and Increasing Subscriber Lists

There are certain things you want visitors to accomplish when they visit your eCommerce website. The big goal is obviously to create a new customer, but it’s far from the only objective. In fact, you can think of every customer visit as a report card with several key goals—the more you’re able to check off, the better job your website is doing when it comes to measuring success. Read More

To Coupon or Not to Coupon

By Email Marketing, How To Guides

To coupon or not to coupon.  That’s the question every eCommerce manager faces, and it always seems like a simple solution to generating conversions: should you offer customers a coupon code or not?

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More often than not, store owners and managers will say “yes” and offer customers a discount when they’re trying to push sales. And while it’s almost guaranteed that this will boost conversions, it’s important to understand the ramifications of resorting to a coupon code. Read More

Coordinate Cyber Monday Emails for Maximum Opens, Clicks and Sales

By Email Marketing, How To Guides

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There’s no disputing that the holiday season and Cyber Monday weekend are prime times for eCommerce sales and promotions. Unfortunately, many marketers take this prospect for granted, assuming that if they simply mark down items and send a few emails, that the clicks and sales will come rolling in. To see real results, you’ll have to put in real effort, and that starts by coordinating your Cyber Monday campaigns and emails. Read More

Generating More Opens and Clicks This Thanksgiving and Cyber Weekend

By Email Marketing, How To Guides, News

Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday A.KA. “Cyber Weekend” herald a deluge of marketing emails each year. With so many emails flying around in cyberspace and beginning to pile up in customer inboxes, it’s important to create messaging that’s going to stand apart from your competition.

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Here are a few ways to draw the attention of your customers with a can’t-miss marketing email, and how Remarkety can help give you the edge when it comes to generating opens and clicks that count: Read More

5 Ways to Improve eCommerce Email Marketing

By Email Marketing, How To Guides

As online merchants we’re constantly looking for ways to improve the user experience and push the good ol’ conversion gauge up. One of the best ways to get that done is by improving your eCommerce email marketing user experience.  So I must ask, how many emails are you sending out to your customers each week? 1? 5? 50? Does it matter?

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For eCommerce store owners and managers, what matters isn’t how many emails are going out the door each week, it’s how many customers are coming in. Quantity is not inclusive of conversions—it’s the quality, consistency, CTA and creativeness of emails that will yield positive revenue streams.

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Dealing with Unsubscribes: 5 Ways to Lower the Rate

By Email Marketing, How To Guides

Unsubscribes are the worst possible outcome from an email campaign. Each opt-out dwindles your audience lower and lower, doubling your work on the customer acquisition front—now, not only do you have to keep bringing in new customers, you have to replace the ones you’ve lost as well. Needless to say, keeping unsubscribe numbers at a minimum is imperative.Dealing with Unsubscribes: 5 Ways to Lower the Number

Unfortunately, you can’t please everyone. It’s important to realize that while unsubscribes are a bad thing, they’re also inevitable. All you can work to do is minimize them. To that end, there are a number of things that can be done to keep them low with each successive email blast you send. Read More

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Conquered Like a Pro

By Email Marketing, How To Guides

Not so many years ago, Black Friday and Cyber Monday were the undisputed single-day sales leaders in the world of ecommerce. Over the past few years, however, revenue has dropped on these days, leaving opportunity for sales where once they were a guarantee.

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This downward trend has opened the door for better ecommerce email marketing, giving savvy marketers a way to bolster their sales while the competition struggles. Sending out an email packed with discounts and coupons just doesn’t cut it anymore, though—to create the perception of true value on your ecommerce, you’ll need to take your Black Friday and Cyber Monday emails to a whole new level. Read More

Email Personalization – Let the Data Do the Work

By Email Marketing, How To Guides

The more you know about someone, the easier it is to talk to them. As you get to know someone’s likes and dislikes, habits and preferences, needs and wants, you can begin to provide them with answers, suggestions and solutions that are a best fit for them.  This is modern email personalization in a nutshell!  email personalization

Where the goal was once to create a deal or an offer so good it prompted people to buy, today’s email personalization is more about understanding people, to bring them what they want and need, versus just something that’s appealing. The way to do this is with data. By speaking directly to someone in a specific sense, you’re able to make a connection that more often than not results in a positive reaction—be it a click, sale or something else.

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