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Email Marketing

Most ecommerce businesses rely on email marketing as a low-cost sales driver. We’ve addressed a wide array of strategies for email, including improving opens, clicks, and conversions, mastering deliverability, optimizing by device, automation, spam, segmentation, and more.

Email Marketing
Email Segmentation Tips to Drive Opens, Clicks, Sales

October 18, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

There are multiple ways to improve the effectiveness of email marketing. The best way is to ensure the message is relevant to the recipient. Segmenting your list to the likes and desires of individual subscribers can improve opens, clicks, and sales.
Email Marketing
6 Ways to Re-engage Dormant Email Subscribers

September 19, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

Email subscribers come and go. Some are active. They open, read, and click every email. But few stay active indefinitely. Many eventually become dormant and no longer open. In this post, I'll review six tips to re-engage these dormant subscribers.
Email Marketing
4 Key Factors That Impact Email Deliverability

August 16, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

Getting an email to an inbox is not always easy. Many factors determine whether an email is delivered, blocked, or even filtered into a subfolder. In this post, I'll explore four key factors that determine email deliverability.
Email Marketing
3 Tools for Cleaning Email Addresses, to Improve Deliverability

July 18, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

Email marketers understand the importance of deliverable addresses. Deliverability is critical for conversions, and it impacts a sender’s reputation with ISPs, among other effects. But a clean subscription file requires ...
Email Marketing
What to Include in Ecommerce Emails to Drive Performance

June 18, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

The biggest challenge in email marketing is getting recipients to open the message in the first place. Once they do that, the content will determine whether they click. In this ...
Email Marketing
5 Ways to Make a Good Email Great

May 18, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

Consumers are inundated with marketing emails. The challenge for ecommerce merchants is to craft subject lines and body content that are relevant to recipients, who typically scan their inboxes to ...
Email Marketing
15 Essential Elements of Every Marketing Email

April 13, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

A timely email promotion is an easy and cost-efficient way to kick-start sales. But in the haste of a tight turnaround or deadline, it’s easy to make email composing mistakes, to miss crucial elements or even errors and typos. In this post, I'll offer a checklist of 15 items that every marketing email should have. Print it and use it for your email deployments.
Email Marketing
How Does Your Email Marketing Program Stack Up?

March 20, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

Email is the workhorse of direct marketing. The basics have remained consistent for years. Best practices from 10 years ago are still relevant. But email marketing is evolving. Segmentation, personalization, mobile:
Email Marketing
Does ‘AMP for Email’ Impact Ecommerce?

February 20, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

Google just introduced "AMP for Email" and announced plans to include it Gmail later this year. In this post, I will explain AMP for Email and its potential impact on email marketing for merchants. "Accelerated Mobile Pages" is an open-source initiative to improve load times for mobile pages. AMP's popularity has increased considerably during the past few years.
Email Marketing
4 Common Methods to Personalize Email Marketing

January 18, 2018 • Carolyn Nye

Personalizing an email marketing program can greatly increase opens and clicks. But a quick look at my inbox reveals that very few retailers are doing it effectively. Much of the success of any marketing effort can be boiled down to making the message relevant to individuals. In this post, I'll review four common methods to personalize email, to encourage conversions.
Email Marketing
3 Email Tactics to Make Life Easier for Shoppers

December 19, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

As consumers progress through life stages, their shopping priorities change. A recent college graduate is likely concerned with price. A seasoned corporate executive may focus on quality. The visitors to ...
Email Marketing
Nurture Email Subscribers to Drive Downstream Conversions

November 17, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Converting a prospect into a customer is a process. It can take time and multiple touch points. Prospects that are email subscribers are at various stages in their lifecycle with ...
Email Marketing
4 Ways to Irritate Ecommerce Email Subscribers

October 18, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Email subscribers are valuable. They are difficult to obtain and worth a great deal to ecommerce businesses. Losing one because of a misstep in an otherwise well executed marketing plan ...
Email Marketing
4 Pointers for Holiday Email Marketing in 2017

September 18, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

It’s September, which means now is the time to start thinking about your upcoming holiday email marketing. In this article, I’ll share four tips to maximize email effectiveness for the ...
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Lessons from an ecommerce email marketer

September 1, 2017 • Peter Keller

I have a reputation as a marketer who sends a lot of emails. And it’s true. At FringeSport, we send most of our subscribers five emails per week — sometimes ...
Email Marketing
5 Email Marketing Tips to Try This Week

August 17, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Email marketing is one of the most powerful tools an ecommerce business can use to increase sales. Depending on who you ask, email marketing can generate a return on investment between ...
Email Marketing
4 Tactics to Produce Sales from Email Recipients

August 15, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Emails to customers and prospects from ecommerce merchants can serve many purposes. Sometimes the emails contain much content, such as shopping tips or blog posts. Other times, they convey transactional ...
Email Marketing
For Email Signups, Better to Use Double Opt-in or Single?

July 19, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Adding email subscribers usually translates into more sales. But soliciting email signups is often a tradeoff in quality versus quantity. In this article, I’ll explore the pros and cons of ...
Email Marketing > Merchant Voice
For selling, the phone is better than email

July 11, 2017 • Peter Keller

I’m a huge fan of email marketing. It’s been very helpful for FringeSport. I addressed email marketing, in fact, in my previous two posts: “Lessons on starting an email list”
Email Marketing > Merchant Voice
How to get your first 1,000 email subscribers

June 29, 2017 • Peter Keller

I addressed last month how to start an email list. In this post, I’ll explain how to get your first 1,000 subscribers. As part of starting a list, you (hopefully) identified ...
Email Marketing > Merchant Voice
How I manage email spam

June 26, 2017 • Richard Stubbings

We all receive email spam. The longer our businesses exist, the more spam we get. So how should we deal with it? All businesses should have policies and procedures for dealing ...
Email Marketing
Tips on Choosing an Email Service Provider, in 2017

June 15, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

The landscape of email service providers is continually evolving, with advances in technology and changing needs of brands and merchants. In this article, I’ll address factors to consider, in 2017,
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Remember These 3 Email KPIs to Make More Money

June 7, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Good digital marketing campaigns create virtuous sales cycles, repeatedly engaging, converting, and supporting customers and prospects. Increase performance anywhere in the cycle and more sales should follow. Virtuous sales cycles in ...
Email Marketing > Merchant Voice
Lessons on starting an email list

June 4, 2017 • Peter Keller

FringeSport’s email list has been one of our best investments in terms of connecting our brand with our customers, and also in terms of direct sales. In this post, I’ll offer ...
Email Marketing
Merchandising for Email Marketing

May 16, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Featuring the correct mix of products in your marketing emails can create interest from subscribers, and drive revenue. Depending on the strategy, the products to feature in the emails will differ ...
Email Marketing
Email Marketing Q&A: Top 4 Questions

April 19, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Although the technology has evolved over the past 10 years, the fundamentals that make email marketing effective have not really changed. As an author and email-marketing practitioner, I’m often asked ...
Email Marketing
Study: Email Marketers to Focus on 4 Key Areas in 2017

March 20, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Years ago, the rise of social media and smartphone usage prompted many marketing professionals to believe email was dying, as consumers’ use of email was uncertain. But fast forward to 2017 and ...
Email Marketing
To Optimize Email Marketing, Test These 3 Elements

February 16, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

One of the best things about email marketing is the ability to test elements in a campaign and quickly receive actionable data. Moreover, the results of email tests can apply ...
Email Marketing
Using Triggered Emails for B2B Ecommerce

February 14, 2017 • Lori McDonald

Email marketing is a powerful tool, one that many B2B companies do not take advantage of. Triggered emails are a good way to get started. They are event-driven, based on a customer’s ...
Email Marketing
Understanding Email and Data Appends, for Marketing

January 18, 2017 • Carolyn Nye

Marketing professionals often ask me about email and data appends. Both can help grow new email subscribers and improve the information about existing ones. In this article, I’ll describe how ...

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