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E-Mail Essentials:
E-Mail Marketing that Measures Up
News of November 2, 2010
 Up the Ante with Social Media Spirit This Holiday Season
 Halloween Email Roundup: Few Tricks or Treats
 Email 2011: Location, Location, Location
 Greatest Hits: Activity-Based Segmentation Is the Future of Email
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Up the Ante with Social Media Spirit This Holiday Season

By Mélanie Attia

Santa may not have taken his traditional spot in the shopping center yet, but visions of dancing sugarplums will be upon us soon enough. To expand your marketing reach this holiday season, consider these suggestions for adding the bells and the tinsel of social media into your email program.

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Halloween Email Roundup: Few Tricks or Treats

By Sherry Chiger

Even marketers with product lines that don't lend themselves to Halloween tie-ins got into the holiday spirit with their emails. Let's take a look at the 123 Halloween-related messages we received this year: the incentives, the creative, and a few so-weak-they're-scary subject lines.

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Email 2011: Location, Location, Location

By Sean Cook

The number of online marketers using location-based tools to better target their ecommerce offerings is increasing. Many, though, still aren't using these tools to personalize email. Here's why, as we head toward 2011, it's increasingly important to do so.

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Greatest Hits: Activity-Based Segmentation Is the Future of Email


Certain articles from past editions of Email Essentials continue to generate comments months after they first ran. Others were, to our mind, criminally overlooked. In the coming weeks Email Essentials will be linking to both types of stories under the heading "Greatest Hits." This week, a March article by eWayDirect president/CEO Neil M. Rosen on the importance of segmenting your database by subscriber activity—opens, clickthroughs, and the like—to improve response and deliverability.

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