December 7, 2010 Mobile Friendly Online Version Add to Safe Sender List

E-Mail Essentials:
E-Mail Marketing that Measures Up
News of December 7, 2010
 Digging Out from the Cyber Monday Emails
 Enhance Your Holiday Sales with Mobile Commerce Strategies
 Postholiday Email Campaigns to Consider
 Using Social Marketing to Build Email Lists
 Greatest Hits: Subject to Change--Highly Promotional Subject Lines
         FIND A VENDOR               WEBINARS           WHITE PAPERS

ADVERTISEMENT
Boost B2C Marketing Results via Customer-centric B2B Tactics
Learn the contact management and automation techniques that will enable you to dive into your database and engage with each customer. Silverpop’s latest white paper offers tactics to turn potential customers into paying customers and lifelong fans. Download your copy today!



Digging Out from the Cyber Monday Emails

By Sherry Chiger

Last week I was feeling a bit smug about having read and analyzed all 563 holiday marketing emails I received the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday. That was before I logged in 675 emails the week of Cyber Monday, with 191 of those messages coming in on Cyber Monday itself. Let's take a look at the marketing trends this batch of emails revealed.

READ ARTICLE



Enhance Your Holiday Sales with Mobile Commerce Strategies

By Mélanie Attia

Adding mobile commerce to your online sales strategy is an easy way to increase the reach of an online store and increase sales; after all, your mobile commerce strategy encompasses your email marketing promotions. And with 25% of smartphone owners expected to use their devices to research or make holiday purchases, failing to account for m-commerce is simply leaving money on the proverbial table. Here's advice for getting started.

READ ARTICLE



Postholiday Email Campaigns to Consider

By Sherry Chiger

Enough already with the articles about Christmas marketing emails, you might be saying. And you may have a point. Because now that we’re in the thick of the Christmas shopping season, you should be turning your attention to your postholiday tactics. Here are a few campaigns to consider implementing.

READ ARTICLE



Using Social Marketing to Build Email Lists

By Justin Gottlieb

Renting lists. Blanketing your site with sign-up forms. Snail-mailing to get opt-ins. Marketers go to many lengths to build their email files, but too many are overlooking a less obtrusive, and less expensive, method: offering consumers the ability to opt-in through social networking sites.

READ ARTICLE



Greatest Hits: Subject to Change--Highly Promotional Subject Lines

As 2010 winds down, Email Essentials has been looking back at some of our most popular articles from the past year. This look at whether highly promotional subject lines were losing their effectiveness is this year's most-read email article on Directmag.com to date.

READ ARTICLE




This issue brought to you by:
• Silverpop™
ADVERTISEMENT
The leading newsletter on the discipline of selling products and merchandise online.
This e-letter from Multichannel Merchant covers it all—from the use of e-mail to drive sales and traffic, rich media, dynamic stock control, credit card processing, fraud prevention and repeat sales...to effective landing pages, search marketing, web analytics, and online creative. Start receiving your copies here.


FIND US ON:

Facebook

Twitter
SUBSCRIBER TOOLS : Change email address Unsubscribe Web version Archives

About This Newsletter