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november 2007

Best practice, advice and opinions for your email marketing campaigns in 2008.

This month: 2007's email successes, building a buzz, 10 easy content ideas, combining social media marketing and email, 10 essential best practice tips

email clinic

Some shining examples of email marketing.

Spotlight on good practice



Starting the year off on a positive note, the email clinic ponders the key factors that produce an effective, engaging e-shot.

Andrew Seel, Managing Director of integrated web marketing agency Qube, puts three campaigns by SmartMonkey, Lookfantastic and GoCompare.com under the microscope and highlights the elements that made these emails successful in 2007.

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real results
Clever thinking, outside the inbox.

Using email to generate a buzz



Building anticipation around a product before launch is a well-used approach, but the ability to measure the response to your campaign is a must if you’re to find out what works best.

Using PureResponse to track results, marketing agency WhyCommunicate? employed some bold buzz-building tactics around an exclusive First4Figures product, in an email campaign that delivered very impressive returns.

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Mark Brownlow

10 more great content ideas



If you’re sending out a monthly e-shot, when it comes to maintaining a stream of interesting content, it’s helpful to have a few tricks up your sleeve.

In the third of Mark’s series on content, he offers 10 ways to spark inspiration, when you’re running low on ideas.

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Dave Chaffey

Social media for building data



Even if your email marketing campaigns are yielding good returns, it’s likely you’ll always be searching for ways to reach more people with them.

Expanding your lead data is a million-dollar issue - and Social Media Marketing could provide the answer.

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e-ssential knowledge

It may be nearing February but when it comes to best practice, it’s never too late to make New Year’s resolutions.

Starting off on the right foot, we’ve taken a look back at the top 10 key points you should think about to maximise the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns.

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reader q&a
Our readers are looking for advice and opinions to help answer their email marketing questions. Have you got the knowledge?

Q. I've heard of the term 'Life Cycle Messaging Strategy' but I'm not too sure exactly what this is - can anyone help?

Paul, Reading


Do you have some tips for Paul, or if you can explain the concept in plain English, get in touch.


Send your responses to answers@emailmarketingmanual.com and the best will be featured in next month’s issue.

Alternatively, if you've got a question you'd like to put to the marketing experts out there, send it to questions@emailmarketingmanual.com

 

Last month, Simon from Birmingham asked: 'I'm not getting the open and click through rate I expected from my campaigns. Should I just re-think my content and creative or are there other areas which I should focus on?'


Here's what one reader had to say. To read it in full, check out our q&a page:

'‘It’s all too easy to blame your creative design for the lack of opens and low click-through rates but there are other elements of your campaign that can also contribute to this...'

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Rose, Leicester

diary dates
Pure to exhibit at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising show at Earl's Court 2, London Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 February 2008

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Email Marketing Training by Academy Internet – London

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