About 65% of the world’s population use text messaging, so it’s no wonder SMS marketing is growing at a staggering rate. To get the best out of this, your email and SMS programs must work in perfect harmony to drive engagement and revenue. Here’s how to do that. Why do both? Have you ever seen…
Organizations face a balancing act: empowering teams to create impactful campaigns while maintaining brand consistency. Marketing teams struggle with inconsistent branding across channels, cumbersome list management and segmentation, or limited control over campaign creation. Add to that the challenge of identifying what’s working—and what isn’t—and the need for a more streamlined approach becomes clear. Join MarTech’s Take Your…
Most deliverability advice looks only at email list issues and how to design, send and manage your email campaigns. However, not all deliverability problems are solved by removing inactive subscribers and spam complainers, or tuning up your email coding to avoid triggering a spam filter. Instead, seemingly unrelated business decisions can affect the wider application…
Email burst sending is a convenient solution to contact many people. It allows you to automate the preparation of messages, manage contacts, and lead the communication. Earlier, this process required significant human resources, time, and costs. Modern services offer the same job simplified with convenient templates, contact list moderation, and tools for audience segmentation. It…
A lot is going on this month. The U.S. elections are finally over, you’re knee-deep in organizing your Thanks/Friendsgiving and you’re executing on your holiday strategy. How you have time to read this is beyond me, but yay you for taking a few minutes to expand your horizons. If you’re feeling overwhelmed with everything, I…
With Black Friday quickly approaching, the smartest marketers are preparing to pull out all the stops on their email campaigns for the biggest shopping day of the year. Perhaps you’re already outlining, drafting and even uploading your campaigns to your CRM or email service provider. But before you hit send, consider this: Your campaign must…
Despite my tendency to let my email inbox bloat with unanswered emails (I just got a warning from Gmail that my inbox is 90% full), I’m actually pretty well-versed in email marketing. I used to manage the email newsletter at a TV station as a journalist, and I most recently managed the HubSpot Daily Newsletter…
Recently, I shared an example of a work email on LinkedIn, sparking a flood of opinions on whether images belong in B2B emails. It turns out, the question of “to image or not to image” is a surprisingly divisive topic in B2B. Here’s the email in question for reference. While the names have been hidden…
For HubSpot users, HubSpot email sequences are a powerful way to save time and stay consistent when connecting with your audience. But if you only use them for cold outreach, you’re letting a valuable tool sit idle. Think of email sequences as a Swiss army knife of sorts — useful for a ton of different…
We’ve updated our story on bulk email restrictions to include the news that Cox.net email addresses are now being managed by Yahoo. On Feb. 1, 2024, Google and Yahoo started enforcing new requirements for bulk email senders. The guidelines largely focus on three areas: authentication of outgoing emails, reported spam rates and the ability to…