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Provide Holiday Treats

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategyRelationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingEmailDatabase Marketing on

Internet Content Treats It's that time of the year.  We're not talking about sending your customer list a tin of cookies.  We're talking about content treats.  Hopefully you already have your holiday communications calendar prepared and your pulling together your content treats. Here's a few

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I Just Want to Send An Email

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in Relationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingEmailDirect MailDatabase Marketing on

Email Marketing Problems Most everyone knows that when you break the rules in email marketing, you get labelled as a spammer and your IP address gets blacklisted.

Recently, however, ISPs have begun to permanently blacklist domains, not just IP addresses. That makes your web address unusable

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Email Helps Traditional ROI

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategyRelationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingEmailDatabase MarketingB2CB2B on

Email Analysis and Reporting Too many people separate interactive marketing from traditional advertising.  When in actuality the two should learn from each other.  Email is a prime example.  The Analysis and Reporting part of our Email Marketing service provides vital customer information. 

Our

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Customer Engagement Important in the New Economy

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in Relationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingDatabase MarketingB2CB2B on

Relationship Marketing A recent study of 1300 Marketing Directors or above sited that 57% of the respondents said that email marketing will receive the greatest investment in 2009.  It's not that other initiatives are not important it's just that email has proven the most valuable way to

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Hitting the Spam Button

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in Relationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingEmailDatabase Marketing on

Don't Push the SPAM Button There are five best practices before subscribers open your messages to help keep them from hitting the spam button.

 

1. From Address

Make sure your From address is friendly and recognizable. It should contain the name of your company or well-known personality related

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Why Is Your Email Getting Blocked?

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in Relationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingEmailDatabase Marketing on

Why is your email getting blocked Most marketers believe that spammy looking content is the reason Internet service providers and major corporations block incoming e-mail.

It used to be true that words, like "Free" and "Mortgage", had a noticeable impact on email delivery. But spam filters have gotten

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Are You Testing Your Marketing?

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategyEmailDirect MailDatabase Marketing on

It's important to measure your marketing efforts so you can ensure that each one is worth the investment but also so you can improve the effectiveness of each marketing tactic. Consumers and businesses no longer fit into one major medium so we're not trying to compare

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Is the Cost Worth The Risk?

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategyRelationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingEmailDatabase Marketing on

With all the SPAM blockers on the Internet, it's difficult to impossible for a company to communicate with their customers and potential customers using an internal email system. No one wants SPAM in their inbox. The ISP's don't want SPAM filling up their hard drives

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Turn Your Marketing Green

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategyRelationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingEmailDirect MailDatabase MarketingB2C on

This might sound weird but there are huge movements to move away from printed materials with the biggest one being catalogs. Schools are having contest to see how many catalogs a class can unsubscribe from. Take a look at the video here. There are sites that make it

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Who's Your Target Customer?

Posted by: Terry Oehrke in StrategySocial MediaRelationship MarketingLoyalty MarketingDatabase MarketingB2CB2B on

Unfortunately, this question rarely comes up from a traditional advertising agency. That's why I started Ontarget and made sure that our classification is a marketing agency. This question is very important and should be asked. Without this understanding you don't

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