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Power-up your transactional emails with these 3 tips
Transactional emails are an often overlooked marketing channel that can drive traffic, boost...
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How real life ecommerce marketers win this holiday season
We spoke with ecommerce marketers on some tips and tricks they swear by for the holiday season to break through the noise and keep customers engaged...
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Why you should be A/B testing your emails
Do you A/B test your email campaigns? If you don’t you’re missing out on a lot of valuable data...
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3 ways the Apple Watch will change email marketing
With the unveiling of the Apple Watch last week, the upcoming smartwatch from, you guessed it, Apple, CEO Tim Cook showed off a product that is crammed...
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Create winning email campaigns by learning from your past mistakes
Penicillin. The Slinky. Post-its. All brilliant inventions created by mistake...
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The secret behind email’s eternal youth
Email is dead. We’ve heard this quite a few times in the past decade. More and more it seems. In recent years, as new forms of digital communication...
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Why email marketers need to be tech-savvy
What’s one of the of the biggest setbacks for email marketers? Technology. Looking to...
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Newsletters don’t have to suck: Give real value to see real return
By Alex Manthei, Community Manager at Mention, Poetry enthusiast and email infused person...
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Ignoring email growth hacks? Big mistake
There’s a bagel place down the street from our office that we love going to. Now, in New York...
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3 facts about email designers and what they do for us
I think we do not give enough credit to people who conceptualise, design and ship legitimate...
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5 simple ideas to improve your email design
We first met with 99designs(https://www.99designs.fr/) at TNW Europe in Amsterdam (https://speakerdeck.com/elie/10-...
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What are the prerequisites for concrete transactional emailing?
No, your transactional strategy should not be as rigid as reinforced concrete. Quite the contrary, in fact. However, it is essential...
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Thresholds: A wealth of ideas to create new transactional campaigns
Transactions emails are generally limited to welcome emails, confirmations, and reactivations. But to restrict oneself to only...
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Why should you invest in your transactional email?
Transactional email receives reaction rates (opens and clicks) far greater than those you will obtain with a newsletter or promotional email. Yet, it is one...
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How to measure the performance of your transactional emails?
To measure a newsletter's performance and compare it to previous campaigns is clearly a beneficial practice. On the other...
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Towards a return to customized email solutions?
Ten or so years ago, many advertisers used in-house solutions (developed internally) to send...
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Email press review #6: 4 posts to read this week!
Stay up to date about email with our press review. Here are the posts we’ve picked especially...
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What types of transactional emails should you develop first?
While attempting to create a list of all the types of notification and transactional emails that might exist…
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Email press review #5: 4 posts to read this week!
Stay up to date about email with our press review. Here are the posts we’ve picked especially...
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Email press review #4: 4 posts to read this week!
Stay up to date about email with our press review. Here are the posts we’ve picked especially...
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Transactional email: The opportunity to generate additional sales
By its nature, a transactional email is an expected event. This anticipation creates an important level of attention on the part of the consumer, an...
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15 tips for optimizing your transactional emails
Recently, I received an email in my inbox from ...noreply“ with the subject ...Email confirmation of receipt of your message.“ If...
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The dos and don’ts of setting up an SMTP server
While setting up an SMTP server, certain dos and don'ts have to be kept in mind – otherwise, the transfer of mail may not take place properly...
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What is an SMTP server?
SMTP stands for “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol." Let’s just hope that “simple” is still the case after reading the article!...
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