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Email Marketing – Content Mistakes, Pitfalls and Fixes for Your Campaigns

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Your email marketing campaigns are underway! You have a well-designed email with a call-to-action or two. Creative, well thought-out subject lines. Are your campaigns working? Here’s 13 fixes to help with the success of your campaigns: Common Email Content Mistakes and How to Fix Them Your emails are a reflection of you. Here’s why you should pay extra attention to what you write in your emails and a few best practices for writing better emails. 4 Major Email Marketing Pitfalls (and How to Solve Them!) We list four major email marketing pitfalls you’re likely to face at one point, as… 

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Social Media – Snapchat, Twitter and 16 Tips

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You’re just getting a knack of Facebook, just rid your Twitter account of the egg-head and now there’s Snapchat! One more social media platform to manage. But is Snapchat worth your marketing-strapped resources? That answer Twitter analytics and 16 other tips and suggestions: Does Snapchat Marketing Measure up against Other Social Media? With over 100 million daily active users who average 25 to 30 minutes of active screen time per day, the social network is far too large to be ignored. But Snapchat video marketing isn’t like any other video advertising platform. How to Use Twitter Analytics to Improve Your Engagement In… 

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Social (verb) people engaging with each other

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We all know the social media statistics: 198 google billion posts on Facebook, 55 quaple million tweets, 127.4 hoople billion pics on Instagram, and more pins than all of Oklahoma and Iowa’s wrestling programs combined. Social media is today what websites were in the 90s meaning if you’re not on social media, well, you’re not in business. But social media is, well, social. Try this: ‘sō shəl (verb) to design activities in which people engage with each other for pleasure – or in your situation – commerce! You won’t find that in Websters but we should. I have noticed a… 

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Email Marketing – The Overlooked Marketing Tool

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When we meet with eventual clients, the conversation usually starts with a website. After we discuss the site, we turn to the discussion of what the client will be doing to drive traffic to the website. As we discuss platforms, we always get a surprising response when we inquire about email marketing. Email marketing is consistently ranked as the best channel in terms of return on investment. 68% of companies rate the channel as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. (1) For every $1 spent, email marketing generates $38 in ROI. (2) Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook… 

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Social Media – 37 Hacks and Tips

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You’ve started your social media accounts. You’re posting. You’re tweeting. You’re pinning. But are you doing it right? This week we share more than 35 hacks, tips, suggestions and how tos: 20+ Social Media Hacks and Tips From the Pros In this article you’ll discover 25 ways to improve your marketing and save time. Tips for Creating Impactful Videos for Social Media #SproutChat dove into key tactics and tips for successful videos for social media. Here are a few pointers to get you started. 8 Ways Social Media Can Help Launch New Products How you can leverage social media in your product launch?… 

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Five Things You Should Be Doing on Social Media… But Aren’t

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Social media… the marketing world never paid attention to it in the late 90s when GeoCities and SixDegrees were starting.  We didn’t engage with MySpace in the early 2000s.  But then Facebook happened.  It hit 200 million users.  Then 400 million.  (Now 1.59 billion.)  YouTube became the second largest search engine.  Twitter reports 2 billion tweets per year.  Okay, you’ve got marketer’s attention! Conferences began offering breakout sessions on social media.  Then keynote speakers.  Now full conferences. Books, consultants, reporting standards, even it’s own awards. Marketing departments and DMOs are hiring New Media Managers.  We’re cutting out print ’cause we can post… 

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“E-Newsletter” Boring! Re-name It!

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We have shared many ideas to increase your email database. (Here and here.) Email marketing shows strong ROI and thus, the more inboxes you reach, the more business you generate. The issue often isn’t that we’re not asking, it’s what we’re asking them to do – “Sign Up For A Newsletter.” Zzzzzz! No one wants a newsletter. That’s where you need to get creative on naming your newsletter. Here’s 35 ideas to get you started. Is your newsletter information driven? If the content is going to be industry driven, a more serious name may be in order: The Advisor The Dispatch… 

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Tourism Best Practices and Headlines Week of April 11

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Tourism professionals at Convention and Visitors Bureaus – CVBs (or Destination Marketing Organizations – DMOs) are doing some innovative programs to increase visitation in their destinations. We call them Tourism Best Practices. New Zealand’s South Island Sees Tourism Boom Thanks to Instagram Photos Like These New Zealand’s South Island is a ‘grammer’s paradise, where no filters are necessary. Local tourism agencies attribute a spike in visitors last year to the island’s photogenic nature. In Marketing Campaign, Yetis Remind Tourists That Pinellas Winters Are Not Abominable Pinellas County’s tourism marketers continued their streak of clever campaigns by sending in the yetis… 

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Email Marketing – Drive Web Traffic, Grow Lists and Relationships

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Your email marketing campaigns are underway! You have rich content with a call-to-action or two. Creative, well thought-out subject lines. Are your campaigns working? Are you driving traffic to your website? How to Drive Tremendous Website Traffic with Email Marketing “For us, the most important result of email marketing is getting people to our website,” says marketing technology manager for Robert Paul Properties, Autumn Boles. 5 Effective Strategies for Startups to Grow Their Email Lists As a startup, your priority should be increasing the size of your email list. And you should be culling it often. These strategies are going to… 

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