Get higher open rates with the right welcome

Here's a nice 'back-to-basics' article on email marketing from Lindsey Secord at Premiere Global Services, one of the worlds largest e-marketing technology service providers and one of Via Media's partners. Too many businesses fall into the trap of thinking that email is cheap, and if they have an opt in email list that they might as well blast every message to every person (and think of all those hours saved on segmentation and targeting strategy...)

Lindsey offers a few examples, and a number of tips you can use pretty easily in your own eDM program. Click on the link below for the full article from iMedia Connection, and please sing out if any of it needs translating into (South) Australian.

iMedia Connection: Get higher open rates with the right welcome

Avoiding Facebook Follies

An interesting article by Evan Gerber from Molecular, commenting on the huge disparity between successful brand forays into social networking, and those that miss the mark (even though the brand itself might be a household name). A key tenet of the article is that engagement is vital, more so than the supporting media spend regardless how heavy. It comes back to core strategy - are you jumping into social networking because its the flavour of the day, or because there's a real alignment with your brand strategy? And once you've made that call, how can you give your campaign the best chance (and it's true, some of it comes down to chance) of flying instead of flopping. The full article is worth a read.

iMedia Connection: Avoid these Facebook faux pas