Author Page for J-P De Clerck

J-P De Clerck is a 360 degrees interactive marketing consultant and serial blogger, specialized in the cross-fertilization of online channels and interactions. His areas of expertise include email marketing, social media marketing, search engine marketing, content marketing, web analytics and conversion optimization. He manages several blogs and online communities regarding various interactive marketing and media topics.
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Dela Quist: “Without Email, Facebook Wouldn’t Exist”

Dela Quist: “Without Email, Facebook Wouldn’t Exist”

| 08/02/2011 | 2 Comments

Dela Quist is founder and CEO of Alchemy Worx, the largest UK agency with a 100% focus on email, he is a thought leader and one of the UK’s leading email marketing practitioners. He has pioneered research into the “Nudge Effect” of unopened email, and the surprising effectiveness of longer subject lines. His clients include [...]

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Towards An Integrated Analytics Approach In Email Marketing

Towards An Integrated Analytics Approach In Email Marketing

| 03/02/2011 | 0 Comments

In the early days of the Internet, measuring the impact of your online activities was very simple. Those who owned a website were already satisfied if they could monitor how much traffic was being generated, how many pages visitors viewed, and which ones. Back then, email marketers monitored how much emails were being sent and [...]

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BtoB Magazine: Email, Content and Social Key Priorities for B2B Marketers

| 31/01/2011 | 0 Comments
BtoB Magazine: Email, Content and Social Key Priorities for B2B Marketers

According to a survey by BtoB Magazine, stead on is the way to go when considering online business-to-business marketing tactics.78.5% of the respondents expect their online budgets to go up this year. Let’s take a look at where they expect the money to be going. 70% of respondents will spend more on their website marketing, followed [...]

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ExactTarget Launches Real-Time A/B Testing at MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit 2011

| 26/01/2011 | 0 Comments
ExactTarget Launches Real-Time A/B Testing at MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit 2011

ExactTarget has launched a feature it’s calling “Real-Time A/B Testing”. The solution is described as something which will improve email marketing performance in real time based on customer reactions. The company took the wraps off the new service at MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit 2011 in Las Vegas.

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Day One Of MarketingSherpa’s Email Marketing Summit: What Has Changed?

| 25/01/2011 | 0 Comments
Day One Of MarketingSherpa’s Email Marketing Summit: What Has Changed?

As usual the first day of MarketingSherpa’s Email Marketing Summit (as you know this time in Vegas) yesterday began with an overall view of the next challenges email marketers will be facing for 2011. This is the top 5: Relevancy, List growth, RIO monitoring, Deliverability and Social media integration.

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Word-of-mouth marketing: how it’s connected with social media

| 28/10/2010 | 0 Comments
Word-of-mouth marketing: how it’s connected with social media

Earlier this week I posted a brief on Focus.com, titled “Word-of-Mouth Marketing in the Social Media Age”. It’s basically a relatively long look at the phenomenon of word-of-mouth, what it is, why people engage in it, when it becomes marketing and how it can benefit your business. The brief is supposed to become a relatively [...]

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Whitelisting versus reputation management in email marketing: tips to get started

| 27/10/2010 | 0 Comments
Whitelisting versus reputation management in email marketing: tips to get started

In the battle against spam, ISP’s came up with strong spamfilters. Due to this spam filtering process some legitimate emails were also blocked, known as false positives. To avoid this kind of email deliverability problems, a process of whitelisting was implemented, certainly not the easiest method. Why would an ISP whitelist a sender if it [...]

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The strength of social media marketing: integration in function of people

| 18/10/2010 | 0 Comments
The strength of social media marketing: integration in function of people

People use social media. Companies as well. Increasingly. Those are facts. Despite discussions concerning the ROI of social media marketing and many questions regarding the how, what and when, it remains a fact that social media marketing exists and work, whether we debate it or not. However, social media marketing is an extremely broad concept. [...]

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