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J-P is the founder of i-SCOOP. He's a trusted digital transformation consultant. J-P is active on the crossroads of marketing, management, customer service, publishing, digital technologies, psychology, media and IT since 1992.

Email marketing case: how UPC won an Emma award using multivariate testing

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Contributor Pieter Wuyts from 8Seconds, who landed quite some new deals and partnerships since he wrote about getting more people to the landing page (a post that was really liked by many of you), has a new great example of improving your email campaigns, this time using multivariate testing.

Since his last post, Pieter’s Belgian company signed agreements with ReturnPath, Silverpop, RapidSugar and many more – I say this because Pieter admitted that posting here quite helped him so if there are candidates for good posts out there 😉

Anyway, one of the partners of 8Seconds is 22Times. This company works among others for UPC that won an Emma award using multivariate testing. In this post, Pieter explains, including all the details (buttons, process, results,…), just how UPC did that. A great case.

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Social media marketing is a matter of passion: an amazing story (and a 70-year young community manager)

Regular visitors of this blog probably remember that a few weeks ago we organized a social marketing meetup. One of the people, willing to help out and introduced to me by young Thomas Van Orshaegen, was Alain Indria, owner of a “natural food” shop, Lombardia, in Antwerp that got international headlines when one day a journalist from the Wall Street Journal put his restaurant on the top five places to visit in Antwerp, Belgium. Alain was at that time at the Shanghai World Expo, passionately demonstrating his new creation, the GingerLove tea. Among his customers, Alain has a lot of famous people and he took care of the catering when stars such as Moby and others came to Belgium. His passion and enthusiasm struck me. But so did the way he used social media. Strategy? No, sir. Alain’s social media approach and his whole businesses thrive on three things: passion, an incredible sales drive and an excellent interaction with his community. But that’s not all. The amazing stuff still has to come!

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