Contradiction: email marketers find it hard to reach the inbox but at the same time don’t seem to care too much

Deliverability is a hot topic in email marketing today. There are many reasons for that: an increased volume of emails sent (email has recently been used more frequently due to the recession), a growth of lists, changing techniques at the ISPs to filter emails, etc.

The emphasis increasingly lies with relevance, content and interaction by and with the email recipients.

The ‘Email Marketing Industry Census 2010 report’ by Econsultancy, carried out in cooperation with Adestra, shows that the number of businesses claiming to have problems reaching their email subscribers’ mailboxes has increased by 3% compared to last year, reaching no less than 54%. 

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Examples of B2B companies successfully using social media marketing

Jonas Klit Nielsen and his team at Mindjumpers have created a short but nice interesting slideshare again. And you can contribute to it.

They have been looking at how some B2B companies are using or have used social media marketing.

There are some examples you have probably heard of before and some examples that might be new to you.

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