Email marketing: key concepts in email testing

Last month, Stefan Pollard, a senior strategic consultant for marketing solutions provider Responsys, wrote an article about the three vital elements of email to test for Directmag.com. It inspired me to write this post.

Email allows marketers to keep a record of subscriber’s actions and track them. These data allow for so much more testing in terms of smaller focus groups or A/B testing.

Tests and focus groups can be costly. Marketers that are a bit savvy can find ways to cut these costs and run more effective and efficient first-run tests. Test selection is crucial.

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Email marketing: socialized subject lines will reduce spam complaints

Fred Tabsharani As outlined in my previous post, “Why Email must Reverse Engineer Social Now”, future engagement metrics and delivery patterns will be based on how subscribers’ social networks interact with a given brand.  

Disclaimer: The strategies outlined below are congruent and/or complementary with advanced “opt-in” best practices. 

It is safe to say that behavioral targeted messaging may not achieve the same level of granular social activity that a contemporary preference center would.

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