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A welcome email is like greeting a new customer when they enter your shop. It’s your chance to make a great first impression and keep prospects hooked for the long run. Think of it like this: when subscribers sign up to receive your newsletter, they’re showing an interest in you. The least you can do [...]
March is just around the corner, and there’s no better time to engage with your newsletter readers. Temperatures get higher, colours get brighter and the mood shifts. Consumers are ready for their spring purchases, and you should be at the top of their lists. As a business owner or an email marketer, you need to [...]
Considering four out of five marketers say they’d rather give up social media than email marketing, we think it’s safe to say optimising your email signup form is important for most businesses. At EmailOctopus, we know a thing or two about doing that, so in this article, we’re going to teach you everything you need [...]
Content creation can be a time-consuming process. From choosing a topic to deciding which format the content will take, and then producing it – creating good content is a long process. Research from CoSchedule shows that most marketers spend an average of six hours per day creating new content. That’s almost three quarters of a [...]
Growing your email list is an essential part of increasing your digital marketing reach. But building a strong base of contacts doesn’t happen overnight. However, the results are worth it – few other sources of communication give you as high of a return on investment as email marketing. The smartest businesses and nonprofits use a [...]
Maybe you’ve inherited an old email list in your new marketing role. Or perhaps you set up a sign-up form months ago and forgot all about it. Whatever the reason – we’ve all been there. And as email marketers we’ve found ourselves with a valuable list of email contacts that we have no idea what [...]
Using social media to grow an email list is not a new concept, but it is one that may be under-utilised. That’s largely because social media platforms make it seem so easy to connect with an audience, many people wonder why they should bother with an email list at all. While that’s a good question, [...]
In September 2021, Apple released iOS 15. With it came Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) and the ability for users to take more control over their email privacy. There was plenty of speculation within the email marketing industry about what this update would mean for marketers. And plenty of fear-mongering along with it. But now that [...]
Facebook is an effective tool to help you grow an email list. With roughly 2.89 billion monthly active users on Facebook, your target audience is definitely on the platform. And with the right strategies, you can promote your email list to your target audience and convert them into subscribers. Since you most likely already have [...]
Amazon SES – which stands for Simple Email Service – is a cost-effective, reliable and scalable email service built on the same infrastructure that Amazon.com developed to send communications to their customer base. Thanks to the flexible IP deployment and email authentication options, users can be assured of high deliverability. And if you want to run [...]
Black Friday is around the corner and SaaS (that’s ‘software as a service’ for the uninitiated) companies of all shapes and sizes are preparing their discounts for the weekend. Which makes it an excellent time for you to upgrade your tech stack and take advantage of savings on a host of useful tools. To help, [...]
As a marketer or small business owner, you’re no doubt looking for the best marketing channel for your business. And after some research, you might have correctly concluded that email marketing offers the best return on investment of any marketing channel. To put it in numbers, email generates $42 for every $1 spent, which is [...]