Email accessibility is often treated as a compliance exercise. Something to review after the email is built, something to address if a complaint comes in, or something for legal or IT to worry about. But accessibility has a direct impact on both marketing performance and brand perception. When subscribers can’t easily read your message, navigate your content, or engage with your call to action, campaign results suffer. Accessibility affects opens, clicks, conversions, and overall customer experience. Just as importantly, inaccessible emails can signal that a brand is not considering the needs of all customers, which […]
This month’s updates include several highly requested enhancements designed to improve security, automation, reporting, and user management. Highlights include Microsoft Entra SSO support, a new Workflow Update Contact node, invisible reCAPTCHA for forms and surveys, delivered-based email metrics, and early access to our new drag-and-drop Template Builder. We’ve also rolled out a number of usability improvements based directly on customer feedback. Simplify Login with Microsoft Entra SSO Clients can now enable single sign-on (SSO) for the emfluence Marketing Platform through Microsoft Entra. Similar to our Okta integration, administrators can choose to […]
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a core part of modern marketing. From audience segmentation and lead scoring to personalization and campaign optimization, AI promises to help teams work faster and make smarter decisions. But there is one problem many organizations overlook: AI is only as good as the data it receives. When customer data is inaccurate, incomplete, duplicated, or outdated, AI does not recognize those problems and correct them. Instead, it often amplifies them by making poor decisions faster and at a larger scale than ever before. The result can […]
Most Microsoft Dynamics users don’t have a data problem. They have a campaign execution problem. The information marketers need already exists inside Dynamics. Lead status changes, opportunity updates, customer activity, event registrations, and account data are all being captured every day. Yet many marketing teams still struggle to turn that information into timely campaigns. Instead of building audiences directly from CRM data, they rely on exported spreadsheets. Instead of triggering campaigns from customer activity, they wait for manual processes or periodic data syncs. Instead of creating dynamic customer journeys, they spend valuable time maintaining static lists. The challenge isn’t collecting […]
SMS marketing continues to deliver some of the highest engagement rates in digital marketing. Messages are seen quickly, response rates are often strong, and the channel creates a sense of immediacy that email and social media cannot always match. But that effectiveness creates a temptation. As marketing teams become more comfortable with SMS automation, many begin adding more triggers, more campaigns, and more touchpoints. Over time, those automated messages can start to pile up, creating a subscriber experience that feels overwhelming rather than helpful. The result is often SMS fatigue. […]
