One of the many great things about email marketing is the almost instant access to easily understandable analytics following each send. Open rates, click-through rates, conversion rates, spam complaints—it’s pretty obvious what each of these metrics means. But what exactly is a bounced email, and why is it crucial to understand the difference between a hard and soft bounce? Let’s delve into this important distinction: What is a Bounced Email? A bounced email is an email message that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient and is returned to the […]
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An email list is a powerful thing. Email subscribers offer multiple opportunities to present your business or organization, share relevant news and information, and promote timely and engaging offers. But there’s so much more to email than regular communications. As a retention marketing channel, email offers a more cost-effective strategy than more expensive acquisition channels like paid search. For many businesses, a well-maintained email marketing list is the mechanism that drives profitable engagement from customers acquired by those more expensive marketing strategies. Note: If you are paying to acquire new […]
This month’s emfluence Marketing Platform updates include customized unsubscribe pages, shared files for reseller accounts, link reporting updates and more. See what our community has asked for and what we built: Resending Email to a Segment SA Asks: Can you make it easier to copy an email and deploy it to non-openers or non-clickers? emfluence has now simplified the process of resending an email to a segment of the original list. In the original email, under Recipients, you can use any criteria to determine the new list (example: Clicks No). […]
While banking is very much a human-focused business, it’s also an industry that increasingly relies on technology to connect with its customers. As such, technologies like marketing automation perfectly support the banking sector’s focus on building and maintaining trust, fostering long-term relationships, and enhancing customer experiences. But what is marketing automation, and how can it help marketers in the banking sector connect with their target audience more timely, efficiently, and effectively? What is Marketing Automation? Marketing automation technology streamlines and automates essential marketing tasks by combining complementary marketing channels, including […]
Few other industries can know their customers better than the financial services sector. Banks and credit unions take care of the things that really matter most to American consumers, including their income, savings, loans and mortgages, investments, insurance premiums, and even their kids’ education. With so much information readily available and the right marketing automation software in place, a bank or credit union marketer can go to town and ensure their campaigns are 100% laser-focused. But before we get ahead of ourselves and start looking at the kind of campaigns […]