Holiday cheer, string lights, Black Friday frenzies, candy canes, and hot chocolate may be the last thing on your customers’ minds right now, especially with the sweltering heat of summer bearing down.   Marketers, however, have to work a few steps ahead which means that while swimming pools and cool drinks dance through the minds of our audiences, sugar plums and Christmas trees are dancing through ours.   We’re here to remind you that the holidays are fast approaching and while half a year may seem like plenty of time to prepare, […]

Marketing campaigns are spearheaded by headstrong creatives with data-driven intuition and endless ideas. However, if it really comes down to it, email lists are the bread and butter of the marketing world. Efforts we put into our email lists attract and retain customers, creating a long-term solution that powers growth.   What is an Email List? An email list is that oh-so-important stash of data that contains contact information for those that have voluntarily subscribed to receiving emails from your company.   This is one of the best assets you own because […]

Generating leads in the past may have looked like cold calls or emails to customers who have never been exposed to your brand. However, these tactics are proving to be outdated in many industries especially because there isn’t much solid ground to work from.   Instead, marketers are finding that the best strategy for generating leads is to meet them where they’re at. This means creating chance encounters through online ads, carving out paths through clever content, or using social media to attract interest. When you do this, you’ll find that […]

One thing you can guarantee about life in the digital age is that there will always be new technology released. And every time, it gets hyped, promoted, blasted out to the ends of the earth and touted as the “next big thing.” But many of these “revolutionary” new technologies fade in a couple of years — or even months.   SMS marketing isn’t exactly new, but is it here to stay well into the future? Unless it will still be growing and thriving several years from now, businesses may not want to […]

It’s Not Dead…Is It? Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before: email marketing is far from dead. On the contrary, email is alive and kicking, despite the ever-increasing pressure from competitive marketing channels.  It’s been more than a decade since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg first declared that email was dead. Over that decade, Facebook has had its own lunch eaten by numerous social media startups. They’re not the new kid on the block anymore. Today, Facebook is more likely to be the social network your grandparents hang out on […]